The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced that it is now accepting applications for its 2012 National Critics Institute to be held July 2-16, 2012 in Waterford, Connecticut. Deadline for submissions is Friday, June 15, 2012.  [Read more...]

Artomatic is the arts festival which, each year, moves into a vacant commercial building and invites the public in, without charge, to meet and celebrate the work of local artists. [Read more...]

“The DC Queer Theatre Festival unleashes and celebrates the underrepresented voices and diversity of our artists, audiences, and community.” So say the organizers of Queer Festival’s first annual event, director Matt Ripa, playwright Rebecca Gingrich-Jones and producer Alan Balch. [Read more...]

The Alliance Francaise de Washington, D.C. presents Urban Corps
May 17 – 25 throughout DC.

Hip-Hop is an international phenomenon, and Alliance Francaise  is bringing together hip-hop dance crews from France, the U.S. and Senegal in a cross-city celebration that ranges from the Mexican Cultural Institute, Howard University, Kalorama Park, the Kennedy Center, Dance Place and Atlas Performing arts Center before finishing up with a battle of the dance crews at Artisphere in Arlington, VA. [Read more...]

Nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards, announced at 8:30am this morning, included three productions of special interest to Washington theatregoers. In the Best Revival of a Musical category, Follies, the Eric Schaeffer directed musical, has 8 nominations. Performers seen in that production when it premiered at The Kennedy Center, who are now vying for Tonys, are Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines and Danny Burstein. Bernadette Peters, although not nominated for Follies, will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award. [Read more...]