Thursday, July 24, 2014
About 10 years ago, Arlington's American Century Theater was facing a doomsday scenario. With a deficit of more than half of its operating budget, "We were technically bankrupt," says Artis…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:45AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
For D.C. actor Frank Britton, yesterday nearly ended the way most opening nights do. He and the cast of Forum Theatre's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot took theirs bows, gathered in Round …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:07PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
At last night's boozier, extra-festive, less-emphasis-on-the-awards-part Helen Hayes Awards at the National Building Museum, Signature Theatre walked away with the most trophies, a lot of pe…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:20PM"Stupid FUCKING Bird!"
Anyone who got to announce the name of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's "sort-of" adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull did so with devious relish last night at the 3…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 07:48AMThursday, June 27, 2013
The city selected a new operator for the troubled Lincoln Theatre back in April, and now, finally, we know who it is. I.M.P. Productions, the company that owns the 9:30 Club and books Merriw…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:39PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
At the close of last year's Capital Fringe festival, Executive Director Julianne Brienza was saying what had always seemed inevitable: Fringe's time in Mount Vernon Square was running out. A…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:54PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Last night's untricked-out Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre began almost immediately with prize-giving, and that was mostly what we got: Few distractions, and lots of people talking …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:16PMFolger Theatre's The Taming of the Shrew and Signature Theatre's Dreamgirls took home the big two prizes at last night's Helen Hayes Awards, winning statues for outstanding resident play and…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:01AMThursday, July 19, 2012
Trey Graham leads off this week's arts section with reviews of two slightly macabre musicals: The touring Addams Family at the Kennedy Center and the buzzy Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at St…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:04PMThursday, June 21, 2012
On the cover of this week's Washington City Paper is Mark Andersen's very personal look into the fraught inner politics—and at the troubled, mercurial frontman—of D.C. hardcore p…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:02AMMonday, June 18, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is coming off one hell of a week. Last Sunday, it collected a Tony Award. Out of that glow came the news Friday that it had asked for an injunction against th…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:37AMThursday, May 31, 2012
Bob Mondello leads this week's arts section with a meditation on familiarity on D.C. stages: A pair of recognizable faces helps The Illusion at Forum Theatre work its spell, while Arena Stag…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:59AMThe Eisenhower family still opposes the steel tapestries in Frank Gehry's design for the Eisenhower Memorial [Post]
President and CEO Neal Perle will exit the Washington Performing Arts Soci…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:00AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth once told me he comes from the Anna Deavere Smith school of verisimilitude: He is a writer of fact-based plays. So I'm not quite sure what to make of Pr…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 04:25PMTuesday, May 8, 2012
New plays! We all agree they're important. They also require lots of close, collaborative, feedback-supplying work to develop—in other words, time, plus a greater-than-usual financial…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:37PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre Company will receive this year's Tony Award for Regional Theatre—the annual prize that the ceremony, which honors Broadway theater productions, hands to a compa…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:42AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
What lessons to draw from last night's Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre? There were only two ties—compare that to five in 2011. And no company dominated outright—although…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 04:11PMSignature Theatre's Hairspray took home fives prizes at last night's 28th Helen Hayes Awards—including one of the biggest, the honor for outstanding resident musical.The other top awar…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:12AMMonday, April 9, 2012
The National Women's History Museum remains unbuilt—but its fundraising efforts and management look mighty suspicious. [HuffPo]
The next installment of National Harbor gallery Art Whin…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 07:54AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
As is just about theatrical custom in this town, The Washington Post got the first pass at StudioTheatre's 2012-2013 season announcement, which begins Sept. 5 with an adaptation of Ralph El…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:07PMMonday, April 2, 2012
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the new director of Baltimore's Centerstage, was disturbed by the treatment of race in Bruce Norris' Pulitzer-winning gentrification drama Clybourne Park, which had two su…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:00AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Mayor Vince Gray's proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 dropped today, and on first glance, arts boosters might be pleased with what they see: an increase to the D.C. Commission on the Arts …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:20PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
At this point, we might as well rename Arts Desk the Daily Daisey.
Today's bit of Mike Daisey news: In a statement today, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company says it still plans to stage a summer…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:55AMMonday, March 19, 2012
So: You probably heard about this weekend's Mike Daisey to-do. Wayyyyyyy more about that today on Arts Desk. [Poynter/AP/This American Life]
The National Gallery of Art has uploaded 20,000 i…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:30AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
This is the time of year theaters like to puff up their feathers. But today's announcement from Theater of the First Amendant isn't the unveiling of the company's next season.
Instead, it's …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 06:30PMThursday, February 16, 2012
Threepeater: Dischord had added 25 more concert recordings—its third installment—to the Fugazi Live Archive, including a show from Glasgow in which a group of 15 or 20 women "too…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:43AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Arts Desk won't make a habit of reporting on season announcements this year—there are, after all, more than 70 professional theater companies in the D.C. area. But Arena's unveiling of…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:03PMThursday, January 26, 2012
For this week's Answers Issue, we took on some our readers' most pressing questions about life in the District.
When we put out the call for queries last October, we were immediately impres…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:14PMOn the cover of this week's City Paper is The Answers Issue, in which we take a whack at our readers' most pressing queries. Therein, you'll find lots of questions and answers related to art…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:42AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
TheFootballGirl.com isn’t as bad as it could be. A site aimed explicitly at female fans, after all, might host the worst kind of patronizing drivel—the assumption being that women aren�…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:33PM 
