The Lion King

The Lion King
Music & Lyrics by Elton John and Tim Rice . Additional Music & Lyrics by Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor and Hans Zimmer
Book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi
Directed by Julie Taymor
A Disney production presented by The Kennedy Center
Reviewed by Ted Ying

When Disneyland first opened, guests had to purchase tickets [...]

A Body of Water

A Body of Water
by Lee Blessing                            
Directed by Michael Ryan Fernandez
Produced by Firebelly Productions
Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy
After seeing Firebelly’s spellbinding, well-polished production of Lee Blessing’s poetic play A Body of Water, I felt a hunger for human interaction. The edge-of-seat suspense kept me holding my breath until the last revelation.

This Storm Is What We Call Progress

This Storm Is What We Call Progress
By Jason Grote
Produced by Rorschach Theatre
Directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick
Reviewed by Tim Treanor

A gal, a pal, a cabal…Kabbalah! This perfect Storm has been brewing for centuries - brewing within us, from the days of the first Adam’s atoms, when we sought to find the words - “let there be [...]

Red Noses

Red Noses
By Peter Barnes
Produced by the Washington Shakespeare Company
Directed by Jay Hardee and John Geoffrion
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Red Noses is a deadly earnest meditation on the redemptive power of laughter, a soggy, self-sabotaging pudding of a play not advanced by the Washington Shakespeare Company’s strident production of it. Imagine the work of the great George [...]

Nixon’s Nixon

Nixon’s Nixon
A Conversation with Ed Gero and Conrad Feininger of Nixon’s Nixon
by Joel Markowitz

By now, Ed Gero and Conrad Feininger are deeply familiar with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. They first played them in Nixon’s Nixon at Round House Theatre in 1999, and are reprising their spot-on portrayals, again for  Round House Theatre.

DCTS Covers the Summer Festivals

This summer, DC Theatre Scene will be adding coverage of four major festivals to our regular review and podcast schedules. Here’s the run-down.

Source Festival 2008

Source Festival
June 21 - July 13

at

Source . 1835 14th St NW, Washington, DC

Tickets 

Written by Lorraine Treanor. Recorded by Joel Markowitz
Source has re-opened and is hosting its own Festival of new works. There is great cause for celebration with this festival.  First, that it continues the 25 year tradition of the original Source Theatre Company’s Washington [...]

The Mousetrap

Mousetrap
Written by Agatha Christie
Directed by John Going
Produced at Olney Theatre
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

How does the longest running show in the history of London’s famed West End, one that has been performed on Broadway and throughout America for decades still have enough punch to keep ‘em guessing for yet another run? 

This Beautiful City

This Beautiful City
By Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis
With music and lyrics by Michael Friedman
Produced by The Civilians at Studio Theatre
Directed by Michael Friedman
Reviewed by Tim Treanor

The difference between reality theater and reality television is that the aim of reality theater is to render difficult and complicated truths, whereas reality television is just bad improv. This [...]

ATCA Convention Here for the Theatre

This week, if any of those tour buses block your crosswalk, be kind. The passengers may not be monument-loving tourists, but some 90+ theatre people here to check out the DC area theatre scene. And not just theatre people. Theatre critics.

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