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Theatre patron and 2013 Gary Maker Award recipient Linda Elyce Bryce has died
Linda Elyse Bryce, a teacher, lover of Shakespeare, broad-spectrum theater supporter and winner of the 2013 Gary Maker Award, given to the audience member who best exemplifies Maker’s enthusiastic,...
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Francesca Chilcote and Kathryn Zoerb, new leaders of commedia company Faction...
Veteran company members Francesca Chilcote and Kathryn Zoerb have been named Co-Artistic Directors of Washington’s Commedia dell’Arte company, Faction of Fools has announced. The women succeed Paul...
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Review: Pandemic life in 10 parts: Round House Theatre’s Homebound, Part 4...
Homebound’s episode 4 shifts back to Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh), who’s hanging in his sweat pants, rocking a Smashing Pumpkins T-shirt (long live Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness), desperately...
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A new opportunity for emerging writers and composers: $500 microgrants from...
In a press release just received comes news of a funding opportunity from the new arts program Emergent Seed. The organization is offering $500 microgrants to emerging writers and composers in the DC...
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Signature Theatre announces new dates for Mamma Mia!
Signature Theatre has just announced the new dates for their production of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!. The highly anticipated show, directed by Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and...
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Actor Steve Beall bids farewell to Quotidian Theatre Company
I would have wept no matter when or how Quotidian Theatre Company (QTC) closed. I heard about it soon after the decision was announced, and wept again when it was reported here at DC Theatre Scene. I’m...
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They dreamed of becoming astronauts. Instead, they created the comedy series...
In the early days of regional stay-at-home orders, theatre artists Rebecca Ballinger and Rebecca Wahls were not ones to waste any time. They secured the equipment they would need: some quick...
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Bring theatre home: 5 shows to watch this weekend
Bon Voyage! Happenstance Theater $10 rental fee gives 30 day access Click here Happenstance Theater’s Bon Voyage! originally staged in 2017. Shown here: (l-r) Sabrina Mandell, Mark Jaster, Alex Vernon...
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Review: Pandemic life in 10 parts: Round House Theatre’s Homebound, Part 5...
Homebound’s episode 5 finds us once again with Craig (Craig Wallace), who has become somewhat of an avuncular safe haven for the various souls of Homebound. It’s easy to understand why: his kind eyes...
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When will theatres reopen? Actors Equity lays out its core conditions
Hope that Washington DC area stages will be able to produce a fall season this year has dimmed with the release by Actors’ Equity Association of the four core principles which would need to be met for...
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Pandemic Theatre gets all-out playful with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
Of the many pitches about online content we have received, the announcement from Pandemic Theatre of how they were presenting Shakespeare’s barbed romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, struck us as...
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5 exceptional shows to watch free this weekend
Macbeth Folger Theatre Through July 1, 2020 Click for details I lapped this one up like cream – Folger Theatre’s rebroadcast of Macbeth as reimagined by the gifted magician Teller and Aaron Posner...
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Statement from DC Theatre Scene on the murder of George Floyd
DC Theatre Scene stands in solidarity with all people fighting for racial justice in this country. We stand in witness to the righteous anger and despair brought on by the killing of George Floyd last...
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Stereotypes by Black Violin
Kev Marcus and Wil B, musicians from Florida, are Black Violin. Stereotypes run deep in our psyches. From who we represent that we are to each other, to what we wear, to our age, even to the stereotype...
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The Lord Is My Shepherd: the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice
We ask: what art by artists of color sustains or inspires you? From Gregory J. Ford comes this answer. As a little Black boy being “raised” in the Church of God in Christ, the 23rd Psalm was required...
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Review: On Prince, protests and the pandemic: Round House Theatre’s...
Sometimes it snows in April Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad Sometimes I wish life was never ending And all good things, they say, never last Prince wrote that in 1985 on the song “Sometimes It Snows...
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Artists persist: Playwright Bob Bartlett writes Starbucks romance MIXTAPE for...
I always root for romance, even in plague times. Maybe that’s why I was completely drawn in by THE MIXTAPE, local playwright and Bowie State professor Bob Bartlett’s “connection during coronavirus”...
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DC poet John Johnson performs a poem of protest, “Coffeeshop”
Native Washingtonian poet and playwright John Johnson told us: “I am inspired to create art because I was born a artist it goes along with my breathing and heart beat, it is like a vital organ, it is...
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Theatre artists gather Monday, June 8, in vigil to honor black lives lost to...
On Monday, June 8, Galvanize DC and Actors Arena will host “Making Space To Breathe/Gathering To Grieve” outside Arena Stage at 7 p.m. The artist-driven vigil is being held to create a safe space to...
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DC theatres open lobbies as safe spaces for Black Lives Matter protestors
Update: Source and The 9:30 Club become the latest venues to open their doors to protestors. With thousands of people planned to gather in DC this weekend to protest police brutality, a number of...
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