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Theatre artists cross the line to end the silence and speak out for The SoSu...
“I froze, not knowing what to do, instantly realizing … that he had all the power to hire me, and if I said no, I risked having any kind of role at one of the largest theatres in the country. And maybe...
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Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design, Supporting Performer –...
The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, recognizing excellence on Washington-area stages for 2019, begins tonight with the first of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celebration on...
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Music for the Movement: Why Othello cast sings “Glory” at American...
Before the opening and at the end of intermission of every performance at American Shakespeare Center, actors turn musicians to serenade the audience. Usually a rousing, fun time, at the start of...
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Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Supporting Performer – Play (Hayes), Visiting...
Justin Weaks and Regina Aquino host tonight’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, the second of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celebration on September 25, 2020. The public is...
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Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Supporting Performer – Musical (Helen),...
Five Helen Hayes Awards will be handed out tonight in this, the third of seven nights of streamed presentations for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Free...
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2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Set Design, Lead Performer in a Play...
Night four of seven streamed presentation of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Free Zoom events. Sign up by 2pm Tune in tonight to meet 35 nominees and...
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Fact: BIPOC Women and Non-Binary artists are underrepresented on our stages....
“Every audience deserves to sit in the theatre and see their community reflected back to them.” The SoSu trailer revealed some reasons why that isn’t the case today. Billie Krishawn starts her new...
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2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Sound Design and Supporting Performer...
Night five of seven streamed presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Free Zoom event. Sign up by 2pm Tune in tonight to meet 21 nominees and...
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Joy Zinoman, ever the innovator, takes acting to a higher level via Zoom...
When Studio Theatre’s acting conservatory parted ways with its’ eponymous Studio Theatre more than a year ago, the split was “existential,” according to conservatory Co-Director Joy Zinoman. Zinoman,...
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2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding New Play or Musical, Choreography and...
Closing in on the last of the virtual presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Free Zoom event. Sign in by 2pm today Tune in tonight to learn who...
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Billie Krishawn talks with Black non-binary artist Tyasia “Ty” Velines for...
Blooming. Truth. Passion. Power. The art being created by BIPOC artists and non-binary artists embody these words. The SoSu Series focuses light on these artists in the moments of the Black Lives...
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Raised-consciousness. Theatres are working on it. Audiences can too, Theater...
Many view the Coronavirus pandemic as The Great Pause, where we hunker down and muddle through, hoping we return to normalcy some time in the near future with at least some of our marbles intact....
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Lynn Nottage writes for an audience of one while waiting for Broadway stages...
Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), returns to Theatre for One, the company which gave new meaning to “intimate theatre” with its one actor/one audience member...
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2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Lead performer, Play – Helen, Direction,...
This is it! The last of the live Zoom presentations of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the audience. Closing in on the last of the virtual presentations of the 2020 Helen...
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Opera Lafayette heads to Colorado cattle country for live open air...
Learning about performance companies leaping into bold adventures and rediscovering the impulse of sharing their art in new creative ways has never been more welcome. Opera Lafayette, a company known...
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As the world catches up with his work, Meshaun Labrone inks film production...
As theatre companies create virtual versions of stage performances, multi-talented DC artist Meshaun Labrone has signed a partnership with film producers to turn two stage plays into fully enhanced...
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Review: Incidental Moments of the Day: The Apple Family Finally Talks About Race
Things are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson’s third play in four months about the same set of characters...
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The Best Theater in Six Months of No Theater
I went to the theater in New York for the last time the day after they shut down Broadway on March 12th, six months ago today. My theatergoing on Friday the 13th Off-Off Broadway (which was shut down a...
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GALA Hispanic Theatre to open for live performances in October
On Thursday, October 29, GALA Hispanic Theatre in Columbia Heights will most likely become the first DC area theatre company to open its doors for indoor performances since the pandemic caused...
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Editor position now available at DC Theatre Scene
DC Theatre Scene, Inc. has opened a search for a new Editor. Now in its 15th year, DC Theatre Scene has published nearly 10,000 articles covering Washington area’s theatre scene as it grew from an...
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