theatreWashington has expanded its Taking Care COVID-19 emergency grant program and will now be increasing the amount of grants available to any theater professional in need living in the DC area who has worked in area theaters during the last two years, the organization announced yesterday. “Many of the professional theater-makers in our community—actors, designers, […]
Archives for October 2020
Review: Capturing the conscience of Studio’s Kings
There are not many towns which could be riveted by a tale which revolves around the tax treatment that carried interest gets, but, by God, Washington is one of them. Of course, the carried interest argument is just the lever by which playwright Sarah Burgess gets to larger moral issues, including the power and use […]
Simon Godwin’s next thing: Directing National Theatre’s film Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s peripatetic Artistic Director Simon Godwin, having instituted a six-production 2020-2021 season for STC notwithstanding the pandemic, has decided to use his spare time to helm a film of Romeo and Juliet for the National Theatre – in London. Godwin, who previously directed filmed stage productions of Antony & Cleopatra and Twelfth Night […]
Review: Midnight Dreary series continues with Poe’s creepiest tales
All stories are about the loss of power – or, more correctly, loss of the illusion of power, and the more fundamental the loss, the more heart-wrenching the story. Here we are, in the prime of life, conquerors of the Peloton, with a swell job in the Department of Commerce and two kids in a […]
Local artists lend their unique talents to “Act Out: Vote 2020” on Oct 29
As the theater industry recovers from COVID-19 and considers a social justice reckoning, the 2020 presidential election is high stakes, resulting in “Act Out: Vote 2020,” an online performance livestreamed on Oct. 29 at 9 p.m. According to Chiara Klein (she), the director of artistic producing at Baltimore Center Stage (BCS) who invited theaters to […]
Twins sucked into a video game. A 10 year old’s first play was a winner. He’s working on a new play at Young Playwrights’ Theater
When Bryan Mercado, then 10, was first told he had been signed up for a playwriting workshop after school with Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT), a D.C.-based arts education nonprofit and professional theater, he was less than thrilled. “I just wanted to go outside and play with my friends after school,” he said, bemused at his […]
Everyman Theatre to resume live Queens Girl performances November 19
Everyman Theatre today announced that it would resume producing theater live and in person by continuing the run of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains on November 19. Everyman had been producing the one-actor play, which features Felicia Curry as Jacqueline Marie Butler, when the pandemic shut down production in March. […]
First look at Psalmayene 24’s Dear Mapel from Mosaic Theater
Dear Mapel, written and performed by Psalmayene 24, is a theatrical exploration of his relationship with his deceased father currently in workshop development at Mosaic Theater. Structured as intimate letters to his father, he presents a collage of memories, feelings, and queries to communicate with his estranged father as he ponders – how do you […]
Theater Alliance continues the fight for justice and change with film series, A Protest in Eight
As Black Lives Matter protests filled D.C.’s streets this summer, Raymond O. Caldwell, Artistic Director of Theater Alliance, considered how he and his Anacostia-based theatre company could carry those calls for justice and change beyond the protests. The result: Strategize, Organize, Mobilize: A Protest in Eight, a series of 8 short films, each addressing a […]
Review: Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak on It! A soul-stirring message on the power of the vote
Lyndon Johnson is said to have called her an “ignorant niggra.” In Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak on It!, E. Faye Butler brings this so-called “ignorant niggra” – Fannie Lou Hamer – to vibrant, embarrassing and encouraging life. The performance is riveting and subtle. The purported purpose of this production (as mouthed by Fannie Lou Hamer […]
Guide to Halloween specials from DC area theatres
If there’s one holiday that screams ‘theatre’ it’s Halloween, and we’ve found some spooky spectacular events from our local theatre producers. Available now Master of horror Alex Zavistovich produces spine-tingling Edgar Allan Poe dramas on Poe on the Air heard over NPR. Part 1 of Never Bet the Devil Your Head is online now.Part 2 […]
Review: Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy. Funny and freaking frightening
“I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it,” says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher’s funny and frightening new play. “Speak for yourself,” his colleague Steve bellows. “I think we’re saving the f—ing world.” The […]
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