Tuesday, February 22, 2022
As local laws no longer require masks and proof of vaccination, what will happen to the policies that have protected audiences and performers?
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Capping his distinguished decades-long theatrical career as a director and actor in the Washington area, he plays his last role on February 6, as Samuel Beckett.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:08PMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Among consultants working with local arts organizations to end anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices, Young Playwrights' Theatre now plays a leading role.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMSunday, October 24, 2021
Ken Cerniglia, a Catholic University grad, has been instrumental in developing work at the Kennedy Center and on Broadway.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:24PMSunday, October 10, 2021
The lead was struck by a car—but Nightsky Theater will open its outdoor 'Picnic' on schedule.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:06PMFriday, October 8, 2021
She stars in and helms her own musical making its Off-Off-Broadway debut.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PMSaturday, March 20, 2021
Shaun and Abigail Bengson met in New York City at a party and after talking, decided to start a band together. Their first rehearsal turned into their first date, and three weeks later, they…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:28PMMonday, September 21, 2020
The star of Newsies and Bandstand talks about his latest gig as a TV regular alongside Kim Cattrall, Benjamin Levi Aguilar, and Aubrey Dollar.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PMTuesday, August 11, 2020
DC fans of theatrical horror, the often grisly Grand Guignol-style, will remember Molotov Theatre Group and its co-founder, actor/director Alex Zavistovich, who got them hooked. Molotov’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Due to the coronavirus, the intensive one-year MFA in Acting, Academy for Classical Acting, a joint venture between Shakespeare Theatre Company and George Washington University, was unable t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThursday, 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.…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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,…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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’…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PM 
