On August 28, 1968, two iconic intellectuals " author, editor, political commentator and (PBS) television host William F. Buckley for the right and author, lecturer, frequent television gues…
Studio Acting Conservatory, the Joy Zinoman-led acting school previously evicted from its home at Studio Theatre, will begin work on its new 6,000 square foot Holmead Place digs and expects …
The pandemic has produced two kinds of theatrical Netathons , which is my name for oversized online theatrical events by established artists in support of a charitable cause. The first are t…
Not that long ago, the only unwanted interruptions shows had was when a cell phone rang. Now, theatre companies moving performances and classes online have much more to worry about. And that…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which had planned to re-open its campus on May 22, will remain closed through August 9 due to the ongoing impact of COVID"19, according to…
If Alexandra Petri's "Connect!" " which opened Round House Theatre's weekly web series Homebound " was a prologue, then Karen ZacarÃas'Â "Human Resource" offers some rising action, rat…
Just announced: Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. When I saw it last June at Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway, I wrote: A Strange Loop is a mu…
Strange times have given us just that: time. Specifically, all of us have time inside to experience performances on our home screens. Individual artists and companies are scrambling to mater…
Gerhardt (Gary) Tischler, a veteran arts journalist whose debut post with DC Theatre Scene "There's No App for That" remains one of our most-read articles, passed away at Sibley Memorial Hos…
Folger Theatre, operating out of house due to the ongoing multi-year $69 million dollar renovation of Shakespeare Library is scheduling its "On the Road" season in collaboration with local c…
Frankenstein (both versions) National Theatre At Home April 30 " May 8, 2020 London's National Theatre will present free week long streams of Danny Boyle's 2011 production of Frankenstein, w…
Advice for theatre companies worried about bringing audiences back into their physical spaces has been 'Go Bold.' The opera-theatre company, IN Series, which usually performs at Source in DC…
After spending an hour on Zoom with the Apple family in Richard Nelson's latest low-key play, I was surprised by my reaction, which  I could sum up as: Hallelujah! What Do We Need to Talk…
The first episode of Round House Theatre's new weekly webseries Homebound is a quick, slick, fluid slice of life in the pandemic. The opening sequence"a close-up of hand washing as if it's a…
One summer evening in 1941, a young graduate student home visiting his parents from Cornell University, attended a performance at Catholic University directed by Walter Kerr. Schneider was s…
It's been about six weeks since I came back home to New Jersey after my college moved to online classes for the rest of the semester, and like many students, it's taken some adjusting. At th…
To celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday, Raúl Esparza organized a concert extravaganza on the 50th anniversary of the opening of Sondheim's Company, featuring some 45 songs and t…
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…
Local governments in the DC area have struggled to implement the Federal CARES Act provisions (including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA) which became law on March 27, 2020. One impo…
Quotidian Theatre, the Bethesda-based company which specialized in the work of Horton Foote and, to a lesser extent, Conor McPherson, will close its doors for good after a production of Foot…
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 …
So Bill Shakespeare would have been 456 on Thursday, April 23, and under normal circumstances, I know, you would have been enjoying a fat goose and a few tankards of mead with a dozen or so …
Take an 80-year-old, 169,000-word novel, which begins with a journey halfway across the country, in the midst of the Depression, features the death of important characters, violent fistfight…
Our unsung heroes, the people who keep everything running. The folks who are more on top of their game than any theatre artist you'll ever meet: Stage Managers. Stage Managers are the spines…
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…