Tag: Scena Theatre
DCTA 2023 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Creative Components (Professional)
These designers, directors, and playwrights made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Gabriele Jakobi, Scena’s renowned director, died January 2 at age 69
The native of Germany is survived by her husband, Robert McNamara, founder and artistic director of Scena Theatre.
DCTA 2022 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Performances
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Richard Burton makes a cameo in ‘Playing Burton’ at Scena
In a stream-of-consciousness monologue, we get glimpses of the actor's character.
Scena Theatre opens transfixing and exhilarating ‘Beckett Shorts’
The anthology of four dark comedies is an overview of the renowned playwright’s themes and techniques.
Scena Theatre to present four black comedies by Samuel Beckett
With 'Beckett Shorts,' the company returns to its modernist roots of staging great works by the masters of literature and theater.
DC-area theaters unite to extend COVID vax and mask requirements
Shows go on as Theatre Washington announces continued safety efforts.
A critic at play
During the past seven-odd years that I've contributed to DC Theater Arts, I've written about upwards of 600 shows—sometimes as the designated reviewer (when...
Scena Theatre’s ‘The Dead’ presents quiet desperation at Christmastime
Based on a renowned short story by James Joyce, The Dead, now being presented by Scena Theatre, is a slice of the lives of...
Page to Stage Festival 2019: Tastings from a Buffet (Part One)
Kennedy Center's annual Page to Stage Festival is always chock full of tempting offerings, and the challenge of deciding what to see is daunting....
Review: ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ by Scena Theatre
I love Brecht. My heart and soul were ready for Scena Theatre’s production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (written during World War...
Review: ‘Beckett Trio, Part 2’ by Scena Theatre
Ready for your Samuel Beckett fix? A fix for the lesser-known, very short-form works by the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature?...
Review: ‘Submission’ by Scena Theatre
Go with no preconceived notions to best absorb Scena Theatre’s Submission, the American premiere theater adaptation of the 2015 European best-selling novel by French...
Review: ‘Woman of No Importance’ at Scena Theatre
The first thing you notice about Scena Theatre’s Woman of No Importance is Alisa Mandel’s lush costume design. Like an unnamed character, her costumes...
Review: ‘1984’ by Scena Theatre
Big Brother. Newspeak. Thoughtcrime. Doublethink. Orwellian. Those words have floated around the public lexicon for years, and at a time when the political zeitgeist...
Review: ‘Guilt, an opera without music’ at Scena Theatre
With its teasing, click-bait provocative subtitling, “an opera without music,” John Shand’s Guilt, having its world premiere by DC’s Scena Theatre, is a meaty, passionately...
Review: ‘The Night Alive’ at Scena Theatre
Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive is a story of lost souls seeking redemption, of searching for a light in the darkness. Presented...
Magic Time! ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ at Scena Theatre
Someone Is Going to Come is a comedy of menace with a roiling undercurrent of sexual tension. It evokes ominous noirish goings-on in a...
Review: ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ at Scena Theatre
Scena Theatre’s Someone Is Going to Come is a tightly wound riddle about danger; the lightly concealed danger lurking in a couple’s push-pull of...
Review: ‘Report to an Academy’ at Scena Theatre
Scena Theatre opens the company’s 30th Anniversary Season with Report to an Academy, an emotionally powerful drama. Report to an Academy is based on the 1917 classic...