We think of DC Theatre Scene as a virtual theatre lobby where people from both sides of the stage come together to learn from one another, and share history and opinions about theatre in the Washington DC area.

We began in 2005, when Ronnie Ruff, along with three writers, created DC Theatre Reviews.  The site was committed to fostering a lively discussion of the busy Washington, DC professional theatre community, with special emphasis on the small stages, whose productions,  until then, had been given little attention.

In October, 2007, we incorporated as DC Theatre Scene, the new Web site and name recognizing that we had expanded our coverage beyond reviews with features, news, and opinion columns.

Today, DC Theatre Scene is a registered 501c3 tax exempt corporation with three columnists and a growing staff of  writers.  We help theatregoers make tickets buying decisions through our partnership with TheatreinDC, and have widened our spotlight to cover New York City and Baltimore theatre as well. DCTS has created the Gary Lee Maker Audience Award and gives our readers a voice with our end-of-season DCTS Audience Choice Awards.

Let us know your thoughts:
Email: theshow@dctheatrescene.com
Phone: 301 638-1137

Staff 

(Click on their names to view their DCTS archive)

Lorraine Treanor, Publisher and Editor, member, Board of Directors

Lorraine Treanor has the best job in town, and makes it all happen from a log house in Waldorf, MD. She attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and has produced plays and concerts in her hometown of Chicago, and in two Capital Fringe Festivals. Her daughter Nina Norris is an artist working in Chicago. Life’s a blast because writer Tim Treanor is her husband.

Currently writing for DCTS:

