8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Morningstar is a small chamber drama playing in the basement of Shopkeeper's on Florida Ave, (a venue whose old wooden floors add quite a bit of natural folly to the performance, some use…
Dorothy Parker claimed, famously, that she was "just a little Jewish girl, trying to be cute." In fact, she was a legendary wit; the first female drama critic in America; and a successful wr…
With a breezy "Hi, y'all!" Clyde Ensslin welcomes us to the complicated story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, as told by none other than Big Bill Clinton himself. It's a chance to rel…
It was Emerson, who wrote: "If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience." Well, if that one man was Lee Harvey Oswald, then it's his lunch hou…
Stories of war wounded told from the point of view of military medics"those who try to save lives and bag the bodies of the ones they can't"give glimpses into the bravery and heroism of the …
Nevertheless, She Persisted takes the pulse of the American landscape before and after the November 2016 election, offering a moving compendium of raw emotion, personal drama, and flickering…
There are certain topics that one avoids on first dates. Like race, politics, religion, Moby Dick, your ex. Mixed Blessings is the story of how these topics can make a first date go spectacu…
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix. But enough about how my…
This isn't your normal poetry reading. Those words, spoken by Creator and Director Caleb Beissert as he introduced the Asheville-based Poetry Cabaret Collective, could serve as the tagline f…
Director Haley Murphy and your playwright Emma Choi talk about their Fringe show. How did you two meet? Haley Murphy: Across a crowded elementary school gym. Emma was my stage manager when s…
Back in early November of 2016, Theatre Prometheus was trying to choose between several strong, gripping stories for our Fringe play. We were split on which to choose. And then… the electi…
I first heard Toni Rae Salmi sing at the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival. The show was Cabaret XXX: Love The One You’re With, the second in a much-loved series of annual rock cabarets by …
Echoes by N. Richard Nash, is the story of two very real people who deeply love each other despite their struggles with mental illness. It is a story that shows us again how love is truly…
This project began two summers ago, when a small group of actors, including myself, thought of devising a piece comparing the dramatic character of Shakespeare's Macbeth with the life of the…
Disney's Beauty and the Beast may claim to be the "tale as old as time" but it has nothing on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. As Tim Rice's accessible lyrics state, this throug…
It is incredible that no one’s thought of pairing Godspell with the structure of "Saturday Night Live" before. I am sure I have just turned off a purist or two who might think such a c…
This play might help you feel better. If you're anything like me, you're in constant awe of people who can just, like, talk to other people. What in God's name is that like– do these c…
For two years, I had performed my one-man show, Hey, Hey, LBJ! in San Francisco, on 42nd Street in New York, in Washington DC (where it got a rave review in the Washington Post), in New O…
We like to pretend that the rise of social media has forever changed America's relationship to celebrity culture. That somehow Facebook and Twitter have ripped our Hollywood icons from their…
Tell us about the moment when you said to yourself: “I just have to do this!” Michael E. Hammond: I woke up at 4 in the morning. And probably all the usual clichésÂ�…
First came Nelson Pressley’s in-depth article on theatre makers as activists in Sunday’s Washington Post. Now comes this call to take theatrical activism to the streets.  A…
Zack Walsh and David Koenigsberg have their way with our questions. Well now, really, what did we expect from two guys who titled their show I'm Margaret Thatcher, I Is! Tell us about the…
This show came from a desire to create a mood and an experience for the audience without wholly relying on the traditional storytelling arc. So much of American theater is in the head, the e…
New Orleans performer Claudia Baumgarten has had a 10 year romance with the writings of journalist, critic, poet and famous member of the Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker. After h…
Have you ever walked down the sidewalk and felt someone watching you as you pass? Have you ever been in a grocery store and noticed that someone just happens to be going down the same aisle …
