As if Washington’s current climate isn’t frigid enough for our liking, Bryony Lavery’s controversial play Frozen has arrived to further chill the air. The Tony-nominated drama, which centers on the disappearance of a young girl, saw a Broadway run in 2004, a Studio Theatre production in 2006, and can be seen at the Anacostia Playhouse […]
Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith: creating the new musical Turn of the Screw at Creative Cauldron
The latest in our area’s world premiere productions takes us back to a literary classic. The Turn of the Screw, now onstage at ArtSpace Falls Church, is the inaugural production in Creative Cauldron’s initiative to create new plays for smaller venues.
Choir Boy at Studio Theatre
It is a risky thing to make this claim in the first month of the year. But if you see one show at Studio Theatre in 2015, let it be Choir Boy.
Andrew Baughman becomes Independent Theatre Coalition spokesman
On Friday, December 26, a mystery donor presented Washington theatre with a gift. It wasn’t the usual holiday card or end-of-year donation. Instead, an anonymous theatre patron developed the idea – and corresponding web presence – to give our region’s smaller theatre companies their own space, voice, and conversation.
Famous Puppet Death Scenes at Woolly Mammoth
Spoiler alert: The whale dies. Edward Grue who dressed as a deer dies. The squattish bald man in his business tie dies. In Famous Puppet Death Scenes, produced by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop of Alberta, Canada, and presented at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, no puppet is spared the inevitable.
Lumina stages Twelfth Night, or what they will
The moment you lay eyes on the magnificent set, you know: This is no ordinary youth production. A far, and far more professional, cry from what most of us recall of elementary school recitals, Lumina Studio Theatre brings us a delightful romp through one of Shakespeare’s cherished comedies.
Mary Poppins at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
Certainly there are elements of the much-beloved Mary Poppins tale that could, in the retelling, seem sinister. She flies in on the wind with an umbrella—not much of a departure from the black-clad ladies in pointy hats who take to the sky on brooms. She’s not overly affectionate with the children—indeed, she’s critical, demanding, and […]
Klingon language creator Marc Okrand plays Scrooge in WSC Avant Bard’s Klingon Christmas Carol
Nothing spreads holiday cheer quite like the unearthly wolf grunts and throaty insistent howls of the Klingon species. In advance of WSC Avant Bard’s one-night-only staged reading of A Klingon Christmas Carol on December 15, DC Theatre Scene spoke with the man who created the Klingon language—who also happens to lead the theatre’s Board, and […]
Calarco is cracking an old nut: musical Nutcracker at Round House
When Round House Theatre’s Ryan Rilette approached Joe Calarco about directing The Nutcracker, visions of sugar plum fairies and toys come to life initially gave Joe pause. “I thought it was going to be this sweet, cute holiday play,” says Calarco, “with no center or meat to it. Just a whole lot of fantasy.”
Disney’s The Little Mermaid makes a big splash at Olney
In 1989, a certain Disney film swore to every attentive child that “life is the bubbles under the sea.” Now, 25 years later, Olney Theatre Center’s The Little Mermaid confirms that it’s still worth spending some quality time with the blowfish, crabs, octovillains and merfolk who inhabit their most recent production.
There Is a Happiness That Morning Is from WSC Avant Bard
For college professors Bernard and Ellen, nothing brings sexy back quite like the poems of William Blake. Unfortunately for them, they’ve been caught demonstrating the romantic nature of the Romantics in front of their students.
Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre
Like one of the phantoms in Folger Theatre’s production, Julius Caesar revisits us to impart its message time and time again. And while Shakespeare’s tragedy is a familiar experience for some, the performances in this production set it apart–and above–many that have come before.