Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical comedy featuring music by The Go-Go's, will launch its first D.C. metro area production opening Monumental Theater Company's 2020 season. With a book by Ja…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre Company's Artistic Director Simon Godwin announced the Company's 2020/21 Season to a gathering of dedicated theatergoers at the Michael R. Klein Theatre at the Lansburgh …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2020
At a February 3, 2020 celebration honoring theatre excellence on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2020
The following news was released today by theatreWashington: The Washington theater community remains in mourning over the loss of Victor Shargai, long-time theatreWashington board chair, the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PM[SHARE]Next Thursday, January 30, please join Theater and Policy Salon for a discussion on Attainment, Fulfillment, and Resilience at Studio Theatre following the 8 pm show of Pipeline. The panel d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
In a ceremony at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, the WATCH Award committee announced the 2019 WATCH Award nominees. 101 productions (40 musicals, 61 plays) were adjudicated in 2019. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2020
The Essential Theatre rings in the New Year by continuing an 18-month celebration of the 30th anniversary of its founding. In partnership with the District of Columbia Public Library System …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 11, 2020
What does the New Year bring to downtown Silver Spring? Murder at McGinty's! A Taste For Murder Productions and McGinty's Public House have formed a partnership to present dinner theatre " o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2020
The National Building Museum announced its partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library, in association with the University of South Carolina, to design the 2020 Summer Block Party exhibition…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2020
The Arcanists in co-production with Science Art Fusion (ScienceAF) announce the launch of The Internet: LIVE!!1, an inventive new live comedy game show. In it, player-performers bring web co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PM[SHARE]Studio Theatre and Artistic Director David Muse are pleased to announce that Reginald L. Douglas will join the organization as its new Associate Artistic Director later this month. Douglas c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2019
As the year draws to a close, we asked DCMTA writers to think back on the shows that left an indelible impression on them in 2019. In this category, outstanding overall production, we recogn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2019
The Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive is holding a free event Monday, December 16th from 7 pm-8 pm at the Chevy Chase neighborhood library. Join WAPAVA's Executive Director Bridg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:52PM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2019
After two sell-out previews and a spectacular run at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers pops up at the trendy Shaw-neighborhood …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2019
Female, female-identifying, GNC, and Trans theater artists in the Washington, DC area will soon have a new opportunity for career mentorship. Statera Mentorship recognizes that women, gender…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2019
Gaithersburg's Arts on the Green presents a new season of engaging concerts featuring an eclectic mix of Americana, jazz, classical, contemporary, traditional, and world music in an intimate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2019
Launching its 30th-anniversary season, Avant Bard Theatre announces Scripts In Play: Season 30"featuring a special presentation of Happenstance Theater's BrouHaHa December 6 to 8, 2019, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2019
Following its sold-out run of Be More Chill in 2019, the Helen Hayes Award-winning Monumental Theatre Company will be producing three musicals for the upcoming 2020 season: Head Over Heels, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2019
 We were saddened to learn this week that Tia Shearer Bassett, a valued member of the DC theater community and a bright shining light of a human, has recently been diagnosed with cancer.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Called by critics "incisive," "timely," and "brave," Priyanka Shetty's one-woman show The Elephant in the Room performs Saturday, November 23, 2019, at 6 pm on the Millennium Stage at The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2019
At its annual Gala, Shakespeare Theatre Company announced to a surprised audience that the Lansburgh Theatre at 450 7th St. NW would be rechristened as the Michael R. Klein Theatre. In addit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
Arts on the Green, the City of Gaithersburg's home for the performing and visual arts which includes the Kentland's Mansion and Arts Barn, is now soliciting production proposals for the thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PM[SHARE]National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces its 91st Rolling …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2019
Signature Theatre announced today that it will produce Mamma Mia! this summer at The Wharf, Washington, DC's newest concert venue. Mamma Mia! will run for two weeks from June 25 to July 5, 2…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM[SHARE]Monumental Theatre Company will be hosting a Bottomless Broadway Brunch on November 30, 2019. This event will feature performers from Monumental Theatre Company's upcoming 2020 season, as we…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2019
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces the full cast and creative team for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical!), a Kennedy Center-commissioned world pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2019
Baltimore Center Stage will begin its new civic dialogue series, The Baltimore Butterfly Sessions, this month. Featuring music, poetry, storytelling, literary excerpts, and thought-provoking…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
Everyman Theatre of Baltimore is proud to have Christopher and Justin Swader in house to design the set for their new production of August Wilson's "Radio Golf." The New York-based team has …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Tickets for Sting's acclaimed musical THE LAST SHIP, starring and featuring original music and lyrics by 17-time Grammy Award®-winner Sting, will go on sale Friday, October 18 at 10am for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2019
Creative Cauldron announces an open call for submissions for its new "Bold New Musical Voices" Festival, to be held from April 27 " May 6, 2020. The festival seeks new and innovative musical…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AM[SHARE]In her U.S. premiere, rising Thai-Australian playwright Anchuli Felicia King takes a scathing look at the ugliness of the beauty industry in White Pearl, beginning November…
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