722 stories by "News Desk"
Podcasts have been popular for a long time, but the shutdown has brought house-bound theater professionals many new reasons to create their own audio recordings. The combination of having mo…
Young Playwrights' Theater's (YPT) new script development program, Young Playwrights in Progress (YPIP), will present the work of two talented young playwrights through virtual play readings…
Signature Theatre announces the full cast and streaming dates for Simply Sondheim, the first production in the Signature Features 2021 Season. Starring 12 singers and an orchestr…
Given the ongoing pandemic and challenges to safely presenting live performances, Studio Theatre has taken its five-play season entirely digital. Productions will be filmed in Studio's intim…
Silver Spring Stage proudly presents the area community theater premiere of Lauren Gunderson's Ada and the Engine, directed by Jon Jon Johnson and produced by Alika Codispoti and Maura Suile…
Studio Theatre looks back at the politics and precariousness of 2020 through two intimate and immediate Studio in Your Ears audio plays available for free now on its website. Studio's fi…
In The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson has written a story for this moment in time about Dr. Nathan Wolfe, the award-winning virologist who years before the COVID-19 outbreak proposed a plan…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with IAMA Theatre Company present Ryan J. Haddad's celebrated autobiographical solo show Hi, Are You Single? directed by Laura Savia and Jess Mc…
Hot off of winning the 2020 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, the 4615 Theatre has created a multifaceted solution to meet the challenge posed by the pandemic. For…
Two enterprising Catholic University of America seniors are hosting a new podcast to connect current theater industry professionals with future theater industry professionals through intervi…
The influential Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working group We See You, White American Theater " which collectively authored and issued the BIPOC Demands " has rolled out a new acti…
Signature Theatre has announced the full lineup for its 2021 Signature Features season, and it will be all online: five fully staged plays and musicals, made exclusively for the screen…
Mosaic Theater Company will participate in the nationwide reading of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, seven winning short plays in a nationwide competition for middle and high school stud…
When the holiday season approaches, we tend to turn to things that give us joy and comfort. The arts always seem to take center stage during these darker months " providing togetherness, lig…
Solas Nua, the DC-based contemporary Irish arts organization, has appointed Miranda Driscoll its interim executive director. Having served for five years as director/CEO of Sirius Arts Centr…
Brave Spirits Theatre announced in September that its acclaimed Shakespeare's histories seasons would end ("A tribute to Brave Spirits as it calls off Shakespeare's histories due to COVID").…
The immersive sound installation Blindness, originally produced to great acclaim at London's Donmar Warehouse, makes its U.S. premiere at Shakespeare Theatre Company December 8, 2020. For th…
Silver Spring Stage is offering a new season of virtual performances. First up is Lobby Hero by the Academy Award"winning Kenneth Lonergan, an absorbing play where good intentions can be …
Responding to the mounting COVID-19 pandemic, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has canceled all previously scheduled programs through April 25, 2021. Additionally, Washingt…
"If you like theatrical storytelling"the kind that catches you by the heartstrings, gets you all wrapped up, then doesn't let loose until the very end"you're going to love The Resurrection o…
Washington Stage Guild will present a "heavenly" online performance of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, the famous dream sequence from his play Man and Superman.  Audiences are…
Separated by continents, an estranged father and son reunite over Zoom. From their respective kitchens in Ramallah and in New York City, they recreate a cherished family recipe and struggle …
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and DC creative collective Makers Lab reunite for The JookJOYnt, a free, five-part video experience exploring themes of vulnerability, intimacy, and connection…
Baltimore's Everyman Theatre will bet on another successful run with Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, premiering for in-person performances on November …
Round House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theatre Center, has announced updated details for The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence, a four-week festival highlighti…
