By Christopher Lancette I sit down at Ford's Theatre a few months ago"back when there was no coronavirus and the world was normal"to watch a play. I have never been much of a theater guy. No…
Last seen on the New York stage in her critically-acclaimed performance in the award-nominated supernatural coming-of-age comedy Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at Off-Broadway's WP Theater, Alyssa …
The cultural momentum powering protests that followed the May 25 murder of George Floyd has galvanized a national and local movement for transformational change in American theater led by Bl…
For its first installment in this month's primetime series of Pride Plays, commemorating the 50th anniversary of New York's Gay Pride Parade with livestream readings of four significant LGBT…
In a livestream ceremony on Facebook and YouTube last night, hosts Kristolyn Lloyd (Dear Evan Hansen) and Bryan Terrell Clark (Hamilton) announced the nominations in 23 categories, along wit…
Now in its 61st year, the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, announces the festival will be presented for the first time all-digital. From…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of New York's first Pride Parade. And despite the ongoing shutdown of large public gatherings to guard against the spread of the coronavirus, the cele…
When are the Small Box theater companies going to throw off the straightjacket of conventional space-bound theater and explore alternative venues? Black Lives Matter Plaza was created overni…
To continue this year's milestone celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday, Off-Broadway's The Sheen Center is teaming up with Poetry in America " a new series produced by Verse Video…
Six DC theaters welcomed #BlackLivesMatter protesters the weekend of June 5 to 7, 2020 . Photographer Malcolm Lewis Barnes reports from two of them, Shakespeare Theatre Company and Woolly Ma…
The sheer creativity and inventiveness of the protesters was on full display at every turn as they each seemed to come prepared with energy and a message. As if re-experiencing What to Send …
With DMV theaters still shuttered because of COVID-19, there has been the opportunity to explore original streaming content written by local playwrights. One of those playwrights is Northern…
"We call on theaters to #OpenYourLobby in support of protestors," said the impassioned post on social media. Do not equate the property violence of protestors to the massive, state-sanctione…
Beyond mourning and outrage, these DC Metro performing arts institutions have gone on the record with commitments to make a difference and be accountable. (Last updated June 2, 2020, 9 a.m.)…
Actor/singer/songwriter Jesse Corbin has been spending his time in isolation productively. In addition to his weekly appearance with The Boy Band Project in the group's brunch-time Digital G…
There has been oodles of well-deserved praise for Round House Theatre's homegrown Homebound, an original ten-installment web series exploring life under stay-at-home orders. Penned by som…
Two blockbuster show-biz-themed period-piece musicals " one classic, one cult-classic, and both filled with spirited song and dance " are available for complimentary streaming this weekend t…
Broadway Theatre Studio, producers of the popular long-running Off-Broadway musical-mixology series The Imbible, is partnering with the iconic theater magazine Playbill to host a brand-new V…
Synetic Theater, a leader in physical performance in Arlington, will present a digital adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, a collection of novellas written in Italy in respo…
Sheltering in place hasn't kept actress/singer/songwriter Lauren Marcus from creating, performing, and entertaining audiences everywhere with her talent, passion, and commitment. Just in tim…
ARTSFAIRFAX today announced $100,000 in available funding through the newly created Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program. Funding will provide critical support to Fairfax County and t…
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater's New Works in Action play-reading series continues livestreaming Sunday, May 31, at 3 pm with We Victorians by out queer playwright Matthew …
On April 21, the Council of Actors' Equity Association (the national union for professional actors and stage managers in live theater) unanimously passed a new internal membership rule that …
We will open again. The COVID-19 virus will neither darken nor silence us even with the many scary unknowns before us. We know reopening for DMV theater will happen. The date may be uncertai…
 When Joy Zinoman"the doyenne of DC theater and founder of Studio Acting Conservatory"describes the training center's new home as a "sacred place," she's not exaggerating.   "Th…