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 09:51PMWashington might be stuck at home this St. Patrick’s Day but that’s not stopping Solas Nua from celebrating the best of Irish culture. Over the next two weeks, the DC Irish arts group wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:51AMMonday, March 16, 2020
(WASHINGTON)— The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ first-ever Education Artist-in-Residence, Emmy Award®–winning writer and New York Times best-selling author and il…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMSunday, March 15, 2020
1st Stage Tysons has announced its thirteenth season, opening in September 2020. September 10 – October 11, 2020 Mlima’s Tale by Lynn Nottage directed by José Carrasquillo Pulitzer Pri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PMThursday, March 12, 2020
The following theaters have recently announced changes to their programming as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Limiting and canceling performances will put great financial pressure on …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Online arts platform Indicoe recently rebranded and relaunched itself under the name Alveo Creative. As Alveo Creative, the company will continue to promote collaboration and support for art…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:43AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
There’s a new theater in town. Encore Theater Company, a new nonprofit theater based in the Takoma Park community, has announced its inaugural season. The 2020/21 season will feature two i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie have announced the theater’s ten-show 2020/21 Season. This season, more than half of the playwrights and direct…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical comedy featuring music by The Go-Go’s, will launch its first D.C. metro area production opening Monumental Theater Company’s 2020 season. With a book b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Simon Godwin announced the Company’s 2020/21 Season to a gathering of dedicated theatergoers at the Michael R. Klein Theatre at the Lansbu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12PMMonday, February 3, 2020
At a February 3, 2020 celebration honoring theatre excellence on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24PMFriday, January 24, 2020
The following news was released today by theatreWashington: The Washington theater community remains in mourning over the loss of Victor Shargai, long-time theatreWashington board chair, the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PMNext Thursday, January 30, please join Theater and Policy Salon for a discussion on Attainment, Fulfillment, and Resilience at Studio Theatre following the 8 pm show of Pipeline. The panel d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25PMMonday, January 20, 2020
In a ceremony at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, the WATCH Award committee announced the 2019 WATCH Award nominees. 101 productions (40 musicals, 61 plays) were adjudicated in 2019. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMMonday, January 13, 2020
The Essential Theatre rings in the New Year by continuing an 18-month celebration of the 30th anniversary of its founding. In partnership with the District of Columbia Public Library System …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35AMSaturday, January 11, 2020
What does the New Year bring to downtown Silver Spring? Murder at McGinty’s! A Taste For Murder Productions and McGinty’s Public House have formed a partnership to present dinner theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08PMThursday, January 9, 2020
The National Building Museum announced its partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library, in association with the University of South Carolina, to design the 2020 Summer Block Party exhibition…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:28PMTuesday, January 7, 2020
The Arcanists in co-production with Science Art Fusion (ScienceAF) announce the launch of The Internet: LIVE!!1, an inventive new live comedy game show. In it, player-performers bring web co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PMStudio Theatre and Artistic Director David Muse are pleased to announce that Reginald L. Douglas will join the organization as its new Associate Artistic Director later this month. Douglas c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMFriday, December 20, 2019
As the year draws to a close, we asked DCMTA writers to think back on the shows that left an indelible impression on them in 2019. In this category, outstanding overall production, we recogn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AMMonday, December 9, 2019
The Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive is holding a free event Monday, December 16th from 7 pm-8 pm at the Chevy Chase neighborhood library. Join WAPAVA’s Executive Director Bri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:52PMFriday, December 6, 2019
After two sell-out previews and a spectacular run at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers pops up at the trendy Shaw-neighborhood sp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14AMThursday, December 5, 2019
Female, female-identifying, GNC, and Trans theater artists in the Washington, DC area will soon have a new opportunity for career mentorship. Statera Mentorship recognizes that women, gender…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41PMMonday, December 2, 2019
Gaithersburg’s Arts on the Green presents a new season of engaging concerts featuring an eclectic mix of Americana, jazz, classical, contemporary, traditional, and world music in an intima…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Launching its 30th-anniversary season, Avant Bard Theatre announces Scripts In Play: Season 30—featuring a special presentation of Happenstance Theater’s BrouHaHa December 6 to 8, 2019,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PMMonday, November 25, 2019
Following its sold-out run of Be More Chill in 2019, the Helen Hayes Award-winning Monumental Theatre Company will be producing three musicals for the upcoming 2020 season: Head Over Heels, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:11AMSaturday, November 23, 2019
We were saddened to learn this week that Tia Shearer Bassett, a valued member of the DC theater community and a bright shining light of a human, has recently been diagnosed with cancer. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Called by critics “incisive,” “timely,” and “brave,” Priyanka Shetty’s one-woman show The Elephant in the Room performs Saturday, November 23, 2019, at 6 pm on the Millennium …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:45PMThursday, November 7, 2019
At its annual Gala, Shakespeare Theatre Company announced to a surprised audience that the Lansburgh Theatre at 450 7th St. NW would be rechristened as the Michael R. Klein Theatre. In addit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AMMonday, November 4, 2019
Arts on the Green, the City of Gaithersburg’s home for the performing and visual arts which includes the Kentland’s Mansion and Arts Barn, is now soliciting production proposals for the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PMNational New Play Network, the country’s alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces its 91st Rollin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PM 
