Public Events

A celebratory evening with ‘Broadway Bound: The Musicals that Never Came to Broadway’ at NYC’s 54 Below

The third installment of the series Broadway Bound: The Musicals that Never Came to Broadway, co-hosted by podcasters Robert W. Schneider and Charles Kirsch, brought out an all-star roster of Broadway...

NYC’s 2023 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre presented at a star-studded reception

Awards for the 33rd annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, totaling $100,000 each and payable over two years, were presented to Most Promising Musical Theatre Lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver (35mm: A...

Flashback to the disco era of Studio 54 with ‘Turn the Beat Around’ at NYC’s 54 Below

If you want to revisit the mood, music, and moves of the disco era, 54 Below has the perfect flashback for you on the first Wednesday of every month, for two shows per night, with its popular series...

NYC book launch for Julian Schlossberg’s memoir ‘Try Not To Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life’ at Sardi’s

Stars of the stage and screen turned out at Sardi’s iconic restaurant in the Broadway theater district to commemorate the 81st birthday of veteran motion picture, television, and Broadway producer...

Celebrating ‘The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld’ at NYC’s Algonquin and Museum of Broadway

On Tuesday evening, December 6, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation celebrated The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld with a launch party for the new book and the special inaugural exhibition of the same...

Family-friendly fun under the big top with ‘Circus Vazquez’ at NY’s Citi Field

Founded in Mexico City in 1969, the four-generations-old Circus Vazquez is now celebrating twenty years of performing in NYC since its first appearance in 1993, with an international cast of acrobats,...

All the feelings and the moves from ‘The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

Along with shining a spotlight on the group’s sizzling Broadway-caliber talent, The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition, which played at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Monday, December 6, provided fabulous...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Blue Man Group’ celebrates its 30th anniversary at Astor Place Theatre

There’s good reason why the iconic award-winning Blue Man Group is celebrating the major milestone of its 30th anniversary this month at the intimate downtown space of Off-Broadway’s Astor Place...

The 25th anniversary celebration of ‘Chicago’ on Broadway

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Chicago, as it nears its 10,000th performance on Broadway, celebrated 25 years of “Razzle Dazzle” with a special anniversary celebration. Produced by Barry and Fran...

Opening night at GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Fuego Flamenco Festival

GALA Hispanic Theatre’s groundbreaking new season was topped off November 5, 2021, by a full-house opening of Salvador performed by Flamenco Aparicio Dance Company as part one of the two-weekend Fuego...

Once upon a time under the stars at Wolf Trap: Shakespeare Theatre’s gala

On the scene at the company’s buzzed-about fundraiser.

A look inside Capital One Hall, the DMV’s grand-new venue

Fairfax Symphony Orchestra to be first local arts organization to perform there.

Final inning for ‘Toni Stone’ is a fans’ outing at Nats Park

Views from the free streaming event courtesy of Arena Stage

A star-studded grand finale to Broadway’s ‘Curtain Up!’ festival

Confetti rained down on Times Square following a weekend of free public events to welcome back Broadway, bringing a spectacular conclusion to a star-studded grand finale of the Curtain Up! festival on...

Celebrating the return of Broadway with the ‘Curtain Up!’ festival in Times Square

Broadway is back, and to celebrate the long-awaited good news, this weekend’s Curtain Up! festival launched today with a line-up of free outdoor public events in Times Square. We were there, to...

Broadway begins its reawakening with the reopening of the August Wilson Theatre

Wednesday, August 4, marked the highly anticipated reopening of Broadway, with the first preview performance of Pass Over at the August Wilson Theatre, located on W. 52nd Street, between Broadway and...

‘Blackest Battle’ from Theater Alliance promises a visual knockout

Filmed as half music video and half graphic-novel-come-to-life, Psalmayene 24’s hip-hop musical looks to be a stunner.

A benefit concert from Disney on Broadway reopens the New Amsterdam Theatre

Last night, Broadway’s historic New Amsterdam Theatre – built in 1902–03, and located at 214 West 42nd Street, in the center of Midtown Manhattan and the NYC Theater District – reopened with Live at...

Big Tony and Trouble Funk bring first Go-Go to Wolf Trap

On the 50th anniversary of the landmark National Park Service music-and-entertainment center, DC’s Official Music takes center stage.

The opening of ‘Restart Stages’ and The GREEN at Lincoln Center

Restart Stages – Lincoln Center’s latest initiative to champion the revival, and an equitable revitalization, of the arts in NYC – had its official public opening yesterday, Monday, May 10, beginning...

Shots from the vaccination site at Arena

Arena Stage has partnered with DC Health and MedStar Health to support and provide an accessible and safe location to help steadily vaccinate DC residents. The site will operate Thursdays to Sundays...

