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Signature Theatre holds is annual Open House this Saturday, August 3rd starting at noon. One huge thank you to all Signature fans, the one day event features performances every 15 minutes, m…
Dane Figueroa Edidi, who gave a memorable performance in force/collision’s production of Shape last year, is about to unveil her musical, Roaring: the Musical, written with Andrew Morr…
Thanks to the performers, volunteers, and audiences, this has been a fabulous Fringe. And the results, you ask? According to the stats released at last night’s party: Capital Fringe 20…
TrueTheatergoer has announced the winning theatre companies in its annual reader-driven competition: Keegan Theatre received the second prize of $5,000 and Quotidian Theatre received the top…
Come one, come all — the 8th Annual Capital Fringe Festival ends this Sunday! No one can claim that DC Theatre Scene photographer Ryan Maxwell hasn’t been putting in his time at …
Woolly Mammoth announced that its fifth collaboration with Chicago’s Second City, America All Better!, is a box office hit, earning it a two week extension. The all new revue now runs …
Our official Fringe photographer Ryan Maxwell’s photo shoot from Sunday, July 14 around the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent at Fort Fringe. Among the mix are Fringe staff, theatre techies who s…
Good news for all the Mormon fans out there who don’t yet have tickets. While it’s true that nearly all the full view seats for the entire run of Book of Mormon at the Kennedy Ce…
In this strangely titled production that packs a wallop, writer and director Mark St. Germain sets up an imagined encounter between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. The world pr…
" by guest writer Colin K. Bills - dog & pony dc's A Killing Game (or AKG) is an absurdist-play-meets-party-game promising the most fun you'll ever have dying. The show, and the game wit…
The drummer from the Broadway production of Avenue Q, Michael Croiter, is at the helm of his own record label and it is making major inroads into the business of musical theater recording. T…
Derek Smith and Kathryn Meisle will return to the Sidney Harman Hall stage to reprise their roles as Benedick and Beatrice in Shakespeare Theatre Company's Free-For-All presentation of its 2…
CulturalDC’s Source Festival just added 3 more performances for its festival hit, Topher Payne’s comedy Perfect Arrangement. (l-r) Raven Bonniwell, Kiernan McGowan, Natalie Cutch…
This year’s season is quickly drawing to a close. Time to look ahead. We’ve compiled the upcoming season into a new Season-At-A-Glance, our popular sortable table. You’ll f…
DC Theatre Scene's Interactive  Guide to the Washington DC Area Theatre Season Aug 1, 2013 " July 31, 2014 Last updated: June 27, 2013 Note – This guide is still a work in progress.…
dog & pony dc took their first road trip with A Killing Game earlier this month, and arrived back home able to use those magical words in its marketing, “award winning.” …
Two theatre companies recently became owners of their own performing spaces. This weekend, we attended the celebration of the purchase of Church Street Theatre by its resident company Keegan…
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has awarded DC Theatre Scene a $10,000 matching grant for covering theater in Washington, DC. The grant, the largest received to date, allows DCT…
– Sam Simon, a 40+ year resident of the DC area, is now writing and performing in New York and Washington. He has trained with Artistic New Directions, Carol Fox Prescott, and Gary Aus…
– Guest writer Jessica North Macie, co-writer of How to Have it All: The Musical, is a local actor, playwright English teacher at National Cathedral School, and full-time mommy to Lail…
June 17, 2013 — Tickets for the 2013 Capital Fringe Festival went on sale this morning, the festival announced.This year, audiences will be offered 128 shows, in 738 performances, in 1…
Follow our coverage click on the images                 July 12 – 28, 2013 Check back here for our Fringe news, and review…
– Guest author Evan Crump is a DC Area actor and playwright and Artistic Director of Unstrung Harpist Productions – Part of Fringe Peeks, our “in their own words”…
Quotidian Theatre's 2013-2014 season, it’s 16th, will be composed of three plays by notable Irish or Irish-American playwrights. Their season will kick off with a production of Eugene …
Olney Theatre Center has resolved the problem of how to satisfy a diverse audience by announcing a nine-play 2014 season (they run on a calendar year) divided in thirds: three for audiences …