Round House Theatre's 2020-2021 season brings the past into the present, then hits us with two world premieres and concludes with a raucous contemporary favorite known as a showcase for fine…
Arena Stage will cancel the remainder of its 2019-2020 season, the company announced today. Arena will reschedule Celia and Fidel, Seven Guitars, and Toni Stone for the 2020-2021 season as a…
Washington DC's 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, originally scheduled for May 18, has been postponed, theatreWashington, the nonprofit organization responsible for the Awards ceremony has announced.…
The innovative American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va has shut down its Actor's Renaissance Season, canceled its Spring Season, and closed its doors at least until June in response to t…
There is out there, and then there is Will Eno. An interviewer once asked him one of those personality-in-a-nutshell questions. If you could pick any superpower for yourself, he asked the pl…
If the present ceaselessly calls out to the past in life " and it does " it also does so in art. So, for example, we have many iterations of Jane Austen's novels cast in the present day, inc…
True events, leavened with fable and fantasy (and a little bit of the Kinsey Sicks) will propel Theater J's 2020-2021, the company has revealed. In five months, the outline of our national p…
The Contemporary American Theater Festival will stake its claim as one of the country's most important new play festivals in 2020, with five world premieres (including one rolling world prem…
Has this ever happened to you? You're Panthea, Princess of Iberia (Zoe Speas), and you haven't seen your brother, King Arbaces (Benjamin Reed) since you were nine years old. You live under t…
Imagine there's no director " it's easy if you try " and no designers too. Imagine further that the actors, amidst their other theatrical responsibilities, must put this play together in ten…
At Shakespeare Theatre's 2020 mock court Thursday night, the veteran Shakespearian actor Ed Gero described the special challenges facing a theater artist who takes on one of the Bard's works…
Peter Pan, having swept the Darling children up into the sky with fairy dust, brought them to Neverland, a venue full of pirates and mermaids. There, along with the lost boys, they did battl…
American History " some real, some imagined " will mark Arena's ten-production 2020-2021 season. The inaugural show at the Mead Center for American Theater will be a world-premiere musical a…
Olney Theatre Center leads the pack of company nominations with 27 nods for this year's Helen Hayes Awards, theatreWashington announced last night at its annual kickoff to the Helen Hayes Aw…
Folger Theatre will be out-of-house for the 2020-21 season while the venerable Folger Shakespeare Library undergoes renovation. To get its audiences ready for the pleasures yet to be, the co…
America "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon, and returning him safely to the earth," said John Kennedy, in whose building thi…
Love and death, murder and ghosts will raise their occasionally ugly but dramatically satisfying heads in Rep Stage's 2020-2021 four-play season, the company announced Friday. The Rep Stage …
Tim Treanor was asked to recommend 7 plays for the lecture DC Theatre Season 2020 held January 14 in the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center. Since we've had several requests for his r…
Victor Shargai, an actor, costume designer, interior designer, philanthropist, and Washington theater leader died on Christmas Eve at the age of 83 after a brief illness. Shargai was the lon…
In an old house in Paris, covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. And at Creative Cauldron, for their Christmas thing, the twelve little girls get up and sing. Oh,…
In the genteel Mayflower Hotel, where J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson often ate dinner alone together, Mark Phillips and Ryan Phillips are engaged in a magic duel. By "magic duel" I don't m…
Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare's saga of love and war, in which " spoiler alert " war wins. Our situation is this: Julius Caesar has been assassinated and, after some skirmishing, the s…
The end of your life starts slowly, and after some incomprehensible incident. Everything seems dreamlike. They are talking to you " the policeman, the lawyer, the judge, the doctor " and you…
"It's not the person," cries the sculptor Louise Nevelson (Susan Rome) in Edward Albee's Occupant, "It's the work they do!" Would be it that Albee had heeded his character's advice. Then we …
In a convent of cloistered Catholic nuns, a baby lies in a wastebasket. She has lived for less than an hour, before being strangled with her own umbilical cord. In another part of the room, …