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Thursday, June 17, 2021

‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit’ hops next to NextStop by News Desk

A different actor reads the script cold for the first time each performance. There's no director, no set, and it's 100 percent unrehearsed.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17PM
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Arena Stage to roar back with mix of bubbly and soul by News Desk

2021/22 season to feature inspiring dramas, a high-energy musical, contemporary dance, electrifying music, diverse voices.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:34PM
Monday, June 14, 2021

Olney Theatre’s open-air summer is open invitation to all by News Desk

'Olney Outdoors' offers something for everyone, live on the Root Family Stage.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PM
Friday, June 11, 2021

Opera Lafayette to offer 12 hours of free classical music online June 20 by News Desk

The international Fête de la Musique, marking the start of summer, comes to DC.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50PM
Monday, June 7, 2021

Wolf Trap marks 50th anniversary with first live performances in a year and half by News Desk

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces plans to  welcome audiences back with its first set of concerts for summer. Re-emerging from a one-year pandemic closure of the Filene…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:37AM
Sunday, June 6, 2021

Creative Cauldron presents ‘Always…Patsy Cline’ live and outdoors by News Desk

Creative Cauldron presents Always…Patsy Cline, written and originally directed by Ted Swindley and based on a true story. This musical play follows the unlikely friendship between Patsy an…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PM
Friday, June 4, 2021

1st Stage reveals cast of surprise-filled ‘Duck Harbor’ web series by News Desk

Actors Geoffrey Rivas and Deidra LaWan Starnes met for the first time live online. The post 1st Stage reveals cast of surprise-filled ‘Duck Harbor’ web series appeared first on DC Metro …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:10PM
Friday, May 28, 2021

Love goes to and fro in ‘The Last Five Years,’ up next from Constellation by News Desk

Following the success of Sue Jin Song’s one-woman show Children of Medea, Constellation Theatre Company presents Jason Robert Brown’s beloved two-person musical The Last Five Years as th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AM
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Shakespeare Theatre Company to resume full-capacity shows in September by News Desk

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Artistic Director SIMON GODWIN announced the Company’s 2021/22 Season in a virtual townhall meeting for season subscribers, donors, Board members, and STC s…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Sunday, May 23, 2021

GALA’s ‘She Is Tango’ to highlight women composers and singers by News Desk

Tango—called by one Argentinian tango instructor “a caricature of the patriarchy”—will dance to a distaff tune in GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Ella es tango (She Is Tango), a sizzling o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PM
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Martin Luther to lock horns with the Pope in ‘Luther’s Trumpet’ from GMU by News Desk

Edward Gero and Craig Wallace—two of the most prominent actors in DC—go head-to-head as Martin Luther and Pope Leo X in Luther’s Trumpet, presented May 28 to June 5, 2021, by George Ma…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:38PM

A summer of free weekend mini-festivals at Kennedy Center’s The REACH by News Desk

Millennium Stage returns to the Kennedy Center with weekly, free, outdoor performance experiences curated by artists and organizations from around the DMV. Every Thursday to Saturday, May 27…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PM
Thursday, May 20, 2021

32 actors to perform Alan Sharpe’s ‘Screen/Plays’ on Black Pride Weekend by News Desk

African-American Collective Theater (ACT) begins its 29th consecutive season with readings of Screen/Plays—12 original short plays by Founding Artistic Director Alan Sharpe. The latest ins…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PM

Women’s collective Pipeline Playwrights to premiere magical comedy by News Desk

Pipeline Playwrights announces its first production in its Our Time, Our Stories Zoom production series: the world premiere of Ann Timmons’s A Very Present Presence, directed by Catherine …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14AM
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

‘Duck Harbor’ from 1st Stage to serialize the surprise of a bicoastal love by News Desk

1st Stage embarks on a surprise-filled new web series, Duck Harbor, by renowned playwrights E. M. Lewis and Bob Bartlett, who collaborate on the clever, humorous, and heartwarming story …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21AM
Monday, May 17, 2021

Women dish their exes in ‘To the New Girl’ from Peace Mountain Theatre by News Desk

