42 stories by "Jamila Reddy"
In the spring of 1994, fifteen artists got together to ask question, “What is new music-theatre?” The question became the foundation for the Alliance for New Music-Theatre, and r…
The Helen Hayes Awards - to be presented tonight at the historic Lincoln Theatre – offer an opportunity for emerging theatre companies in the Washington area to be celebrate…
If Flying V doesn’t sound like the name of a conventional theatre company, it’s because it’s not supposed to. Founded in 2011 with a mission to align the experience of thea…
NextStop Theatre has been around for 27 years, making it one of the longest-standing companies in the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area that you’ve probably never heard of. That’s …
For Anu Yadav, the work she does on stage is only as important as the people who see it. The conversation between work and witness is central to her mission as an artist. “For me its n…
Red Branch Theatre Company started off with what most emerging theatre companies only dream of: a permanent artistic home. Stephanie Williams, the owner of the Drama Learning Center and a fo…
It takes a brave spirit indeed to make “plays from the era of verse and violence” exciting, accessible, and relevant to modern audiences—all while dismantling their system …
In the past two years, Arcturus Theater Company has produced plays about a child with Attention Deficit Disorder, a World War I soldier reincarnated as a ghost, and a young girl’s expe…
Ty Hallmark, the Artistic Director of Pallas Theatre Collective, admits that, as an emerging company in DC’s theatre scene, “we’re still trying to find our footing.&rd…
Allison Stockman, the founding Artistic Director of Constellation Theatre Company, always dreamed of running her own theatre. In 2007, she left her job as a high school teacher to follo…
Taffety Punk’s inaugural production, The Devil in His Own Words, was performed at the Black Cat, one of DC’s most renowned music venues for underground artists. Ten years later, …
Sally Boyett, a classically trained actor and professional ballerina, never meant to start a theatre company. It all began in 2009, when she began teaching acting classes in Annapolis, worki…
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Summer Hummer: Ménage à Trois
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For Karen Lange and Allyson Harkey, Co-Artistic Directors of Pinky Swear Productions, a pinky swear was more than just a promise. It was a vision. They began collaborating six years ago in r…
When we dream, we speak the language of images. We play the role of audience to our own lives, watching the action unfold in front of us. Richard Henrich, Founding Artistic Director of Spook…
When Co-Artistic Directors Joshua Morgan and Brian Sutow decided to call their company “No Rules,” they really meant it. It is the only theatre company in the nation that operate…
If queer avant-garde British filmmaker Derek Jarman had made a performance piece about his own life 20 years after his passing, it would likely look like force/collision’s multimedia p…
