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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Free Valentine E-cards for theatre lovers by Lorraine Treanor

We hope you enjoy these lyrics and lines on love. To share simply copy and email them, or let us do it for you. Just click the radial button to choose any card and click the ‘Next’ butto…

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Thursday, December 31, 2020

As DC Theatre Scene ends – resources and expressions of gratitude by Lorraine Treanor

DC Theatre Scene ends its 15 year run today. But we won’t be disappearing any time soon. Thanks to a generous donation, we will be able to remain online for the next 3 years. I know many o…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PM
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Lorraine Treanor – These are the plays that won’t let go by Lorraine Treanor

These are the plays that won’t let go. They are there as I drift off to sleep, or, unbidden, come to me during the day. This happens more often now, as work here slows to a close. You prob…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PM
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Richard Byrne releases his latest: Flamingo: Why Were We Unprepared for COVID-19? by Lorraine Treanor

“I’m a playwright, right?,” DC playwright Richard Byrne told me on a phone call. “I miss people getting into my face with my words.” But the pandemic has pushed this prolific write…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM
Friday, November 20, 2020

Review: Bill Irwin On Beckett In Screen, a performance Beckett would have applauded by Lorraine Treanor

“Existentialism; that word puts us to sleep,” master clown Bill Irwin was saying on my computer screen, “even though true questions of existence…keep us awake at night.” The word �…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PM
Friday, October 30, 2020

theatreWashington increases its Taking Care program for theatre professionals facing financial hardships by Lorraine Treanor

theatreWashington has expanded its Taking Care COVID-19 emergency grant program and will now be increasing the amount of grants available to any theater professional in need living in the DC…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PM
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Theater Alliance continues the fight for justice and change with film series, A Protest in Eight by Lorraine Treanor

As Black Lives Matter protests filled D.C.’s streets this summer, Raymond O. Caldwell, Artistic Director of Theater Alliance, considered how he and his Anacostia-based theatre company coul…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PM
Friday, October 23, 2020

Guide to Halloween specials from DC area theatres by Lorraine Treanor

If there’s one holiday that screams ‘theatre’ it’s Halloween, and we’ve found some spooky spectacular events from our local theatre producers. Available now Master of horror Alex Z…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PM
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Rick Hammerly named Executive Director of DC’s recorded performance archive, WAPAVA by Lorraine Treanor

For more than 30 years, DC actor and director Rick Hammerly has been adding to the history of Washington area theatre as actor, director and Artistic Director of Factory 449. He has added a�…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AM
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Emergent Seed $500 microgrants for DC Metro emerging creatives: Round 2 closes this Friday by Lorraine Treanor

Emergent Seed, an arts organization created in response to the impact of coronavirus on the DC area creative community, is closing its second round of $500 microgrant applications on Friday,…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PM
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Friday night’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards celebration. Free for all. by Lorraine Treanor

Remember going to the theatre in 2019: the greetings and hugs with casual acquaintances in the lobby, the smiling faces of front of house staff checking your tickets, happily taking your sea…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PM
Thursday, September 17, 2020

DCTS Performance Guide for the 2020/2021 theatre season by Lorraine Treanor

While planning theatre in the time of Covid requires faith and flexibility on everyone’s part, we thought it valuable to show you the shows our companies hope to present. Some are virtual.…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM

Is there a 2020-2021 theatre season? Comments on what we know so far. by Lorraine Treanor

Any planning for live theatre, in this time of pandemic, calls for faith and flexibility. And a search for answers to the unknowable. What will audiences want to see? When can rehearsals sta…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Billie Krishawn speaks with artist/activist Temídayo Amay for The SoSu Series by Lorraine Treanor

“As you pour into me, a Black Non-Binary Gender Queer person, you pour into yourself.” – Temídayo Amay, talking with Billie Krishawn for The SoSu Series “My non-binary identity is m…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PM
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Brave Spirits Theatre cancels its record-breaking Shakespeare’s Histories rep by Lorraine Treanor

