By Laura W. Andruski, theater program coordinator, The Arts Barn The Montgomery Playhouse in cooperation with Arts on the Green is presenting a virtual performance of She Kills Monsters b…
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…
Throughout the twelve-month pandemic shutdown of live theater, beginning with the closure of all Broadway performances a year ago today, artists have been creating innovative and experimenta…
News of Ethan McSweeny's departure as artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center has prompted a variety of responses"and the mainstream theater critics seem divided on how to handl…
Every musical theater actor in town is familiar with the sight of some of the pit musicians lugging multiple instruments into the theater. Especially if the "pit" isn't really a pit but a co…
The Arcanists, creators of the cult-hit interactive variety show The Tarot Reading, have devised a new site-specific experience called Shrines, led by multi-award-winning scenic and costu…
Three mainstay Off-Broadway companies are closing out the week with debuts of their next online offerings this Thursday-Saturday, March 11-13. One is a reunion reading by the original cast o…
Friday, March 12, 2021, marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown of Broadway theaters, but it's also the 75th birthday of living legend Liza Minnelli. To honor the actress, si…
A must-hear selection of new and recent album releases offers the latest from a Broadway luminary, a top Billboard jazz and pop vocalist, and a writing team of rising stars. Kyle Taylor Park…
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…
By Kirstin Franko (guest author) and David Siegel Nothing can stop the Broadway Princess Party with its celebration of empowerment for who you are or want to be. It's a performance that aims…
On Tuesday, March 9, Dress Circle Publishing (founded by Broadway producers Brisa Trinchero and Roberta Pereira in 2011, and the only publishing company dedicated solely to producing books w…
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…
As the trendsetting run of Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer came to a rousing close on March 3, Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards and Managing Director Linda DiGabrie…
A new guard is stepping in at Imagination Stage, led by longtime Artistic Director, now Producing Artistic Director Janet Stanford. Rounding out the leadership trifecta are Meghann Babo-Shro…
Founded by writer Susan Charlotte in the fall of 2000, Off-Broadway's award-winning Food For Thought Productions (FFTP), now in its 21st year, was the first theater company back in live acti…
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…
In association with PlayCo (an Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway theater producing adventurous new plays from the US and around the world), Japan Society (founded in 1907, to foster the exchan…
For its first production since shutdown, Rep Stage explores how love can help us connect and heal in a time of isolation and unrest. The fully produced, filmed theater event of ten original …
As part of the NY PopsUp initiative, which began on February 20, with free public surprise performances across New York City and State, Governor Cuomo has announced that select Broadway thea…
With its inaugural production of Jack Canfora's Jericho (which made its debut Off-Broadway at 59E59 in 2013), New Normal Rep " a new streaming theater company created during the pandemic and…
The question is, Who Tells Our Story? In a response to that question, Better Said Than Done is presenting the 2021 Women's Storytelling Festival. The virtual event will be live online March …
To commemorate World Book Day on Thursday, March 4, theater operator, producer, and author Russell Miller has released a video of One Grand Books' February 21st virtual all-star reading of h…
The 2021 recipients of two prestigious theater initiatives for developing artists " one new, one well-established " have been named by New York Stage and Film and The Kleban Foundation. Laud…
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…