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Audrey Cefaly is a self-identfying Southern playwright and director whose work draws inspiration from her home state of Alabama. She wrote and directed the world premiere of her new dra…
For songwriting team Debra Buonaccorsi and Stephen McWilliams location is everything – especially when commissioned to write a musical for family audiences to be performed at the Unite…
Continuing theatreWashington's focus on The Women's Voices Theater Festival, writer Jamila Reddy chatted with playwright Sheri Wilner about the play that inspired Cake…
Finishing up our theatreWeek celebration of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, we turn to historic Ford's Theatre and the world premiere of Jessica Dickey's The Guard. Playwrig…
In celebration of theatreWeek 2015 and the Women's Voices Theater Festival, theatreWashington is posting daily, in-depth features on the Festival's playwrights an…
In celebration of theatreWeek 2015 and the Women's Voices Theater Festival, theatreWashington is posting daily, in-depth features on the Festival's playwrights an…
In celebration of theatreWeek 2015 and the Women's Voices Theater Festival, theatreWashington is posting daily, in-depth features on the Festival's playwrights an…
In celebration of theatreWeek 2015 and the Women's Voices Theater Festival, theatreWashington is posting daily, in-depth features on the Festival's playwrights and directors.
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When MetroStages presents Gabrielle Fulton's Uprising as part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival on September 17, Cynthia D. Barker returns to a role she knows wel…
When InterAct Story Theatre opens The Hero of Everything this weekend at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre it reaches a new peak in the history of its own heroic endeavors. Founded in 1981…
When Adventure Theatre MTC’s Caps for Sale, The Musical joins the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival on September 11, it represents an artistic collaboration that spans the decades …
When seven of the larger theatres in the Washington area came together to create the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, they were experimenting on a grand scale. Could the local the…
Actor Karen Vincent makes her NextStop Theatre debut in the star-turn double role of Kate and Lilli Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate. She brings some serious Shakespearean experience to this musical …
After every performance of Longacre Lea’s double bill of one acts by Kathleen Ackerley and Miranda Rose Hall, Managing Director Seamus Miller takes the stage to encourage audiences to …
In 2013, Suzanne Beal joined Joseph Ritsch to become Rep Stage's dynamic artistic director duo. Her directing credits with the company include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wo…
Amber Jackson is a director, writer, actor, and choreographer with a growing reputation in the Washington theatre community. She made a splash last season with her production of Lobster Alic…
Gracie Jones comes to her role as Betty Thorpe in the Pallas Theatre Collective's Code Name: Cynthia after frequent appearances at Olney Theatre Center, including roles in Carousel,…
A native of Washington and a proud graduate of Catholic University, Jimmy Mavrikes is appearing as Jack in Into the Woods at Toby’s Dinner Theatre through September 6, and is…
Actor Rick Hammerly discovered the brilliance of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! at an early age – a very early age. “Mom saw the show when she was five months pregnant,” he ex…
You can catch Alex Nee playing Andrej - and understudying the lead role of Guy - in Once at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through August 16. It's a deman…
Tom Story, appearing in Studio Theatre's Silence! The Musical through August 9, has found a vital theatrical home in the Washington area. In addition to performances at Studio in Th…
In 2006 something game-changing came to the Washington area. The Capital Fringe Festival opened it’s doors and with it came new opportunities for theatre artists and performers interes…
The Unexpected Stage Company’s Romeo and Juliet: Love Knows No Age (playing through August 9) takes a bold new look at Shakespeare’s most beloved play, placing the title characte…
A familiar face to area theatre-lovers, Frank Britton is appearing with Pinky Swear Productions in Stephen Spotswood’s The Last Burlesque through August 16. A company member at WSC Ava…
Details are emerging about Summer Hummer IV: Foreplay and we at theatreWashington could not be more excited! Entering its fourth year, the Hummer has quickly become the Washin…
