2020

Jaime Lozano & The Familia’s ‘Songs by an Immigrant’ album gives a heartfelt voice to the Latinx experience

Following sold-out debut cabaret concerts at Joe’s Pub and The Green Room 42 in 2019, and a featured number on Playbill’s virtual ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices this October (for which the...

Join Broadway cast members for ‘The Disney Holiday Singalong’ tonight on ABC-TV

If you’re looking for a family-friendly show to kick off the holidays at home this year while keeping you connected to your favorite all-ages hits from Broadway during the coronavirus hiatus, tune in...

What’s next in Prologue Theatre’s monthly new works series

Prologue Theatre has launched FOREWORD: A New Works Series. Each month through March 2021, a creative team will come together for two weeks to workshop a playwright’s new play, culminating in a...

A slapstick look at the spoiled rich in Happenstance Theater’s ‘Barococo’

It’s one thing to be cooped up and have an excuse for it; COVID has us all hunkering down, and we all teeter on the brink between tedium and madness—with good reason. It’s another thing entirely to...

Jefferson Mays in ‘A Christmas Carol Live’ is the perfect Christmas present

Charles Dickens’ classic novella of 1843, A Christmas Carol, has remained a beloved time-honored tradition of the holiday season since the Victorian era, with a wide array of presentations to choose...

Black women to join Brave Soul Collective’s ‘#BlackMenFeel’ on healing

Brave Soul Collective continues its exploration of mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges experienced by Black men, specifically Black Queer men, with the third and final installment of...

Heidi Latsky Dance’s ‘On Display Global’ honors International Day of Persons with Disabilities

On Thursday, December 3, in partnership with NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts, the NYC Mayor’s Office, and the United Nations, Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD) will present its fifth annual performance of On...

George Mason University to center Black voices in artist-activist conversations

As the DC-area theater community reckons with and takes steps to combat racism through open, heartfelt conversations and real-world actions to bring forth equity, diversity, and inclusion, we at DCMTA...

Studio’s new audio play is an anthem for a world on the brink

As the world collectively plans to close the door (and maybe throw away the key?) on 2020, Studio Theatre offers a reflection on this complicated, unexpected, and consequential moment in history with...

New Solas Nua interim executive director arrives from Ireland

Solas Nua, the DC-based contemporary Irish arts organization, has appointed Miranda Driscoll its interim executive director. Having served for five years as director/CEO of Sirius Arts Centre in...

A Resounding ‘Treasure Island’ with Broadway’s Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis

Ahoy, Mateys! Join a virtual audio adventure for all ages this Black Friday aboard the sailing ship Hispaniola, as young Jim Hawkins and the expedition crew hunt for lost booty, face mutiny, and...

Update: GALA Hispanic Theatre’s comedy ‘Dog in the Manger’ to get a run online

Live performances of The Dog in the Manger at GALA Hispanic Theatre have ended, but the company has announced that the production will be available to enjoy streaming. Tickets may be purchased online...

An invitation to ‘Gather Together’ for Thanksgiving with the Broadway Podcast Network

With the crucial need for social distancing to stop the spread of the spiking coronavirus, this year’s Thanksgiving observance will be very different than the traditional annual gathering of family...

A Black son’s assault by police, powerfully told in the Adrienne Kennedy festival

Twenty-nine years before George Floyd was murdered on camera and 18 years before Black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested for “breaking and entering” into his own home, Antioch College...

Tom Teasley, Shu-Chen Cuff, Chao Tian to perform an inspired virtual concert

The headlines tell us to stay put. To not travel so we protect ourselves, our loved ones, our communities and the Nation as a whole—advice that DC-area residents seem to be heeding this Thanksgiving....

Woolly Mammoth’s ‘JookJOYnt’ was a truly joyous journey

Woolly Mammoth Theatre recently released their mixed media streaming production of The JookJOYnt, A Black in Space Powered by Makers Lab Experience. The video is a funky intergalactic collage of...

