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The Kennedy Center hosts its 10th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 3, 2011 to Monday, September 5, 2011, featuring works presented by more than 40 theaters fro…
With Hurricane Irene concentrated on DC area coastal regions, theatre companies have reported that they will continue with scheduled performances this weekend. The only events we have found …
The finalists of the Audience Choice Awards have been chosen, and we are about to open voting for the final round to select the winner in each category. Everyone who received a ballot for th…
Inspired by the DC area’s 5.9 earthquake  today, Signature Theatre quickly responded with a salute to  the fact that we’re still standing with this incredible offer: …
Registration to vote for the 2011 Audience Choice Awards closes Wednesday, Aug 24th at midnight. Everyone signed up by then will have the opportunity to vote both in the first round, which c…
As the new season opens, there will be one fewer critic looking on. Bob Anthony, who wrote through his Web site AllArtsReview4, passed away from respiratory failure on Saturday, August 20, 2…
The critics have spoken. The judges have spoken. Now it’s your turn. We like to think of the Audience Choice Awards as one final round of applause for all DC area theatremakers. Thi…
The press has spoken . The judges have spoken. Now it’s your turn. Since 2007, DC Theatre Scene has been asking its writers to name the best productions and performances of the theatri…
This year’s Shakespeare Theatre’s popular Free For All is the return of their 2008 production of Julius Caesar.   Originally directed by David Muse, now Artistic Dire…
August is the hottest month for ticket sales too. DC audiences are showing they like seeing their favorite shows the second time around. Yesterday morning, Constellation Theatre had only …
Our annual Audience Choice Awards recognizes the best productions and performances of the 2010/11 DC area theatrical season. Â Our staff is busy compiling their nominations, and soon we wi…
Lyricist Fran Landesman started with “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” and the Broadway musical The Nervous Set. Then turned her life into songs. Â Here’s how our …
Why settle for stools from Ikea, when you can have Ikea-like stools that Jennifer Mendenhall and others used in Circle Mirror Transformation? Or wouldn’t that red couch Tom Story is…
The 2010-2011 DC area Theatrical Season Last updated Aug 3, 2011 Click to sort COMPANYClick to sort PRODUCTIONClick to sort 2011/12 DATES 1st StageDON'T DRESS FOR DINNER by Mar…
Today, Taffety Punk continues its annual tradition of bootleg performances when the company plus friends gather for the one and only rehearsal of tonight’s single performance of Willia…
E. Faye Butler begins rehearsals for Arena’s Trouble in Mind On August 9th, there will be one change in the cast of Arena Stage’s hit show Oklahoma! as one actress moves…
July 24, 2011 – Sunday night, as the last shows in this year’s Capital Fringe were winding down, the Capital Fringe closing night party in the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent was underway…
Company Click to sortProduction Click to sort2011/12 Dates Click to sort 1st StageDON'T DRESS FOR DINNER by Marc CamolettiSept 9 " Oct 2 1st StageTHE HOW AND WHY by Sarah TreemOct 28 " Nov 2…
With 3 more days to go, there is still plenty of Fringe left – 44 performances today alone. However, it’s news to no one that we’ve got what could be record breaking temper…
Michael J. Bobbitt and members of Adventure Theatre are setting off on an adventure of their own when their Nippon Airways flight departs July 27th, touches down in Japan the next day before…
DC playwright Gwydion Suilebhan argues that perhaps it has. This year, the price of a Fringe ticket has gone from $15 to $17, and the required one-time purchase of the Fringe button has incr…
An interview with e-Geaux (beta)' s Joseph Price and Amy Couchoud Believe it or not, groundbreaking technology is making its world premiere at Capital Fringe. And Steve Jobs is nowhere to be…
Traveling to Shepherdstown, WV to cover the Contemporary American Theater Festival is the most sought-after assignment among DCTS writers. If you’ve been to the Festival over its p…
Although seemingly a tortured treatise on reconciling faith and forgiveness, From Prague by Kyle Bradstreet actually comes off more as a travelogue about the charms of Czechoslovakia. Joh…
A look at the art of the Fringe button The Capital Fringe button you’ll be sporting somewhere on your person this July may look like you bought it at a Winslow Homer exhibit, but actua…
