1,046 stories by "Lorraine Treanor"
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration Free Sunday, April 26, 8pm. Legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim will be toasted with an all-star birthday concert, streami…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) and Hamilton have launched EduHam at Home, a free digital program for students and their families to explore the world of Hamilton and …
Imagine this. At last the great day has arrived. No new cases of the COVID-19 have been reported for twenty days; people are recovering in the tens of thousands; our health system is adequat…
Just announced " Psalmayene 24 will join Mosaic Theater's Senior Artistic Staff where, over the next three years, the DC playwright and director will create new works, participate in Mosaic'…
Curating the DCTS Guide to Podcasts and Streaming Channels, I've been spending an inordinate amount of time searching out content from the thousands of at-home viewing options now available …
Olney Theatre Center (OTC) will present a robust 83rd season, making space for 18 plays, concerts and presentations, even as renovations continue to the intimate Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab.…
Broadway.com is hosting a livestreamed reading of Terrence McNally's 1991 play Lips Together, Teeth Apart. View it on Broadway.com and Broadway.com's Facebook and YouTube channels at 8pm …
Andrew Lloyd Webber has established a YouTube channel "The Shows Must Go On!" and plans to release one movie adaptation of his musicals per week. They will all be free to view, starting Frid…
Like many area companies, while performances are closed due to the pandemic, Olney Theatre Center (OTC) has developed programs to deepen their connection with audiences through online platfo…
Like most Americans, our staff are spending most of their time at home now. Some busy themselves with spouses, children and pets. Some with their art. Some have salaried jobs and easy transi…
Ford's Theatre: All performances of Guys and Dolls have been canceled and the production will be rescheduled for spring 2021. The musical Man of La Mancha, originally announced as the spring…
4615 Theatre Company, like all theatre companies, has seen its season destroyed, a casualty of the coronavirus. However, this made way, Artistic Director Jordan Friend told DCTS, for a long-…
Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday is today. While tributes to his great musicals and greatest songs have been written, we are paying tribute to his greatest roles. The fifteen book musica…
theatreWashington, which produces the Helen Hayes Awards and helps to promote theatre throughout the Washington area, today announced that it will make available $115,000 in assistance to th…
While we are keeping track of closing notices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is the potential good news that we'll hopefully be together again before too long. Check back for th…
Washington DC's Council has passed a bill which could provide relief for theatre professionals who have lost work as a result of the COVID-19. The legislation, DC Act 23-247, provides that n…
Time was, on St. Patrick's Day, Solas Nua company members braved the March chill to hand out free books by Irish authors. Now in its 15th year, and in the season of COVID-19, the company has…
The short answer to the question: how many shows are canceled due to coronavirus concerns is "Most of Them."Â You're stocked up, right " toilet paper, soaps and munchies, GrubHub on speed…
March 12 " Rasheeda Speaking postponed. Ally Theatre at Joe's Movement Emporium, originally schedule to run through March 22. March 12 " Adventure Theatre MTC Spring Gala, "Step Out in…
This morning, Ally Theatre Company's production of Rasheeda Speaking became the first production cancelled in our area due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Rasheeda Speaking has been…
As the novel coronavirus ("novel" here means no one has prior immunity) has incurred its way into DC, Maryland and Virginia, area producers of live theatre are taking measures to protect the…
The upcoming 2020/2021 season will introduce Encore Theater Company, based in the Takoma Park community. Encore's inaugural season, their press release announced, will feature "two intimate,…
Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017 is a gas giant of a play, Jovian in proportion, profoundly ambitious, wonderfully weird, beautifully written, Dostoyevskian in scope. It is three hours t…
From Ford's Theatre " Save on tickets to Silent Sky at Ford's Theatre"a captivating play by Lauren Gunderson about trail-blazing astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. A decade before women g…
Theater J, which in addition to its season of fully produced plays helps re-discover Yiddish plays through readings in its Yiddish Theater Lab, today announced the formation of two national …
