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Archives for March 2020
What’s next for DC area theatres in the radically changed environment? Olney panel and programs
Like many area companies, while performances are closed due to the pandemic, Olney Theatre Center (OTC) has developed programs to deepen their connection with audiences through online platforms. On Saturday, April 4 starting at 5pm, OTC Artistic Director Jason Loewith will explore the impact of the pandemic on local theatres with a panel featuring Raymond […]
Life at home: How coronavirus has changed our lives
Like most Americans, our staff are spending most of their time at home now. Some busy themselves with spouses, children and pets. Some with their art. Some have salaried jobs and easy transitions. Some do not. Here, they share their home lives and concerns. Gregory Ford Being mostly retired, my life has just not changed […]
Streamed performance helps American Shakespeare Center raise a record breaking $350,000
The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va received a huge outpouring of local and international support for its “Keep the Lights On” campaign. Artistic Director Ethan McSweeny previously announced the “Keep the Lights On campaign” to raise $350,000 to keep the company viable between now – the Center is closed due to the cornavirus pandemic […]
Father Gilbert Hartke. The unlikely story of a Catholic University priest and James Cagney
Gilbert “Gib” Hartke was the son of an interdenominational love match that transcended the social norms of late-nineteenth-century Chicago. His father, Emil, the offspring of a prominent first-generation German and Lutheran household, left medical school at the University of Illinois to marry his mother, Lillian Ward, a first-generation Irish Catholic. Emil converted to Catholicism over […]
Artists in Quarantine: 4 artists share their survival plans
The damage that the current pandemic has had on theatre artists is nigh unfathomable. The very artform relies on gatherings, and the presence of others. No theatre has gone unaffected, and the life blood of those theatres, its technicians, designers, administrators, directors and performers, are left with heartbreaking cancellations, and worrisome losses of income. View […]
Famed playwright Terrence McNally died today from the coronavirus
Terrence McNally, the celebrated playwright, librettist, screenwriter and theater thought leader, died today as a result of complications from the new coronavirus. He was 81. Although McNally’s first play was produced when he was only twenty-four, he became universally recognized with the 1987 production of Frankie and Johnny at the Clare de Lune, a luminous […]
Latest schedule changes from DC area theatres
Ford’s Theatre: All performances of Guys and Dolls have been canceled and the production will be rescheduled for spring 2021. The musical Man of La Mancha, originally announced as the spring 2021 production, will be postponed to a future season. Signature Theatre: Camille Claudel will be moved to the 2020/21 Season. Dates will be announced […]
4615 Theatre Company races to produce Britt A Willis’ breakthrough play tonight on Facebook
4615 Theatre Company, like all theatre companies, has seen its season destroyed, a casualty of the coronavirus. However, this made way, Artistic Director Jordan Friend told DCTS, for a long-dreamed program – readings of short form passion projects by his company members. The first, part of the #quarantinetheatre series, goes live tonight, March 23 at […]
Madama Butterfly starring Hui He on WETA Great Performances this Sunday
Local PBS affiliate WETA will be airing an encore presentation of Puccini’s famous opera Madama Butterfly this Sunday, March 29, at 12:00 noon. The Metropolitan Opera’s fall 2019 production is an episode of the Great Performances anthology series. This staging was created in 2005 by the late film director Anthony Minghella, who won the Best […]
“Everybody rise!” Stephen Sondheim’s greatest roles and the actors who played them
Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday is today. While tributes to his great musicals and greatest songs have been written, we are paying tribute to his greatest roles. The fifteen book musicals of his to reach Broadway have no fewer than 268 separate named characters – and lots more that are identified only by description such as […]
theatreWashington’s new Taking Care fund will offer $500 grants to theatre professionals. Two DC artists are among the first to respond.
theatreWashington, which produces the Helen Hayes Awards and helps to promote theatre throughout the Washington area, today announced that it will make available $115,000 in assistance to theatre artists in the Washington Metro Area during the period in which theatre is shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. theatreWashington will fund the program, which it […]
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