Broadway celebrates Thanksgiving with the 2020 Macy’s Parade

For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which launched in 1924, will be reimagined for our pandemic times by going virtual on both TV and online....

‘This Zoom Life’ could be the the best comedy web series since COVID

These days, in lieu of live scripted comedy, I’ve learned to feel lucky whenever I find online theater that gets me LOLing all alone. To be honest, that happens rarely, and never all the way through....

Tiny chamber concert series strikes audience gold in crisis

When Ellen Hwangbo launched a chamber concert series in November 2019 that included a venue just a stone’s throw from the White House, little seemed brazen about it. But within months, American...

Go ‘Inside the Wild Heart’ of Clarice Lispector for the centennial anniversary of Brazil’s acclaimed Modernist writer

The centennial of the birth of Clarice Lispector (1920-77), one of Brazil’s most important literary figures of the 20th century, is being celebrated by Group Dot BR (NYC’s only Brazilian theater...

COVID claims another local theater: Brave Spirits to close

Brave Spirits Theatre announced in September that its acclaimed eight-play Shakespeare’s histories series would end (“A tribute to Brave Spirits as it calls off Shakespeare’s histories due to COVID”)....

Streaming soon: Julie Halston, Jim Caruso, and Les Ballet Afrik

A variety show, a talk show, and a newly-commissioned dance piece are among the free selections streaming from NYC this Friday through Monday, all of which will remain available online for future (or...

Silver Spring Stage goes online with arresting opener ‘Lobby Hero’

Silver Spring Stage is offering a new season of virtual performances. First up is Lobby Hero by the Academy Award–winning Kenneth Lonergan, an absorbing play where good intentions can be undermined by...

COVID cancelations to cost Kennedy Center over $80 million

Responding to the mounting COVID-19 pandemic, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has canceled all previously scheduled programs through April 25, 2021. Additionally, Washington...

Levity and pleasure abound in ‘Marriage Proposal’ audio farce

Ready for some fun? You’ve earned it. Escape from the messy troubled real world is just a click away with the engaging audio farce from the intrepid folk at Edge of the Universe Players 2. The company...

Mosaic Theater to move on without its founding artistic director, Ari Roth

In a meeting Tuesday night, November 17, 2020, the 26-member board of Mosaic Theater Company of DC unanimously accepted the resignation of Ari Roth, who founded the company six years ago “to be a home...

‘This Is Who I Am,’ a father-son drama, to Zoom live from two kitchens

Separated by continents, an estranged father and son reunite over Zoom. From their respective kitchens in Ramallah and in New York City, they recreate a cherished family recipe and struggle to bridge...

Bill Irwin’s acclaimed ‘On Beckett’ returns to Irish Repertory Theatre in a new virtual iteration

Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre has come to the forefront during the coronavirus closure of live in-person performances with its prolific offerings of exceptional and varied virtual...

Why Shaw’s wit is a perfect fit for Washington Stage Guild online

In mid-March DC-area theaters went dark and theatergoers’ calendars emptied of live shows to take in—but light and sound and performances are coming into view by way of Zoom and YouTube. When we...

In two live shows at Keegan Theatre, a transwoman and two Black men get real

The Keegan Theatre’s streamed live performances from their stage are the closest thing I’ve seen so far to theater as we remember it avant le deluge. They are presenting two pieces in repertory, which...

Adrienne Kennedy festival opens with haunting letters between lovers

Round House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theatre Center, has launched its digital series of works by Adrienne Kennedy with the enigmatic He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, directed by Nicole...

Japan Society to livestream ‘Underground Fairy’ by Satoko Ichihara

While Japan Society’s base in New York City, located at 333 East 47th Street, is temporarily closed to the public during the coronavirus pandemic, the non-profit organization, founded in 1907, is...

Essential Theatre resurrects a heart-wrencher, ‘The Resurrection of Alice’

“If you like theatrical storytelling—the kind that catches you by the heartstrings, gets you all wrapped up, then doesn’t let loose until the very end—you’re going to love The Resurrection of Alice.”...

