Friday, January 22, 2021
Podcasts have been popular for a long time, but the shutdown has brought house-bound theater professionals many new reasons to create their own audio recordings. The combination of having mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:21AMWednesday, January 20, 2021
Young Playwrights’ Theater’s (YPT) new script development program, Young Playwrights in Progress (YPIP), will present the work of two talented young playwrights through virtual play read…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16AMSignature Theatre announces the full cast and streaming dates for Simply Sondheim, the first production in the Signature Features 2021 Season. Starring 12 singers and an orchestra of 16,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29AMGiven the ongoing pandemic and challenges to safely presenting live performances, Studio Theatre has taken its five-play season entirely digital. Productions will be filmed in Studio’s int…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:54AMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Silver Spring Stage proudly presents the area community theater premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Ada and the Engine, directed by Jon Jon Johnson and produced by Alika Codispoti and Maura Sui…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:13PMMonday, January 11, 2021
Studio Theatre looks back at the politics and precariousness of 2020 through two intimate and immediate Studio in Your Ears audio plays available for free now on its website. Studio’s fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMThursday, January 7, 2021
In The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson has written a story for this moment in time about Dr. Nathan Wolfe, the award-winning virologist who years before the COVID-19 outbreak proposed a plan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMTuesday, January 5, 2021
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with IAMA Theatre Company present Ryan J. Haddad’s celebrated autobiographical solo show Hi, Are You Single? directed by Laura Savia and Jess …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28AMMonday, January 4, 2021
Hot off of winning the 2020 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, the 4615 Theatre has created a multifaceted solution to meet the challenge posed by the pandemic. For…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:08PMSunday, January 3, 2021
Two enterprising Catholic University of America seniors are hosting a new podcast to connect current theater industry professionals with future theater industry professionals through intervi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMMonday, December 14, 2020
The influential Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working group We See You, White American Theater — which collectively authored and issued the BIPOC Demands — has rolled out a new …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMSaturday, December 5, 2020
Signature Theatre has announced the full lineup for its 2021 Signature Features season, and it will be all online: five fully staged plays and musicals, made exclusively for the screen and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:26PMThursday, December 3, 2020
Mosaic Theater Company will participate in the nationwide reading of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, seven winning short plays in a nationwide competition for middle and high school stud…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:40AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
When the holiday season approaches, we tend to turn to things that give us joy and comfort. The arts always seem to take center stage during these darker months – providing togetherness, l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:52PMThursday, November 26, 2020
Solas Nua, the DC-based contemporary Irish arts organization, has appointed Miranda Driscoll its interim executive director. Having served for five years as director/CEO of Sirius Arts Centr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20AMSaturday, November 21, 2020
Brave Spirits Theatre announced in September that its acclaimed Shakespeare’s histories seasons would end (“A tribute to Brave Spirits as it calls off Shakespeare’s histories due to CO…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMFriday, November 20, 2020
The immersive sound installation Blindness, originally produced to great acclaim at London’s Donmar Warehouse, makes its U.S. premiere at Shakespeare Theatre Company December 8, 2020. For …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMThursday, November 19, 2020
Silver Spring Stage is offering a new season of virtual performances. First up is Lobby Hero by the Academy Award–winning Kenneth Lonergan, an absorbing play where good intentions can be …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PMResponding to the mounting COVID-19 pandemic, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has canceled all previously scheduled programs through April 25, 2021. Additionally, Washingt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMMonday, November 16, 2020
“If you like theatrical storytelling—the kind that catches you by the heartstrings, gets you all wrapped up, then doesn’t let loose until the very end—you’re going to love The Resu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05AMSunday, November 15, 2020
Washington Stage Guild will present a “heavenly” online performance of George Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell, the famous dream sequence from his play Man and Superman. Audiences a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02AMThursday, November 12, 2020
Separated by continents, an estranged father and son reunite over Zoom. From their respective kitchens in Ramallah and in New York City, they recreate a cherished family recipe and struggle …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and DC creative collective Makers Lab reunite for The JookJOYnt, a free, five-part video experience exploring themes of vulnerability, intimacy, and connection…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMMonday, November 9, 2020
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre will bet on another successful run with Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, premiering for in-person performances on Novembe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMRound House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theatre Center, has announced updated details for The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence, a four-week festival highlighti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42PMFriday, November 6, 2020
Just when American politics could not seem more fraught, IN Series is offering a cheeky throwback to a shockingly simpler time: a made-for-film production of Melissa Dunphy’s Gonzales Cant…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29PMWednesday, November 4, 2020
Prologue Theatre has launched FOREWORD: A New Works Series. Each month through March 2021, a creative team will come together for two weeks to workshop a playwright’s new play, culminating…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:15PMSunday, November 1, 2020
Keegan Theatre returns to mainstage programming with a pair of productions streaming live in rep November 12 to 29, 2020. Performed from the Keegan stage, the fall repertory includes the wor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
This week Signature Theatre releases a new cinematic concert, an inspired alternative to its pre-COVID cabarets. Titled Signature Vinyl, the fully produced, professionally filmed production…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMThursday, October 29, 2020
IN Series returns to the original revolutionary opera, Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice, for an intimate film experience exploring love, loss, and grief during a global pandemic in which milli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:05PMtheatreWashington has announced an expansion of the Taking Care COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, originally organized in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and the sudden loss of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PM 
