Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Gregory Keng Strasser (producing director): Hey, Jordan. Jordan Friend (artistic director): Hey, Greg. I guess we have to pretend like we don’t talk to each other every day. Greg: So. 4615…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMFriday, January 1, 2021
By Roslyn “Roz” Ward During quarantine, the biggest loss is the people. The feeling and energy that one gets from a live audience cannot be replicated virtually. Torn—a play written …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:03PMSunday, December 27, 2020
By Susan Galbraith In June 2005 Lorraine Treanor, a relatively new theater-maker transplant from Chicago, who had followed her husband’s work to settle in the Greater Washington area, join…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06AMFriday, December 11, 2020
By Neal Davidson “Dramatic Betweenness”: A new theatrical experience Here’s an incredibly simple idea: a play written and performed as a video call. Nothing more. Not a streamed live…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:04PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
Remembering The Amen Corner at Shakespeare Theatre Company By Whitney White with Daniel Soule Working on James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner was one of the most fulfilling artistic experienc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44AMThursday, November 5, 2020
Text and photos by Olivia Hampton About a month into the pandemic, Kris Funn was practicing his double bass “out of control,” with far more time on his hands than usual. Then, as reality…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PMMonday, September 28, 2020
I have never been comfortable in theater. Not safe. Not “safer.” Just completely unwelcomed. We are in a global pandemic. There is movement building on the ground and online that no one …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMSaturday, September 19, 2020
She was a giant. Borrowing from what was said at Lincoln’s passing, “Now, [s]he belongs to the ages.” Along with her victories for women and equality, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be remem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AMSunday, August 30, 2020
Studio Theatre commissioned seven Black artists who have appeared on its stages to create artistic responses to their experience at the Commitment March on Washington, August 28, 2020. They …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMMonday, August 24, 2020
As a Latino gay millennial singer-songwriter, I believe I can make a difference. I’m here because I can become one of the reasons why things get better. We will fight and we won’t stop. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AMSaturday, August 22, 2020
By Steve Quintilian and Julie Lloyd, Encore Theater Company Co-founders As artistic directors and theater managers all over the DMV wrestle with how and when to stage live theater indoors, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMFriday, August 21, 2020
Lights out. Beat. Beat. When the lights go and I’m plunged into darkness, sitting in a theater, my heart always skips a beat, because I know that moment of pause exists to move me—either…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PMTuesday, August 18, 2020
The authors of the following two op-eds are cofounders of DC’s acclaimed Restoration Stage, Inc., whose focus is “restoring the Black family—one story at a time.” Collaborating as di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AMWednesday, August 12, 2020
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater’s New Works in Action play-reading series continues Sunday, August 16, with Ian August’s Zero, a dark comedy about three miscreant teens…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32PMThere is a moment in theater that I live for. I’m onstage, responding truthfully in the moment as if for the first time, embodying my skin as another person and existing in a brilliant atm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26AMThursday, July 30, 2020
By Violet Brookes The term “new normal” gets thrown around a lot nowadays. And indeed, things are going to be vastly different due to the effects of the global pandemic. Since mid-Mar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMFriday, July 24, 2020
By Thembi Duncan DC Metro Theater Arts has committed to offer our communications channel to help amplify the BIPOC voices (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) that are now pointing the path …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
On Monday, July 20, 2020, Monumental Theatre Company will present an online reading of a new musical, Desiderium, written by Ricky Drummond and featuring music by The Oh Hellos. Because of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AMSaturday, July 4, 2020
By Dalissa Vargas As a lifelong live theater fan and a woman of Puerto Rican descent, I have spent the better portion of my adult life as an avid theatergoer wherever I have lived. On any gi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMThursday, July 2, 2020
By Daryl Austin The hip-hop musical Hamilton is being released on Disney+ on Friday (July 3)—a full 15 months ahead of schedule—so you can watch the drama and all of its love stories and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
By K. J. Moran On Monday evening, June 22, 2020, the Board of Flying V Theatre Company terminated Cofounder and Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein following a weekend of sexual misconduct a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:15PMThursday, June 18, 2020
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater’s livestreamed New Works in Action play-reading series concludes Sunday, June 21, at 3 pm with Transferal by Jack Novak. Directed by Bri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:54PMThursday, June 11, 2020
By Christopher Lancette I sit down at Ford’s Theatre a few months ago—back when there was no coronavirus and the world was normal—to watch a play. I have never been much of a theater g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater’s New Works in Action play-reading series continues livestreaming Sunday, May 31, at 3 pm with We Victorians by out queer playwright Matthe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PMThursday, May 14, 2020
By Olivia Hampton If the corona virus has a lesson for the arts community, it’s that what’s small can still be mighty. Without a house to fill and lavish sets and costumes to maintain, W…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:16AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
By Gwydion Suilebhan In 1960, a Turkish immigrant named Erol Onaran arrived in the United States with a whopping $32 in his pocket and a fair bit of skill as a television repair person. Erol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Welcome to the fourth installment of Artists Who Inspire! During this unprecedented shutdown of live theater, DCMTA will use this space to lift up local theater artists who are finding ways …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:28PMSaturday, April 11, 2020
10. “Don’t Kiss Me Kate” 9. “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Lab Coat” 8. “How to Succeed in Business without Leaving Your Couch” 7. “Freeze Rent” No pay, not today 6. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:44PMWednesday, April 8, 2020
By Julianne Brienza Founding Director, Captial Fringe When planning began for the fifteenth annual Fringe Festival, no one could have imagined a pandemic with such fast, global restrict…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:10PMWhat follows is an extraordinary conversation. It started as a Facebook post by award-winning playwright Audrey Cefaly. It was joined by her dear friend, acclaimed actor Elliott Bales, who d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMMonday, April 6, 2020
“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” —Bertolt Brecht (motto to Svendborg Poems) When I saw the blooming cherry blossom…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PM 
