In 2006, John Lloyd Young became the only American actor to date to receive the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World Awards in a Broadway debut as Outstanding Lead Actor…
How, exactly, does one make theater in the middle of a pandemic? People are sitting on the couch streaming The Umbrella Academy. Broadway is closed until January 3, 2021. Much of local theat…
The ground feels as if American theater might actually be shifting in the direction of change for Blacks, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Here in the DMV, Studio Theatre is grappling…
#BlackMenFeel is a new artistic project designed to address mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges experienced by Black men, specifically Black Queer men. Produced by Brave Soul Collect…
In a new online exhibition apropos to this year's spectacle of presidential campaigning " "one of the few shows playing around the country at the moment" " The Al Hirschfeld Foundation prese…
Award-winning Brooklyn-based mentalist Vinny DePonto can't go to Coney Island this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, so he's bringing his new interactive mind-reading magic show Ment…
I first learned of Dr. Linsey Marr when I read a startling opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times July 30: As "a civil and environmental engineer who studies how viruses and bacte…
I spoke with Adam Turner, Artistic Director of the Virginia Opera, on Tuesday, September 15, about how a regional opera company weathers COVID and the shutdown of most live performance. Virg…
With live performances shut down since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, artists unemployed, and income streams disrupted, performing arts organizations continue to face the hardest of…
Representatives from The Broadway League and the theater industry joined Senate Minority Leader and long-time arts advocate Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in Duffy Square yesterday in support …
She was a giant. Borrowing from what was said at Lincoln's passing, "Now, [s]he belongs to the ages." Along with her victories for women and equality, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be remembered …
This month has seen the arrival of three must-have albums from the hit shows and top stars of Broadway. From a special new edition of an original cast album, to the second volume of a concep…
In our current political and cultural stressful times, how can theater make a difference, not just to those who are in-person patrons but to a wider community in the DMV and into American hi…
Culminating the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards recognizing outstanding work on Washington-area stages in 2019, the theater community will gather for one singular celebration in three successive dig…
In a virtual press event held on Thursday, September 17, at 11 am ET, the recipients of the 2020 Doris Duke Artist Awards were revealed in the fields of contemporary dance, jazz, and theater…
If you're Zoomed out and desperately missing an organic connection to the theater, Shelley Butler and West Hyler " a husband-and-wife duo of Broadway directors, each with more than 20 years …
While social distancing, masks, and frequent sanitizing continue to be necessary safety precautions to combat the spread of COVID-19, some experimental Off-Off-Broadway theater companies are…
For one brief shining moment, there was bipartisanship in Washington. It occurred with the 2020 online edition of STC's 18th annual Will on the Hill, broadcast on Monday, September 14,…
First established as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968, the national recognition of the influence and achievements of Latinx people to the history and culture of the US was expanded in 1988, to…
Since 2010, audiences have been following the dinnertime conversations of the fictional Apples, an ordinary white middle-class family in upstate New York. The live on-stage performances were…
IN Series launches its groundbreaking 2020"2021 digital opera season with a Festival Weekend of world premieres September 17 to 19, 2020. The season, characterized by genre-defying collabora…
There are certain theater experiences that you look forward to with extraordinary excitement. Brave Spirits Theatre's Shakespeare's Histories 2020 was one of them. To their credit, Brave Spi…
Olney Theatre Center's virtual production of The Humans offers proof positive of the old adage: Necessity is the mother of invention. Just see how they have turned the pandemic's crushing bl…
Whether you're in the mood for a timely adaptation of a sardonic classic, the blockbuster vocals of a Broadway phenomenon, or a wry exposé of the flagrant sexism that permeates our popular …
Announcing its 2020"2021 season, GALA Hispanic Theatre revealed plans to resume indoor live performances in late October"the first professional theater to do so in Metro DC since stages went…