Olney Theatre Center is offering a new “all-access” membership at just $99, which grants admission to any performance, any time, over a three-month period.
August is notoriously a dead month for theatregoers. Truth be told, we’re glad to take a breather after wearing ourselves out during the first Capital Fringe Festival. But we still can’t wait until September, which marks the start of so many companies’ seasons. In the meantime, there are a few shows to tide you over. >>Kennedy Center spends the summer months highlighting the talent of teens, with their workshop production of Muzical! showcased by Cappies…
Hedda Gabler is among those plays where it doesn’t matter what fancy sets you slap onstage or who else is milling around in the background: the fate of a production of this play rests on the woman playing the title character. Luckily, Julie-Ann Elliott is up for shouldering such a burden. Elliott’s performance is the main reason why Olney Theatre’s elegant production of the Ibsen classic works rather well. In Hedda Gabler, the playwright sets…
Perhaps not every reader spent long car rides singing along with her family to the soundtrack of Oliver! like this DCist, but the story’s familiar to anyone who’s tackled Charles Dickens, or grew up on the somewhat-forgotten Disney classic, Oliver And Company. Olney Theatre has taken the dusty but resilient old musical, based on the life of a lonely orphan and his association with a band of thieves, and given it brisk pacing and a…
DCist apologizes for this month’s theater preview being a bit behind schedule (its resident critic keeps ending up travelling out of state), but there’s no reason to fret, as there’s plenty of interesting options playing at area venues during November. Bunnies: Not just cute like everybody supposes? Or man’s real best friend? The lead character of Vpstart Crow’s production of Harvey would say they fall into the “friend” camp, but everybody just thinks he’s…
Most of us can’t imagine what it might be like to go through life unable to see or hear, completely cut off from our surroundings. Olney Theatre Center’s production of The Miracle Worker attempts to bring us into the experience of that struggle, while sharing one woman’s dedication to helping another overcome seemingly insurmountable circumstances. The show marks the grand opening of Olney’s new mainstage, which is an impressive sight to behold with its thrust…
Sexual intrigue, Hellen Keller and urine; that’s what area theaters have to offer us during the slow month of August, the dead time between the close of the ’04/’05 season and the beginning of the new one. In all seriousness, August still has plenty of offerings for D.C. theatergoers, as a bunch of well-received shows take final bows and a few exciting new productions make their debuts. People can’t stop tinkering with Les Liasons…
For a city often characterized by expensive food, high-priced drinks and rising real estate prices, low-priced entertainment is actually pretty easy to find in DC –- if you know where to look. Live here awhile, and you’ll find yourself outraged when you travel elsewhere and discover you actually occasionally have to pay admission to get into a museum, or hand over more than $25 for a decent concert ticket. The theater scene is no…
Editor’s Note: This preview of the Olney Theatre Center’s Summer Shakespeare Festival comes to us from Missy Frederick, who has joined our staff to write about theater. DCist appreciates, heck, even admires the egalitarian nature of the annual Shakespeare Theatre Free For All’s ticket giveaway madness that went down last month. The getting up early, the waiting in line for hours, then the returning to the amphitheater well in advance of curtain time only…