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Music for the movement: Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
“It’s been a long, long time coming But I know that change is gonna come” – Sam Cooke, 1964 Recommended by Pamela Jafari. “I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother,...
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Billie Krishawn hands out help while photographing the Black Lives Movement...
Billie Krishawn is a DC area actor and photographer whose work will soon appear on our pages. This weekend she is back on the streets, adding to her extensive photo coverage of the Black Lives Matter...
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Playwright Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) on self love and self...
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in September on its...
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DC Theatre community gathers for Black Lives Matter vigil, photos and video
70 days. 10 weeks. 2 months. 1,680 hours. 100,800 minutes. 6,048,000 seconds. No. This is not the lyric sheet to some RENT musical remix. This is the amount of time that stood between Theatre as we...
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A Movement Unleashed: Black Lives Matter Protest, Photo Essay from DC
We are like clay. Life, a chisel. Every experience we have brings us one step closer to seeing our ultimate form. Every hardship, every heartbreak, every trauma, every laugh forever shaping us into the...
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Artist Carlos Walker asks white America “What If?” it were you
The theater is the place where things are shown: that is, it’s a mirror where things that we don’t make overt in daily life are brought out in front of us to see. While we usually talk about the...
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As a result of Gov. Hogan’s directive, Maryland theatres announce cancelled...
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 phased process for...
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5 performances to watch this weekend
Twilight: Los Angeles Great Performances, PBS Free Click to view In response to the national crisis in the aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery (Brunswick, GA), Breonna Taylor (Louisville, KY),...
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Shattered Space: Between Zoom and film, creating a new theatrical experience
A new company is launching audiences into space with an exciting confluence of new technology and theatre. In Shattered Space by The Scattered Players, audiences take on the role of Star Jockeys aboard...
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Review: Could this be love? Round House Theatre’s Homebound, Part 7, “The Date”
If any of Homebound’s episodes have been pure joy, it is episode 7, “The Date,” written by Dani Stoller, who finally finds Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh) a match in the charming pixie-ish Lynette...
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Music for the movement: Skin on the Drum, Michael Franti & Spearhead
Recommended by Anastasia Wilson, DC actor now based in Atlanta. “And as the pepper gas clears And police and protestors go home Just as the morning dew are tear drops of the night My emotions are...
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Samuel Beckett’s literary agent tried to close Joy Zinoman’s 1998 Waiting for...
1998 was promising to be a banner year for Joy Zinoman and her Studio Theatre. Already settled into a stunning new building which opened the previous year that shone with what Washington Post...
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Juneteenth celebrations: Antonyo Awards, Alvin Ailey, IN Series and a...
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that a regiment of Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of the enslaved peoples of Texas....
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Watch Hamilton movie trailer ahead of its July 3 premiere on Disney+
The film version of the Broadway musical phenom, Hamilton, will premiere on streaming service Disney+ starting July 3. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda first posted the trailer on his Twitter...
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Should the show have gone on? Shakespeare Theatre’s Mock Trial litigates...
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 of the Rude...
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Flying V Board dismisses Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein
Bethesda’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 administrative...
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Review: Where are we headed? Round House Theatre’s Homebound, Part 8,...
Craig (Craig Wallace) has found his feet in this week’s episode, “Community,” by Agyeiwaa Asante. He’s been able to run 2.23 miles to honor Ahmaud Arbery, and now he can’t stop running. And, while he’s...
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Signature Theatre announces Eric Schaeffer departure amidst allegations of...
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 on June 30....
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Bring an artist’s performance into your home, or at least to your driveway.
Have you ever wished that your living space could be re-imagined by a set designer? Or that you could gift a personalized greeting or concert by a favorite performer? Or that a theatre artist could...
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Music for the Movement: I’ll Rise Up by Andra Day
My name is Pamela Jafari. I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. I have a 26 y/o grandson, and 3 y/o great-grandson, who I am always...
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