News Desk

Arena Stage Voices of Now Artists Return from Trip to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

(Washington, D.C.) Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia and the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, sent four Arena...

Rep Stage Announces 2019-2020 Season Productions

Rep Stage has announced its 2019-2020 Season: Souvenir By Stephen Temperley Directed by Joseph W. Ritsch September 5-22, 2019 E2 By Bob Bartlett WORLD PREMIERE Directed by Joseph W. Ritsch October...

Baltimore Center Stage Announces 2019-2020 Season

Baltimore Center Stage today announce its upcoming season of mainstage plays to mark the debut programming under Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra: Miss You Like Hell Book and lyrics by Quiara...

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts To Stage ‘The Color Purple’

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is excited to present The Color Purple opening Wednesday, March 13 and running until Sunday, May 5. The Color Purple opened at The Broadway Theatre in 2005,...

Avant Bard Announces Sudden Casting Change for ‘Topdog/Underdog’

Avant Bard regrets to report that Khalil Kain has had to withdraw from the cast of Topdog/Underdog due to unforeseen personal circumstances. But Avant Bard is happy to announce that Jeremy Keith...

Applications Now Being Accepted for 2019 Charm City Fringe Festival

The Charm City Fringe Festival has opened applications for its 8th annual theatre festival in Baltimore’s Bromo Arts District. Once again, application fees for Baltimore artists are waived in an...

Arena Stage Announces 2019-2020 Season

Arena Stage announced its 2019-2020 season this morning. The season will include the following: Ann By Holland Taylor In the Kreeger Theater | July 11 – August 11, 2019 Jitney By August Wilson...

Olney Theatre Center Announces 2019-2020 Season

Olney Theatre Center has announced the lineup for its 2019-2020 season: Mainstage Productions: Cabaret (August 28 – October 6, 2019) Singin’ in the Rain (November 8, 2019 – January 5, 2020) Miss You...

Shakespeare Theatre Company Announces ‘Michael Kahn and Friends: Off the Record’

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Michael Kahn invites theatre-lovers to a series of intimate conversations about life in the D.C. theatre scene as he prepares to retire from the STC...

Embracing Arlington Arts Fights Proposed Arlington Budget Cuts

Over the weekend, County Manager Mark Schwartz submitted his recommended 2020 budget to the Arlington County Board. If implemented, it will prove to be devastating to the Arlington arts community. He...

The American Pops Orchestra To Present ‘NextGen: Finding the Voices of Tomorrow’

Imagine seeing Stefani Germanotta perform before she became Lady Gaga, or seeing Beyoncé sing before she was famous. That’s the vision for The American Pops Orchestra’s NextGen: Finding the Voices of...

Ford’s Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Season

Ford’s Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault today announced the upcoming 2019-2020 theatrical season will include the following: August Wilson’s Fences Featuring Craig Wallace and Erika Rose A Christmas...

Wagner’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ Arrives at Baltimore Concert Opera

Baltimore Concert Opera will present The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner on March 1st and 3rd. Based on Heinrich Heine’s retelling of the legend, a sea captain in a ghostly vessel is cursed to sail...

Arena Stage Announces Additional Playwrights to Join Power Plays Initiative

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced that three additional commissioned playwrights will join Power Plays, an ambitious initiative that will commission and develop 25 new...

Signature Theatre Announces Recipients of Inaugural SigWorks: Signature Theatre / Yale Composer Partnership

Signature Theatre announced today that Mark Sonnenblick and Scott Feiner will both receive workshops of their new musical theater works as part of the SigWorks: Signature Theatre/Yale Composer...

News: Simon Godwin Announces His Debut Season for Shakespeare Theatre Company

Incoming Artistic Director Simon Godwin today announces Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2019-2020 Season. Godwin’s debut season highlights his artistic aspirations for the company to create “high...

Monumental Theatre Company Announces Cast for ‘Daddy Long Legs’

Monumental Theatre Company’s Daddy Long Legs tells the story of Jerusha Abbott, her mysterious young benefactor and the affection that grows between them by way of handwritten letters. John Caird’s...

