THEATRE in the District!
Did you know that Dancing in the District has its own THEATRE arm! Well, we do! On this page you’ll find all of our THEATRE-driven reviews and theatre-inspired Artist Talks! After all, theatre is also dance, movement, blocking, and choreography! Dance and Theatre is like Peanut Butter and Jelly!
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Mosaic Theater Company’s Precarious by Audrey Brown
In the aftermath of the pandemic years, when the reality was the reverse for many young twenty- and thirty-somes, playwright Steph Del Rosso flips the script, forcing climate warrior Vi into her daughter Tillie’s one-bedroom New York apartment that she shares with partner Drew. Chaos and comedy ensue—or rather, a series of chaotic, comedic scenarios…
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Steph Del Rosso X Audrey Brown
In our second THEATRE in the District Artist Talk, Audrey Brown chats with playwright Step Del Rosso about her new play, Precarious, with Mosaic Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center. Precarious is a fresh new comedy about starting out and starting over!
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Chez Joey at Arena Stage by Audrey Brown
Any modern-written show that includes a full-blown Golden Age dream ballet is a winner in my book. Such was the fact in Chez Joey, currently playing at Arena Stage in Washington, which deems itself a “revisal” of the 1940 musical Pal Joey.
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The Holiday Show 2025 by The GMCW at Lincoln Theatre by Audrey Brown
Arriving to the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s Holiday Show 2025, performed at the Lincoln Theatre on U Street, I was greeted by two enormous, buzzing lines wrapped around the building. Was I in the right place? Was I mistaking the line for some highly-anticipated A-list singer-songwriter who forced fans to camp around the block…
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Sarah Chapin X Audrey Brown
In our very first Dancing in the THEATRE Artist Talk, Audrey Brown learns the twists and turns of ho ho ho ha ha ha ha at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through Associate Producer, Production Manager, Stage Manager, & Live Lighting Design, Sarah Chapin!
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Lie Low by Solas Nua at Atlas by Audrey Brown
Written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth and debuted at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2022, Lie Low makes its overseas debut on a Washington, D.C. stage, supported by Solas Nua, an organization dedicated to uplifting modern Irish voices in the nation’s capital.
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Ceilidh at M&T Bank Exchange by Audrey Brown
I’ve been greeted at the doors of Cabaret at the for-now-renamed, even on Google Maps, Kit Kat Club, formerly the August Wilson Theatre, with a shot of alcohol and ushered through a beaded curtain into what transforms the entire performance space into a Weimar-era cabaret.
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Côté Danse’s Hamlet at Wolf Trap by Audrey Brown
A danced production of Hamlet ends where it started; or, rather, it had started where it ends. We all know, whether or not we’re familiar with the intricacies of the plot, that Hamlet is a deeply tragic Shakespearean work. Thusly, Ex Machina and Côté Danse, in their entirely danced version of the classic, refuse to…