Peace Mountain Theatre Company presents a weekend of performances of To the New Girl by Samantha Macher, the company’s first foray into film. The play features a series of monologues from …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31AM
Friday, May 14, 2021

Best Medicine Rep to live in June with dark vax comedy ‘Variant Strains’ by News Desk

"It's hilariously sinister," says Playwright John Morogiello, "kind of like Mamet meets Shaw meets me." The post Best Medicine Rep to live in June with dark vax comedy ‘Variant Strains�…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PM
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Dane Figueroa Edidi’s ‘Ghost/Writer’ to premiere as Rep Stage radio play by News Desk

A virtual visit to the intersections of race and gender and the ghosts of the past. The post Dane Figueroa Edidi’s ‘Ghost/Writer’ to premiere as Rep Stage radio play appeared first on …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PM
Monday, May 10, 2021

Olney’s outdoor summer programming to uphold its anti-racism pledge by News Desk

Olney Theatre Center returns to live performances this summer with Olney Outdoors performances on its tree-covered Root Family Stage. The season will feature free Shakespeare, an in-person e…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45PM
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Strathmore announces new open-air summer concert series      by News Desk

Opening May 30 with jazz icon Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet, Strathmore’s new 120-seat Patio Stage will be the place to gather comfortably this summer for…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AM
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Love-triangle comedy by Shaw coming next from Washington Stage Guild by News Desk

The Washington Stage Guild continues its series of online presentations with a delectable Shavian bon bon to whet audience appetites for a return to in-person production in the fall. Followi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:45PM
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Uplifting music we need right now, from the APO and a starry cast by News Desk

DC’s own American Pops Orchestra (APO), under the baton of Maestro Luke Frazier, will bring to the nation a program of musical uplift, joy, and comfort that could not be more pitch perfect…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PM
Friday, April 30, 2021

GALA to stage sci-fi Latino sendup of anti-immigrant bias by News Desk

GALA Hispanic Theatre continues its 45th-anniversary season with Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers by performance artist José Torres-Tama, an Ecuadorean who resides in New Orleans. P…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40AM
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Solas Nua brings back live theater with ‘In the Middle of the Fields’ in a park by News Desk

Solas Nua, DC’s award-winning Irish arts organization, stages an outdoor, live theater production May 20 to June 12, 2021. Recognized for the excellence of its site-specific work, Solas Nu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:11PM

Free audio play from Ford’s features Lincoln–Douglass faceoff by News Desk

An audio drama adaptation of Richard Hellesen’s Necessary Sacrifices—featuring acclaimed Washington actors Craig Wallace as Frederick Douglass and Paul Morella as Abraham Lincoln—can b…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10PM

Virtual musical from NextStop Theatre to poke fun at dating game by News Desk

A musical comedy about two young singles who have been set up on a blind date and are having dinner in a restaurant. What could possibly be more exciting after the past year? As its first f…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29AM
Saturday, April 24, 2021

An outlawed gay love gets set to music in ‘Midnight at The Never Get’ by News Desk

Midnight at The Never Get—the Off-Broadway smash hit and third production in the Signature Features 2021 Season—will stream April 30 through June 21, 2021, in HD on Marquee TV. With book…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AM

A summer of live performances coming from American Shakespeare Center by News Desk

American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, will reopen in May 2021 with a repertory season of three Shakespeare classics. With programming selected, cast and directed by a cohort of …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:01AM
Friday, April 23, 2021

Theater Alliance draws together four dramas from a disparate District by News Desk

Continuing a season of online content, Theater Alliance presents the world premiere of City in Transition: The Quadrant Series. The full-length evening of digital theater, drawing inspiratio…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:37PM

Brave Soul Collective to celebrate 15 years of Black Queer artistry by News Desk

Local HIV/AIDS outreach and arts organization Brave Soul Collective (BSC) kicks off its 15th year and virtual performance season with BSCFifteen, a week-long artist residency at The Kennedy …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58AM
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Angelica Chéri’s epic love story ‘Berta, Berta’ is next at Everyman by News Desk

Playwright Angelica Chéri’s mystical and moving play Berta, Berta is next up at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre. Founder and Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi announced that Everyman is…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PM

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