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…
This March, The Montgomery Playhouse, in cooperation with Arts on the Green, will present a virtual performance of "She Kills Monsters" by Qui Nguyen, from the City of Gaithersburg's Arts Ba…
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…
To kick off 2021, Rockville Little Theatre, in cooperation with Arts on the Green, will present a live-streamed, virtual performance of "The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall from the City of Gait…
By Laura W. Andruski, theater program coordinator, The Arts Barn Rockville Little Theatre in cooperation with Arts on the Green will a livestream The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's gripping reim…
Gregory Keng Strasser (producing director): Hey, Jordan. Jordan Friend (artistic director): Hey, Greg. I guess we have to pretend like we don't talk to each other every day. Greg: So. 4615 G…
By Roslyn "Roz" Ward During quarantine, the biggest loss is the people. The feeling and energy that one gets from a live audience cannot be replicated virtually. Torn"a play written and …
By Susan Galbraith In June 2005 Lorraine Treanor, a relatively new theater-maker transplant from Chicago, who had followed her husband's work to settle in the Greater Washington area, joined…
By Neal Davidson "Dramatic Betweenness": A new theatrical experience Here's an incredibly simple idea: a play written and performed as a video call. Nothing more. Not a streamed live pro…
Remembering The Amen Corner at Shakespeare Theatre Company By Whitney White with Daniel Soule Working on James Baldwin's The Amen Corner was one of the most fulfilling artistic experie…
Text and photos by Olivia Hampton About a month into the pandemic, Kris Funn was practicing his double bass "out of control," with far more time on his hands than usual. Then, as reality set…
I have never been comfortable in theater. Not safe. Not "safer." Just completely unwelcomed. We are in a global pandemic. There is movement building on the ground and online that no one in t…
She was a giant. Borrowing from what was said at Lincoln's passing, "Now, [s]he belongs to the ages." Along with her victories for women and equality, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be remembered …
Studio Theatre commissioned seven Black artists who have appeared on its stages to create artistic responses to their experience at the Commitment March on Washington, August 28, 2020. They …
As a Latino gay millennial singer-songwriter, I believe I can make a difference. I'm here because I can become one of the reasons why things get better. We will fight and we won't stop. The …
By Steve Quintilian and Julie Lloyd, Encore Theater Company Co-founders As artistic directors and theater managers all over the DMV wrestle with how and when to stage live theater indoors, t…
Lights out. Beat. Beat. When the lights go and I'm plunged into darkness, sitting in a theater, my heart always skips a beat, because I know that moment of pause exists to move me"either int…
The authors of the following two op-eds are cofounders of DC's acclaimed Restoration Stage, Inc., whose focus is "restoring the Black family"one story at a time." Collaborating as director (…
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater's New Works in Action play-reading series continues Sunday, August 16, with Ian August's Zero, a dark comedy about three miscreant teens"N…
There is a moment in theater that I live for. I'm onstage, responding truthfully in the moment as if for the first time, embodying my skin as another person and existing in a brilliant atmos…
 By Violet Brookes The term "new normal" gets thrown around a lot nowadays. And indeed, things are going to be vastly different due to the effects of the global pandemic. Since mid-March…
By Thembi Duncan DC Metro Theater Arts has committed to offer our communications channel to help amplify the BIPOC voices (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) that are now pointing the path …
On Monday, July 20, 2020, Monumental Theatre Company will present an online reading of a new musical, Desiderium, written by Ricky Drummond and featuring music by The Oh Hellos. Because of t…
By Dalissa Vargas As a lifelong live theater fan and a woman of Puerto Rican descent, I have spent the better portion of my adult life as an avid theatergoer wherever I have lived. On any gi…
By Daryl Austin The hip-hop musical Hamilton is being released on Disney+ on Friday (July 3)"a full 15 months ahead of schedule"so you can watch the drama and all of its love stories and sca…