1,046 stories by "Lorraine Treanor"
Directors call everyone together. They first create a safe place for everyone to explore the text and what they can bring to it. They are the shamans, shape-shifting their own presences " so…
Designers enliven the dark stage with light, color, texture and sound. Take 5! with designers: Alejo Vietti, Cory Pattak, Debra Kim Sivigny, Elizabeth Jenkins McFadden, Helen Q Huang, Ja…
Actors are Mediums, channeling the voices of the playwright and director through their bodies and psyches to etch a character indelibly into an audience's memory. Actors responding: Ales…
A look, a memory, a word sparks an idea. Characters emerge; they tell their stories, and from their voices a play or musical insists on being born. Then the hard work begins. – …
Martyna Majok, whose play Ironbound was one of the outstanding plays of the 2015 Women’s Voices Theater Festival, has been awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost o…
Site-specific shows are not new to DC theatre. We've had plays performed in a swimming pool, in bars, in vacant spaces and in a residential home. Nameless Theater is taking it further, produ…
Attendees of this year’s Helen Hayes Awards on May 14, 2018 will be heading to a new part of DC for DC theatre’s biggest night. theatreWashington has announced that this 34th yea…
As reported here last week, the Baltimore company Iron Crow Theatre is dealing with a sexual harassment allegation, which forced cancellation of the opening of Terrence McNally’s Corpu…
Baltimore’s Iron Crow Theatre has closed down its troubled production of Corpus Christi, according to an announcement signed by 13 members of its cast and released today. “We, th…
According to the newly released study by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, arts and culture have been good for the nation’s economy. And that has be…
According to the press release from the American Theatre Critics Association the organization has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Associ…
The Narrator (Alexander Strain), stands on the top step of an aisle and says that he has three words for anyone in the audience who is contemplating suicide: his voice lowers to nearly a whi…
See why area theatre companies are making the Washington DC and Baltimore areas the busiest theatre hubs in the country. We’ll refresh this list as new season announcements are announc…
Congratulations to DC based set designer, Paige Hathaway, the go-to designer for many DC area theatre companies, who will be the recipient of Live Design’s  2018 Rising Star Awar…
We created this year’s Valentines by pairing images to lines or lyrics from four shows from this year’s season –Â The Humans, Twelfth Night, All the Things You Are: Jerom…
The 2018 Helen Hayes Awards nominations were announced Monday night by theatreWashington. Round House Theatre was the most nominated company with 22 nominations. The most nominated produc…
Two lucky readers will have the chance to attend opening night of the smash Broadway musical, Something Rotten!, Tuesday, February 6 at The National Theatre. With its heart on its ruffled…
Hi, there 2018 CAPITAL FRINGEÂ PRODUCERS We're ready to promote your show Simply help us get to know what you’ll need and we’ll be in touch. Questions? Send an email to…
Despite the shutdown of the federal government, Jefferson’s Garden will continue its full run (January 19 to February 8) at Ford’s Theatre. The concern arose when Congress was un…
The greatest sign of stability in a culture is, paradoxically, its ability to absorb change. There was a collective holding of breath when Joy Zinoman announced her retirement in 2009; could…
“Here's strength to your elbow Success in your art Here's pearls in your oyster And me in your heart.” So ends the toast by poet/lyricist Fran Landesman. Fun, success and lov…
One last curtain call for these performers whose perfectly crafted moments linger indelibly in our memories. The ensemble of Burning Doors, Belarus Free Theatre There is no word for Burning …
This past Sunday in the Washington Post, I read of the pivotal moment in one great writer’s life. It was when he saw the Broadway play, Man of La Mancha. He fell in love, he said, with…
We calculate there were 455 shows on our stages in 2017. After each show closes and the actors move on the the next rehearsal what remains are the ideas and emotions they have left be…
When we say our region is one of the major theatre hubs in America, what do we really mean? As we did last year, we dove into our own records for 2017 to see how robust our scene has been. T…
