Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Got a nice lineup of Pay-What performances and previews, but there's also another staged reading that's piqued my curiosity.
The rap on Shakespeare's women (never mind Lady Macbeth) is that they're not as richly drawn as [...]

Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]

Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, a recap of the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details [...]

Gartshore, with fellow award winner Erin Driscoll, in Urinetown

“He has the most unusual bellybutton I've ever seen.”
That's the first quote in my Helen Hayes Awards notebook, courtesy of a black-tied theater booster at the fancy-schmancy Governors’ Reception before the gala. So, um, no, the chitchat among D.C.'s theatergoing faithful doesn't invariably rise to the level [...]

Miller in Rep Stage's Hamlet

Karl Miller worked his ass off—and scared the bejesus out of audiences—playing Columbine High School killer Eric Harris in columbinus last year at the Round House Theatre.
Then he hauled his ass out to Alaska when the production traveled to Juneau's Perseverance Theatre. (Yup, that's the same company founded by current Arena [...]

Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. Generally, you show up an hour or so before curtain and ask. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have [...]

Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters.  Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details [...]

No second acts in showbiz? Maybe not. But the Source Theatre saga may yet prove the old adage wrong.
When news broke in early February that the defunct, debt-plagued Source Theatre Company had signed a deal to sell its 14th Street NW playhouse to the restaurant-management firm behind Bedrock Billiards, theater boosters were flabbergasted. Pool tables [...]

Pay-What: It’s shorthand for “Pay-What-You-Can Performances,” and it’s how theaters fill seats and theater junkies get their fill without bankrupting themselves. And it’s a good way to see a show on the spur of the moment.
So seein’ as how it’s Thursday, and you’re starting to think about your weekend, you might want to think about [...]

I’d rather have introduced myself with something a little cheerier. But like theater, life leaves you shell-shocked as often as it leaves you cheering. So here goes:
D.C. theater veterans were staggered to learn last week that Source Theatre founder Bart Whiteman had died suddenly of a heart attack—just collapsed in his office, and the next [...]