8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
One of the joys of theatre is seeing a classic play presented in a surprising manner that gives new life to the story. Brave Spirits Theatre's lively production of Coriolanus once again …
It would be an odd experience, watching Heather Raffo’s Noura on a double bill with Danai Gurira’s fine Familiar. I almost did that, bookending the weekend with the two shows abo…
Adventure Theatre MTC's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a laugh-out-loud journey through the worst calamities of childhood, and appealing to kids and adults al…
Traditionally, a peepshow is a one-way affair"someone performs and someone (or someones) else observe, usually without being seen themselves. But I knew walking into dog & pony dc's cont…
Familiar, by Tony Award winning playwright Danai Gurira, is an intimate comedy-drama set in the home of a first-generation Zimbabwean family living in Minnesota. The family has gathere…
Heartache, pain, regrets, joys, and a fair share of personal demons might fell a weaker person. But not even time in prison could stop the musical force of nature known to fans as Lady Day. …
Much like the photo album that plays a pivotal role in numerous scenes of the play,  No Word in Guyanese For Me leaves the audience with poignant images: a pair of Guyanese feet gratef…
Of all the reasons to love Baltimore, perhaps the most sumptuous are the Cone sisters"iron-willed Dr. Claribel and the softer, more social Miss Etta"and specifically, the stunning collection…
Congratulations to DC based set designer, Paige Hathaway, the go-to designer for many DC area theatre companies, who will be the recipient of Live Design’s  2018 Rising Star Awar…
We created this year’s Valentines by pairing images to lines or lyrics from four shows from this year’s season –Â The Humans, Twelfth Night, All the Things You Are: Jerom…
In Julia Cho's Aubergine, a Korean-American chef deals with his dying father. Cho uses food as the cornerstone for a sensitive though meandering meditation on the difficulties of family, com…
Deep in the bowels of the earth, unnoticed by most yet just beneath the feet of people visiting Dupont Circle, and less than a mile from the White House, lurks the Dupont Underground. Once a…
If the shade of Lyndon Johnson permitted himself a small smile last night, who could blame him? The irony of having the Washington opening of the second of Robert Schenkkan’s two-play …
You can't judge a show by its title, and never was that more the case than with Something Rotten!, the musical farce now appearing at the National Theatre, which provides a rip-roaring, laug…
Forget everything you have assumed about Handbagged, Moira Buffini’s marvelous play about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It is different, and better, than tha…
The Internet, cell phones, and photoshopping are not only for the young, and the narcissism they engender is not only the provenance of millennials. The most refreshing thing about Gustavo O…
The 2018 Helen Hayes Awards nominations were announced Monday night by theatreWashington. Round House Theatre was the most nominated company with 22 nominations. The most nominated produc…
In the early 19th century, Ira Aldridge, an African American actor and playwright, was performing on European stages. A fraction of Aldridge's miraculous story is portrayed in director Shirl…
Laura Schellhardt's Digging Up Dessa tell the story of a troubled teenager who copes with a family tragedy through her interest in fossils. This world premiere production, commissioned b…
Those unfamiliar with the works of Jonathan Coulton are likely to find themselves going down the Google rabbit hole after seeing It's the Rest of the World That Looks So Small, a theatrical …
Playing like variations on the theme of the ancient Greek play The Trojan Woman, Brave Spirits’ The Trojan Women Project faces head-on a number of issues ripped from the headlin…
Most of us have heard of Booker T. Washington as the counterpoint to W.E.B. DuBois, one espousing the "safe' position of newly freed blacks to better themselves through industry and service …
The Nunes memo, election tampering by Russia, the refugee crisis, mass shootings, harassment and molestation, Olympic doping, North Korean nukes, climate change, fascism, nationalism, racism…
Two lucky readers will have the chance to attend opening night of the smash Broadway musical, Something Rotten!, Tuesday, February 6 at The National Theatre. With its heart on its ruffled…
That a play set in an auto parts stamping factory is part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival is reason enough to see Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau's fine, emotionally feral play tha…
