Thursday, October 29, 2020
theatreWashington 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 12:31PMMonday, October 26, 2020
As millions across the country are taking to the polls, Studio Theatre releases its first audio play, an adaption of Kings, the lacerating, fast-talking political drama by Alexandria, Virgin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PMSaturday, October 24, 2020
Theater professionals from New York City, Kentucky, and DC have come together to launch Twist, a new virtual experience centered around a rotating series of social strategy games. Fol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38AMTuesday, October 20, 2020
“Dancing and singing over the wireless airways—how might it have happened? What might have been a dry history lesson is given delightfully appealing musical charm in Creative Cauldron’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMSaturday, October 17, 2020
Two-time Helen Hayes Award winner E. Faye Butler returns to Arena Stage to take on the iconic role of civil and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Cheryl L. West’s play Fannie Lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05AMFriday, October 16, 2020
The Breath Project—a new theatrical initiative formed in response to racial injustice against Black people—will stream as a free virtual festival October 24 and 25, 2020. In partnership …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:39PMThursday, October 15, 2020
The Edge of the Universe Players 2, a DC-based company dedicated to deep meanings in the form of theatrical high entertainment, had planned to continue exploring that territory in the 2020 F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AMWednesday, October 14, 2020
UrbanArias has partnered with eight other American opera companies to create a newly commissioned operatic video series, Tales From a Safe Distance, inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:06PMJust in time for Halloween, The Alden Theatre in McLean continues its unique Drive-Thru Drama performances with Objects in Mirror May Be SPOOKIER Than They Appear, October 16 to November 1, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:18AMTuesday, October 13, 2020
The trials and tribulations of a talk show host’s family. A date between two extreme opposites that gets dangerous. These are the themes of the two winning entries in Dominion Stage’s fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:42AMSunday, October 11, 2020
The lineup for Shakespeare Theater Company‘s 2020–2021 season—as announced by Artistic Director Simon Godwin and Executive Director Chris Jennings—is signficantly different from plan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMSaturday, October 10, 2020
A monthslong period of intensive introspection and evolution at Mosaic Theater Company, led by a recommitment to anti-racism, has culminated in the company’s recent announcement of fall pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMThursday, October 8, 2020
In response to the ongoing social upheaval and protests for racial justice, Olney Theatre Center is hosting a virtual social justice arts festival amplifying the voices of BIPOC artists and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:44PMThe irrepressibly entertaining Happenstance Theater will perform its Pinot & Augustine clown show on Saturday, October 10, 2020, at 2 pm and 6 pm, in the parking lot at Joe’s Movement …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMTuesday, October 6, 2020
The Black Artist Coalition (BAC) releases its second visual project, “I Am…” A Celebration of Black Artistry Thursday, October 8, 2020. One of the pillars of the Black Artist Coalition…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:33PMThe Forum for Cultural Engagement has announced Flash Acts, a free six-day, bilingual, virtual theater festival October 8 to 13, 2020. This one-of-a-kind performance festival brings together…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMSaturday, October 3, 2020
The Reclamation Project—an idea inspired by We See You, White American Theater, “Hot button issues for Black theater: A roundtable on revolution,” and “Gender Diverse Black Theatre L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMWednesday, September 30, 2020
As part of its ongoing commitment to creating diverse, modern work by leading playwrights and performers during the prolonged COVID-19 theater closure, 1st Stage has announced eleven new art…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
Round House Theatre has announced an updated lineup of plays, conversations, and education offerings, including digital programming for the fall and winter and a return to live productions i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMSunday, September 27, 2020
Celebrating Solas Nua’s 15th anniversary, the DC-based Irish arts organization has commissioned a series of digital plays from African-American playwright Jeremy Keith Hunter and Irish pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
#BlackMenFeel is a new artistic project designed to address mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges experienced by Black men, specifically Black Queer men. Produced by Brave Soul Collect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMThursday, September 17, 2020
Culminating the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards recognizing outstanding work on Washington-area stages in 2019, the theater community will gather for one singular celebration in three successive dig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16PMMonday, September 14, 2020
IN Series launches its groundbreaking 2020–2021 digital opera season with a Festival Weekend of world premieres September 17 to 19, 2020. The season, characterized by genre-defying collabo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08AMSaturday, September 12, 2020
Announcing its 2020–2021 season, GALA Hispanic Theatre revealed plans to resume indoor live performances in late October—the first professional theater to do so in Metro DC since stages …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41PMFriday, September 11, 2020
The Humans—Stephen Karam’s Tony Award–winning family dramedy—was slated for a run at Olney Theatre Center this season, but that physical production was shelved this summer when the C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMWednesday, September 9, 2020
Against the backdrop of COVID-19, racial injustice, and the upcoming election, CulturalDC is staging one of the first large-scale productions in the Washington, DC, area since the pandemic b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMSunday, August 30, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin has announced that Whitney White and Soyica Colbert—the director and the dramaturg for The Amen Corner—are joining STC as assoc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMFriday, August 28, 2020
Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT) has announced that Savannah Miller and Adanna Paul are its first two participants in the 2020-2021 Young Playwrights in Progress (YPIP) new play developmen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMWednesday, August 26, 2020
Studio Theatre has commissioned seven Black artists who are attending the 57th anniversary March on Washington Friday, August 28, to create artistic responses that bear witness to their expe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:20PMSaturday, August 22, 2020
theatreWashington has announced updated plans for the 36th annual Helen Hayes Awards—originally scheduled to take place at The Anthem on May 18, 2020, but postponed because of COVID. Celeb…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:26PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Sheldon Epps will join the Ford’s Theatre leadership team as Senior Artistic Advisor. He steps into the new role as the theater reevaluates its 2020–2021 season amid the national reckoni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:41PM 
