Saturday, February 13, 2021
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SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMThursday, December 31, 2020
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 01:48PMWednesday, December 30, 2020
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 06:06PMThursday, December 17, 2020
“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 12:42PMFriday, November 20, 2020
“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 07:12PMFriday, October 30, 2020
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 03:24PMTuesday, October 27, 2020
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 01:06PMFriday, October 23, 2020
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 03:48PMWednesday, October 7, 2020
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 11:36AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
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 03:18PMWednesday, September 23, 2020
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 12:32PMThursday, September 17, 2020
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 02:06PMAny 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 02:06PMWednesday, September 16, 2020
“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 07:32PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
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 06:06PMMonday, September 14, 2020
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 11:18AMOn 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 11:18AMFriday, September 11, 2020
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 02:18PMThis 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 12:06PMThursday, September 10, 2020
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 06:36PMWednesday, September 9, 2020
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 07:24AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
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 10:42AMFriday, September 4, 2020
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 09:06AMThursday, September 3, 2020
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 11:03AMWednesday, September 2, 2020
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 03:12PMTuesday, September 1, 2020
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 01:48PMMonday, August 31, 2020
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 07:12AMMonday, August 24, 2020
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 05:48PMThursday, August 20, 2020
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 02:36AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
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 10:12PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
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 
