Monday, July 20, 2020
Arena Stage, whose ten-play season was cancelled earlier this year by coronavirus, has announced that it intends to restage in 2021 three of the plays it lost this year. To that contingent, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMTuesday, July 14, 2020
DC’s Mosaic Theater Company will not produce its Fall schedule of plays, Board Chair Bill Tompkins announced in a press release which DC Theatre Scene received today. “Conditions remain …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
Will the disruptions we are experiencing in this annus horribilis catapult us into a new world next year? If so, Baltimore Center Stage will be ready for it, with three world premieres and a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:36PMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Arlington’s Signature Theatre announced today that Eric Schaeffer, the co-founder and only Artistic Director the company has ever had, will retire from that position and leave the company …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PMBethesda’s Flying V Theatre’s Board of Directors has terminated the employment of Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein. The action comes three days after the Board placed Schlafstein on a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMTuesday, June 23, 2020
Order in the living room! There is no bottom to Washington’s taste for litigation, but Shakespeare Theatre’s Mock Trial went beyond itself last night, charging Nick Bottom and the rest o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AMFriday, June 12, 2020
Bethesda’s Round House Theatre has elected to cancel the 2020 portion of its live theater schedule, the company announced on Tuesday. “Governor Hogan’s Roadmap to Recovery outlines a p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
Linda Elyse Bryce, a teacher, lover of Shakespeare, broad-spectrum theater supporter and winner of the 2013 Gary Maker Award, given to the audience member who best exemplifies Maker’s enth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMThursday, May 7, 2020
Studio Acting Conservatory, the Joy Zinoman-led acting school previously evicted from its home at Studio Theatre, will begin work on its new 6,000 square foot Holmead Place digs and expects …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMMonday, May 4, 2020
Gerhardt (Gary) Tischler, a veteran arts journalist whose debut post with DC Theatre Scene “There’s No App for That” remains one of our most-read articles, passed away at Sibley Memori…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMFriday, April 24, 2020
Local governments in the DC area have struggled to implement the Federal CARES Act provisions (including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA) which became law on March 27, 2020. One impo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMThursday, April 23, 2020
Quotidian Theatre, the Bethesda-based company which specialized in the work of Horton Foote and, to a lesser extent, Conor McPherson, will close its doors for good after a production of Foot…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
So Bill Shakespeare would have been 456 on Thursday, April 23, and under normal circumstances, I know, you would have been enjoying a fat goose and a few tankards of mead with a dozen or so …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Take an 80-year-old, 169,000-word novel, which begins with a journey halfway across the country, in the midst of the Depression, features the death of important characters, violent fistfight…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMWednesday, April 8, 2020
The 15th annual Capital Fringe Festival, scheduled for this July, has been canceled. Capital Fringe Founding Director Julianne Brienza announced the cancellation in an e-mail to Fringe suppo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMMonday, April 6, 2020
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) enacted last week has some significant appropriations for theater — including a $25 million direct grant to the Kennedy C…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMSaturday, April 4, 2020
For years, theater artists have used their skills to create stage illusions from unlikely ingredients. Today, at Woolly Mammoth, two artists are using those skills to save lives. The artists…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42PMFriday, April 3, 2020
Ed Herendeen, Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival, today announced that in response to the coronavirus pandemic he has cancelled this year’s Festival and that …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
The Kennedy Center will begin furloughing 60% of its full-time administrative staff on April 6 in response to the impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the Center announced yesterday. The cuts…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
Terrence McNally, the celebrated playwright, librettist, screenwriter and theater thought leader, died today as a result of complications from the new coronavirus. He was 81. Although McNall…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PMFriday, March 20, 2020
Round House Theatre’s 2020-2021 season brings the past into the present, then hits us with two world premieres and concludes with a raucous contemporary favorite known as a showcase for fi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMWednesday, March 18, 2020
Arena Stage will cancel the remainder of its 2019-2020 season, the company announced today. Arena will reschedule Celia and Fidel, Seven Guitars, and Toni Stone for the 2020-2021 season as a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:12PMTuesday, March 17, 2020
Washington DC’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, originally scheduled for May 18, has been postponed, theatreWashington, the nonprofit organization responsible for the Awards ceremony has announce…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:03PMThe innovative American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va has shut down its Actor’s Renaissance Season, canceled its Spring Season, and closed its doors at least until June in response to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMMonday, March 16, 2020
There is out there, and then there is Will Eno. An interviewer once asked him one of those personality-in-a-nutshell questions. If you could pick any superpower for yourself, he asked the pl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMFriday, March 13, 2020
If the present ceaselessly calls out to the past in life — and it does — it also does so in art. So, for example, we have many iterations of Jane Austen’s novels cast in the present da…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMWednesday, March 11, 2020
True events, leavened with fable and fantasy (and a little bit of the Kinsey Sicks) will propel Theater J’s 2020-2021, the company has revealed. In five months, the outline of our national…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
The Contemporary American Theater Festival will stake its claim as one of the country’s most important new play festivals in 2020, with five world premieres (including one rolling world pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Has this ever happened to you? You’re Panthea, Princess of Iberia (Zoe Speas), and you haven’t seen your brother, King Arbaces (Benjamin Reed) since you were nine years old. You live und…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMMonday, March 2, 2020
Imagine there’s no director — it’s easy if you try — and no designers too. Imagine further that the actors, amidst their other theatrical responsibilities, must put this play togethe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMSaturday, February 29, 2020
At Shakespeare Theatre’s 2020 mock court Thursday night, the veteran Shakespearian actor Ed Gero described the special challenges facing a theater artist who takes on one of the Bard’s w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PM 