Young Artists of America Launches ‘Hear the People Sing’ Civic Engagement Project with ‘Les Miserables’

Young Artists of America (YAA) is proud to announce that the Greater Washington Foundation’s (GWF) Donors InVesting in the Arts (DIVAS) Fund has awarded them a grant for a civic engagement social...

Theater and Policy Salon Conversation on Criminal Justice to Follow ‘Twelve Angry Men’ at Ford’s Theatre

Ford’s Theatre is partnering with the Theater and Policy Salon for a special post-performance discussion on “Justice” in Criminal Justice, following the 7:30 pm show of Twelve Angry Men on February...

Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: First-Ever #ShowLove Fest Comes to Gaithersburg Arts Barn

“Don’t forget to show love!” Austin Perine reminds us, as he distributes food across the nation to homeless individuals. “President” Austin’s caped crusade to help the homeless is going global, but...

2019 Helen Hayes Nominations Are Announced

Tonight, at a celebration honoring theater excellence on stages across the Washington area, theater artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Theatre’s Helen Hayes...

Avant Bard Announces Casting for ‘Topdog/Underdog’

Avant Bard theatre announces that veteran screen actor Khalil Kain will star with award-winning stage actor Louis E. Davis in Suzan-Lori Parks’s acclaimed Topdog/Underdog, led by award-winning...

Tracy Lynn Olivera To Perform One-Night Cabaret at BlackRock This Friday, Feb 1

BlackRock will be kicking off its jam-packed February with Broadway Gold, a musical cabaret spun together by Signature Theatre’s own Tracy Lynn Olivera. On Friday, February 1 at 8 PM, Olivera and her...

Addison Janney’s ‘Yes, But I Have To’ To Premiere at Hard Bargain Amphitheater February 15-18

Yes, But I Have To, a new drama, will premiere at Hard Bargain Amphitheater in Accokeek, MD from February 15 to 18, 2019. Written and directed by emerging DC playwright Addison Janney, and starring...

Big Apple Circus Returning to National Harbor

The Big Apple Circus is back in the DC region for its second year. From February 14 through March 24, the Big Apple Circus will transform National Harbor into a big top with a modern twist for their...

LA TI DO to present Joel Markowitz Award at ‘LUCKY: A 7th Anniversary’

LA TI DO will present its second annual Joel Markowitz Award at LUCKY: A 7th Anniversary on January 28, 2019. Washington, DC’s premiere cabaret series will award DC business owner Russwin Francisco...

WATCH Awards Nominations: 19th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors

The nominees for the 19th Annual WATCH Awards were announced tonight at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia.

Pipeline Playwrights Presents Winter/Spring 2019 Reading Series at MetroStage

Join Pipeline Playwrights on Monday nights for readings of exciting new works, featuring some of the area’s most talented actors and directors! The series opens with a play by Pipeline’s newest...

Shakespeare Theatre Company Hosts Annual Mock Trial

On January 14, 2019, the Shakespeare Theatre Company presented its Winter Mock Trial at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW). Guests were invited to hear Richard the Third: A Good Name Restored – Was...

Monumental Theatre Company Presents New Children’s Musical ‘Dress Up Day’

Monumental Theatre Company will present Dress Up Day beginning March 2, 2019, as part of the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival and Monumental’s New Work Series. Dress Up Day follows a spunky first-grader...

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts Presents ‘La Cage aux Folles’

The Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia is excited to present the Tony Award-winning La Cage aux Folles, beginning January 9th and running until Sunday, March 3rd. The...

Theater J Names Jojo Ruf New Managing Director

Theater J, the nation’s pre-eminent professional Jewish theater, announced yesterday that Jojo Ruf will become its new Managing Director on January 28, 2019. Ruf joins Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr...

Avant Bard Announces 2019 Scripts in Play Festival

Avant Bard theatre is proud to announce the 2019 edition of Scripts in Play Festival, its signature play-reading series, February 8 to 24, 2019. This year’s selection features seven plays over two...

‘Passport to the World of Music’ Kicks Off 2019 at Creative Cauldron

Creative Cauldron invites you to join them on a musical tour of the world in their intimate cabaret space, with a diverse musical lineup specially curated by Ken Avis and Lynn Veronneau of the Wammy...

