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Source Festival shorts: Covert Catalyst (review)
The Source Festival’s tenth birthday party is a subdued one, and this year’s lineup is but a shadow of Sources gone by. While we usually see three debuting full length plays, there is only one this...
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Meet our 2017 Fringe crew writers
results. The post Meet our 2017 Fringe crew writers appeared first on DC Theatre Scene. Related StoriesNext season, Bedlam is back as Folger twists the classicsDC Theatre Scene and DC Metro...
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Next season, Bedlam is back as Folger twists the classics
Folger Theatres’ 2017-18 season, announced yesterday morning, will be full of plays by the usual gang: Shakespeare, Congreve, Shaw. But not everything will seem familiar. The theater that sits in the...
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Aaron Harrington as Tom Collins in Rent, coming to the National
On January 25, 1996, a new musical by an unknown writer who had tragically died the night before, opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, and the landscape of theater changed forever....
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Playwright A. R. Gurney, who “found that thread that linked us all” has died...
Playwright A. R. Gurney died Tuesday, June 13, 2017 in his home in New York City. He was 86. A native of Buffalo, NY, the beleaguered city appeared as the setting for some of his 86 plays. Among his...
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GALA’s 42nd season features world and local debuts
GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 42nd season will feature four mainstage plays, including two world premieres, as well as films, dance, and a weekend of solo shows. GALA will open its season with a commissioned...
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August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned, simple, evocative. (review)
In a moving memorial, director and co-conceiver Todd Kreidler uses solo actor Eugene Lee to call his friend and mentor’s spirit back to the world. Playwright August Wilson seized the opportunity to...
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Euan Morton in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at The Kennedy Center (review)
The Kennedy Center Thursday night featured Teutonic offerings across a wide spectrum. In the Concert Hall, the National Symphony Orchestra was performing Beethoven’s Ninth. Next door at the Opera...
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Blue Over You. A Capital Fringe Peek
I came across Blue Over You at the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest two summers ago and immediately fell in love with it. The story of Francis, this incredibly funny and difficult drama teacher, trying to...
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Capital Fringe tickets on sale starting today
The box office for Capital Fringe has just opened, and, on this opening day, we begin our Fringe coverage with a preview of John Morogiello’s Blue Over You. Show prices range from $7 (for 50 tickets)...
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Best shorts of the past 10 years at Source Festival (review)
“I can call spirits from the vasty deep,” brags the Welsh mystic Owen Glendower, in Henry IV, Part 1. “Why, so can I, or so can any man,” retorts Hotspur. “But will they come when you do call for...
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Sound of Music at The Kennedy Center (review)
The Kennedy Center was alive with The Sound of Music on Friday night. Almost every seat was taken in the vast Opera House auditorium for the opening night of the latest Broadway-style touring...
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Numesthesia. A Capital Fringe Peek
We all assume we see the world as it is, as everyone else sees it. That’s not always the case. Numesthesia, this summer’s Uncle Funsy Capital Fringe show, comically explores perception and reality...
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Being Jewish in America: Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass (review)
Screens shaped like shards of broken glass splay the Theater J stage. Upon them the company, in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum, has projected photographs and home movies taken in Germany, in...
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Second City brings Divided We Stand to the city that, let’s face it, is a...
North Korea’s nukes hurtle toward the U.S.—targeting both rural and urban areas—and we’ve got 15 minutes left to live, all the while being “monitored” by an unknown Russian operative who insists he is...
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Lazarus. A Fringe Peek
In my experience, there are two kinds of science fiction that tend to make their way to movie audiences: action blockbusters with a veneer of futuristic technology like The Terminator or The Matrix, or...
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To Be Or Not To Be In Love – That Is the Question? A Fringe Peek
The idea for my show started 6 years ago after I attended a voice workshop, when one of the coaches told me that I would be good at doing cabaret; I never thought of doing that. At the time, I was...
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Sounds of Still Life: Matthew Nielson on his soundtrack for Mollye Maxner’s play
No other play now on area stages has been more enhanced by its soundtrack than Theater Alliance’s Still Life with Rocket. Nielson’s underscored music, sound effects and songs of this collaborative...
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Raw. Hungry. Brilliant. RENT’s 20th anniversary tour (review)
Some believe that if we keep people who have died in our thoughts and words then they are not really dead. Well, if so, then last night lights were blazing and the world was happily peopled by our many...
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In the Company of de Sade. A Fringe Peek
It was 2012 when King’s Players was born. For our first show, we tackled an original piece called In the Company of de Sade. The premise was simple: a director attempts to stage the Marquis de Sade’s...
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