Photographer Ryan Maxwell catches the crowd at the at the 9:30 Club for the Helen Hayes Awards after party, Monday night, May 23, 2016.
Archives for May 2016
2016 Helen Hayes Awards. Highlights from being there and thoughts the day after
What’s it going to be like this year? That was a question in the minds of many in the theatre community as last night’s Helen Hayes Awards ceremony approached.
Garbage Kids (review) at Venus Theatre, too perfect for words
Venus Theatre has a knack for finding new scripts that make you ache and ruminate all at once—appealing at once to emotion and intellect, deeply, endlessly. Garbage Kids, a tale of homelessness and survival, follows suit.
Mosaic Theater’s When January Feels Like Summer (review)
The welcome arrival of the Mosaic Theater Company of DC on the local theatre scene is punctuated by When January Feels Like Summer. The heartwarming and frequently funny Cori Thomas play about the interlocking relationships of five commonplace Harlem residents provides a winning exclamation point to Mosaic’s memorable first season.
Blackberry Winter (review) at Forum Theatre
Actor Holly Twyford is a tour de force as Vivienne, a force of nature with a soft Southern accent, mad baking skills, impeccable manners and oh yes, a mother with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
2016 Helen Hayes Awards winners
There were some big surprises last night at the Helen Hayes Awards. Constellation’s bet on Avenue Q paid off big at the box office, and with the judges, earning it a top spot in number of awards for any production (7) along with Shakespeare Theatre’s Salomé.
DCTS ticket giveaway: An Octoroon at Woolly Mammoth. Contest ends Thursday
Update: We have a winner. Look for another great giveaway coming soon. For this week’s giveaway, we have a pair of tickets to Woolly Mammoth’s season closer An Octoroon by award winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Oleanna (review) Mamet’s drama marks auspicious start for Perisphere
John, a professor and author, is about to receive tenure, and buoyed by the security that tenure brings, about to buy a lovely new house for his family as well. That will change. Significantly.
Watch tonight as DCTS takes you backstage at the Helen Hayes Awards
Thanks to our exclusive arrangement with theatreWashington, DC Theatre Scene will have a video team at the Lincoln Theatre tonight, bringing you all the excitement of Washington theatre’s most glamorous night. We’ll take you from U Street to the lobby to backstage where we’ll get reactions from some of tonight’s 47 recipients right after receiving their award.
The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly (review) new magic from the Emerald Isle
Louis Lovett is a weaver of stories. From Ireland he is and he is simply grand. I have it on good authority from two smallish people and one not so smallish I met at the Kennedy Center last Friday evening for this young people’s performance. After squinting and thinking quite critically for a moment, Karolin thought the […]
Happy Hour at Spooky Action (review) Brilliant live action gaming
As gaming and virtual reality become ever more ingrained into popular culture, it’s about time that some creative minds brought it into the world of theater. In the interactive escape drama Happy Hour, Spooky Action Theater and Goethe-Institut bring immersive, gamified action to Washington and ask audiences “What would happen if the game characters were […]
Honoring the Helen Hayes nominees: Kerri Rambow, actor, teacher and already a winner
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the last in our series highlighting this year’s Helen Hayes nominees: their work, their life, their art, their passion.