Due to the coronavirus, the intensive one-year MFA in Acting, Academy for Classical Acting, a joint venture between Shakespeare Theatre Company and George Washington University, was unable t…
This is THE anthem of THE American civil rights movement that many other movements for civil rights around the world have adopted. You will have heard it sung in documentaries and the ne…
American Shakespeare Center joins only a few companies in the country to have obtained permission from authorities for live performances this summer. ASC will perform Othello and Twelfth Nig…
Day 5 brings us three new short works by Synetic Theater members as studies on life in the time of Covid. Kat Cárdenas-Cruz put a smile on my face with her short piece, "An Artist Struggl…
DC's Mosaic Theater Company will not produce its Fall schedule of plays, Board Chair Bill Tompkins announced in a press release which DC Theatre Scene received today. "Conditions remain too …
Day 4 of Synetic Theater's series of short pieces devised by members of the company's roster of artists shows much of the same agility and demonstrable translation into forms of physical the…
A near-weekly ritual has embedded itself in the news cycle since the beginning of social distancing measures. Following each weekend, photos of beachgoers crowded together on the shore will …
Watching Gideon Glick's expressive face in The Few" elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned " is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Play-PerView's…
"And how shall we entertain ourselves?" the characters in Boccaccio's 14th century story collection, The Decameron, keep asking, and each in turn tells a tale. In Day 3 of Synetic Theater's …
On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory's performance makes it a prism " multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant " in the National Theatre's 2016 pr…
Ride Share by Reginald Edmund Produced by Black Lives Black Words International Project July 9 " 12 $16.96 Click for tickets Ride Share follows an young African American Uber Driver as a ser…
In Ronald Harwood's 20th-century play about the theater, The Dresser, the title character says of his friend who was in crisis due to depression, "What saved him was an offer of work." Isn't…
When society seems bound together in a single shared experience, that is often the time when a work of art resurfaces, offering itself up as metaphor and speaking directly to the times. Duri…
Actors Equity has greenlighted two live productions in the Berkshires this summer. While there have been some non-Equity performances around the country, this is the first approved by the un…
Will the disruptions we are experiencing in this annus horribilis catapult us into a new world next year? If so, Baltimore Center Stage will be ready for it, with three world premieres and a…
At first glance, the title of Homebound's final episode, "Reopening," seems misleading. As we all know, America's state by state reopenings have been a set of fits and starts leading to r…
Lorraine Hansberry's third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National T…
Health experts say to avoid crowds and large gatherings this holiday weekend and during the current COVID-19 surge. As if you needed another reason to stay inside and celebrate the red, whit…
Not all the fireworks are in the air. These theatrical works blaze as brightly and linger longer. Hamilton Disney+ $6.99 for one month subscription Click to subscribe The original Broadway c…
The Apple family is back again, on another Zoom call. After the triumphant return in April of writer and director Richard Nelson's Apple Family series with What Do We Need To Talk About, whi…
Homebound's episode nine "Refuge" begins with poetry. And dance"the hazy figure of a woman in her living room moving to the sound of her own voice as the camera cuts to Maboud pulling an old…
May 22, 2020 Arena Stage Free View below or view later Arena Stage adds filmmaker to its accomplishments with May 22, 2020, a filmed docudrama, directed by Arena Stage Artistic Director Moll…
 My name is Pamela Jafari. I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. I have a 26 y/o grandson, and 3 y/o great-grandson…
"If the performance sucks, it is 100% your fault, divided by the number of people here." So the audience was informed toward the end of #txtshow (on the internet), which I experienced last n…
Have you ever wished that your living space could be re-imagined by a set designer? Or that you could gift a personalized greeting or concert by a favorite performer? Or that a theatre artis…