There’s a new player here in Theaterland. Introducing: our very own local playwrights collective. It’s called the Welders, named for Cherrie Moraga’s poem (“I am the welder. / I am t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMIt takes Mary Bridget Davies about an hour to physically become Janis Joplin. As for the mental and vocal preparation, “it happens throughout the day with me,” says Davies, 34, sitting i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:46PMTopher Paynewrote the first draft of “Perfect Arrangement” in 2008. The play, a comedy set in the 1950s about two gay couples who marry each other’s partners so as to hide in plain sig…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:17PMKirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock, the co-writers and co-directors of “Baby Universe” at Studio Theatre, are wearing what look like grey onesies and gas masks. “The face is really int…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:05PMCan we talk about Wednesday for a second? What a day for Washington. SCOTUS struck down a key element of the Defense of Marriage Act, which was the main talk of the town. A bear — a baby…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:10PMI’d like to make an announcement of great social and political import: “One Night With Janis Joplin,” starring Mary Bridget Davies and now enjoying its second run at Arena Stage, is he…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30PMIt’s that time of year again: Everybody wants to get out of town. Urban dwellers are ready to swap the sweltering city for the seashore. Rusty the Red Panda broke out of his cage; Edward S…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMThe last time “Angel Street” was produced at Olney Theatre Center, it was 1950. Olney was 12 years old, and the film “Gaslight,” which was inspired by the play and starred Ingrid Ber…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:26PMTaylor Swift is not a feminist. But Clara Beyer is, and she loves Taylor Swift music, and sometimes she wishes Swift would change her twangy tune and be a little more progressive. On June 11…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18PMNancy Jo Sales is the journalist whose Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" told the story of the Bling Ring crew that inspired Sofia Coppola's new film. From October 2008 thro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:55AM“To be honest with you, a year ago at this time, I was not sure that there was going to be a Molotov Theatre much longer,” said Alex Zavistovich. His co-founders, with whom he started Mo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:54PMWhen “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage swung by “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart knew exactly where to start his interview about the HBO mega-hit. “People are so obsessed with th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:11PMMetroStage producing artistic director Carolyn Griffin says the theater’s 2013-14 season is “mission driven.” It's not about picking a theme and jamming the square pegs of plays into t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:36PMBig news over at Adventure Theatre MTC: “Three Little Birds,” the musical that producing artistic director Michael Bobbitt adapted from Cedella Marley and Gerald Hausman’s picture book…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:16PMAbout a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina, playwright Dan Dietz was living in Austin and working as a guest artist at Florida State University. He drove back and forth — not exactly …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00PM‘Present Tense” begins with a heartbeat. Six teenagers, all of whom have experienced a death in the family, create what the Arena Stage Voices of Now program calls “a group breathing t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PMJacqueline E. Lawton’s “The Hampton Years” is about as local as local can get: The D.C.-based playwright’s world premiere got its start at Theater J’s first Locally Grown Festival.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:56PMSamantha Stach had a friend conundrum. The 25-year-old Charlotte, N.C., native left her hometown for a stint in the District and, upon her return to the South last spring, found that every l…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:38PMOn May 7, 98 years ago, the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat. More than 1300 passengers were killed, at least 130 of whom were American. The Lusitania sank in less than 20 minu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:57PMAt Friday morning's "Creativity Conference" sponsored by TIME, Microsoft and the Motion Picture Association of America, the media masses assembled at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to discuss c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:57PMImportant word nerd news: In its third annual ranking of the Most Well-Read Cities in our great nation, Amazon has crowned Alexandria, Virginia, as #1 for the second year in a row. To celebr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:55PMPinky Swear Productions is kicking off a three-play repertory Friday, with two one-acts by local playwrights Allyson Currin (her “Hercules in Russia” enjoyed its world premiere with Door…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:13PMWorld, we have waited so long for a new Superman movie worthy of entertaining our eyeballs. We thought the wait was over when that Christopher Reeve doppelganger emerged from obscurity and i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:15PMRoberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican baseball legend, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and died at the age of 38 in a plane crash; he was en route to Nicaragua on a humanitarian aid mission. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04PMIt’s easy to forget when you see a play that what you’re watching didn’t spring fully formed out of somebody’s forehead. At first, it’s a rough draft, with the emphasis on rough. W…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:41PMAfter a 7 ½-year run as the artistic director of Rep Stage, Michael Stebbins is stepping down to “continue on my . . . artistic journey again,” he said. Stebbins, who considers hims…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30PM“Spend the night with Helen!” implores TheatreWashington’s announcement for the 29th Helen Hayes Awards, held Monday night at the Warner Theatre. Now, if I took out a billboard invitin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12PMMatthew Morrison, the man who’s been inspiring musically inclined outcasts with his catchphrases andwhiteboard since 2009, will be performing at the Washington Performing Arts Society Annu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55AMIt’s easy to forget when you see a play that what you’re watching didn’t spring fully formed out of somebody’s forehead. At first, it’s a rough draft, with the emphasis on rough. W…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMTheater J’s 2013-14 season wasn’t supposed to look like this. Associate Artistic Director Shirley Serotsky related how Theater J had selected “these plays that did really well in New Y…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:12PMWhen Wade Laboissonniere, Ford’s Theatre’s costume designer, moved from Rhode Island to New York City he wanted to be a dancer. He’d been dancing since he was 8; the then-just out of h…
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