Tweeting “And there goes the last ten years of my life,” Charlene V. Smith, Artistic Director of Brave Spirits Theatre, announced the cancelation of the company’s Shakespeare’s Histo…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PM
Monday, September 14, 2020

Editor position now available at DC Theatre Scene by Lorraine Treanor

DC Theatre Scene, Inc. has opened a search for a new Editor. Now in its 15th year, DC Theatre Scene has published nearly 10,000 articles covering Washington area’s theatre scene as it grew…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM

GALA Hispanic Theatre to open for live performances in October by Lorraine Treanor

On Thursday, October 29, GALA Hispanic Theatre in Columbia Heights will most likely become the first DC area theatre company to open its doors for indoor performances since the pandemic caus…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM
Friday, September 11, 2020

As the world catches up with his work, Meshaun Labrone inks film production deal for SPOOK and Power! Stokely Carmichael by Lorraine Treanor

As theatre companies create virtual versions of stage performances, multi-talented DC artist Meshaun Labrone has signed a partnership with film producers to turn two stage plays into fully e…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PM

2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Lead performer, Play – Helen, Direction, Musical, and Choreography, Play by Lorraine Treanor

This is it! The last of the live Zoom presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the audience. Closing in on the last of the virtual presentations of the 2…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Lynn Nottage writes for an audience of one while waiting for Broadway stages to open by Lorraine Treanor

Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), returns to Theatre for One, the company which gave new meaning to “intimate theatre” with its one actor/one audi…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PM
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding New Play or Musical, Choreography and Direction of a Play by Lorraine Treanor

Closing in on the last of the virtual presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Tune in tonight to learn who will clear room on a shelf …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24AM
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Sound Design and Supporting Performer (Helen) by Lorraine Treanor

Night five of seven streamed presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Tune in tonight to meet 21 nominees and learn who will clear room …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AM
Friday, September 4, 2020

2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Set Design, Lead Performer in a Play (Hayes) and in a Musical (Hayes) by Lorraine Treanor

Night four of seven streamed presentation of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Tune in tonight to meet 35 nominees and learn which six will clear …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AM
Thursday, September 3, 2020

Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Supporting Performer – Musical (Helen), Costume Design, Adaptation, Play or Musical by Lorraine Treanor

Five Helen Hayes Awards will be handed out tonight in this, the third of seven nights of streamed presentations for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audien…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AM
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Supporting Performer – Play (Hayes), Visiting Performer, Musical Direction by Lorraine Treanor

Justin Weaks and Regina Aquino host tonight’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, the second of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celebration on September 25, 2020.  Th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:12PM
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Music for the Movement: Why Othello cast sings “Glory” at American Shakespeare Center by Lorraine Treanor

Before the opening and at the end of intermission of every performance at American Shakespeare Center, actors turn musicians to serenade the audience.  Usually a rousing, fun time, at the s…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PM
Monday, August 31, 2020

Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design, Supporting Performer, Musical, Lead Performer, Musical by Lorraine Treanor

The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, recognizing excellence on Washington-area stages for 2019, begins tonight with the first of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celeb…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AM
Monday, August 24, 2020

The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards adapt, innovate and make history by Lorraine Treanor

How to hold an awards ceremony that has always been as much about bringing the community of theatre makers and theatre supporters together as it was about the awards themselves, during a pan…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:48PM
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Romantics Anonymous, once headed to DC, to be livestreamed from Bristol Old Vic by Lorraine Treanor

Shakespeare Theatre Company announced today that the Wise Children production of Emma Rice’s Romantics Anonymous will be streamed live from Bristol Old Vic for five performances, September…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36AM
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Shutdown-induced space comedy, Rebecca and Bekka in Space, returns for Season 2 by Lorraine Treanor

Rebecca and Becca in Space, the space comedy created during the coronavirus stay-at-home orders by Rebecca Wahls and Rebecca Ballinger, returns for Season 2 with a special launch party tonig…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12PM
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Creative Cauldron keeps performers working with live and virtual concerts by Lorraine Treanor

A few area theatre companies are beginning to offer live performances. One of them is Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, VA which is presenting its summer cabaret season for at-home viewing …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards