8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
The Rainbow Theatre Project, whose ambition it is to present “plays and musicals that reflect the unique experiences, interests and history of the LGBTQ community,” has announced…
Audiences for Václav Havel's Protest will be seeing it underground less than a mile from the White House in a performance space virtually unknown to theatregoers until this week. They wil…
In most productions, Madame Butterfly is unabashedly atmospheric in its romanticism. "Orientalism" carries us back to composer Giacomo Puccini's time when the West imagined a fanciful…
On November 6, 1963, 17-year-old Laura Welch (future First Lady Laura Bush) was driving down a dark road on her way to the movies when she failed to heed a stop sign, causing a car ac…
Compass Rose Theater, from their intimate Annapolis, MD space, will be offering a 2017-2018 season which will examine large issues, historical turning points, and the yearning of people for …
Imagination Stage will fill the minds of its young audiences in 2017-2018 with the classics — some of them with a twist — but will start its season with a fresh play about a youn…
In The Klunch's newest comedy, written by Artistic Director Ian Allen, Lisa Hodsoll plays former First Lady Laura Bush as she recounts the incident, as the title suggests, when she killed a …
Carolyn Griffin and I, co-producers of the Cabaret in Tribute to Joel Markowitz on May 1, 2017, thought we had a handle on all the details. But there was one surprise. Minutes before the hou…
Creative Cauldron is presenting the world premiere of Kaleidoscope, a new musical by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith, that examines Alzheimer’s disease through the ey…
It's in the air " an urgency to use theatre to get people into the conversation about what many see as our national crisis: the Trump presidency. Now Forum Theatre gets into the act presenti…
Speculative political fiction written six months ago and set a mere two years from today is a bold thing to write and produce. But there was a moral imperative to the subject of this p…
It was as if an electric current connected the cabaret performers who call themselves Diana V. Sáez & Friends. Staged on a platform surrounded by round cafe tables, draped with red ta…
“Break a leg.” We say it, but what theatre tradition does it stem from? Dorothy Stanley explains on one of the hundreds of podcasts available on DCTS. Theodore Bikel, Maurice …
The DC theatre community celebrated the storied accomplishments of theatre lover Joel Markowitz last night at Alexandria’s MetroStage with an evening of music from some of Washingto…
We're lucky to be living where we do. Opportunities abound to see exciting new work, shows in development and emerging major talent. All three fortunes converge in Rep Stage's stirring, sequ…
"Sometimes, a greater truth is revealed when the facts are fuzzy," says Rebecca Holiday (Natalie Cutcher) in the second act of Rorschach Theatre's production of Randy Baker's new play, Forgo…
“The Authoritarian playbook is well known. Create a constant state of crisis that only a "strong" leader can solve. Encourage fear, divide the populace and scapegoat racial or religiou…
So what’s going on at the Kennedy Center for the next Theatre*Â season? Everything. The freshest Broadway plays. One-day musical tributes. Theater in Dutch. And Norwegian. Hot direct…
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House who slams the door on her husband and three childre…
Life flies by, jeering at our measly accomplishments, even as it drags on endlessly, hour after weary hour. Love is elusive and taunting. Loneliness is an ever-present scourge, but company i…
Rorschach Theatre's co-artistic director Randy Baker has penned some intriguing plays over the years"memorable shows such as Dream Sailors and After the Flood. His latest, Forgotten Kingd…
One of the great challenges for a director involves taking a slightly dated play like Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures and making it work. That the latest Peter's Alley Theat…
There may be no local theatre with a house style more suited to The Fantasticks than Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. Before every show, and during every intermission, representatives of the …
Hub Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will offer a new production of a play familiar to Hub audiences, a brand spanking new play written by an area playwright, and another brand new play writ…
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames, will have its DC premiere as the first-ever production for the Ally Theatre Company. "I had the privilege…
