Wednesday, October 18, 2023
The first thing audiences will see, when they enter the four-sided Fichandler theater at Arena Stage, is a giant chandelier in the form of a plexiglass White House, looming over the darkened…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:05AMMonday, October 9, 2023
The wickedly funny playwright talks about assimilation and Jewish identity. Interview by RAVELLE BRICKMAN
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:22AMFriday, September 22, 2023
The Taffety Punk production portrays women, diagnosed as ‘hysterics,’ who were confined to a prison-like hospital in Paris in the 19th century. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:46PMSunday, April 23, 2023
The Expats Theatre founder tells why she is directing a play about the weaponization of rape in war.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:23AMSaturday, April 1, 2023
How the playwright and director came up with 'Jennifer Who Is Leaving.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:01PMSaturday, March 25, 2023
The award-winning playwright talks about her sharp-edged thriller set in the fragile world of today’s Middle East.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:05PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
‘The personal is the political’ in this closeup on Gloria Steinem, who championed the cause of women’s rights at a time when most people thought they had none.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:39AMFriday, February 17, 2023
From Hollywood to the halls of local high schools, playwrights talk about the joy of trying out new work for audiences eager to see live theater.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:04PMMonday, November 21, 2022
Mona Golabek delivers a tour de force performance in the musical memoir ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
A conversation with playwright Ari Roth and dramaturg Debbie Minter Jackson previews 'My Calamitous Affair with the Minister of Culture and Censorship.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:39PMTuesday, August 30, 2022
The coauthor and director of ‘Old Stock’—coming to Theater J—talks about how the acclaimed klezmer musical merges comedy and sex with the sorrow of loss.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:30PMFriday, May 27, 2022
The Broadway actor and singer—known for her roles as Ma Rainey and Ella Fitzgerald—on the most sophisticated play she's ever been in.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:15PMSunday, May 15, 2022
The world premiere comedy about small town life in the South came and went in a flash, leaving laughter, applause, and hopes for a revival in its wake.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:51PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Terrance McNally’s 1960s-style musical comedy is now in its final week. Two powerful dramas are coming next—‘Drumfolk’ and ‘American Prophet.’
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33PMThursday, March 31, 2022
The story behind a witty rewrite of an 18th-century classic by Adapter Michael Bloom, with Director Adam Immerwahr
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Washington Stage Guild draws out the humor and the horror in George Bernard Shaw’s classic take on hypocrisy and deceit.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMFriday, February 11, 2022
The director points to the role of antisemitism in the whitewashing of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMThursday, January 27, 2022
Shaped by memory and imagination, the autobiographical play by the award-winning writer and performer premieres next week at Mosaic
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMThursday, December 23, 2021
'Oy Vey in a Manger,' their adults-only holiday special, is not for the pious or prudish—let alone right-wing fanatics—but it’s hilarious for everyone else.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10AMSaturday, November 13, 2021
Regina Aquino, David Bryan Jackson, and Serge Seiden talk about time and its loss and life's precious moments.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMSaturday, November 6, 2021
The deliciously comic young actress, who aspires to be Castro’s comrade (and stand-in for his late mistress), talks about her role in her cousin's play.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:59AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
The incisive and inspiring play filmed at Ford’s Theatre is now streaming through November 4.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
A landmark acting school settles into a former church—home of the long-lost Black Last Supper—and welcomes the return of in-person classes.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:02PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
Theater grande dame Jane Squier Bruns, starring in 'The Day Emily Married,' talks about the challenge of playing 'the mother from hell.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMThursday, February 11, 2021
When I interviewed Ken Ludwig about his latest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, which opened at Arena Stage more than a year ago, I was curious about his parents—the Jack and Louise of the ti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMThursday, September 24, 2020
Screens will be lighting up all over Metro DC as theater lovers, supporters, and luminaries gather online for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards Friday, September 25. The red carpet unrolls at 6 pm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21PMWednesday, July 29, 2020
When COVID-19 first struck last winter, most of us in the theater world—audiences as well as those on or off stage—thought the crisis would end in a couple of weeks. No such luck. Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PMSunday, May 24, 2020
When Joy Zinoman—the doyenne of DC theater and founder of Studio Acting Conservatory—describes the training center’s new home as a “sacred place,” she’s not exaggerating. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
When Jordan Friend, the highly inventive founder of 4615 Theatre Company, invited me to attend a rehearsal of Museum 2040 a few weeks ago, I jumped at the opportunity. The show, billed as an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
“I’ve never laughed so hard in rehearsal,” said Nick Olcott, describing some of the antics performed by a tiny but talented cast — four actors in 48 roles — in the wickedly funny s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMSunday, February 9, 2020
When Laura C. Harris bursts onto the stage in Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre, she is Henrietta Leavitt—hoop skirt and all—fresh out of college, brimming with confidence, and determined t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PM 
