1,047 stories by "Lorraine Treanor"
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DC Theatre Scene ends its 15 year run today. But we won't be disappearing any time soon. Thanks to a generous donation, we will be able to remain online for the next 3 years. I know many of …
These are the plays that won't let go. They are there as I drift off to sleep, or, unbidden, come to me during the day. This happens more often now, as work here slows to a close. You probab…
"I'm a playwright, right?," DC playwright Richard Byrne told me on a phone call. "I miss people getting into my face with my words." But the pandemic has pushed this prolific writer and his …
"Existentialism; that word puts us to sleep," master clown Bill Irwin was saying on my computer screen, "even though true questions of existence…keep us awake at night." The word "Existent…
theatreWashington has expanded its Taking Care COVID-19 emergency grant program and will now be increasing the amount of grants available to any theater professional in need living in the DC…
As Black Lives Matter protests filled D.C.'s streets this summer, Raymond O. Caldwell, Artistic Director of Theater Alliance, considered how he and his Anacostia-based theatre company could …
If there's one holiday that screams 'theatre' it's Halloween, and we've found some spooky spectacular events from our local theatre producers. Available now Master of horror Alex Zavistovich…
For more than 30 years, DC actor and director Rick Hammerly has been adding to the history of Washington area theatre as actor, director and Artistic Director of Factory 449. He has added aÃ…
Emergent Seed, an arts organization created in response to the impact of coronavirus on the DC area creative community, is closing its second round of $500 microgrant applications on Friday,…
Remember going to the theatre in 2019: the greetings and hugs with casual acquaintances in the lobby, the smiling faces of front of house staff checking your tickets, happily taking your sea…
While planning theatre in the time of Covid requires faith and flexibility on everyone's part, we thought it valuable to show you the shows our companies hope to present. Some are virtual. S…
Any planning for live theatre, in this time of pandemic, calls for faith and flexibility. And a search for answers to the unknowable. What will audiences want to see? When can rehearsals sta…
"As you pour into me, a Black Non-Binary Gender Queer person, you pour into yourself." " TemÃÂdayo Amay, talking with Billie Krishawn for The SoSu Series "My non-binary identity is mine an…
Tweeting "And there goes the last ten years of my life," Charlene V. Smith, Artistic Director of Brave Spirits Theatre, announced the cancelation of the company's Shakespeare's Histories. Pe…
On Thursday, October 29, GALA Hispanic Theatre in Columbia Heights will most likely become the first DC area theatre company to open its doors for indoor performances since the pandemic caus…
DC Theatre Scene, Inc. has opened a search for a new Editor. Now in its 15th year, DC Theatre Scene has published nearly 10,000 articles covering Washington area's theatre scene as it grew f…
As theatre companies create virtual versions of stage performances, multi-talented DC artist Meshaun Labrone has signed a partnership with film producers to turn two stage plays into fully e…
This is it! The last of the live Zoom presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the audience. Closing in on the last of the virtual presentations of theÅ
Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), returns to Theatre for One, the company which gave new meaning to "intimate theatre" with its one actor/one audience…
Closing in on the last of the virtual presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Tune in tonight to learn who will clear room on a shel…
Night five of seven streamed presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Tune in tonight to meet 21 nominees and learn who will clear room …
Night four of seven streamed presentation of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Tune in tonight to meet 35 nominees and learn which six will clear …
Five Helen Hayes Awards will be handed out tonight in this, the third of seven nights of streamed presentations for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audien…
Justin Weaks and Regina Aquino host tonight's 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, the second of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celebration on September 25, 2020.  Th…
