1,046 stories by "Lorraine Treanor"
In its fourth event of a series aimed at mature audiences, the ever-popular Playhouse Puppetry Slam, returns for a one-night only showcase of vignettes that will leave you stunned, maybe eve…
Ann Deavere Smith’s solo show Let Me Down Easy has been selected to be part of the “Great Performances” series on PBS. PBS crews will be on hand this Friday and Saturday, F…
Some of the mid-Atlantic's best theatre & film actors battle for over $2,000 in cash & prizes [Editor: We could find no way to improve on this news story sent in by producer Edward D…
The Helen Hayes Awards, which certainly knows their way around great musicals and glamorous parties - each year they throw a lavish cast party following the Helen Hayes awards –…
The Greatest Star of All: Ed Dixon on playing Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard. It's rare when an actor gets a chance to reprise a role he loves, and that's what happened to Ed Dixon wh…
Unless you already have a reservation, you can’t see Taffety Punks‘ bootleg performance of Reals at the Corner Store tonight. It has sold out. But Gwydion Suileban’s ne…
Sunday, Jan 16, 2011 — Nominations for this year’s WATCH (Washington Area Theatre Community Honors) Awards were read at the Birchmere Musical Hall, Alexandria, VA, which will als…
On Monday, January 17th, DC area actors join actors in other cities in reading Being Harold Pinter, the newest work by Belarus Free Theatre. The play incorporates letters from Belarusian pol…
The Great Game: Afghanistan " a seven-hour, three-play set of nineteen distinct stories covering nearly two centuries of superpower adventures in Afghanistan which played at Shakespeare Thea…
If you were tuned to WAMU-88.5 last Halloween Eve, you probably heard MacBeth in the 21st Century, a co-production between WAMU and DC’s radio theatre company, Lean & Hungry Theate…
The new year begins, ominously. For reasons they've chosen not to share with us, a consortium of eleven producers led by "Bram Stoker's Dracula Ltd.", decided to dig up the original Hamilton…
Hilton Als, the esteemed theatre critic for The New Yorker magazine, just released his list of 10 best performances of the year. The list – which includes stage, television and cab…
Threatened with teacher layoffs due to funding cutbacks, Duke Ellington School of the Arts decides to risk it all on a Broadway-style production of Dreamgirls. On a chilly Friday night an ho…
On opening night, Thurs, Dec 11th, 12 senators – all of them women – found something to laugh about when they took a bi-partisan night out to attend Woolly Mammoth’s latest…
HBO has filmed a documentary of Carrie Fisher’s one woman comedy Wishful Drinking which debuts this Sunday, Dec 12th at 9pm on HBO. As those who saw the show when Arena Stage brought i…
On Monday, December 13th, three of the leads in Arena Stage’s production of Oklahoma! will make a special appearance at Artspeak!. DC actress Eleasha Gamble and Nicholas Rodriguez,…
Politics is like the weather: the only thing predictable about it is its unpredictability. It changes " and changes back, and changes again " with a speed that keeps us from ever getting too…
Solas Nua is giving Washington audiences a chance to see and help shape experimental works in development, straight from Dublin. Titled ‘Project Brand New’, the mini-festival is …
According to Patrick Healey, writing in today’s New York Times, Broadway producers are on their way to Washington to take a look at Arena Stage’s production of Oklahoma! “t…
Oct 26th preview has been canceled. Just 10 days before the opening of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, the first production in the $135 million dollar Mead Center for American…
In case you’re not already booked for the many shows performing around town tonight, we thought you might enjoy watching “A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White Hous…
