Wednesday, May 18, 2016
For this month’s Art of the Actor, MaryKate Brouillet shares the playful approach that keeps J. M. Barrie's beloved story fresh and magical for children and adults alike. You can s…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 05:32PMThursday, May 12, 2016
For this week’s At Rise, writer Jamila Reddy sat down with theatreWashington’s President and CEO Amy Austin, to get the inside scoop on the Helen Hayes Awards, being celebrated M…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 02:54PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Actor Alan Wade has long been a favorite of Washington audiences. For this month’s Art of the Actor, he shares his views on stage craft, his obsessions with English detective show…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 02:44PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Designer Kathryn Kawecki has brought her mind-broadening vision to a series of productions at 1st Stage, culminating with her evocative creations for Proof, running through May 8. Writer Jam…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 06:46PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
In this month's Art of the Actor, Jonno Roberts faces the challenge of breathing life into the villainous Iago in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Othel…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 05:51PMWednesday, March 9, 2016
At the announcement of this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominations, three companies were honored with first-time, stand-alone recognition. Flying V and Pointless Theatre, both recipients…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 09:14PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Nominated for a 2016 Helen Hayes Award for her portrayal of the title character in Yerma, Luz Nicolás returns to GALA Hispanic Theatre to play Elizabeth Arden in Señorita …
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 12:33PMWednesday, February 10, 2016
When the Helen Hayes Award nominations were announced on February 1, three theatre companies were named as finalists for the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company: Arts…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 01:58PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
This month’s installment of The Wright Stuff finds Stephen Gregory Smith and Matt Conner creating a new musical, commissioned by Creative Cauldron’s Bold New Works for Intimate S…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 10:12PMThursday, January 21, 2016
The recipient of four Helen Hayes Awards, actor Holly Twyford is crossing gender barriers to take on the role of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Folger Theatre, Janu…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 06:16PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
In this month's focus on emerging theatre companies and up-and-coming individual artists, At Rise finds Peter's Alley Theatre Productions preparing for its upcoming ru…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 10:16AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
For this month’s The Wright Stuff, writer Jamila Reddy caught up with playwright Jeffrey Hatcher in the midst of rehearsals for his adaptation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The …
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 06:06PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
In the latest addition to our Art of the Actor interview series, writer Jamila Reddy chats with Helen Hayes Award recipient Dawn Ursula about the challenges of uncovering a charact…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 12:51PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
From her early work singing back-up for Roberta Flack to a career as one of Washington’s leading musical theatre actors, Helen Hayes Award recipient Nova Payton has always been an…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 07:45PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Jennifer Nelson has been part of the Mosaic Theater Company team since its founding last year when Artistic Director Ari Roth invited her to serve as Resident Director. After long …
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 07:40AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
For this month's The Art of the Actor, writer Jamila Reddy chatted with Rick Foucheux and Sarah Marshall from the cast of the Apple Family Cycle, a series of plays that has str…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 10:54AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Speaking with Aubri O’Connor and Angela Kay Pirko is like listening in on a conversation with two old friends. They finish each other’s sentences, agree on certain things as stro…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 11:57AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Born and bred in Washington, DC, Shayna Blass is an actor, singer and dancer who tries “to do it all, because why not, it feels really good.” She started performing at the age of…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 07:40AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Audrey Cefaly is a self-identfying Southern playwright and director whose work draws inspiration from her home state of Alabama. She wrote and directed the world premiere of her new dra…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 08:48PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Continuing theatreWashington's focus on The Women's Voices Theater Festival, writer Jamila Reddy chatted with playwright Sheri Wilner about the play that inspired Cake…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 09:40AMThursday, September 24, 2015
In celebration of theatreWeek 2015 and the Women's Voices Theater Festival, theatreWashington is posting daily, in-depth features on the Festival's playwrights an…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 01:26PMMonday, September 21, 2015
In celebration of theatreWeek 2015 and the Women's Voices Theater Festival, theatreWashington is posting daily, in-depth features on the Festival's playwrights and directors.
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SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 09:14AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Amber Jackson is a director, writer, actor, and choreographer with a growing reputation in the Washington theatre community. She made a splash last season with her production of Lobster Alic…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 11:33AMThursday, July 9, 2015
When the Keegan Theatre calls themselves a neighborhood theatre, they mean it. Nestled in the historic Church Street Theatre—named for St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church at the e…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 02:22AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Lee Gable, a twenty-year veteran of the Washington theatre scene, admits that running a theatre that reflects the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) experience is no easy…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 09:21PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
In the spring of 1994, fifteen artists got together to ask question, “What is new music-theatre?” The question became the foundation for the Alliance for New Music-Theatre, and r…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 10:12AMMonday, April 6, 2015
The Helen Hayes Awards - to be presented tonight at the historic Lincoln Theatre – offer an opportunity for emerging theatre companies in the Washington area to be celebrate…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 07:34AMThursday, March 12, 2015
If Flying V doesn’t sound like the name of a conventional theatre company, it’s because it’s not supposed to. Founded in 2011 with a mission to align the experience of thea…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 07:16AMWednesday, February 11, 2015
NextStop Theatre has been around for 27 years, making it one of the longest-standing companies in the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area that you’ve probably never heard of. That’s …
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 04:37PMTuesday, December 30, 2014
For Anu Yadav, the work she does on stage is only as important as the people who see it. The conversation between work and witness is central to her mission as an artist. “For me its n…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 01:28PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Red Branch Theatre Company started off with what most emerging theatre companies only dream of: a permanent artistic home. Stephanie Williams, the owner of the Drama Learning Center and a fo…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 12:55PM 
