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…
By K. J. Moran On Monday evening, June 22, 2020, the Board of Flying V Theatre Company terminated Cofounder and Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein following a weekend of sexual misconduct a…
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater's livestreamed New Works in Action play-reading series concludes Sunday, June 21, at 3 pm with Transferal by Jack Novak. Directed by B…
By Christopher Lancette I sit down at Ford's Theatre a few months ago"back when there was no coronavirus and the world was normal"to watch a play. I have never been much of a theater guy. No…
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater's New Works in Action play-reading series continues livestreaming Sunday, May 31, at 3 pm with We Victorians by out queer playwright Matthew …
By Olivia Hampton If the corona virus has a lesson for the arts community, it's that what's small can still be mighty. Without a house to fill and lavish sets and costumes to maintain, Washi…
By Gwydion Suilebhan In 1960, a Turkish immigrant named Erol Onaran arrived in the United States with a whopping $32 in his pocket and a fair bit of skill as a television repair person. Erol…