Scena

From the first time the camera pulled back to focus on parallel rows of dancers in the first "Scena", I consistently noted the tiniest details no matter how far back the producers pulled the shot.

High-Def Digest: HD DVD Disc News 2009

From the first time the camera pulled back to focus on parallel rows of dancers in the first "Scena", I consistently noted the tiniest details no matter how far back the producers pulled the shot.

High-Def Digest: HD DVD Disc News 2009

From the first time the camera pulled back to focus on parallel rows of dancers in the first "Scena", I consistently noted the tiniest details no matter how far back the producers pulled the shot.

High-Def Digest: HD DVD Disc News 2008

Fans of "The Weir" - and there had better be some, for Scena Theatre is slated to open its own production in a month - may fret that such continuously dampened acting won't light the play's slow-burning but potent fuse.

Theater review: 'The Weir' presented by Keegan Theatre 2011

Whether she was singing a dramatic monologue, such as Haydn's challenging "Scena di Berenice," which opened the program, or a song by Cecile Chaminade, fleeting and iridescent as a soap bubble, DiDonato would find a phrase and sing so solidly to the heart of the music, luxuriating in each note, that the sound opened and breathed and blossomed.

DiDonato keeps everything in the moment at recital Anne Midgette 2011

Whether she was singing a dramatic monologue, such as Haydn's challenging "Scena di Berenice," which opened the program, or a song by Cecile Chaminade, fleeting and iridescent as a soap bubble, DiDonato would find a phrase and sing so solidly to the heart of the music, luxuriating in each note, that the sound opened and breathed and blossomed.

DiDonato keeps everything in the moment at recital Anne Midgette 2011

Also on tap: Scena Theatre unveils "The Blue Angel," and Factory 449, the group behind 2009's "4.48 Psychosis," stages its new show, "Our Wide, Wide Sea."

On stage in February Stephanie Merry 2011

On DiDonato's current tour, she's compromising by offering some big, dramatic concert pieces, starting with Haydn's "Scena di Berenice," which she describes as a miniature opera, "a theatrical morsel for me to bite into."

Opera singer Joyce DiDonato talks about her all-American work ethic Anne Midgette 2011

Planted in the audience are women in 1930s costumes, speaking lines presumably created by Scena that testify to how they were lulled into believing the invasion was real.

Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse Nelson Pressley 2010

Scena Theatre is reviving its 2006 revival of one of the great entertainment pranks of all time, Orson Welles's 1938 Halloween week radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds."

Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse Nelson Pressley 2010