Black Nativity

blacknativityWatching Black Nativity, the Granddaddy of gospel musicals, is like going back in time, way back to the inception of what the Christmas season is all about.  [Read more...]

The Gift of the Magi

The Audible Group, the soundsmiths who bring you the Audience Choice Awards radioplay every year and last December’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, has created another  all-star offering in this new audio interpretation of  “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. [Read more...]

The Screwtape Questions

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Interviews with performers Max McLean and Karen Eleanor Wight

The Screwtape Letters was one of the surprise successes of Washington’s 2007-2008 season. Playing at Shakespeare’s Lansburgh  Theatre, this adaptation of the Christian philosopher and writer C.S. Lewis’ novel packed them in for a month [Read more...]

Some shows on Sunday, some closed

While some performances are open today, and others still undecided, there will undoubtedly be matinees and evening shows cancelled today. [Read more...]

Some holiday videos for the snowy weekend

You – hungry for some holiday entertainment, yet suddenly housebound, thanks to this weekend’s heavy snowfall.

Us – looking for some way to cheer you up.

Idea!  Share some of our favorite holiday videos made by friends of DC Theatre Scene. [Read more...]

Saturday cancellations – Christmas Carol is first

Sat, Dec 19, 2009 – We just received notice that the Saturday matinee and evening performances of A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre have been cancelled. Other snow cancellations for area productions are sure to follow.

Other  cancellations:

Saturday evening and Sunday matinee for Annie at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia and White Christmas at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore.

Saturday evening:  Keegan Theatre’s Rent at Church Street Theatre.
A Tuna Christmas at the Lyceum in Alexandria
Take Joy at Strathmore.

Before heading out to a performance, be sure to call the theatre.

Fantasticks’ funny men, Laurence O’Dwyer and Jesse Terril

They don’t sing a single note in Arena Stage’s production of the Jones and Schmidt musical The Fantasticks and they don’t perform any of the eye-popping illusions, [Read more...]

The Little Engine That Could

littleengineLike the little engine that could, the audience at the Sunday show must have said to themselves while chugging through the first icy morning of the season, “ I think I can, I think I can.”  And they did.  [Read more...]

Three Fall scene stealing shows

Three shows this fall were so packed with Scene Stealers, that Joel gives them their own feature:  The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) at Elden Street Players, West Side Story at Rockville Musical Theatre and Chicago at Winston Churchill High School. [Read more...]

The Prisoner of Zenda

zendaThe ambitious young company at 1st Stage has had a run of successful productions, but the law of inevitability may have caught up with them with this production of the classic swashbuckler The Prisoner of Zenda. [Read more...]