Thursday, May 14, 2020
Ava Blum, a 14-year-old freshman at Georgetown Day High School, recently took home first place in the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition. A resident of Washington D.C.�…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMSaturday, April 25, 2020
Before Ali Stroker won her Tony Award, Alex Newell hit Broadway, Lindsay Pearce became Elphaba, and Blake Jenner worked with Peter Dinklage, they all got their start on the reality competiti…
Linked From Playbill at 10:00AMFriday, April 24, 2020
Before Ali Stroker won her Tony Award and Alex Newell hit Broadway, they got their start on the reality competition series.
Linked From Playbill at 02:14PMFriday, April 17, 2020
With its planned fundraising spring gala impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is basking in a “show must go on” mentality and will host its live-streamed…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMThursday, February 13, 2020
From dimming a marquee, to moments of silence, to toasts and notes and thanks, this Valentine’s Day, the DC area theater community will express its love for Victor Shargai, philanthropist,…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel met in elementary school back in the ’50s, and had their first taste of musical success as teens, performing as the duo, Tom & Jerry. They were signed to t…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
The Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner discusses playing lead Diana in the Washington, D.C., engagement of the Pulitzer-winning musical.
Linked From Playbill at 07:00AMFriday, January 17, 2020
Bethesda-based Round House Theatre will be staging the groundbreaking musical Spring Awakening under the direction of Alan Paul. Previews begin January 22nd. Set in the late 19th century Ge…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
In 2009, a 15-year-boy was doused with rubbing alcohol by four middle school classmates, who lit him on fire in a heinous tragedy that rocked a South Florida community. A few years later, pl…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMTuesday, December 24, 2019
This year, as we’ve already reported, 26 productions were so popular at the box office they earned extensions and 5 productions were co-produced and played or will play in each company’…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMThursday, December 19, 2019
When director Bartlett Sher mounted an acclaimed production of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center last year, it reminded many theater lovers why – with son…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMMonday, December 9, 2019
The Scarlet Pimpernel turned 20 this year—that is, its third and final revision did. Inside the crazy story of the Broadway show that opened in 1997 and changed nearly every day for two ye…
Linked From Playbill at 10:00AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
It’s always a risky proposition to transform a beloved film into a musical, and for every Beetlejuice or Mean Girls success story, there’s a Ghost or Pretty Woman that just couldn’t mu…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMFriday, November 1, 2019
Newsies, the movie, established a cult following in 1992, with a pre-Dark Knight Christian Bale playing Jack Kelly, a 17-year-old newspaper hawker in New York City who leads the 1899 newsboy…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
It was March in Los Angeles when actress and dancer Emily Tyra was out jogging and she was unnerved by a feeling she had never felt before. She immediately went home and told her husband, an…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMFriday, October 25, 2019
Václav Havel was a renowned politician who went from political prisoner to serving as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the country’s dissolution three years later, who…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMMonday, October 21, 2019
Audiences attending the closing performance of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida at Washington Stage Guild Sunday, Oct 20th, witnessed a pre-show ceremony as Lou Altarescu accepted the 2019 Ga…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Stars J. Quinton Johnson, Michael Park, and writer-director Walter Bobbie talk about the changes for the concert series revival playing October 9–13.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
The Washington Stage Guild, renowned for its delightful stagings of “house playwright” George Bernard Shaw, kicks off its 2019-20 season with one of his earliest comedies, Candida, direc…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:12PMSunday, September 15, 2019
Be More Chill’s Gerard Canonico, Hercules’ Tamika Lawrence and more reveal what it’s like to perform on Broadway and lead your own band at the same time.
Linked From Playbill at 10:00AMMonday, September 9, 2019
“It’s so good and so timely, I couldn’t let go of it. I knew if I didn’t mount it right after the Fringe experience, the danger of not coming back to it would have been very real. So…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PMRunning through September 22, the new space offers plenty of opportunities for theatrelovers in D.C.
Linked From Playbill at 03:44PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Noted Seattle-based director Rosa Joshi makes her D.C. directorial debut with Folger Theatre’s opening production of its 2019-20 season, which will find Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV on stage…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:24AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
For theater enthusiasts, Labor Day weekend isn’t about one last trip to the beach or three relaxing days at home. For those of us in D.C., it means it’s time for the annual Page-to-Stage…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PMAfter being out of house since January to make room for extensive renovations, Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., has unveiled its new space just in time for its exciting 2019-2020 season…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:54AMTuesday, August 20, 2019
When Mosaic Theater decided to stage two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Lynn Nottage’s satirical Fabulation or The Re-Education of Undine, artistic director Ari Roth sought a director who c…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMMonday, July 29, 2019
There are plenty of oohs and ahhs to be heard under the big top in Tysons, VA as Volta, one of Cirque du Soleil’s most daring shows to date, brings plenty of imaginative and original acts …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMSaturday, July 20, 2019
The high school stars of Dear Evan Hansen, What the Constitution Means to Me, and Beetlejuice reveal how they balance school and stage, self-care and professional prep.
Linked From Playbill at 10:00AMFriday, June 28, 2019
Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar are, among a mostly male field, serious contenders to be the Democratic Party’s pick for the 2020 presidentia…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMMonday, June 24, 2019
Casey Kaleba, of Tooth and Claw Combat Arts, has been a fight choreographer at Signature Theatre for approximately a decade, teaching combat arts for shows from Jelly’s Last Jam to Midwest…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMFriday, June 21, 2019
As co-founder and co-executive director of The Theatre Lab, Deb Gottesman is a well known and respected director and teacher, preparing up-and-coming actors for a life in the theatre. Now, a…
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