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DC Theatre Scene ends its 15 year run today. But we won't be disappearing any time soon. Thanks to a generous donation, we will be able to remain online for the next 3 years. I know many of …
These are the plays that won't let go. They are there as I drift off to sleep, or, unbidden, come to me during the day. This happens more often now, as work here slows to a close. You probab…
After death, two professionals spring into action. The undertaker applies makeup, and puts formaldehyde in the veins, so that the forgetting may begin after a celebration. If the undertaker …
Were there magical moments on New York stages in 2020? The question is debatable " just like the definition of "theater" is being debated " since nobody has been performing on any actual sta…
Theater is at its best when it teaches us something. When it makes us think, and reconsider our stance on an issue, or when it carries us away into another land and time, where characters, f…
No, this isn't just A Christmas Carol with an accent; it is a riff on the familiar Dickens structure, transported to the equally familiar stage world of an old Irish bar. The ghosts and visi…
Puppet theater has long enjoyed popularity in Washington. The region has often generated a vibrant children's theater scene offering a multiplicity of styles for a variety of audiences.Å
Aimed at young audiences, but appropriate for children of all ages, The Snow Queen is a magical first for Imagination Stage " the theatre's first foray into online production. Billed as an "…
Congress has included a $15 billion grant package for performance and related arts, including theaters, in the $900 billion coronavirus relief package it passed on Monday. The program, calle…
"Being Alive"and "Losing My Mind" " are there any better Sondheim songs to sing at the close of a year full of loss, unrequited yearning and obsession? That they are sung by performers who h…
An old-fashioned black-draped dressing mirror is the only prop in the moody, elemental, but by no means elementary "Fuego Flamenco XVI: Intimo," presented by GALA Hispanic Theatre. The mirro…
All hail Ma Rainey. The real-life Mother of the Blues gets star power treatment of such high wattage it can scarcely be measured. Peerless acting, a tight ensemble, cinematography burnished …
You've got to hand it to Pointless Theatre- the above title alone is just about perfect for 2020, even if it started out as a simple twist on the company's clever name. As we are all in need…
Introducing the real Ma Rainey. Ahead of the premiere on December 18, 2020 of August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, it is important for audiences to realize that Ma Rainey is not a …
"I'm a playwright, right?," DC playwright Richard Byrne told me on a phone call. "I miss people getting into my face with my words." But the pandemic has pushed this prolific writer and his …
What kind of weird holiday show is this? That was my initial reaction " not my usual reaction to a show by Taylor Mac, which is more  often: Wow ( to Hir, and A 24 Decade History o…
A daughter confronts her police officer father. An absurdist game show tries to determine who is the most Black. A candidate for district attorney confronts her traumatic past. A sex worker …
"During peacetime, when we need metaphors, we raid the language of war. But the idiom of wartime is food: cannon fodder, carnage, slaughterhouse. Buildings and people are pancaked, sandwiche…
It's always an awkward situation when leadership of an organization transitions. The smartest model, of course, is for the outgoing leader to separate cleanly and to fade quietly into the pa…
Do you remember the old Firesign Theatre? On their records (do you remember records?), an absurd scene would dissolve into another absurd scene, until you dissolved in laughter. To put a per…
Joel Grey sings "Give My Regards to Broadway" " in Yiddish. And he's not alone among the 50 performers of the Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular, a fast-moving, entertaining 80 minutes that is …
In his 1996 speech, "The Ground On Which I Stand," acclaimed playwright August Wilson charged the American theatre industry to take seriously the funding and producing of Black theatre. This…
Scrooge was right, you know; it is humbug to fall like jackals upon each other for eleven months of the year, but on the twelfth to feign good will and generosity of spirit. He was a skinfli…
After fifteen and a half years and more than ten thousand articles, DC Theatre Scene will cease publishing on December 31, 2020. After December 31, there will be no more reviews, no more art…