Florida’s Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe plays outdoors to ‘Light Up the Night!’

The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe in Sarasota, Florida, took advantage of balmy 75-degree evenings to perform a special Valentine’s weekend open-air concert series titled Light Up the Night! A...

Elegies for empty stages, by Whitney White and Psalmayene 24

Remembering The Amen Corner at Shakespeare Theatre Company By Whitney White with Daniel Soule Working on James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner was one of the most fulfilling artistic experiences I have ever...

Labor Day demonstration of ‘Arts Workers Unite’ in Times Square

On Monday’s “Labor Day of Action,” Be An #ArtsHero organized a nationwide movement of Arts Workers Unite, with theater professionals urging all US Senators to legislate a proportionate relief package...

Picturing racial justice at the 2020 Commitment March on Washington

The Commitment March on Washington Friday, August 28, capped off a summer of social justice protest and marked the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream“ speech on the steps...

First live local theater since COVID is a new-normal ‘Next to Normal’

By Steve Quintilian and Julie Lloyd, Encore Theater Company Co-founders As artistic directors and theater managers all over the DMV wrestle with how and when to stage live theater indoors, the...

Scenes of radical hospitality for #OpenYourLobby at STC and Woolly (photos)

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 Mammoth...

The stirring street theater of Black Lives Matter in DC (photos)

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 Up When It...

First look at the fierce performers of ‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play’… and their fabulous dresses

DC Theater Arts spent a day at rehearsal with the cast of Round House Theatre Company’s season opener: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. Not only is this play a fabulous female-centered...

Opening night at Mosaic’s ‘Fabulation’

Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation: or, the Re-education of Undine follows a successful African-American publicist named Udine as she falls on hard times after her husband steals her fortune. Penniless and...

Opening weekend at the DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival (photo feature)

The opening weekend of the DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival was a lively family reunion of art, food, music and drama. DCBTAF chair and dancing diplomat Nana Malaya served as ring leader and founder...

Watching the Tonys with DC Theater Arts

DC Theater Arts hosted a rousing Tony Awards watch party at DC sports bar Penn Social last Sunday. An enthusiastic crowd of Broadway fans competed for ticket prizes and answered trivia questions posed...

Opening Night Photos: ‘FAME’ at GALA Fires Up Columbia Heights

Tony Award-winning director and Nuyorican choreographer Luis Salgado brings his New York creds to Columbia Heights with the power of a New York City subway platform Flash Dance as over 20 dancers and...

Photo Highlights from the 2019 Helen Hayes Ceremony!

Visual highlights from the 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards Ceremony. A complete list of recipients can be found here. Photos of the before and after parties can be found here. All photos by Mukul...

Photos: Behind the Scenes at the 2019 Helen Hayes Awards!

Visual highlights from the 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards! Party guests brought their glam selves to The Anthem on a lovely spring night to mingle and greet friends before the ceremony. After the...

Helen Hayes Videos: Get To Know Your Hosts!

The 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards are just around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited! All of DC theater in one room together, wearing fancy duds and celebrating another year of hard work and...

Amanda Gookin’s Forward Music Project at Kennedy Center’s Direct Current Festival

Amanda Gookin is a cellist, a founding member of the acclaimed music group PUBLIQuartet, and, since 2015, the founder of the Forward Music Project, which commissions new multimedia works for solo...

Photo Feature: The Washington Chorus Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day

The Washington Chorus (TWC) celebrated St. Patrick’s Day 2019 with a concert at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, followed by its annual Gala dinner at the Watergate Hotel. The concert featured a...

Behind the scenes with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Photo Feature)

Ever wish you could go behind the scenes at a classical music event? Here are some images from last week’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performance at the Kennedy Center. This Dutch orchestra (they...

Photo Feature: Behind the Scenes at ’19 the Musical’

In honor of last week’s Women’s March, DC Theater Arts sat in on a workshop performance of 19, a musical in development highlighting the fight to pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to...

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....

‘Legendary: Sweet Slice of Liberty’ by TBD Immersive

TBD Immersive, DC’s very own immersive theater company, brings a new production to the city this weekend. This time the show comes to life at Slim’s, a funky DC diner located at the corner of Georgia...

Exclusive: ‘Hamilton’ Through the Eyes of Original Broadway Cast Member Betsy Struxness

In part one of our “Summer of Hamilton” series, original cast member Betsy Struxness recalls the show’s earliest days. Hamilton. What’s to be said that hasn’t been said? Phenomenon. Game Changer....

Photo highlights from the 2018 Helen Hayes Awards!

The 2018 Helen Hayes Awards gave the DC theater community a chance to relax, recharge and reflect on a great year of theater. Two productions of In the Heights dominated the evening, with GALA...