News: Ford’s and Kennedy Center Shows to Go On During Federal Shutdown

DC’s two major federally funded theater venues have both announced that performances will be uninterrupted by the federal shutdown. According to the website of Ford’s Theatre, where A Christmas Carol...

‘Miss Saigon’ Cast Members to Perform in DC Concert

Broadway Barkada is pleased to announce a concert celebrating Philippine Independence Day, featuring cast members of the US Tour Company of Miss Saigon, artists on Broadway and Off-Broadway, as well...

DC-based Conductor Angel Gil-Ordóñez Brings Classical Music to 40th Annual Havana Film Festival

When patrons of the 40th annual Havana Film Festival in Cuba enter the city’s Cine la Rampa on December 8, they’ll be treated to an unexpected viewing experience – a conductor and an orchestra beneath...

Call for Proposals for the 2019-2020 Theater Season at the Arts Barn

Arts on the Green, the City of Gaithersburg’s home for the performing and visual arts which includes the Kentlands Mansion and Arts Barn, is now soliciting production proposals for the theater season...

2018 DC Queer Theatre Festival Runs December 7 and 8

The 2018 DC Queer Theatre Festival is presenting performances of 7 ten minute plays on Friday, December 7, at 7:30 pm and Saturday, December 8 at 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm at DC Arts Center. With the...

Raymond O. Caldwell Named Theater Alliance’s Next Producing Artistic Director

Theater Alliance announced today that Raymond O. Caldwell would be the company’s next producing artistic director. Caldwell currently serves as Theater Alliance’s Associate Artistic Director. He...

A Great Weekend for Theater at George Mason University

George Mason University Center for the Arts has three stirring works of theater November 15-18 on the Fairfax campus. Friday features A Rap on Race, a modern spin on a monumental conversation about...

Charm City Ballet Presents ‘A Christmas Carol’ December 15-16

While it’s Nutcracker season for most dance companies across the region, Charm City Ballet presents something unique: its original full-length ballet, A Christmas Carol. Directors, founders, and...

Ally Theatre Company Commissions Playwright Doug Robinson for Mapping Racism Project

Ally Theatre Company is pleased to announce Doug Robinson as the commissioned playwright for our 2019 Mapping Racism Project, produced in partnership with the Hyattsville Community Development...

Washington Stage Guild Founder Ann Norton Steps Down as Executive Director

The Washington Stage Guild announced the stepping-down of Executive Director Ann Norton, one of WSG’s Founding Members. Norton’s 32 years in leadership roles helped nurture the Washington Stage Guild...

2019 Capital Fringe Applications Now Open!

Applications are now open for the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival! See below for application details. OPTION 1: FRINGE RUN VENUE Participation in the Fringe Festival is an opportunity for you to develop...

Senator Chris Van Hollen Cuts Ribbon to Re-open Adventure Theatre MTC After Devastating Fire

Adventure Theatre MTC announced its grand reopening on October 15th in Glen Echo Park after 7 months of renovations due to an electrical fire. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined executives from Adventure...

Photo Feature: ‘The Jonathan Larson Project’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

The Jonathan Larson Project, performed at Feinstein’s /54 Below, was a fitting tribute to composer Jonathan Larson, who tragically passed away in 1996 just as his hit musical Rent arrived on Broadway....

BlackRock Center for the Arts Presents “Signature Theatre Cabaret: Streisand Songbook”

Barbra comes to BlackRock with Signature Theatre Cabaret’s Streisand Songbook BlackRock Center for the Arts officially kicks off its versatile 2018-19 season with Streisand Songbook, from the...

Celebration of the Arts in Arlington Next Week

WHAT: The 2nd Annual Celebration of the Arts in Arlington WHEN: Thursday, October 4, 2018 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Enjoy live music from The Walkaways. Eat delicious food and desserts from 20 local...

Adventure Theatre MTC Conducting DC-Wide Search for Teen Musical Theatre Stars

Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) seeks eight middle and high school students (aged 11 – 18) for the roles of Huckleberry Finn, Jim, Mary Jane, and Alice in Huckleberry Finn’s Big River, a world premiere...