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Miscast Review. A Dozen Broadway Stars Sing Inappropriately
Joshua Henry, who is the theater world’s most unlikely Annie, sang “Tomorrow” (“The sun will come out tomorrow…”) at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing “Endless Night” from the Lion King...
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Actors and politicians in STC’s Will on the Hill. Can The Bard guide us in...
If you are inclined to self-righteousness – and, really, who isn’t? – you might be prepared to look down your nose at the various Senators, House Members and other political high rollers who gathered...
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Review: The Humans, streamed. Olney cast excels in closeup of Stephen Karam’s...
Public health officials are recommending Zoom Thanksgiving festivities this year, but you can celebrate early with a boisterous and bittersweet sit-down with the Blake family, the proud and careworn...
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Brave Spirits Theatre cancels its record-breaking Shakespeare’s Histories rep
Tweeting “And there goes the last ten years of my life,” Charlene V. Smith, Artistic Director of Brave Spirits Theatre, announced the cancelation of the company’s Shakespeare’s Histories. Performing...
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Billie Krishawn speaks with artist/activist Temídayo Amay for The SoSu Series
“As you pour into me, a Black Non-Binary Gender Queer person, you pour into yourself.” – Temídayo Amay, talking with Billie Krishawn for The SoSu Series Temídayo Amay “My non-binary identity is mine...
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Review: Stories I May Not Tell from Best Medicine Rep
John Morogiello yearns, lives and breathes theater. Stories I May Not Tell is a sneak peek in the mind of a playwright so stuffed with story ideas that characters and scenes cascade out of him in...
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How Indian Ink connected Tom Stoppard and Joy Zinoman to their lives in Asia
Perhaps a bit long and convoluted – with a plot that switches back and forth between the 1930s and 1980s – Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink collected generally favorable reviews in early stagings in London...
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DCTS Performance Guide for the 2020/2021 theatre season
While planning theatre in the time of Covid requires faith and flexibility on everyone’s part, we thought it valuable to show you the shows our companies hope to present. Some are virtual. Some will be...
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Is there a 2020-2021 theatre season? Comments on what we know so far.
Any planning for live theatre, in this time of pandemic, calls for faith and flexibility. And a search for answers to the unknowable. What will audiences want to see? When can rehearsals start safely?...
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DC citizens speak through Arena Stage’s new film The 51st State
Statehood for the District of Columbia has always been a fraught enterprise. It wasn’t until 1961 that Washington residents could vote for President; and before 1973, Congress appointed DC government’s...
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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg well earned the sobriquet “Notorious.” Everything about her seemed to live in happy contradiction. She followed her mother’s “dueling” advice: always to be a lady and to live a...
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Friday night’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards celebration. Free for all.
Remember going to the theatre in 2019: the greetings and hugs with casual acquaintances in the lobby, the smiling faces of front of house staff checking your tickets, happily taking your seat amidst a...
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Billie Krishawn speaks with actor Erika Rose for The SoSu Series
“I can put all of that energy into speaking up, but first I have to know what I feel. First I have to find a center.” –Erika Rose Erika Rose Every day of our lives we are exchanging energy. Some days...
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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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Opera Review: Miranda: A Steam Punk VR Experience, LUMA’s bold experiment
Steam Punk as a style launches viewers into a futuristic universe while it casts a glance backwards nostalgically to a simpler, more elegant world. Miranda: A Steam Punk VR Experience creates the...
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The Helen Hayes Awards night plus reaction you didn’t see from 4615 Theatre...
The Helen Hayes Awards were last night, so I slipped into my good tux, straightened my black tie, and took the Metro down to the waterfront. I hoofed it to the Anthem; saw some buddies; shook some...
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Billie Krishawn speaks with actor Moses Princien for The SoSu Series
“When the least of us are safe and have a space, all of us do.” True change begins when we decide that a shift is necessary. Inciting change is risky, brave, beautiful and most importantly… necessary....
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Review: Telephonic Literary Union’s Human Resources. One help line you’ll be...
Usually, the phone tree process for any corporate call-in help line is either migraine-inducing or so frustrating you find yourself spewing rancid obscenities at the robotic prompts until your throat...
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Solas Nua gives us a play we can show but not say
Above a certain age, there is a community of smart phone, computer and digital technology users who can remember the first time they used an emoji or a gif. And, it stands to reason in this era of a...
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Emergent Seed $500 microgrants for DC Metro emerging creatives: Round 2...
Emergent Seed, an arts organization created in response to the impact of coronavirus on the DC area creative community, is closing its second round of $500 microgrant applications on Friday, October...
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