[Editor’s note] In 2018, when Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s Hamlet, set in West Africa and directed by Simon Godwin, arrived at the Kennedy Center, Paapa Essiedu played the title role to unanimous praise. According to Lee Seymour of Forbes, it was the first time the RSC had cast a black actor in the role, considered one of […]
Mary Goldwater Awards preserved on DC Theatre Scene
DCTS to include the Mary Goldwater Awards in its permanent archives For nineteen years, the Washington theater community honored its own in a unique way: for excellence, regardless of category or classification, under difficult circumstances. Those who achieved it received something called the Mary Goldwater Award, and those awardees often considered a Mary Goldwater to […]