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The cult classic Beetlejuice is heading to the National Theatre in October 2018

New musical comedy BEETLEJUICE to have pre-Broadway world premiere at DC’s National Theatre

March 28, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

The National Theatre confirmed today that the pre-Broadway world premiere of the new musical comedy BEETLEJUICE will open its 2018-19 “Broadway at the National” season. This will be the second consecutive year the National Theatre opens its season with a pre-Broadway world premiere, following last season’s sold-out engagement of MEAN GIRLS.

Drew Gehling to lead the cast of world-premiere musical DAVE

March 27, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces Drew Gehling (Waitress, Jersey Boys) will play both President Bill Mitchell and the title role in Dave, the world-premiere musical debuting this summer, based on the blockbuster Academy Award-nominated comedy. The production, by three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan (Annie, Hairspray, The Producers), Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin (Mean Girls, Legally Blonde) and Pulitzer Prize and two-time Tony Award winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, If/Then), is directed by Tina Landau (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) and will run July 13-August 19, 2018 in the Kreeger Theater.

Theatre Revue: Step Afrika’s Step Xplosion at Strathmore

Stepping In The Right Direction

January 22, 2018 Derrick Dunn Theatre, Theatre Reviews

As a fan of dance, my expectations were high when I found out that I would be attending “Step Afrika’s Step Xplosion at Strathmore. The event which wasn’t an all-out competition, but more or a less a celebration of stepping and, how it helps children on their journey into adulthood.

Gloria Steinem will join playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle in post-show conversation on January 28, focusing on tribal sovereignty and sovereignty of the female body

Gloria Steinem featured as SOVEREIGNTY post-show panelist, 1/28

December 19, 2017 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host a special post-show conversation with Gloria Steinem on Sunday, January 28 following the 7:30 p.m. performance during the run of Mary Kathryn Nagle’s world premiere Power Play Sovereignty. This gripping political exploration travels the intersections of personal and political truths, and historic and present struggles, in the fight to save the sovereignty of Cherokee Nation both past and present. Under the direction of Artistic Director Molly Smith, Sovereignty runs January 12-February 18, 2018 in the Kreeger Theater.

Shakespeare Theatre Company presents OTHELLO

February 6, 2016 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

This February, the Shakespeare Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare’s Othello, helmed by internationally acclaimed director Ron Daniels and featuring stage and screen performer Faran Tahir in the titular role and Jonno Roberts as Iago. Director Ron Daniels, an honorary associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, brings his sure hand with Shakespeare to one of the Bard’s greatest tragedies. Othello runs at STC’s Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) from February 23 through March 27.

Award-winning production company presents another riotous creation from Three Day Hangover at The Pinch in Columbia Heights

LiveArtDC to Stage Drunkle Vanya from April 10 – 25 as Part of the Accidental Vanya Festival

March 19, 2015 Dean Rogers Theatre, Theatre News

LiveArtDC is producing another show created by the New York City’s Three Day Hangover for the Accidental Vanya Festival in Washington, D.C. Drunkle Vanya mixes Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with Cards Against Humanity (“the party game for horrible people”), vodka shots and the kind of intimacy you only get at a dive bar. Staged at The Pinch in north Columbia Heights, the show brings out the dark humor of Chekhov’s original text and adds the kind of fun and games fans are accustomed to from the two production companies.

Studio Announces Cast of MURDER BALLAD

February 17, 2015 Dean Rogers Theatre, Theatre News

Studio Theatre announces cast for immersive rock musical experience “Murder Ballad”

Priest is Back: “The Next” Tyler Perry Back In DC With Torn Between 2 Fathers

January 12, 2015 Dean Rogers Theatre, Theatre News

Priest Tyaire’s Highly Acclaimed Inspirational Stage Play “Torn Between 2 Fathers”, Brings A Message of Hope and Forgiveness By Destroying the Cycle of Absentee Fathers will be in DC – February 12^TH– 15^TH, 2015 at the Warner Theatre (Valentine’s Weekend)

Nice Work if You Can Get It comes to DC Jan. 30-31

January 6, 2015 Dean Rogers Theatre, Theatre News

TICKETS FOR THE WASHINGTON, D.C. PREMIERE OF “NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT”ON SALE NOW

Warner Theatre engagement runs January 30-31, 2015

Bad Jews

November 21, 2014 Beth Korman Theatre, Theatre Reviews

The sign at the snack bar lists the Show Special to be “Bad Jews Gelt” which includes Candied Bacon as an ingredient in the chocolate treat.

I attended a showing of “Bad Jews” directed by Serge Seiden, which is playing at the Studio Theatre through December 21, 2014. I thought it would surely be a comedy about Jews eating bacon etc.… as the show special had suggested.

Instead, I found myself heavily involved in listening to a debate between three cousins who were sharing an apartment to Read more

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