1,046 stories by "Lorraine Treanor"
His dream was to play Jean Valjean and on June 23rd, 2015, Kyle Jean-Baptiste, an African-American actor from Brooklyn, made Broadway history when he became the first African-American and, a…
E. M. Lewis  is an award-winning playwright and librettist. Her new play Now Comes the Night opens at 1st Stage September 18. Lewis’s work has been produced around the world and is …
A roundup of some of this week's theatrical news and notes from the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Mosaic Theater and Constellation Theatre Company. Women’s Voices Theater Fest…
Madison Middleton is a sophomore at School for Tomorrow. She’s participated with Highwood Theatre since 2011, most recently appearing in August: Osage County as Ivy. Other notable High…
Caleen Sinnette Jennings is an actor, director and playwright who is a founding member of The Welders, a new D.C. Playwrights' Collective. Eight of her plays have been published by Dramatic …
Compass Rose Theater is producing Patricia Henley’s If I Hold My Tongue, set in Baltimore, MD, which opens September 17. She is the author of three novels, four short story collections…
On August 20th, DC Theatre Scene was invited to speak about the upcoming season at the Smithsonian Museum’s S. Dillon Ripley Center . The speech, given by Lorraine Treanor, Jennifer Cl…
A roundup of some of this week's theatrical news and notes from Theresa Rebeck, Signature Theatre, Taking Care of Our Own, La-Ti-Do, Center Stage, and Studio Theatre. Theresa Rebeck: “…
Bekah Brunstetter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, T…
Miranda Rose Hall is a playwright from Baltimore, MD. She has presented work in DC (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage and Georgetown University), Baltimore (Center Stage), and Anchorage. She is r…
In Spring, 2016, another musical first debuted at Arena Stage will open in New York. It was just announced that Dear Evan Hansen will be produced at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theatre (…
South Africa and Anacostia Playhouse have one thing in common: they're both usually sources for exceptional plays. South Africa's John Kani/Athol Fugard playwriting and devising team made so…
A roundup of some of this week's theatrical news and notes from Synetic Theater, Molly Smith, Bohemian Caverns, Source Festival, Studio Theatre and Infinity Theatre. Who’s playing Alic…
Joshua Morgan took DC by storm when the (then) Off-Broadway sensation, Hedwig and the Angry Itch, opened at the Warehouse Theater. Morgan, who directed the musical, must have liked what he s…
Claudia Barnett grew up in the Bronx and lives in the woods of Tennessee. She has served as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre and Tennessee Repertory Theatre and has developed four s…
Kathleen Akerley, Artistic Director of Longacre Lea, has two plays debuting in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Bones in Whispers opens August 12 and Night Falls on the Blue Planet…
August 12 – Nov 22, 2015
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(WASHINGTON)"The Kennedy Center hosts its 14th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2015, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. m…
The Law of Return, DC-area playwright Martin Blank’s three-actor work about superspy Jonathan Pollard, is set to become a feature film with Blank as screenwriter. Gail Berman’s T…
With 286 shows already announced, and 24 companies still to be revealed, the new season, which begins this week, can already be predicted to surpass the busy 2014-2015 season. The Page-to-St…
Nancy Robinette, among Washington’s most honored and in-demand actresses, departs for Broadway to appear in one of Broadway’s biggest hits, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the…
At tonight’s closing celebration for the 2015 Capital Fringe, results were announced for the Pick of the Fringe Audience Awards and the Special Director Award. This is the first year f…
Theodore Bikel, the famed folk singer, social activist, stage actor, died of natural causes on Tuesday, July 21 at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 91. Mark Kennedy of AP provi…
With the shift in venues in the 10th anniversary Capital Fringe Festival, it seems that more dance is being included as a welcome mix into the festival. With So We Meet Again from ArasDance,…
We hear a scream and a belch of demented laughter. Mary Girard (Eliza Hill) is in the tranquilizing box — an eighteenth-century sensory deprivation chamber, only less fun. She is strap…
