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Arena Stage has partnered with DC Health and MedStar Health to support and provide an accessible and safe location to help steadily vaccinate DC residents. The site will operate Thursdays to…
A More Perfect Union"a new concept-album-inspired music piece written and conceived by award-winning composer and lyricist Rona Siddiqui (Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfgan, One Good Da…
Pandemic life may have shut down live theater, but DC's Landless Theatre Company has always had a knack for making lemonade out of lemons. They found their own digital theater solution hidin…
Our ancestors have waited patiently through centuries for us to come to the table of acknowledgement. Here I Am fulfills my desire to give voice to those families, including my own, and to o…
After delivering on the promise of rehearsing, filming, and streaming the first two production of the season, Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains and Cry It Out, the staff and artists …
Arena Stage is now streaming the second installment in its Arena Riffs series: a pandemic-era hip-hop musical written, directed, and performed by award-winning playwright, director and, acto…
CityDance School & Conservatory received the Outstanding School Award at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Boston Regional Semi-finals March 19 " 21, 2021, at the Hanover Theatre in Wo…
Despite a significant increase in vaccinations, DC-area theatergoers will be slow to return to local theaters, according to a new study by Limelight Insights by Shugoll, a national marketing…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces its digital spring line-up that features an interactive and innovative play that repurposes social media; the return of two Woolly on Demand produ…
Constellation Theatre Company kicks off Season 14: Electric Impulses with Sue Jin Song's powerful one-woman show, Children of Medea. The production will be fully staged and filmed at Cultura…
The Strand Theater Company proudly partners with Asian Pasifika Arts Collective to present Man of God by Anna Moench. The livestreamed production is directed by Elizabeth Ung. About the play…
Daniel J. Watts's The Jam: Only Child"the second feature production in Signature Theatre's  2021 season"is now streaming on demand. Written and performed by 2020 Tony Award"nominated Dani…
After being dark since last March due to COVID-19, Reston Community Players comes back to life with A Walk in the Woods, a Cold War"era drama by Lee Blessing that examines the relationshi…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has launched Reset, a new, free digital assemblage of Black artistry featuring historical resources, excerpts, and video performances. Curated by six Black cis…
In Silence Is Violence: The Future of the Field"the latest installment of Young Playwrights' Theater's (YPT) social justice performance series"three Black characters in the early stages o…
Shakespeare Theatre Company's annual Mock Trial""the funniest, most entertaining event in Washington" (Roll Call) and "a Washington wonk's dream (The New York Times)"will be in session vi…
The findings of a new study of DC-area theatergoers reveal a dramatic shift in attitudes toward theater as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. T…
Tired of figuring out what to cook for dinner? Bored with everything Netflix has to offer? Then Francesca Chilcote and Connor Hogan have just the show for you. In Dinner! Franny and Connor W…
Continuing its 13th season as the only brick-and-mortar company in Baltimore dedicated to celebrating womxn's diverse voices and perspectives, The Strand Theater Company presents the regiona…
Round House Theatre plans a spring 2021 season with virtual productions of three moving one-person performances: Colman Domingo's A Boy and His Soul, directed by Craig Wallace; Lucy Alibar's…
After the double blow of the pandemic and the death of Artistic Director Tom Prewitt in November, Arlington's Avant Bard Theatre is moving ahead under a new model of artistic partnership.…
An accountability report released by the We See You, White American Theater collective (WSYWAT) points to more than 100 theater institutions nationwide that have responded to the group's BIP…
The family of W. Thompson (Tom) Prewitt and the nonprofit organization Embracing Arlington Arts have launched a memorial fund to honor the legacy and contributions of longtime DC-area theate…
Theatre Prometheus"following its "arresting, provocative, and hauntingly relevant" production of 14, José Casas's play about immigration"has announced two new projects in 2021 highlighting …
Everyman Theatre actors, designers, and crew are back in the rehearsal room preparing for the run of Molly Smith Metzler's 2017 play, Cry It Out. The full production will be filmed at the th…
