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, […]
2020 Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Set Design, Lead Performer in a Play (Hayes) and in a Musical (Hayes)
Night four of seven streamed presentation of the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. Tune in tonight to meet 35 nominees and learn which six will clear room on a shelf for a 2020 Helen Hayes Award. If you can’t be in the audience, find real time […]
Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Supporting Performer – Musical (Helen), Costume Design, Adaptation, Play or Musical
Five Helen Hayes Awards will be handed out tonight in this, the third of seven nights of streamed presentations for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards. You are invited to be part of the Zoom audience. So who will forever be known as a 2020 Helen Hayes Award recipient? If you can’t be in the audience, […]
Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Supporting Performer – Play (Hayes), Visiting Performer, Musical Direction
Justin Weaks and Regina Aquino host tonight’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, the second of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celebration on September 25, 2020. The public is invited to become part of the Zoom audience. If you can’t be in the audience, check out the announcements in real time on […]
Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design, Supporting Performer – Musical, Lead Performer – Musical
The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, recognizing excellence on Washington-area stages for 2019, begins tonight with the first of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celebration on September 25, 2020. All are free; the public is invited to register to view. Tonight’s award recipients will be noted here and announced on theatreWashington’s […]
The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards adapt, innovate and make history
How to hold an awards ceremony that has always been as much about bringing the community of theatre makers and theatre supporters together as it was about the awards themselves, during a pandemic? While other awards have settled for abbreviated online shows, The Helen Hayes Awards, now in its 36th year of recognizing excellence on […]
It’s tonight! Memorial Celebration of the life and legacy of Victor Shargai
We hope you can tune in to YouTube tonight as the Washington theatre community comes together in loving tribute to Victor Shargai, long-time leader of theatreWashington, and generous friend and benefactor to many artists and theatre companies. A champion of the wide spectrum of work done by Washington area artists, Shargai, who passed away on […]
DCTS recommends. Online viewing starting July 24
Victor Shargai Memorial Celebration Produced by theatreWashington July 27, 8pm Click to watch on YouTube Victor Shargai, generous benefactor, friend and advocate for theatre in the Washington DC area, passed away on December 24, 2019. His husband, Craig Pascal, invites everyone to a virtual Victor Shargai Memorial Celebration to honor the life and legacy of […]
The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony will be a virtual show this summer.
On Monday, May 18, the night when the DC area theatre community would have been celebrating the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards at The Anthem, honoring theatre excellence in area productions for 2019, theatreWashington took to its Facebook page to announce that the celebration will go on as a virtual event. The move comes amidst a […]
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 […]
Latest COVID-19 news: The Helen Hayes Awards will be held Aug. 24
Washington DC’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, originally scheduled for May 18, has been postponed, theatreWashington, the nonprofit organization responsible for the Awards ceremony has announced. The ceremony will be moved to August 24. The postponement is because of the current coronavirus epidemic, which most experts believe will last at least eight weeks. “Our industry and […]
2020 Helen Hayes Award nominees announced. Most recognized: Olney Theatre Center and Constellation’s Little Shop of Horrors
Olney Theatre Center leads the pack of company nominations with 27 nods for this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, theatreWashington announced last night at its annual kickoff to the Helen Hayes Awards. 1st Stage (19 nominations) came in second. The Awards, named after the famed actor and Washingtonian, will be given for excellence in theater during […]
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