The Kennedy Center’s 2019-2020 season for young audiences will feature work from Education Artist-in-Residence, perhaps better know as author, illustrator (Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & Piggie) Mo Willems, five productions from The Netherlands, and productions staged in the newest area of the Kennedy Center, which is scheduled to open in September of 2019. First of […]
Archives for May 6, 2019
Review: The 39 Steps, a joy-buzzery production of the noir comedy from Rep Stage
If there was ever a time for old-fashioned spoofy fun, it’s now. Your chance to goof off comes courtesy of Rep Stage’s joy-buzzery production of The 39 Steps, directed by Joseph W. Ritsch with an arched eye for the comic and absurd. [adsanity_rotating align=”aligncenter” time=”10″ group_id=”1455″ /] Playwright Patrick Barlow’s stylish and silly send-up of […]
theatreWashington reveals two Helen Hayes Award honorees for 2019
We don’t know which of this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominees will receive the coveted Helen Hayes awards on Monday, May 13, but we do know this: Ally Theatre Company will receive the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, and Jennifer L. Nelson will receive the 2019 Helen Hayes Tribute. Nelson’s tribute will […]
Signature Theatre turns 30, a Frank Wildhorn musical debuts, new plays launch and classic musicals get the Signature touch
Some familiar musicals and not-so-familiar plays will mark Signature’s 30th season this coming year, the company has announced. Signature starts off its season with Assassins, the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman collaboration about — well, about assassins, and more specifically about assassins and would-be assassins whose targets were various Presidents of the United States. The play features […]
Ally Theatre Company announces the three plays in its third season
On the heels of the announcement that their company will receive the John Aniello Award as Washington’s outstanding emerging theater company of the year, Ally Theatre Company has announced a three-play season which promises to, in the words of Managing Director Ivana Alexander, “creat[e] conversations at the intersection of borders and belonging.” The Ally season […]
In Series announces its innovative 2019-2020 season in which subscribers choose the last show
The In Series, a Washington pocket opera company known for its innovative approach to the classics, will totally rework some of our best-known stories in 2019-2020, deconstructing, decontextualizing, and recreating them to resonate with the great dramas we are experiencing in the real world today. The first to get the In Series treatment will be […]