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DC Theatre Scene reveals the DC area’s Theatre Season 2019-2020
Just posted – the DC Theatre Scene Guide to Theatre Season 2019-2020. Perfect for planning your year of theatre going. Of the 257 shows already announced, 54 will be comedies and 63 will be musicals,...
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How to get cast in the Washington DC area: auditions and other notes from Nan...
So you’re an actor who has just blown in from Oregon and you’d like to show your stuff to a D.C. casting director. Or you’re a WATCH-award winning community theatre actor who wants to step up into the...
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Review: 4615’s ENRON is a Strong Buy
Eighteen years ago, a Texas energy company’s deceptive accounting practices finally caught up with them, their inflated stock value plummeted, billions of dollars evaporated, employees’ retirement...
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Review: Sartre’s No Exit.
Three different people, an eternity of living with the judgment of others in one tiny room, and one “hell” of a play. I could only be talking about one particular piece of vintage world theatre, No...
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What Eric Ruffin found while directing Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation or The...
When Mosaic Theater decided to stage two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Lynn Nottage’s satirical Fabulation or The Re-Education of Undine, artistic director Ari Roth sought a director who could find...
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Review: Despite a solid 4615 Theatre production, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal...
The second leg of 4615 Theatre Company’s “Summer of Scandal” repertory, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, opened this past weekend at the Dance Loft on 14th. My review of the other play, Enron, is here. Is it...
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Dining review: BLT Prime by David Burke
This is the first in a new series of spotlights on restaurants offering special dining for theatre lovers. Earlier this summer, BLT Prime by David Burke launched a three-course prix-fixe Pre-Theatre...
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Free Community Days at DC area theatres start this Saturday. DC shifts into...
With 32 shows rehearsing for September openings, the 2019-2020 season is about to start in earnest and there are some awesome free celebrations going on. Round House Theatre Bethesda, MD August 24...
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After tours and a Tony, Keith Randolph Smith is back in August Wilson’s...
Keith Randolph Smith is a member of the cast of August Wilson’s Jitney, now in rehearsal, and opening this Fall at Arena Stage. He plays Doub, one of the drivers for the eponymous jitney in Wilson’s...
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Review: Sondheim’s Assassins at Signature Theatre. Something just broke.
There are so many weirdly gleeful moments stuffed in Assassins, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer John Weidman’s darkly comic and brilliant musical vaudeville exposing the ailing heart...
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Review: Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
It has become a trope of a certain type of made-for-TV movie for the successful, career-driven woman in the Big City to have to return home to her humble beginnings and learn the true meaning of...
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Review: the nonstop Beehive, The 60’s Musical at NextStop
The decade known as The Sixties contained so may different mini-eras it’s a wonder that those of us who lived through it didn’t all become split personalities. At times näive, hedonistic and fiercely...
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Round House Theatre in Bethesda reveals its major makeover. Here’s what...
After being out of house since January to make room for extensive renovations, Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., has unveiled its new space just in time for its exciting 2019-2020 season, and it is...
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Page-to-Stage New Play Festival at the Kennedy Center
For theater enthusiasts, Labor Day weekend isn’t about one last trip to the beach or three relaxing days at home. For those of us in D.C., it means it’s time for the annual Page-to-Stage festival and...
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Take-With Guide to the Page to Stage New Play Festival, Labor Day Weekend
Because schedules for the Page-to-Stage Festival can be difficult to find when you arrive at The Kennedy Center, we offer this printable guide. Keys: Locations (AR) African Room – Opera House; (AT)...
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Rosa Joshi on directing 1 Henry IV featuring one of the best bromances in all...
Noted Seattle-based director Rosa Joshi makes her D.C. directorial debut with Folger Theatre’s opening production of its 2019-20 season, which will find Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV on stage Sept. 3...
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Solas Nua’s The Smuggler. Rex Daugherty serves up cocktails and stories in...
Eaton DC goes beyond the typical concept of a hotel. You can expect a hotel to have a restaurant and bar, but the radio station and the library are a unique perk. The yoga studio and the fine arts...
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Review: A Nite at the Dew Drop Inn’s singers raise the roof in this tribute...
Yvette Spears is one of those performers who sings with her whole body and soul. Medleys start deep in her throat and nearly consume her as she belts out the blues, whether she’s scolding her way...
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Theatre Week Kick-Off Party at Arena Stage this Saturday – come meet us
With more than 30 shows opening this month, the 2019-2020 season is underway with a bang. To celebrate, theatreWashington is sponsoring its annual Theatre Week, September 10-29, and is getting things...
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Theatre critic Nelson Pressley retires from The Washington Post
Longstanding and highly regarded theater critic and arts writer Nelson Pressley of The Washington Post announced his retirement on August 31 on Facebook. His last piece ran in the Sunday Post on...
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