70 days. 10 weeks. 2 months. 1,680 hours. 100,800 minutes. 6,048,000 seconds. No. This is not the lyric sheet to some RENT musical remix. This is the amount of time that stood between Theatre as we knew it and one very sweet moment of reuniting on June 8, 2020. On April 1, 2020 at 12:01am, […]
Playwright Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) on self love and self acceptance in these turbulent times
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in September on its way to Broadway. (It’s been rescheduled in DC for summer, 2021.) Meanwhile, his musical on hold even as it piles up accolades, Jackson is […]
Billie Krishawn hands out help while photographing the Black Lives Movement on the streets of DC.
Billie Krishawn is a DC area actor and photographer whose work will soon appear on our pages. This weekend she is back on the streets, adding to her extensive photo coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests on the streets of Washington, DC. As the protests have grown and shifted, she has expanded her work […]
Music for the movement: Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
“It’s been a long, long time coming But I know that change is gonna come” – Sam Cooke, 1964 Recommended by Pamela Jafari. “I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. I have a 26 y/o grandson, and 3 y/o great-grandson, who I am always concerned about […]
The Lord Is My Shepherd: the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice
We ask: what art by artists of color sustains or inspires you? From Gregory J. Ford comes this answer. As a little Black boy being “raised” in the Church of God in Christ, the 23rd Psalm was required memorization. The ancient Hebrew scripture that Black folks were permitted access to accurately described the contours of […]
Music for the Movement: Stereotypes by Black Violin
Kev Marcus and Wil B, musicians from Florida, are Black Violin. Stereotypes run deep in our psyches. From who we represent that we are to each other, to what we wear, to our age, even to the stereotype of a musical instrument, such as the violin.
Statement from DC Theatre Scene on the murder of George Floyd
DC Theatre Scene stands in solidarity with all people fighting for racial justice in this country. We stand in witness to the righteous anger and despair brought on by the killing of George Floyd last week and the many deaths which preceded his. But standing in silent witness is not enough. We each must do […]