The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va received a huge outpouring of local and international support for its "Keep the Lights On" campaign. Artistic Director Ethan McSweeny previous…
Gilbert "Gib" Hartke was the son of an interdenominational love match that transcended the social norms of late-nineteenth-century Chicago. His father, Emil, the offspring of a prominent fir…
The damage that the current pandemic has had on theatre artists is nigh unfathomable. The very artform relies on gatherings, and the presence of others. No theatre has gone unaffected, and t…
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…
Terrence McNally, the celebrated playwright, librettist, screenwriter and theater thought leader, died today as a result of complications from the new coronavirus. He was 81. Although McNall…
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-…
Local PBS affiliate WETA will be airing an encore presentation of Puccini's famous opera Madama Butterfly this Sunday, March 29, at 12:00 noon. The Metropolitan Opera's fall 2019 product…
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…
Round House Theatre's 2020-2021 season brings the past into the present, then hits us with two world premieres and concludes with a raucous contemporary favorite known as a showcase for fine…
With theatres closed around the US, times are tough for fans of the arts. But, thankfully, we live in an age of streaming and online content. From clips of scenes to recordings of full music…
The threat of COVID-19 is shutting down theaters across the world, but it's not killing theater " which is increasingly going online. There are two types of online theater now " the ongoing …
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…
"You might be isolated, but you're not alone. You are an art maker. Let's make some together." -Mo Willems Willems is the author of some of the most popular books for young audiences o…
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…
Brave Spirits opened Henry the Fifth this past weekend, and then closed it due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the hope to return in a few weeks. A shame, for a multitude of reasons not limite…
Arena Stage will cancel the remainder of its 2019-2020 season, the company announced today. Arena will reschedule Celia and Fidel, Seven Guitars, and Toni Stone for the 2020-2021 season as a…
Washington DC's 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, originally scheduled for May 18, has been postponed, theatreWashington, the nonprofit organization responsible for the Awards ceremony has announced.…
The innovative American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va has shut down its Actor's Renaissance Season, canceled its Spring Season, and closed its doors at least until June in response to t…
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…
There is out there, and then there is Will Eno. An interviewer once asked him one of those personality-in-a-nutshell questions. If you could pick any superpower for yourself, he asked the pl…
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…
There are moments in this mesmerizing production of Celia and Fidel during which the entire audience holds its collective breath. We watch as a battle is being fought and a choice is being m…
If the present ceaselessly calls out to the past in life " and it does " it also does so in art. So, for example, we have many iterations of Jane Austen's novels cast in the present day, inc…
I've spent nearly three decades working in nominally professional theatre. That is to say non-Equity but (usually) paid, albeit below a living wage, but with enough EMC points to join. Two t…