121 stories by "Ramona Harper"
An upfront and personal conversation with the new artistic director of DC's longest-running children's theater.
Understudying Peter Marks at Mosaic Theater's season-reveal party, Ramona Harper asked the new artistic director new questions.
The new artistic director and self-described 'new play development junkie' talks candidly about 'producing from a spirit of joy.'
In rehearsal for August Wilson's 'Seven Guitars' at Arena Stage, the renowned director opens up about the future of theater and America.
The new artistic director and director of programming has her sights set on equity and community.
Imagined musings on the historically real friendship between Marian Anderson and Albert Einstein, two powerful voices for freedom.
On the scene at Shakespeare Theatre Company's buzzed-about fundraiser.
Patriotism and love of country were in the air as a unifying force to heal the past and lend hope to a future of inclusion and equality for all.
You don't need to be a baseball fan to be inspired by this amazing story.
The ballplayer who slugged it out against race and gender stereotypes in the 1950s shows what it takes to play the game today.
An insurrection by far-right extremists within the U.S. Capitol; Washington, DC, looking like a war zone prepared for battle; and capitols around the country braced for violence on the eve o…
Revolution is rooted in protest. And in revolutionary ways, protest theater promotes social change. The ubiquitous We See You, White American Theater movement courageously flips the script u…
No doubt about it, in just fifteen minutes, protest theater can pack a powerful punch. Theater Alliance's creatively ambitious A Protest in Eight, with its lineup of eight fierce young playw…
The ground feels as if American theater might actually be shifting in the direction of change for Blacks, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Here in the DMV, Studio Theatre is grappling…
Recently, during an interview with Nicole Brewer, founder of Anti-Racist Theatre, I learned about the Arts Administrators of Color Network's Accomplices Leadership Institute (ALI). As a memb…
Racial unrest and violent protests in the streets. Social division and a nation on the verge of collapse. A nascent social movement confronting racial injustice and police brutality. Interna…
IÂ had the chance to attend Nicole Brewer's Anti-Racist Theatre workshop at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, last year, and it was an eyeopener. So whe…
Boots are on the ground. Battle lines are drawn. A collaborative network of more than 300 BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) theatermakers are in garrisons and trenches across the…
Something struck me as incredulous about Rasheeda Speaking, a ticking time bomb about racial paranoia interlaced with the destructive power of office politics. But its recently deceased play…
Corners can be safe spaces for hiding. There's comfort in corners because they're out of sight and out of danger. In The Amen Corner, James Baldwin's dilemma is whether to embrace the inner …
After almost two centuries of gracing the ballet world, American Ballet Theatre's Giselle, sometimes called the Hamlet of ballet, still has the redemptive power to transform a story of decep…
In a veddy, veddy proper tale about class differences, gender roles, secret lovers and the pitfalls of an arranged marriage, playwright Melynda Kiring is quite right that "the fun in this pl…
The NSO Pops helped to make our spirits bright with its annual Christmas concert featuring Tony and Grammy Award-winning Leslie Odom, Jr. and a parcel of musical gifts from his Simply Christ…
The most successful singing group in the history of R&B proudly lives on in the Tony-award winning jukebox musical Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. Now onstage at …
An antebellum plantation is a hotbed of erotica in the raw, ribald and at times ridiculously funny examination of race in Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play. Three interracial couples run wild, i…
