8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Broadway past and future is on the agenda for National Theatre during the 2017-2018 theater season — plus, for an extra fee, a ticket to Hamilton at the Kennedy Center. The historic do…
Minimal. Stripped-bare. Essential. Pure. Questioning. Uncomfortable. Profound. Spiritual. This is what you must expect when you experience a production by Peter Brook, one of the world's gre…
Love, fear and the Almighty will run through Signature Theatre’s 2017-2018 season, according to a schedule jointly announced by Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and Managing Director M…
"A King and No King has never been professionally staged in the DC metropolitan area before, and it's our fifth play from the early modern era that we can say that about, in just six years o…
A tale of unrequited love is also a meditation on the anguish and ecstasy of art in Hamburg Ballet's exquisite The Little Mermaid. The dance theater tour de force by John Neumeir, the compan…
"It's like rehearsals are on fire." Say "Joy" to anyone at all involved with theatre in DC " as practitioner or as audience " and that person will know immediately that you are talk…
The world premiere of Midwestern Gothic is being staged at Signature Theatre's intimate ARK Theatre marries music, lyrics and orchestrations by Josh Schmidt and book and lyrics by Royce Vavr…
An indelible memory from a Michael John LaChiusa musical used to be the sight of Vincent Van Gogh (Jason Danieley) sitting in his bathtub and singing the score for The Highest Yellow in a 20…
Howard County’s Rep Stage, which is presenting an adventuresome collection of plays this season, will be going old-school in 2017-2018 for its 25th anniversary, with three classics …
Playing now at Studio Theatre, Aaron Posner's latest adaptation, No Sisters, about the lesser characters of Chekhov's Three Sisters, is a true companion piece to its renowned counterpart …
Down with sick people! How annoying they are! When we want them to do something, they instead give us their excuses, their rheums and complaints, and what’s more, they present depressi…
Mosaic Theater of DC’s 2017-2018 season will consist of eight plays, including two world premieres, the company’s first musical, the company’s second musical, a special thr…
Perhaps we can call this 'slow theatre,' as an analog to the 'slow food' movement. George Bernard Shaw's epic five-act Back to Methuselah is now being concluded, a full three years after Was…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, already notable for the socially and politically outspoken theater it brings to the Washington Stage, is kicking it up a notch with a sextet of hot-button pla…
See why the DC region is one of the busiest theatre hubs in the United States. Lots of seasons still to be announced. We’ll keep this page updated so that you can wat…
When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not "about my mother and …
The name Donny Hathaway probably doesn't ring too many bells these days"certainly not as many as Stevie Wonder or Roberta Flack, his contemporaries"but you likely sing him every Christmas…
On March 9, 2017, John Patrick Shanley, the author of Doubt: A Parable, granted an exclusive interview to the Quotidian Theatre Company (QTC), where Doubt will be performed from April 7 &…
Against a backdrop of rising tribalism in the Western World, Theater J has selected a 2017-2018 season which explores the consequences of ascendant hate, particularly during the period of…
The idea seemed promising: take a classic, well-loved, mega-popular animated Disney film and remake it as a live-action movie; hire an accomplished, imaginative director; cast it with good a…
The first Broadway revival of Miss Saigon is being marketed as the return of a classic. But, if the show has become an undeniable fan favorite, the production's impressive visual spectacle, …
Abolish all government funding for the arts and humanities? Eliminate the NEA? Seems inconceivable, yet that is what President Trump proposed in his budget sent to Congress. Hopefully it …
The imminent shutdown of the National Endowment for the Arts, promised in President Trump’s 2017-2018 budget, will result in fewer and smaller new plays, bring an end to cultural excha…
Mozart would have been grinning at this youthful production of his tried-and-true opera that reached out to a new younger and diverse audience Friday night, March 17th. Washington National O…
Gaetano Donizetti miraculously wrote seventy-five operas during his brief lifetime. But what makes Don Pasquale stand out as one of the funniest comic operas (opera buffa) ever written is th…
