Congress has included a $15 billion grant package for performance and related arts, including theaters, in the $900 billion coronavirus relief package it passed on Monday. The program, called “Grants for Shuttered Venue Operators” in the new bill, will provide up to $10 million in grant money to beleaguered cultural institutions. Under the provisions of […]
Community comes together to celebrate Tom Prewitt and his legacy. Everyone welcome.
It’s always an awkward situation when leadership of an organization transitions. The smartest model, of course, is for the outgoing leader to separate cleanly and to fade quietly into the past. That’s much better then having someone hanging around, creating an awkward situation as the old seems to want to cling while the new feels […]
DC Theatre Scene to cease publication Dec 31
After fifteen and a half years and more than ten thousand articles, DC Theatre Scene will cease publishing on December 31, 2020. After December 31, there will be no more reviews, no more articles, no more theater news. “We know this decision will affect many people, and I wish we could have continued to serve,” […]
With GALA’s cancellations, all DC-area theatres are now closed to in-person performances
Shakespeare Theatre Company announced yesterday that it will cancel its limited in-person production of Blindness in light of an increase in the number of DC coronavirus cases. The increase had caused DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to announce further restrictions on her revised Phase Two ReOpen DC plan which goes into effect November 25. “The health […]
Can theatres survive the pandemic? For Brave Spirits, the answer is no.
The economic havoc caused by the coronavirus has claimed another local victim – Brave Spirits Theatre. The nine-year-old company was in the midst of an ambitious project to produce Shakespeare’s histories from Richard II to Richard III when Covid-19 began to shut down theaters – and most other enterprises – in and near DC. The […]
Warning: Scammer posing as British director targets women in online scheme
The DC Theatre Community has been undergoing much transformation throughout the pandemic, beginning with the removal of powerful white men in positions of power. (The Washington Post even referred to it as a “Crisis”). Artists have been coming forward with stories of unsafe practices, mistreatment, predation, and abuse. Then within the community’s whisper network, we […]
Ari Roth resigns from Mosaic Theater of DC
An embittered Ari Roth today announced that he has resigned as Artistic Director of Mosaic Theater Company, the company he founded six years ago after parting with Theater J. Board of Directors Bill Tompkins announced that the Board unanimously accepted his resignation. Roth revealed that unidentified staff had leveled charges of “white supremacist culture and […]
Tom Prewitt, Avant Bard’s leader, memorial service announced
Update: A memorial service for Tom Prewitt will be held Sunday, Nov 29, 2020 at 1 pm ET. Tom’s family invites you to join them in remembering Tom’s life and celebrating his memory. For a link to the Zoom event, email tom.prewitt.memorial@gmail.com (subject: RSVP) by Wednesday, November 25. Tom Prewitt, Avant Bard Theatre’s Artistic Director, […]
National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors free show Friday night on PBS
Before James Corden became known to American audiences as host of “The Late, Late Show,” he became a theatrical star in the Royal National Theatre’s 2011 production of One Man, Two Guvnors. The production moved from the National Theatre to London’s West End before moving to Broadway the following year, and is this Friday night’s […]
theatreWashington increases its Taking Care program for theatre professionals facing financial hardships
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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