1,046 stories by "Lorraine Treanor"
After a nearly year long national search for an executive to take over the responsibilities of its outgoing president, Michael M. Kaiser, The John F. Kennedy Center announced its choice yest…
No Rules Theatre Company announces its 2014 season. For this, its fifth season, the award winning company will be staging eight productions between Arlington, VA and Winston-Salem, NC. Perfo…
Holy crap, I'm seeing Patina Miller in here?! This was my first thought walking into the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre Friday night. Though still large enough to devour many of DC's venue…
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. If you missed …
Before heading out to the theatre today, best check for cancellations. The first notice came in from NextStop Theater. Both shows are cancelled for Sunday, January 8th. More notices are …
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pair…
We’ve just been through Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. Now it’s time to set aside the sales, and celebrate the second annual holiday of thankfulness known as #GivingTuesday. It&…
This Thursday night, every musical theatre lover gets the best seat in the house for NBC’s original production of The Sound of Music. What everyone will see, on that night only, hasn…
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pair…
For the first time in its history, the Royal Shakespeare Company has recorded a production from its famed Stratford-Upon-Avon theatre for live broadcast. The production is Shakespeare’…
Ask yourself which theatre company in our area is the most responsive to changing cultural demands. Perhaps a few come to mind, but if Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is on that list, the Dor…
It’s true. Lee Mikeska Gardner, area arts administrator, director and actor – you may remember that Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal compared her memorable performance a…
Earlier this month, actors Jennifer Mendenhall, Michael Glenn and Nadia Mahdi took up the challenge of Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit (cold read befo…
“It’s like bringing Washington Theatre into your kitchen.” the theatreWashington Web site enthuses, describing their first cookbook making its official debut this Monday, N…
With their critically acclaimed mounting of The Iceman Cometh ending its run in barely 2 weeks, Quotidian Theatre Company announced the casts for the two remaining productions this season. C…
Acclaimed Broadway actress Kathleen Chalfant will perform a staged reading of Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 pm at Georgetown University. Th…
This Sunday, November 10th, Tony award winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, ) will be speaking to audiences at Reston Community Center’s CenterStage. If he wished…
Audiences seeing MetroStage’s critically acclaimed production of Gee’s Bend this weekend will be in for a special treat. For performances Oct 24 – 27, Helen Hayes Award rec…
Just in time for Halloween, Adventure Theatre MTC is holding its giant costumes and props sale on Saturday, October 26. Bargain hunters will find costumes in kids and adults sizes, props…
With the government shutdown ended yesterday, Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland has re-opened, and the two companies in residence there have announced the resumption of their schedules. …
In 1945 we were introduced to Tennessee Williams whose The Glass Menagerie settled in at the Playhouse on Broadway for a run of 563 performances. It brought a new generation of theatre goers…
Studio Theatre announced the second, and final extension of its critically acclaimed box office hit Torch Song Trilogy. The production must close Sunday, October 27th, 2013. Brandon Uran…
“Between me and the ape pacing over there, which one of us is actually thinking about THIS PLAY?” – Geoffrey For those of you who came to my Slings writing from my Smash…
As most of you know, Ford’s Theatre has been closed due to the federal government shutdown, forcing a disruption in the schedule of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tecto…
In Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play, the brother-and-sister acting team of Felice (David Bryan Jackson) and Clare (Lee Mikeska Gardner) are backstage, ready to open “The Two-…