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Taking stock of DC’s assistance program,Taking Care of Our Own
We stand poised at the start of the new theatre season, pondering which plays and musicals will take us to new places, which will lead us to discover new talents, new characters, which will challenge...
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Washington DC Dance Season – Highlights
Tuesday night, Trey Graham hosted the annual DC Theater Scene preview of the local theatre season at The Smithsonian. The discussion highlighted just a few specifics within the breadth of local...
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The Tempest, STC’s free for all (review)
For the past 25 years, Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) has memorably gifted our community by remounting one of its recent favorite productions in free performances. These used to be performed at...
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Opera in Washington – The 2016-2017 Season
– Notes from the talk delivered by Susan Galbraith at The Smithsonian on August 16th – On a good day in the Greater Washington area there are more than 15 opera companies of various ilks and sizes. Not...
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The Last Class: a Jazzercize Play (review)
The Last Class: a Jazzercize Play makes the most of its setting. The story is told in real time during an actual jazzercize routine. The cast’s hard-earned sweat is corporeal proof of their characters’...
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My won’t-miss shows for this season
If you’re like me, you’ve already done your Christmas shopping, filled out your budget for the next fiscal year, and made arrangements for your final repose after The Event Which Awaits Us All occurs....
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Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (review)
The elusive O-1 visa for individuals with extraordinary skills is a rare bird in the immigrant community, often going to big-name, A-list entertainers. Think Celine Dionne (Canadian) or John Oliver (a...
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Exploring Cervantes. Director José Arellano Garcia talks about The Last Quixote
In spite of severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings, heat advisories to stay inside, and Metro track delays, we met at the front door of the GALA Hispanic Tivoli Theatre. Stage director José Luis...
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London notebook: Stunning production The Deep Blue Sea (review)
The Deep Blue Sea is a wonderful play by Terence Rattigan, with a wonderful lead role for a woman. Helen McCrory is a wonderful actor who takes full advantage of the opportunities the part offers in a...
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The circus isn’t coming to town (but it’s already here)
With the recent announcement that The Big Apple Circus will be ending public performances, circus lovers might be worried about where to get their clown fix. No need to worry: the DC-area is home to an...
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London notebook: I saw a show you’ll likely see here, and that’s The Truth
To tell the truth, The Truth is a thoroughly delightful evening. The play is hilarious, clever, and insightful. That said, I think I would have admired it much more if it wasn’t also so derivative. I...
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Teachout’s Satchmo at the Waldorf at Mosaic Theater (review)
Louis Armstrong, arguably the first jazz superstar, achieved world-wide fame as a trumpet player, composer, singer, occasional actor. Satchmo at the Waldorf by Terry Teachout (best known as The Wall...
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Sortable guide to Page-to-Stage, Sept 3 – 5, 2016
This Labor Day Weekend, 56 area theatre companies are presenting 64 readings at what has become DC’s annual kickoff of the theatre season, The Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage New Play Festival....
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Audiences help launch new plays this weekend at Kennedy Center’s...
More than 50 theaters from the D.C. area will take part in the Kennedy Center’s 15th annual Page-to- Stage New Play Festival, Sept. 3 to Sept. 5, fulfilling the festival’s mission to produce and...
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Being the audience: David S. Kessler on playing the role well
When he received the 2015 Gary Maker Audience Award, long time theatre supporter turned performer David S. Kessler encouraged a Folger audience: “Being in the audience is not a spectator sport.” To...
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Page-to-Stage: Crazy Mary Lincoln, Over Her Dead Body and Alan Sharpe’s Short...
Writer’s choice: Page-to-Stage readings from Saturday, September 3, 2016. We asked our writers to report back on plays which they would like to see fully staged. From Debbie Jackson Crazy Mary Lincoln...
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Blackberry Daze debuts at MetroStage (review)
The long-awaited Blackberry Daze has the signature style of a MetroStage production with Thomas W. Jones II at the helm, but the piece also swerves its own way with unusual stylistic touches. Based on...
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Jason Loewith and Ryan Rilette team up to direct Angels in America
Twenty-five years ago at the small Eureka Theatre in downtown San Francisco, Tony Kushner pushed forth the first iteration of a play that would become what many feel is not only a great American play...
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Urinetown: The Musical from Constellation Theatre (review)
It takes a lot of balls but maybe not much brain to call a musical “Urinetown,” and the joke is made several times in the show just what a terrible name it is. But that’s the point. This constantly...
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Melissa Baughman on giving Mystery of Edwin Drood Landless’ Symphonic Metal...
Landless Theatre Company is developing its second Metal musical: the Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd was the first. Melissa Baughman, resident director and...
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