	Sarah Ameigh Sarah is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where she studied sociology, advertising, and theatre. After graduation she back-packed across Australia, and moved to DC where she now works in non-profit advocacy. She loves theatre, writing, music, and buys entirely too many books.
	Larry Bangs has both a B.A. and an M.A. in Theatre and many years of experience acting and directing in church basements, retrofitted art galleries and such — including The New Playwrights Theatre which performed during the 70’s in the space currently occupied by the Church Street Theatre. Now semi-retired, he keeps his frustration level up by playing golf and soothes his soul by attending Live HD Met opera performances.
	John Barry, columnist, Backstage Baltimore. John is a Baltimore-based writer. He’s written on theatre for Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore Style, the Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine, Smart Set, and other publications and websites. He is co-curator (with Deborah Rudacille) of the New Mercury Nonfiction Readings in Baltimore. He is an adjunct instructor in the humanities department of Maryland Institute College of Art. He can be reached at jrbarry63@aol.com.
	Chad Bauman was the Director of Communications for Arena Stage, where he was responsible for external affairs during the construction and launch of the Mead Center for American Theater. He worked on multiple Broadway transfers, repositioned the company from a regional theater to a national center, produced the Grand Opening and broke multiple sales records. Chad is a prolific speaker and consultant, serves on the faculties of American University, CalArts and Drexel University, and was named as one of the most influential leaders under 40 in our nation’s capital by Washington Life Magazine. In his spare time, he writes an arts marketing blog and can be found on Twitter @chadbauman.
	Jayne Blanchard has been a critic covering DC theater for the past 10 years, most recently for the Washington Times. Prior to that, she was a theater critic in the Twin Cities and a movie reviewer in the Washington area. A proud resident of Baltimore, she now reviews Baltimore productions for DCTS as well.
	Joe Brack, is a theatre artist currently residing in Washington, DC. He is a huge fan of all forms of the arts and is intrigued by the process in which we all create. Follow Joe’s adventures in theatre and art at JoeBrack.weebly.com
	Ben Demers, a Baltimore native, has been a theater enthusiast since a young age. He studied drama and voice at Vassar College, performing in numerous plays, musicals, and operas. By day, he is a legal assistant in a DC law firm, and in his spare time, he enjoys debating the artistic merits of horror movies, tearing up the dance floor, and performing music on guitar and piano. He is thrilled to experience all the dynamic, exciting theater that DC has to offer.
	Susan Galbraith is a playwright, librettist, director and actor in theatre. Currently, she serves as President of Alliance for New Music-Theatre.
	Steve Hallex has covered various elements of art and culture since 1997.  He joined DCTS during the 2011 Fringe Festival and has been enjoying it ever since.  When he’s not reviewing plays, he tries to make a living as a freelance writer in Falls Church.
	Brad Hathaway, Theatre Shelf columnist – Brad covered theater throughout the Washington area for over a decade. He is best known locally for his work as the editor and reviewer for Potomac Stages from 2001 to 2010. Among the publications that have featured his writing are The Hill Rag, the Connection Newspapers of Northern Virginia, Show Music Magazine and The Sondheim Review. As a member of the American Theater Critics Association, he hosted their 2008 annual conference in Washington and currently serves on that association’s executive committee. Brad received a League of Washington Theatres’ Offstage Honors Award for contributions to the Washington DC theater community. He and his wife Teddie live on a houseboat in Sausalito CA.
	Debbie Minter Jackson is a writer and has been a performer in musical theater for 30+ years. Originally from Chicago, she has performed throughout the Washington, D.C. area including the Kennedy Center in productions with the legendary Mike Malone. Her scripts have been commissioned and produced by Source Theater, throughout Washington, D.C. and New York, and she is a member of Footlights and the Black Women Playwrights’ Group which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year. By day she happily works in a federal public health agency as a Senior Program Analyst.
	Rosalind Lacy, who hails from Los Angeles, has enjoyed writing for DCTheatreScene since 2006. A 20-year journalism veteran, with newspapers such as the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, the Butler Eagle in Pennsylvania, the Suburban Newspapers of Northern New Jersey, Rosalind won a MD-DC press award for the Montgomery Journal in 1999. Since Rosalind’s heady days training and performing professionally in summer stock out of New York City, Rosalind has taught drama in high school, directed and acted in community theaters, and is the proud mother of three young adults. Still an avid theater nut, Rosalind is a former board member of www.Footlightsdc.org, and an aficionada of Spanish theater history.
	Andrew Lapin, film and theatre critic.  Andrew graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English — always the telltale sign of a life steeped in the arts. An editorial fellow at Government Executive magazine, he also writes film criticism for NPR and a sports column for The A.V. Club. Though a native of metro Detroit, he now resides in Washington D.C. and continues to devote an unhealthy portion of his brain to esoteric film trivia.
	Roy Maurer, a former U.S. Marine, and filmmaker/screenwriter, switched to journalism in 2003. He has covered theatre in Los Angeles, Bloomington, Indiana,(where he co-founded a weekly arts publication and added political reporting to his roster) and here in DC for NBC Washington. He has been an editor/reporter covering labor and immigration law and policy since 2008.
	Steve McKnight is a member of the DCTS Board of Directors. Steve is a recovering lawyer who now works in a lobbying firm and enjoys the drama of political theatre on both sides of the aisle. He admires authors, actors, athletes, teachers, and chefs, and has dabbled in all of those roles with mixed (and occasionally hilarious) results.
	Scott Meslow DCTS Film and Theatre critic. Scott also writes for The Atlantic and for Campus Progress and WealthBriefing.
	Terry Ponick A former college English professor, technical writer, and policy analyst, Terry Ponick started writing on theater in 1987, first for northern Virginia’s Connection newspapers and currently for the Times Community newspaper chain. Along with his wife Fran, he created a series of Siskel and Ebert-style dueling review columns that won the couple a 1993 Washington Dateline Award for theater criticism. In 1994, he moved to the Washington Times to become that paper’s classical music and culture critic.
	Richard Seff, columnist, NY Theatre Buzz. Richard, a true Broadway quadruple-threat – Broadway actor, agent, author and librettist- has, among his many accomplishments, has written the book for Shine! The Horatio Alger Musical!, which debuted at the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival and the his well-received Broadway autobiography, “SUPPORTING PLAYER: My Life Upon the Wicked Stage”. Each year, Actors Equity recognizes the year’s most outstanding supporting player with, appropriately enough, the Richard Seff Award. ‘This Is Broadway’ a radio series of 60 short interviews with Broadway stars which Richard co-hosted with Isobel Robins in the 70′s can be heard on AmericanTheatreWing.org.
	Hunter Styles is a founding member of DC’s Wayward Theatre, where he works as a director and playwright. He has directed and assistant directed with Theater J, Studio 2ndStage, Rorschach Theatre, Synetic Theater, Doorway Arts Ensemble, Angry Young Theatre Company, Mighty Theater, and more. Most recently he has worked as a producer and advisor for Forum Theatre’s Naomi Wallace Festival and Georgetown University’s Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival. He is a staff member at The Studio Theatre, and serves as the Artistic Director at Artists Bloc.
	Tim Treanor, Senior Writer, member, DCTS Board of Directors. Since 2005, Tim has written almost 400 reviews and numerous news articles, features and interviews for DCTS. He has been a member of the American Theater Critics Association since 2009 and sits on its New Plays committee. He is also a fellow of the National Critics Institute, run by the O’Neill Theater Center. His interactive murder mystery,Murder in Elsinore, enjoyed a brief run in 2003. By day he is a trial lawyer for the Federal government. He lives with his dear bride, Lorraine, in a log house in the woods of Southern Maryland.
	Leslie Weisman A longtime subscriber to a half-dozen DC theatres, Leslie also writes for the Washington DC Film Society, where her articles on the Berlin and Munich film festivals appear regularly in the Society’s online newsletter Storyboard. Leslie is also a regular contributor to the Orson Welles website Wellesnet.com, and wrote a review for the site of the play Obediently Yours, Orson Welles which she saw in its Paris and Barcelona premieres.