Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Today, November 18, has been declared Love Theatre day and 300+ theatre companies in the UK and elsewhere are celebrating through the live Twitter feed #LoveTheatre. The award winning part…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50AMFriday, November 6, 2015
This Saturday night, November 7th on The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, musical theatre fans will get the chance to catch up with writer Nick Blaemire, whose career was launched at Sig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMThursday, November 5, 2015
For those wondering what ever happened to Landless Theatre Company, the answer arrived this morning. Landless Theatre Company, headed by Producing Artistic Director Andrew Baughman, is busy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMMonday, November 2, 2015
What determines whether something is a winner or a loser? Names and places like the Washington Monument, Bernie Sanders, and indigenous people from other nations are subject to discussion (a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AMMonday, October 26, 2015
Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, has begun a year long Artist-in-Residency program with the Connecticut-based design firm Theatre Projects. But fear not,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:07PMFriday, October 23, 2015
“We band of brothers… ” Shakespeare has Henry V speak to his army on the eve of St. Crispin’s day, as he prepares to lead them against the French’s overwhelming…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:20PMThursday, October 22, 2015
On Tuesday, October 20th, Everyman Theatre opened their production of Fences, and debuted a new August Wilson inspired ice cream. Of all the creative artists who contribute to the vision of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:20PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Susan McCully’s new play, Kerrmoor, opens October 29th, co-produced by Interrobang Theatre Company and Strand Theatre Company. She is a scholar of feminist theatre and a dramaturg, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AMMonday, October 19, 2015
God’s Gypsy, a play about Saint Teresa of Avila, is making a very brief stop at GALA Hispanic Theatre, Monday and Tuesday, Oct 19 and 20. The play is an adaption of the novel, Sister T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:08PMFriday, October 16, 2015
Sandra Kammann’s new play, Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway, opens October 24, 2015 at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. She is a playwright, director, choreographer and cultural …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMThursday, October 15, 2015
RAW by Amy Bernstein opens October 22, 2015 at Venus Theatre in Laurel, MD. A Baltimore-based playwright, she has participated in Free Fall Baltimore, the Charm City Fringe Festival, Kennedy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
A reading of Helen Pafumi’s new play Redder Blood will be help Monday, October 19th at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia featuring Ed Christian, Michael Kevin Darnall, N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Technicolor Life by Jami Brandli debuts at Rep Stage OCtober 21, 2015. Her additional plays include S.O.E., M-Theory, ¡Soldadera!, Sisters Three and Bliss (or Emily Post is Dead!) which was…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMThursday, October 8, 2015
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Everyman Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare, Interrobang Theatre, Strand Theatre, L̵…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Nora Foster and Kaitlyn Murphy are two of seven young female playwrights whose plays will be featured in Girls Write Out!, Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT)’s contribution to the Women�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:20AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Pointless Theatre’s production of Gimme a Band! Gimme a Bandana! The Carmen Miranda Story by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil debuts October 15, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre. Patti Kalil is …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AMGimme a Band! Gimme a Bandana! The Carmen Miranda Story by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil debuts October 15, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre, produced by Pointless Theatre. She is a Brazilian nativ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AMMonday, October 5, 2015
DC Theatre Scene presented its 2015 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award on Friday night, October 2nd on the stage of the Folger Theatre to David S. Kessler. About forty people, braving inclement w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMFriday, October 2, 2015
Many artists fiercely resist the notion of focus grouping their work. The idea persists of a lone artist channeling their unencumbered vision, regardless of what anyone else thinks. Stacy Je…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMTammy Turner will be performing her new play Glass Rainbows: Colored Pieces of a Mended Heart beginning October 9, 2015, produced by Baltimore Theatre Project.She is an internationally-known…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMThursday, October 1, 2015
Ursula Rani Sarma’s new play, The Magic Tree, premieres at Keegan Theatre October 10, 2015. She is an award-winning playwright who has been Writer in Residence for the National Theatr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, the new play from Allison and Margaret Engel, opens October 9, 2015 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Allison Engel (playwright) has …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMMonique LaForce’s new play Hootenanny opens October 2, 2015 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work includes Kenneth, What Is the Frequency? (co-author with Ian Allen), The B…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMThe MacArthur Foundation announced its twenty four 2015 MacArthur Fellows, commonly called “genius grants,” and among them are playwright/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda, set design…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AMMonday, September 28, 2015
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, created and directed by Karin Coonrod, draws on the letters, prayers, and speeches of the queen who reigned in Shakespeare’s time. A fitting choice for the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PMPower. Chaos. Family Loss. Race. War. Colonialism. Gender. These are themes playwright Jen Silverman has packed into her dense and powerful work, Phoebe in Winter. There is something both mu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMJulia Starr’s new play, The Long Way Around, debuts October 9, 2015 at the Highwood Theatre. She is a rising senior at Stanford University. Her full-length play Crazy Runs in the Famil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24AMFriday, September 25, 2015
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from GALA, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington National Opera, Center Stage, and Cultural DC. Congratulations to GALA, recipient of t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMFirst Draft will be conducting four readings of Leslie Kobylinski’s new play, Stolen Beauty, beginning at the Arts Club on October 6, 2015. She is the Artistic Director for First Draft…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMThursday, September 24, 2015
Audrey Cefaly has written and is directing her new play Maytag Virgin, which opens at Quotidian Theatre Company on October 2, 2015. She is published in Best American Short Plays (Fin and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Today and tomorrow (Sept 23 and 24) the visit of Pope Francis will draw hundreds of thousands of people to the city. Expect intermittent street closures, parking restrictions, bicycling re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AM 
