Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversat…
Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversat…
Every word we speak – whether verbally or by signing – can be a brick to build or a bulldozer to destroy. You don't have to have the ability to hear . . . to want to be heard. Ho…
If nothing else, Bettye LaVette is a survivor. She is a survivor, and a living testament of what God-given talent, determination, and a strong will of staying true to oneself can be in the h…
Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversat…
Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversat…
There are many ways of presenting blackness on stage and defining blackness, and the theater remains a venue in which to challenge, question, and probe. Yet, before The Gershwins' Porgy and …
Lovely & Amazing SHE. She is Alice Smith. She is also the title of Alice Smith's sophomore, March 2013 CD release. This was a project that Smith initiated through crowd funding (and fina…
Heartily consumed, easily digested and readily recommended, The Apple Family Plays at Studio Theatre present an engrossing slice of family life populated by challenging, complex, ordinary pe…
Flames blaze in the name of truth, liberty, and land! Where there is repentance, there is hope. Without it, there is only despair. The renowned Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) by August Strindber…
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Everything will be better tomorrow. It isn't often that man attains the true goal of their heart's desire. What lies do you tell yourself to make it through a d…
From Fassbinder to Scena Theatre: 'The Marriage of Maria Braun Survival, security, and success – What would you do to fulfill your life's ambition? For Maria Braun, the heroine…
Who doesn't love a play about the theater? A play-within-a-play, a set-within-a-set, and the juxtaposition of identity and personality between two characters are the primary set up for Tenne…
LIFE AS ART Millions of art-lovers worldwide were moved by the award-winning film, Herb & Dorothy (2008), the fascinating documentary on art collecting and the personal lives of Herbe…
A few years ago I saw Hall & Oates at Warner Theatre and while the details of that evening have faded, the emotion and fond memories of the night have not. Full of energy, great sound, a…
The art of short films and screening short cinema has been perfected by the DC Shorts Film Festival and Festival Founder and Director Jon Gann. For the past ten years hundreds of filmmakers …
In Rep Stage's first show of its 21st season, the setting is Late Spring, 1925. The journey to a small, nondescript Texas town unexpectedly seduces audiences with the compelling people of Ha…
If you are only familiar with Mads Mikkelsen's character work as the titled lead in the television series Hannibal, then you've only seen a microcosm of his range and talent. Mads possess aÃ…
ARTISTIC SPOTLIGHT: Ed Herendeen "New plays are the future," says Ed Herendeen, the Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), located in Shepherdstown, West Vi…
Magic opens our eyes to wonder, fantasy, and possibilities . . . and then reveals the truth. Without introduction or fanfare, a solo performer strolls onto the Main Stage of Goethe Institut.…
The combination of sharing one's vulnerability into insightful personal storytelling is not only an art. It's a gift. Married Sex is an engaging one-woman show based on a true tale, w…
Over the last 22 years, the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and has become a leading center for the production and development of new plays, ha…
Welcome back to the new Playwright interview series -The Playwright's Playground - a monthly in-depth conversation with a local female playwright in the D.C. theatre community. Female the…
Welcome back to the new Playwright interview series -The Playwright's Playground - a monthly in-depth conversation with a local female playwright in the D.C. Theatre community. Female …
AFI Docs, presented June 19-23, 2013, celebrates its 11th year and excellence in documentary filmmaking and storytelling on a variety of topics. The rebranded AFI Docs (formerly AFI Silve…