A superstar reading of Shaw’s ‘Man & Superman’ to benefit The Actors Fund

As part of their Stars in the House online series of “Plays in the House,” featuring live readings of classic and award-winning plays until Broadway re-opens, co-hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley...

Washington Stage Guild to serve up an intellectual feast over Thanksgiving

Washington Stage Guild will present a “heavenly” online performance of George Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell, the famous dream sequence from his play Man and Superman. Audiences are invited to savor...

Opera Lafayette takes a French comic classic to the Old West

Take any decent road trip through the American West and you’re bound to pass half a dozen old opera houses in varying states of disrepair, or repair — if there happens to be a local renaissance...

A conversation with Tony-winning composer/lyricist Maury Yeston

On Friday, October 23, two-time Tony Award-winner Maury Yeston (Titanic; Nine) celebrated his 75th birthday with PS Classics’ release of his new album, Maury Sings Yeston: The Demos, on digital and...

David Mamet directs Patti LuPone in ‘Boston Marriage’ on Broadway’s Best Shows

On Thursday, November 12, Broadway’s Best Shows returns to the digital screen with a new limited-time livestream production of Boston Marriage, written and directed by playwright David Mamet...

Holiday gift suggestions for Broadway fans

With the boom in online shopping and resultant delays in delivery during the pandemic, it’s a good idea to get a jump on your holiday gift-buying to make sure your presents arrive on time. If you’re...

‘JookJOYnt’ from Woolly and Makers Lab to jump with Black LGBTQ+ joy

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and DC creative collective Makers Lab reunite for The JookJOYnt, a free, five-part video experience exploring themes of vulnerability, intimacy, and connection. The full...

Update: Creative Cauldron’s ‘On Air’ to stream November 16 to December 13

“Dancing and singing over the wireless airways—how might it have happened? What might have been a dry history lesson is given delightfully appealing musical charm in Creative Cauldron’s world premiere...

IN Series’s amusing ‘Gonzales Cantata’ musicalizes a congressional grilling

The Gonzales Cantata, a streaming production of the IN Series online program Invision, The Logan Operahouse Without Walls, is a cleverly done “docu-opera.” Composer Melissa Dunphy has taken the...

Everyman Theatre premieres ‘Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains’

Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre will bet on another successful run with Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, premiering for in-person performances on November 19. The...

Round House begins monthlong tribute to living legend Adrienne Kennedy

Round House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theatre Center, has announced updated details for The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence, a four-week festival highlighting the...

Grammy-winning percussionists to rap on entrepreneurship and racial justice

As we in the performing arts continue to struggle with finances and other resources in the aftershock of COVID-19, with no end in sight, how can we inform taxpayers and policymakers of the value of...

Equity and Be An #ArtsHero continue their advocacy for the theater community post-election

With the incoming administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, two major organizations that represent the theater community are celebrating the Democratic victory in the 2020 election and continuing...

Patrons pining for in-person performance are now finding it by the carload

We thought the days of drive-in movie theaters, with patrons braving the weather for the sake of a good time, were a thing of the past. But pandemic desperation has brought this back, easing some of...

IN Series’s emotional ‘Orphée et Eurydice’ evokes loss of a loved one

Orphée et Eurydice, a streaming production of the IN Series online program Invision, The Logan Operahouse Without Walls, is a cleverly updated version of Gluck’s classic 1762 opera. It features...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Alex Brightman, Alex Brightman, Alex Brightman

Not only is the mega-mega-mega-talented Alex Brightman a two-time Tony Award nominee for his blockbuster lead performances as the badass substitute teacher Dewey Finn in School of Rock (2016) and the...

IN Series’s ‘Gonzales Cantata’ tells a true story of political corruption

Just when American politics could not seem more fraught, IN Series is offering a cheeky throwback to a shockingly simpler time: a made-for-film production of Melissa Dunphy’s The Gonzales Cantata....