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I feel a bit like Tevye looking to the heavens for assistance. I just saw a very earnest but uneven production of Fiddler on the Roof over in Annapolis, and I could use a little guidance fro…
Faction of Fools’ usual abundance of silliness reaches new heights in Paul Reiser's Foolish Fairytales. The puns, the double entendres, mixed messages and general tomfoolery are so…
Lewis Carroll’s famous tales of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass wears a new look in Baltimore Center Stage’s Lookingglass Alice. As reimagined by David Caplin, Wond…
Has this ever happened to you? You’ve just washed up on some beach, are nursed back to health by your new best friend, and you decide to take a look around. Suddenly, two hoodlums atta…
One of the big stories of 2018 is already coming into focus: several theatre companies will be moving into new spaces. One of them was announced today. Rumors have been floating about that C…
The team of playwright Rachel Bonds and director Mike Donahue (The Wolfe Twins) has returned to Studio Theatre to present Curve of Departure, fresh from its world premiere at South Coast Rep…
Perhaps in years to come we will better appreciate the horrors of the battle of Aleppo, Syria which stretched from 2012-2016. Playwright Darcy Parker Bruce makes a valiant attempt to ren…
The giddy sense of discovery takes hold of you during Lauren Gunderson's plays about unsung women throughout history. This fall's theater highlight was certainly Avant Bard's luminous produc…
During the eleven years that DC Theatre Scene has been online, our theatre community has realized tremendous growth and professionalism. We're not the cause of it, but we have played a part.…
Goldstar is giving DC Theatre Scene readers a $5 gift certificate good for any Goldstar event now through January 10, 2018. Because we want to share the fun of a holiday outing with as many …
Picture this: Jacob Marley taking part in a bro handshake, Tiny Tim gabbing with his sickly friends, and Ebenezer Scrooge snagging a giant TV on Black Friday. These are just a handful of…
Parting really is sweet sorrow as the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, after 17 years, offers its final performances this week. Its budget and company size have been unsteady, but you'd never know it…
Macy’s in New York now allows kids to sit on the laps of its Santas by appointment only. But David Sedaris remembers the good old days, when kids were kids and men were — well, m…
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen's one-person show Draw the Circle is a radical act of empathy. Not only does he explore the impact his life and gender transition has had on his loved ones and othe…
Young new performers who you may not have heard about are finally getting their time in the ARK spotlight at Signature Theatre. Katie Mariko Mariko Murray, Ines Nassara and David Rowen h…
Reverting to his early-career wackiness, Â Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy s…
As I flipped through the program of An Operetta Holiday, I was struck by director Nick Olcott's quote at the top of his note: "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." In a way, these words…
As part of the Bergman 100 Celebration, an event marking the centenary of the iconic Swedish filmmaker and stage director Ingmar Bergman, The Kennedy Center is presenting a stage version of …
"Jewish Christmas trees don't have stars!" Or at least they don't according to Boo Levy, one of the matriarchs of the affluent southern Jewish Freitag-Levy household where the family has bar…
Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
Happy St. Nicholas Day! Last weekend, I watched a marvelous production of St. Nicholas in Bethesda’s Quotidian Theatre. Quotidian is a fine small theater with special expertise in play…
Michael Harris remembers fondly the first time he watched the 1971 film of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing that "big happy guy going nuts." That, of course, was Topol as Tevye, the poor mi…
Imagine a world without Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew or Julius Caesar. Before the publishing of Shakespeare's anthologized plays in Folio format in 1623, these pl…
From the moment you step into the lobby of Creative Cauldron, Madeline’s Christmas will teach your kids to be the protagonists of their own stories. Much like a Wonder Woman or Captain…
In a comical nod to Christmas, the Drafthouse Comedy Theater is staging best-selling humorist David Sedaris' one-man show, The SantaLand Diaries, from Dec. 7-23, starring Cameron Folmar (STC…
