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Review: ‘Assassins’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

This season for whatever reason—and far be it from me to speculate—three theater companies in the nation’s capital are presenting Stephen Sondheim’s tunefully insolent tribute to presidential...

Review: ‘Crazy Mary Lincoln’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

Crazy Mary Lincoln, has received an appealing, open-hearted, ardent regional premiere production from Pallas Theatre Collective. The musical focuses new light on the long, woe-filled life of Mary Todd...

Review: ‘Lost in Wonderland’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

‘Lost in Wonderland’: Journeys Through an Author’s Imagination Have you ever wanted to ask a famous, classic author, say a Mark Twain or an Edgar Allen Poe how and why they shaped their characters the...

‘code name: Cynthia’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

Stephen Sondheim would do well to watch his back. Pallas Theatre Collective has just mounted a new musical, code name: Cynthia, that is just as smart and pointed in its book and lyrics and just as...

A New Spy Musical Ready to Seduce DC Audiences at Pallas Theatre Collective by Ty Hallmark

Summer 2015 is turning out to be the season of original musicals making their premieres with Washington area theaters. One of the most anticipated and appropriately “local” offerings opens this week...

2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘No AIDS No Maids: Stories I Can’t F*ckin’ Hear No More’

The image is frightening. A beautiful black woman—larger than life, with a resume to match—dons white gloves and a waistcoat, smears makeup on her face and begins the childish song and dance of a...

‘Major Barbara’ at Pallas Theater Collective

Money Talks The Pallas Theatre Collective’s Major Barbara is a captivating, thought-provoking comedy. The themes of class disparity, the necessity to compromise one’s values to survive, and the...

‘Major Barbara’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

It’s not always easy to figure out what view of life George Bernard Shaw is trying to express in Major Barbara. Though he was a freethinker, he gives us a witty, tolerant, idealistic heroine, Barbara,...

Announcing Pallas Theatre Collective’s Fifth Season by Caroline Brent

Tickets are now on sale for Pallas Theatre Collective’s fifth season, titled A Season of Washington – A Season of Women. Each work this season focuses on a strong female character and takes place in...

‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

Shakespeare’s Shrew is always a challenge. Misogynistic in sentiment, slapstickishly machismo in design, its story of how to tame a headstrong, stubborn woman couldn’t be more ethically risky,...

‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

A Gothic horror story that’s dense with symbolism, light on plot, and written in 1839 may not seem like ideal source material for a contemporary musical. But then again, few people saw Carrie or Night...

‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

Were Betty Friedan and H.P. Lovecraft to have a baby, Pallas Theatre Collective’s new musical, might be their demented offspring. The show (with music by Sarah Taylor Ellis, book and lyrics by Lane...

‘She Stoops to Conquer’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

David Mavricos, as the confused suitor, Charles Marlow, exemplifies the quality of Pallas Theatre Collective’s production of Oliver Goldsmith’s popular farcical romp She Stoops to Conquer. Filled with...

Pallas Theatre Collective’s ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ Opens Tomorrow at Anacostia Arts Center

How Far Would You Go to Get the Life You Know You Deserve? Pallas Theatre Collective is delighted to present She Stoops to Conquer at the Anacostia Arts Center from May 15th though June 1, 2014. She...

Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Tragical Mirth of Marriage & Love: Short Scenes by Anton Chekhov’ by Christina Frank

Fans of Chekhov rejoice. Pallas Theatre Collective has come to lift your spirits and make you laugh. Long have people tried to convince me that Chekhov is funny. After falling asleep in more than one...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Tragical Mirth of Marriage & Love: Short Scenes by Anton Chekhov’

Pallas Theatre Cordially Invites You to… The Tragical Mirth of Marriage & Love: Short Scenes by Anton Chekhov Some marriages are tragical. Some farcical. All are challenging! Marriage. So hot right...

‘The Tempest: Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’ at Pallas Theatre Collective by Amanda Gunther

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with sleep.” William Shakespeare’s words straight from The Tempest. But those aren’t the only famous words of the Bard that...

Part 5: “The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on”: ‘Checkmate’ by Caroline Brent

You have heard from The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on’s director, designers, board members, artistic directors…but what about the actors? This cast has had their work cut out for them: on...

Part 4: ‘The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on:Chessboards & Sea-faring’ by Tracey Elaine Chessum,Ph.D.

Pallas Theatre Collective’s The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on – Chessboards and Sea-faring. Last week, Board President John Horman gave you a picture of his experience with Pallas Theatre...

‘A View of The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on’ Part 3: ‘From The Boardroom’ by John Horman

I have a confession to make: I first joined the Pallas Theatre Collective family not as a board member, but as a cast member! I was very interested in joining the Pallas board, but I wanted to learn...

The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On Pt. 2:’Views from the Chessboard’ by Tracey Elaine Chessum, Ph.D.

Last week, co-Artistic Director Mike Boynton gave you an overview of Pallas Theatre Collective’s mission and history. This week, we’d like to offer you an inside look at the creation of our newest...

‘The Tempest: Such Stuffs as Dreams are Made On’: Part 1: Meet Pallas Theatre Collective by Michael Boynton

Pallas Theatre Collective: An (Informal) Introduction By Michael Boynton Pallas Theatre Collective had its humble beginning in the Graduate Assistant Office, deep in the bowels of the Clarice...