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…
Many view the Coronavirus pandemic as The Great Pause, where we hunker down and muddle through, hoping we return to normalcy some time in the near future with at least some of our marbles in…
Blooming. Truth. Passion. Power. The art being created by BIPOC artists and non-binary artists embody these words. The SoSu Series focuses light on these artists in the moments of the Black …
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…
When Studio Theatre's acting conservatory parted ways with its' eponymous Studio Theatre more than a year ago, the split was "existential," according to conservatory Co-Director Joy Zinoman.…
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 …
 "Every audience deserves to sit in the theatre and see their community reflected back to them." The SoSu trailer revealed some reasons why that isn't the case today. Billie Krishawn sta…
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. Â Th…
Before the opening and at the end of intermission of every performance at American Shakespeare Center, actors turn musicians to serenade the audience. Usually a rousing, fun time, at the…
The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, recognizing excellence on Washington-area stages for 2019, begins tonight with the first of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celeb…
"I froze, not knowing what to do, instantly realizing … that he had all the power to hire me, and if I said no, I risked having any kind of role at one of the largest theatres in the count…
We think of Shakespeare as a romantic. He was anything but. As portrayed in the canon, love is an affliction, which clouds the reason and destroys discrimination and judgment. If we take a c…
How to hold an awards ceremony that has always been as much about bringing the community of theatre makers and theatre supporters together as it was about the awards themselves, during a pan…
The ongoing state executions of Black people, exemplified most recently and brazenly by the public lynching of George Floyd (with no repercussions to date for those perpetrating the brutalit…
Shakespeare Theatre Company announced today that the Wise Children production of Emma Rice's Romantics Anonymous will be streamed live from Bristol Old Vic for five performances, September 2…
Rebecca and Becca in Space, the space comedy created during the coronavirus stay-at-home orders by Rebecca Wahls and Rebecca Ballinger, returns for Season 2 with a special launch party tonig…
The Black Artist Coalition (BAC), a collective of DC-area performers, designers, administrators and arts supporters, announced its purpose and plans today. The BAC was formed in response to …
To frame a story about the triumph of lies over truth, jealousy over love, anger over generosity of spirit and " let's put it plainly " the insidious reach of racism over all decent impulses…
A few area theatre companies are beginning to offer live performances. One of them is Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, VA which is presenting its summer cabaret season for at-home viewing …
DC fans of theatrical horror, the often grisly Grand Guignol-style, will remember Molotov Theatre Group and its co-founder, actor/director Alex Zavistovich, who got them hooked. Molotov's 20…
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…
Foolish Fridays Faction of Fools Friday, Aug 7, 7pm Free Click to watch Faction of Fools, Washington's commedia dell'Arte theater company, resumes its Foolish Fridays beginning tonight at 7 …
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 …