DC Theatre Scene

Audience members who have received their invitation to vote for DC Theatre Scene’s Audience Choice Awards have until  8pm tonight to cast their votes for favorite productions and performances.  [Read more...]

Aug 19, 2010 — What an enchanted evening tonight will be when PBS’s “Live from Lincoln Center” presents the 7-time Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific. You can watch it locally on two PTS stations: WETA, Channel 26 at 8pm, re-broadcast on Aug 19 at 1am, 6am and 2pm, and again on Aug 20 at 2am, and  Maryland Public Television at 8pm and re-broadcast Thursday, Aug 19 at 3am and again on Sat, Aug 21 at 7pm. [Read more...]

Jane Pesci-Townsend, an old-school musical belter who won accolades as an actor, singer, director and teacher, lost her six-year battle with cancer on August 6, 2010. She passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, close friends and nearly a thousand Facebook messages, which her companions read to her during her intermittent periods of consciousness in her last days. [Read more...]

Last evening, August 6th, Jane Pesci-Townsend passed away, surrounded by family and by a boundless community of students and friends gathered on Facebook. This weekend, we are conducting  interviews for a retrospective of her remarkable life which we hope to publish on Monday.  Our condolences to all who were touched by this gifted teacher and performer.