Friends gathering on Facebook for Jane Pesci-Townsend
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The Fantasticks
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Arena Stage adds 5 playwrights to its payroll
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Is Arena Stage Launching a New Business Model for Playwrighting?
Arena Stage, which will be introducing its rebuilt $125-million facility to the Washington public in October, may be putting an even more lasting change into effect by giving five playwrights a salary and benefits. Fueled by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the plan, which Arena will administer through its American Voices New Play Initiative, will give each of the selected playwrights wages (described by Arena as a “living” wage and estimated elsewhere to be in the mid-five-figure range), health insurance, other benefits and a $15,000 annual budget for development. [Read more...]
America’s Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre
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Los Treinta
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30 Years of the Salvadorean presence in DC
Quique Aviles’ floor-blistering one-man show about the Salvadorean diaspora to Washington D.C. hits you like a fireball from a volcano. From the moment Aviles bounds from the aisles onto the stage and alternates English with Spanish, there is no language barrier. [Read more...]
