Friday, May 15, 2020
At a time when theater companies around the country must push back production schedules, their missions are amplified to plan future productions that will uplift, transform, and heal. At Fac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, Spooky Action Theater's New Works in Action play-reading series has been shifted to a virtual meeting space on the company's YouTube channel. "We are excited to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Though the sea of online content is deep at the moment, that's not stopping Adventure Theatre MTC. They are diving right in with a full lineup of API Heritage Month storytimes, interviews, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:31PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2020
Shugoll Research, a national marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland, is releasing a Phase III study of theatergoers and their intent to return to the theater when it reopens after …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2020
Brave Spirits Theatre announces a virtual summer staged reading festival celebrating the history plays of the English early modern stage. A supplement to BST's two-year Shakespeare's Histori…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:29AM[SHARE]In a time when connection is more important than ever, Olney Theatre Center is revamping its Streaming Saturdays, a live online discussion series featuring the perspectives of a wide range o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
Amongst the chaos of COVID-19, another brand-new theater company has sprung up in the DC area. Pandemic Theatre, founded by local actor and theater maker Acacia Danielson, is turning to digi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Shugoll Research, a national marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland, is releasing a new study of theatergoers and their intent to return to the theater when it reopens after the co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
As performing arts organizations worldwide struggle to schedule live performance seasons in the midst of a global pandemic, DC's IN Series leads the charge onto the digital stage by programm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:23PM[SHARE]In the face of global crisis and economic uncertainty, Mosaic Theater Company of DC draws inspiration for its new season from a nucleus of towering yet under-appreciated figures in history. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2020
In the wake of COVID-19 theater closures, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre, The Public Theater of NYC, and The Repertory Theatre …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2020
Round House Theatre is making streaming news with their project Homebound, a new web series bringing together DC-area playwrights, actors, and designers to explore life under stay-at-home or…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2020
Those of us in the arts are all getting used to a new normal. Unfortunately, a return to any kind of normal will not be possible for some organizations. And, sadly, it turns out that Quotidi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre Company invites audiences to celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday by attending a viewing party of the National Theatre of London's 2017 production of Twelfth Night…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2020
Mosaic Theater Company and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have announced the illustrious recipient of their National Playwright Residency Program Grant"Veteran DC playwright, director, and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre Company recently announced the creation of Shakespeare Everywhere, a new platform for engaging with audiences through digital offerings and innovative new content. While …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:59PM[SHARE]The Folger Shakespeare Library is partnering with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for the world's largest celebration of Shakespeare"inviting audiences all ove…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Quarantine Fest"livestreamed readings of flash-created 10-minute plays"begins streaming this Sunday, April 19 starting at 10 am. Professional actors from the DC Area will read the works onli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:18PM[SHARE]What follows is sobering news about the challenges ahead for the DMV theater community. We at DC Metro Theater Arts share this information in a spirit of solidarity and with determination to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Round House Theatre Artistic Director Ryan Rilette and Managing Director Ed Zakreski recently announced the six shows that will constitute Round House Theatre's 43rd season. All shows will b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:20PM[SHARE]Arts On The Green, the organization that provides indispensable arts programming at a collection of venues on the beautiful Gaithersburg campus, has recently offered audiences a sneak peek a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2020
1st Stage, a vibrant professional company in Tysons, Virginia, recently announced their dynamic 2020-2021 season. This 13-year-old organization has grown from a grassroots collective of loca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2020
During a recent live-streamed event, Olney Theatre Center Artistic Director Jason Loewith unveiled a lineup of 17 plays, concerts, and presentations coming in 2020"2021 as part of the compan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2020
In the midst of these unprecedented and uncertain times, Flying V has some good news: the company has hired Katherine Offutt as its new full-time managing director. "We genuinely cannot expr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:25PM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2020
Pipeline Playwrights, a Northern Virginia"based collective of women playwrights, presents its first set of online offerings, Playwrights at Work! starting on April 20, 2020. This offshoot of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2020
For the past thirty years, the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, has produced and developed new plays in rotating repertory. DC M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:20AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2020
Beginning Monday, March 30, 2020, Signature Theatre patrons will have the ability to watch the world premiere production of Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes by DC playwright Dani Stoller …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2020
Last week Mayor Muriel Bowser launched the application for the new $25 million microgrant program to provide relief to local small businesses affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19). Eligible…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2020
Olney Theatre Center's production of The Amateurs by Jordan Harrison and directed by Jason King Jones will be available to stream online beginning Saturday, March 28 at noon through the end …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2020
As the world reels from the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Washington theater community" both institutions and individuals " alongside other entertainment and freelance industries, face finan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Shepherdstown, WV: For the past decade, the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University has hosted a Shepherdstown Sneak Peek. Originally scheduled to be held at the Marino…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51PM[SHARE] 
