Sovereignty by Mary Kathryn Nagle at Arena Stage brings the rarely-heard Native American voice to the DC stage. Tribal sovereignty is defined as "the concept of the inherent authority of ind…
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable …
Jaqueline Marie Butler may seem like an unassuming teenage girl, just doing her best to find her way in her new, confusing home country of Nigeria. But don't underestimate her " as Jaqueline…
DC Theatre Scene sat down with Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr to discuss Theater J's newest venture, the Yiddish Theater Lab, which will revive nearly-forgotten Yiddish classics and reimag…
Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre Company's artistic director, has lured Michael Urie to play the titular Prince for its upcoming production of Hamlet, opening next week and has pepp…
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre pi…
The greatest sign of stability in a culture is, paradoxically, its ability to absorb change. There was a collective holding of breath when Joy Zinoman announced her retirement in 2009; could…
“Here's strength to your elbow Success in your art Here's pearls in your oyster And me in your heart.” So ends the toast by poet/lyricist Fran Landesman. Fun, success and lov…
Hub Theatre Artistic Director Helen R. Murray (formerly Helen Pafumi) will be leaving the company she helped found to take the helm of the Aurora Fox Arts Center in Aurora, Colorado in July,…
What better way to ring in the New Year than with a little magic? The Illusionists unites five unique magicians in a spectacle that, while cheesy at times, still has the power to truly dazzl…
There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
'Tis the season when many a pair of tiny eyes are concentrated northward, preoccupied with the denizens of the arctic and their yearly trek. Ears listen to that London-based tale that is the…
One last curtain call for these performers whose perfectly crafted moments linger indelibly in our memories. The ensemble of Burning Doors, Belarus Free Theatre There is no word for Burning …
This past Sunday in the Washington Post, I read of the pivotal moment in one great writer’s life. It was when he saw the Broadway play, Man of La Mancha. He fell in love, he said, with…
It's the top of Les Misérables. The lights dim, silence stretches through the audience, and a powerful blow of orchestration begins. From the very first sounds, you can tell you’re ab…
We calculate there were 455 shows on our stages in 2017. After each show closes and the actors move on the the next rehearsal what remains are the ideas and emotions they have left be…
When we say our region is one of the major theatre hubs in America, what do we really mean? As we did last year, we dove into our own records for 2017 to see how robust our scene has been. T…
Right now, the whole city of DC seems twinkling. Covers of traditional Christmas music resound everywhere you go. It gets cold. It gets dark early. People combat seasonal depression with cop…
It was back in 2008 that CulturalDC created the three-week Source Festival, a vehicle for launching new plays and fostering the careers of emerging artists. After 10 successful events, the o…
The Little Prince returned to earth this past weekend, filling the newly renovated Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center with a veritable feast of sound and sights. "Amazing!" pronounced Kik…
An Irish Carol does a fine job capturing the spirit and message of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale in an evening spent in an Irish pub. No small feat. The play, courtesy of author Matt…
A week doesn’t go by that I don’t read something interesting, informative or helpful about the theatre community in DC Theatre Scene. Times are truly chilling when accusation…
Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth Ni…
"Life is not like your American movies," says Lise, a ballerina who has captured the hearts of three men. "Why not?" asks one of those men, Jerry, an American soldier turned painter in Paris…
Fiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who've never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. Â For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-b…