Changes which might come about in theaters once the plague is over may affect ways in which audiences see and experience the art. To prepare patrons for these changes, Theater J will be offe…
When the pandemic struck America, Congress was quick to help out the airline industry (to the tune of $50 billion) and cruise ships " two businesses which were financially devastated by the …
Into the valley of death rode the six hundred…no, no, no, that's not it at all. I'm looking for a poem to help me decide what to do " poetry is the oldest form of literature, after all, pr…
Since art, like life itself, constantly renews itself, new generations of artists arrive on stages, and in studios and publishing houses, whether we are ready for them or not. They are not d…
A new survey from Shugoll Research shows that area theatergoers are even more reluctant to return to theater in the face of the coronavirus than they were when the survey was conducted last …
Arena Stage, whose ten-play season was cancelled earlier this year by coronavirus, has announced that it intends to restage in 2021 three of the plays it lost this year. To that contingent, …
DC's Mosaic Theater Company will not produce its Fall schedule of plays, Board Chair Bill Tompkins announced in a press release which DC Theatre Scene received today. "Conditions remain too …
Will the disruptions we are experiencing in this annus horribilis catapult us into a new world next year? If so, Baltimore Center Stage will be ready for it, with three world premieres and a…
Arlington's Signature Theatre announced today that Eric Schaeffer, the co-founder and only Artistic Director the company has ever had, will retire from that position and leave the company on…
Bethesda's Flying V Theatre's Board of Directors has terminated the employment of Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein. The action comes three days after the Board placed Schlafstein on admin…
Order in the living room! There is no bottom to Washington's taste for litigation, but Shakespeare Theatre's Mock Trial went beyond itself last night, charging Nick Bottom and the rest of th…
Bethesda's Round House Theatre has elected to cancel the 2020 portion of its live theater schedule, the company announced on Tuesday. "Governor Hogan's Roadmap to Recovery outlines a phased …
Linda Elyse Bryce, a teacher, lover of Shakespeare, broad-spectrum theater supporter and winner of the 2013 Gary Maker Award, given to the audience member who best exemplifies Maker's enthus…
Studio Acting Conservatory, the Joy Zinoman-led acting school previously evicted from its home at Studio Theatre, will begin work on its new 6,000 square foot Holmead Place digs and expects …
Gerhardt (Gary) Tischler, a veteran arts journalist whose debut post with DC Theatre Scene "There's No App for That" remains one of our most-read articles, passed away at Sibley Memorial Hos…
Local governments in the DC area have struggled to implement the Federal CARES Act provisions (including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA) which became law on March 27, 2020. One impo…
Quotidian Theatre, the Bethesda-based company which specialized in the work of Horton Foote and, to a lesser extent, Conor McPherson, will close its doors for good after a production of Foot…
So Bill Shakespeare would have been 456 on Thursday, April 23, and under normal circumstances, I know, you would have been enjoying a fat goose and a few tankards of mead with a dozen or so …
Take an 80-year-old, 169,000-word novel, which begins with a journey halfway across the country, in the midst of the Depression, features the death of important characters, violent fistfight…
The 15th annual Capital Fringe Festival, scheduled for this July, has been canceled. Capital Fringe Founding Director Julianne Brienza announced the cancellation in an e-mail to Fringe suppo…
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) enacted last week has some significant appropriations for theater " including a $25 million direct grant to the Kennedy Cen…
For years, theater artists have used their skills to create stage illusions from unlikely ingredients. Today, at Woolly Mammoth, two artists are using those skills to save lives. The artists…
Ed Herendeen, Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival, today announced that in response to the coronavirus pandemic he has cancelled this year's Festival and that al…
The Kennedy Center will begin furloughing 60% of its full-time administrative staff on April 6 in response to the impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the Center announced yesterday. The cuts…
Terrence McNally, the celebrated playwright, librettist, screenwriter and theater thought leader, died today as a result of complications from the new coronavirus. He was 81. Although McNall…