The Black Artist Coalition (BAC), a collective of DC-area performers, designers, administrators and arts supporters, announced its purpose and plans today. The BAC was formed in response to …
"Without the arts, without music, without dance, without drama, without photography, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings." " John Lewis The Honorable John Lew…
 My name is Pamela Jafari. I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. I have a 26 y/o grandson, and 3 y/o great-grandson…
It began with sawdust, clowns, and the high wire. It began with walking excitedly across muddy English fields to a gaudy big top. It began with spectacle and a world elsewhere. Then, on my n…
I can't remember a time when I was NOT hooked on performing. Â My Mama played 'Let's pretend' with my sister and me in the kitchen back when I was four and five years old and I loved it.Â…
I grew up in a small town in the middle of Amish Country in Pennsylvania. There wasn't much to do other than ride your bike, go to the pool or count cows. So we had a first grade teacher…
Dear Friends, 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 wit…
What is it like for leaders of Color to work in White theatres? This Howlround Theatre Commons interview is between two well-known Washington area leaders:Â Michael J. Bobbitt, former Art…
This review by Jennifer Georgia was first published by DC Metro Theater Arts on July 15, 2019. We are unable to attend the performance and are very grateful to DCMTA for permission to reprin…
It was a windy spring day, and I was taking a moment to zone out during rugby practice. As I looked up, noticing a plane flying above me, my mind wandered, as minds often do. "I wonder what …
As I write this, I have now seen Mike Daisey do 8 of the 18 consecutive chapters in his A People's History. Â I've written a dispatch about each (which you can read here), and I'll be cove…
Twanna A. Hines, a sexual and reproductive health educator and creative entrepreneur, answers our questions about her Capital Fringe show at Arena Stage. Where did the idea for your show com…
We listened as Allison Malcomstogle sat down with Robert Kittredge, the uthor of 33 1/3 Chorus Girls, to talk about the upcoming festival. Some of what we heard was barely believable. Malcom…
Mary Myers is about to embark to the Edinburgh Fringe festival to play Karl Marx in Mark in Soho. Before leaving, she's given us these words as she prepares for her last show in the Stat…
So, I was reading "Norwegian Wood"Â by Haruki Murakami (yes, I also roll my eyes when someone casually mentions they were reading Murakami) and there is this beautiful line: "Life is here,…
This play is the second in a trilogy of plays, all with a theme of domestic violence and its horrible multi-generational scourge on one family. The first play, Sobriety of Fear, was a one-pe…
After answering ice-breaker questions, three strangers mysteriously end up on a deserted island, premised on the classic "would you rather" scenario. Now all their answers are coming to l…
For Capital Fringe this year, I have adapted The Bacchae by Euripides. I am true to the source material, except for a surprise in the beginning and the end, where I bring in the work of a…
I was, am and always will be a mama's boy. Not in a creepy, Norman Bates, refer to her as "mother" with dead eyes way, but just for the simple fact that my mom and I shared a beautiful, posi…
 One evening, in September of 1922, legendary horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, visited an old Brooklyn graveyard and took home a small souvenir: a chip from a tombstone dated 1747.  Late…
What do people do when they are forced to wait? What if they are forced to wait in a room with no door? What happens when, in these strange circumstances, people begin to disappear? You know…
In August of 2015, at the tender age of 23, I decided to pack up my car and drive across the country from New York to Oregon for an acting apprenticeship opportunity with a small theater com…
Quick chat with Capital Fringe artist Miranda Jonte, on the how and why of her play, good & kissed. Â Tickets for good & kissed Take your broken heart and turn it into art. Mirand…
Passing had an unusually long gestation period. The idea for a play about the Holocaust first came to me in 2010. But, as is often the case, the story in my head did not translate well to th…
A History of Laughter is my stand-up comedy walking tour of Pennsylvania Avenue. Already sounds amazing, right? Why are you doing this? I started performing stand-up in DC several years …