8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Toni Rae Salmi is an actor seen frequently on DC stages, most recently “enjoyably grand” in Perfect Arrangement at Source Festival. In Help Me, Wanda!, she belts out a r…
A marketing company might have taken The Coil Project's The Changeling Child and instead titled it A Midsummer Night's Dream " The Next Generation. That title better conveys the substanc…
There are no absolutes in Proper Care of the Peace Lily. In this 100 minute performance, everything exists in relation: analogies, power differentials, and those actual familial relations…
Exit, Pursued by a Bear, produced by Barabbas Theatre for their 2017 CapFringe entry and directed by Kevin O'Connell, is a welcome DC introduction to Lauren Gunderson's …
Dancing Through Life…By the Way is a one-man show starring Christopher Bennett. No director is credited in the Playbill, but it appears that Mr. Bennett did the majority of the heavy li…
By far the best show I have seen at Fringe so far this year, The Regulars will have you laughing in your seat, squealing at insider "DC" jokes and dancing in the aisles, (Really, be pr…
A play about gun control, mental health, Robert Kennedy, and the Umpqua Community College shooting that forms a cohesive message without hitting the audience over the head with an anvil? It'…
You probably know Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, but did you know he was also an accomplished magician? In Orson the Magnificent, consummate showman Lars Klores take…
The post World War II Japanese dance theatre form, Butoh, is traditionally performed in white body make-up. Slow controlled movement, body tension and muscular involvement may rely on elabor…
Full disclosure: I have spent most of the last decade as a teacher, immersed in the world of autobiographical storytellin . I work with my students to become less "literary" and more "con…
A light night of theater Repentance is not. In one uninterrupted dialogue that unfolds over the course of 90 minutes, Repentance tells a story of mental anguish, power games and …
We sent Marshall Bradshaw out to check on what the bars near Fringe headquarter have to offer all you Fringe-goers. Here’s his report. Star & Shamrock Tavern & Deli 1341 H St N…
Nazi Germany, South African apartheid, any city USA circa Black Lives Matter, pre-civil rights era America, Batista regime in Cuba, Cochabamba in Bolivia, Syrian uprising, 1984, even Jews in…
Four black men in their forties sit around a chess game in Dupont Circle park in 1980. They open the show singing barbershop-quartet style, an upbeat song about themselves: They are the 1342…
Let's get this part out of the way quickly: Lisa VillaMil's Kara Sevda (at Shopkeepers through July 22) is an exhilarating piece of theater, masterfully and assuredly directed by Kat H…
"My employer is an asshole." Shakespeare said that. Ok, not exactly. But the Rude Mechanicals somehow fit the line seamlessly into Arden Now, their abbreviated and modified " yet still sp…
KOENIGSBERG – It started off a day just like any other. My colleague and I had just finished a performance of our play I'm Margaret Thatcher, I Is! at Atlas's Lab II venue (plug plug p…
There are surprisingly few one-actor musicals. Even rarer: solo musicals where the protagonist juggles razor-sharp daggers. Make your one-actor, dagger-juggling musical about a lesbian circu…
There is no doubt in my mind that Jane Franklin Dance's Aflight brings something special to Fringe. Usually based in Arlington, this group blends music, dance, and visual art in a way …
Internet addiction is no laughing matter. However, for the talented team now lighting up the stage at the Sprenger Theatre at Atlas, the Internet"and all the craziness it has produced"is the…
Over the 65-minute run time of Caroline Bennett's Garbage Person Karaoke, there are moments of painful comedy and bitter emotional connections with that specific kind of heartbreak that k…
A choose-your-own-adventure review – pick one of the following: a) I have little or no idea what the Burning Man festival is; b) I know about Burning Man, but have never been; c) I am …
This year the Contemporary American Theater Festival, like the nation itself, has given itself over to political conflict. Whether we are in the classroom, or a Nazi interrogation chamber, o…
Mia Amado, producer and director of Echoes, brings this piece about love and mental illness to the Eastman Theatre at Gallaudet. Echoes is by no means an easy play, in terms of execution …
"Beware them, as they have pussy power!" Or do they? This show is a comedy inspired by a tragedy, Greek playwright Euripides' The Bacchae. In case it has been a while since you last refreshe…
