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CulturalDC closes Source Festival, opens new programs
It was back in 2008 that CulturalDC created the three-week Source Festival, a vehicle for launching new plays and fostering the careers of emerging artists. After 10 successful events, the organization...
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How these busy theatre people manage home, career and the holidays
Right now, the whole city of DC seems twinkling. Covers of traditional Christmas music resound everywhere you go. It gets cold. It gets dark early. People combat seasonal depression with copious...
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How robust was theatre here in 2017? DCTS examines its data
When we say our region is one of the major theatre hubs in America, what do we really mean? As we did last year, we dove into our own records for 2017 to see how robust our scene has been. This is the...
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Our 24 most memorable shows on Washington area stages in 2017
We calculate there were 455 shows on our stages in 2017. After each show closes and the actors move on the the next rehearsal what remains are the ideas and emotions they have left behind in the minds...
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Les Misérables tour at the National Theatre (review)
It’s the top of Les Misérables. The lights dim, silence stretches through the audience, and a powerful blow of orchestration begins. From the very first sounds, you can tell you’re about to witness a...
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There’s still time
This past Sunday in the Washington Post, I read of the pivotal moment in one great writer’s life. It was when he saw the Broadway play, Man of La Mancha. He fell in love, he said, with Don Quixote, and...
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23 most memorable moments on stage in 2017
One last curtain call for these performers whose perfectly crafted moments linger indelibly in our memories. The ensemble of Burning Doors, Belarus Free Theatre There is no word for Burning Doors other...
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins pops up at The Kennedy Center (review)
’Tis the season when many a pair of tiny eyes are concentrated northward, preoccupied with the denizens of the arctic and their yearly trek. Ears listen to that London-based tale that is the most...
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Most memorable moments on NYC stages in 2017
There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging of these...
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The Illusionists dazzles magic lovers at The Kennedy Center
What better way to ring in the New Year than with a little magic? The Illusionists unites five unique magicians in a spectacle that, while cheesy at times, still has the power to truly dazzle audience...
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Hub Theatre’s artistic director is stepping down this summer
Hub Theatre Artistic Director Helen R. Murray (formerly Helen Pafumi) will be leaving the company she helped found to take the helm of the Aurora Fox Arts Center in Aurora, Colorado in July, 2018, the...
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A New Year’s Eve toast
“Here’s strength to your elbow Success in your art Here’s pearls in your oyster And me in your heart.” So ends the toast by poet/lyricist Fran Landesman. Fun, success and love remains our greatest...
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Big changes coming to theatres in 2018
The greatest sign of stability in a culture is, paradoxically, its ability to absorb change. There was a collective holding of breath when Joy Zinoman announced her retirement in 2009; could Studio...
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Terrorism, climate change, the subjugation of women. Is theatre equipped to...
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre piece that had a run last...
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Robert Joy adds a spymaster Polonius to his stage credits in STC’s Hamlet
Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s artistic director, has lured Michael Urie to play the titular Prince for its upcoming production of Hamlet, opening next week and has peppered the show...
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Readings with chutzpah: Theater J’s new Yiddish Theater Lab
DC Theatre Scene sat down with Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr to discuss Theater J’s newest venture, the Yiddish Theater Lab, which will revive nearly-forgotten Yiddish classics and reimagine them...
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Mosaic’s Queens Girl in Africa first in Women’s Voices Theater Festival (review)
Jaqueline Marie Butler may seem like an unassuming teenage girl, just doing her best to find her way in her new, confusing home country of Nigeria. But don’t underestimate her — as Jaqueline says...
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Disco Pigs Review: Enda Walsh’s impulsive, inseparable teenagers 20 years later
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable teenagers who...
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Sovereignty actors on the Cherokee Nation story at Arena Stage
Sovereignty by Mary Kathryn Nagle at Arena Stage brings the rarely-heard Native American voice to the DC stage. Tribal sovereignty is defined as “the concept of the inherent authority of indigenous...
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Guilt at Scena Theatre (review)
If your theatre tastes favor new and challenging works, Scena Theatre’s world premiere of Guilt is worthy of your consideration with its interesting mélange of light comedy, dark tragedy, and...
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