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All’s Well that Ends Well, a reprise of STC’s 2010 production, will be this summer’s Free-For-All offering from Shakespeare Theatre Company.  The production at Sidne…
Mike Daisey’s groundbreaking The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs revealed the harsh working conditions at Foxconn, Apple’s manufacturer in China. Daisey returns with…
- Writer/performer Vijai Nathan tells us about her latest Fringe show. - “An Atheist, a Hindu & a Born Again Christian walk into a …” sounds like the makings of a c…
GALA Hispanic Theatre announces its 37th season will be bringing international artists to its 14th Street GALA Theatre. GALA's new season opens with In Spite of Love by AgustÃn Mo…
Hub Theatre, which has been drawing appreciative audiences to the John Swazye Theatre of the New School in Fairfax, Virginia, announces that next season it will be bringing one of its ori…
In the same week that the Shakespeare Theatre Company received the 2012 Best Regional Theatre Tony Award, the company revealed that it was facing termination of its lease on the 451 seat Lan…
June 8 – July 1, 2012 DCTS guide to our reviews 10 Minute Plays Redeeming Demons by Steven McKnight While these shorts are probably not the strongest of the festival, they feature an u…
Pointless Theatre seeks playwrights with a collaborative spirit and an eye for puppet magic to adapt stories from The Canterbury Tales for a piece that will be performed at Flashpoint in Feb…
As with many of his plays, Bob Bartlett’s newest, Bareback Ink, began from a very personal place. The idea came during a tattoo session. “Earlier this year, I decided to get a se…
Factory 449′s production of The Ice Child was in its last weekend of performances at the Mead Theatre Lab when comments first appeared on our Web site from New York sources who had not…
James M. Cain's classic roman noir "Double Indemnity" titillated audiences in serial magazine form in 1936. The 1944 film adaptation is one of Old Hollywood's high-water marks. The lurid pot…
Fells Point Corner Theatre announces auditions for A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE By Martin McDonagh Synopsis- In Martin McDonagh's first American-set play, we are introduced to four quirky characte…
Casting for a stage play in DC/MD Saturday, June 9, 2012 from 12-4 PM Marlon Green is casting for his gospel stage play STOMP the DEVIL Experience is great, however, we welcome and encourage…
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced that it is now accepting applications for its 2012 National Critics Institute to be held July 2-16, 2012 in Waterford, Connecticut. Deadline f…
Artomatic is the arts festival which, each year, moves into a vacant commercial building and invites the public in, without charge, to meet and celebrate the work of local artists. This year…
Continuing its experiment with social media engagement through Tweet Ups, Woolly Mammoth is inviting ten participants to tweet the final dress rehearsal for their next production, a play …
Last year, he won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Choreography for Oklahoma! He’s Parker Esse, and he’s back at Arena Stage creating dance moves for The Music Man. Parker E…
“The DC Queer Theatre Festival unleashes and celebrates the underrepresented voices and diversity of our artists, audiences, and community.” So say the organizers of Queer Festiv…
The Alliance Francaise de Washington, D.C. presents Urban Corps May 17 – 25 throughout DC. Hip-Hop is an international phenomenon, and Alliance Francaise  is bringing together…
Interested in what goes on in the mind of a Broadway actor? Here's your chance for a sneak peak at the inner workings of theatrical performance"how an actor goes from good to great. Brooks A…
Arlington's movement-based Synetic Theater, firmly rooted in their South Bell Street digs, will be conjuring up playing surfaces on the Moon, on Prospero's wind-tossed island, in the forests…
Arena Stage has elected to turn up the heat in the late-summer/early-fall portion of its 2012-2013 season by presenting Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivans, starring Kathleen…
Nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards, announced at 8:30am this morning, included three productions of special interest to Washington theatregoers. In the Best Revival of a Musical category, …
Rapunzel, starring Felicia Curry as the feisty teenage heroine, has earned an extra week at Imagination Stage, and will now close May 26th. Jayne Blanchard described the musical, written by …
theatreWashington has created its first annual theatreWeek, April 23 – 29th, with events for adults and children, all sponsored by the Washington Post. The celebration of Washington th…
