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Miami's City Theatre will be offering CityWrights, a weekend seminar for playwrights this June 14-17 at Miami's EPIC Hotel, presented as a program of City Theatre's 17th Annual Summer Sho…
On April 26-29, beginning at 7pm during sunset, 30 artists from many disciplines – dance, movement based theatre, live music – will come together in a portion of Washington Navy …
Puppet Underground, the DC collective of politically minded puppeteers, is hosting NYC puppeteer Erin Bell this weekend at La Casa. They call it “Puppet Underground Cabarette”, d…
Matt Charman, playwright, is on the rise. His first play, A Night at the Dogs, which opened at the Soho Theatre in London, won the prestigious Verity Bargate Award for new writers. Richard E…
We are pleased to announce that Chad Bauman, the Smithsonian Associate's Director of Marketing and Membership, will be the latest addition to our writing staff . Readers will know him bes…
Casting for The Pundit by John Feffer f0r 2012 Capital Fringe Auditions April 8 Seeking 4-5 actors (2 women, 25-50; 2-3 men, 25-55) for various roles. Actors will voice (live) a variety of c…
Promotional videos for theatrical productions are usually overseen, and sometimes recorded, by the theatre companies themselves. For its upcoming production, John & Beatrice, starring Je…
Sucker Punch, Roy Williams’ drama about two young men coming to adulthood in 1980′s London, has been given a one week extension, Studio Theatre announced Friday. The play will no…
The slump is over for DC area theatregoeers. After more than a week without any openings, audiences have five new openings to consider this weekend, SWAN day on Saturday,and, on Sunday, a mo…
Thanks to Hip-Hop Theater Festival for Eblasting this news. The National Theater Project (NTP)‘s Creation & Touring Grants provide funds for creation and touring of collaborative, …
theatreWashington just announced that the Helen Hayes Tribute Award, the centerpiece to the 28th Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, will be presented to Oscar and Tony Award winning actor and a…
The fifth annual SWAN Day is Saturday, March 31st. Always held on the last day of Women’s History Month, SWAN Day is designed to raise the visibility of women artists by bringing…
While other theatre companies fundraise with spring galas, Unexpected Stage Company is holding a monologue competition, with a decidedly lower price of admission – $10, to support thei…
Slipping from the street into the store-front space of the Strand Theater Company in Baltimore, you're in for some surprises. You pass a showcase displaying the detritus of former tenants, a…
Infinity Theatre Company Monday, March 26 in Washington, DC. Equity Principals auditions for Sisters of Swing and Dames at Sea for Infinity Theatre Company's summer productions. Rehea…
Wired reports that the entire episode which featured an excerpt from Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs about working conditions inside the Foxconn fac…
The 2012 DC Black Theatre Festival takes place June 23 – July 1st. According to the audition announcement just received, last year’s festival, which showcased 53 productions plus…
Keegan Theatre appears to have another hit on its hands. The company, which has followed its hugely popular Laughter on the 23rd Floor with Twelve Angry Men, just announced a one week extens…
Jonathan Bank, the Producing Artistic Director of the tiny Mint Theatre in New York, has been offering us little remembered gems from the past for many seasons now. And he serves a dual purp…
With his Broadway hit Million Dollar Quartet enjoying runs in New York , Chicago and on tour, Eric Schaeffer, Signature’s Artistic Director, will have a chance to savor the Shirling…
Sunday night, March 11, when the Washington Area Theater Community Honors (WATCH Awards) were presented at the Birchmere, Little Theatre of Alexandria came away the big winner.  LTA…
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Olney Theatre Center announces that due to overwhelming response to their production of the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the company has added five more performances an…
Washington's Synetic Theatre  announced that it has cancelled the scheduled runs of Light in the Darkness and The Voice of Anne Frank due to problems involving visas for members of the Ta…
Theater of the First Amendment, which for 22 years has been the professional theatre-in-residence at George Mason University, announced yesterday that it will no longer be producing. Â Ins…
