Partner Updates The latest news and announcements from our partner theatres and the Washington, DC-area theatre community. Search Filters Sort by Date (Newest First) Update Type Features & Interviews Opinion News Leadership & Staff Fundraising Campaign New Initiative Season Announcement Policy Update Anti-Racism Statement Show ResultsReset filters 1 to 20 items shown of 42 DC Theater Arts Timothy Nelson on the high-wire thinking behind IN Series’ ‘Alceste’ Sep 8, 2023 In an in-depth conversation, the artistic director shares the conception and components of a new play with music inspired by a lost Euripides play. DC Theater Arts ‘Power in service for others is real power’: Pearl Cleage on her new play at Ford’s Aug 26, 2023 In 'Something Moving,' the renowned playwright reflects on Atlanta’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson, for whom she was press secretary and speech writer. DC Theater Arts ‘Huge themes are the proper domain of theater’: a Q&A with José Rivera Jun 23, 2023 The award-winning playwright and screenwriter on why he writes about life, death, and the soul. DC Theater Arts Musical makers Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith score a Helen Hayes nomination May 13, 2023 Get to know the creative duo who are up for the prestigious Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical. DC Theater Arts A talk with a Holocaust historian and the actor who plays her in ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ May 13, 2023 At Shakespeare Theatre, Elizabeth Stahlmann stars as Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, the real-life archivist who received a mysterious album of Nazi photographs. DC Theater Arts Getting to know Elizabeth Dinkova: ‘I like creating a brave space’ Apr 27, 2023 The incoming artistic director of Spooky Action Theater is the face of renewed hope for a company whose very survival was in doubt just a year ago. DC Theater Arts At play in the ashes of the dead: János Szász on directing ‘Angels in America’ Apr 18, 2023 Inside the creation of the Arena Stage production, which transforms our understanding of a great work in a way that finds in it new truth. DC Theater Arts Playwright E.M. Lewis on how ‘How the Light Gets In’ happened Mar 16, 2023 A chat with friend and playwright Bob Bartlett about her very personal play now at 1st Stage. DC Theater Arts Jason Tamborini and Aria Velz on what takes the cake in ‘The Cake’ Mar 10, 2023 As Prologue's resplendent production transfers to NextStop, the designer and director share their winning recipe for authenticity and astonishment. DC Theater Arts Michael Urie and Ryan Spahn spill the tea on ‘Jane Anger’ at STC Dec 26, 2022 The actors play Shakespeare and his apprentice in their friend Talene Monahan's feminist revenge farce now at Shakespeare Theatre Company. DC Theater Arts Sheldon Epps on being a Black artistic director in the American theater Nov 25, 2022 A frank conversation with the eminent artist about being 'chased by race' and an exclusive excerpt from his inspiring new memoir, 'My Own Directions.' Rep Stage Howard Community College Announces Final Season for Rep Stage Nov 13, 2022 Rep Stage, the professional regional theatre at Howard Community College, will present its final season with “Ghost/Writer” and “Falsettos”. Theater J Alicia Louzoun-Heisler to Receive Theater J's 2021 Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize at November 15th Benefit Nov 9, 2022 Theater J is proud to announce the winner of the 2022 Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize: Alicia Louzoun-Heisler with her play Bashert. Theatre J Itamar Moses to Receive Theater J’s 2022 Trish Vrandenburg New Jewish Play Prize at November 15th Benefit Nov 9, 2022 Theater J is proud to announce the winner of the 2022 Theater J Trish Vradenburg New Jewish Play Prize: Itamar Moses with his play The Ally. DC Theater Arts My lunch with Ari Roth, who appears barely disguised in his own new play Oct 5, 2022 A conversation with playwright Ari Roth and dramaturg Debbie Minter Jackson previews "My Calamitous Affair with the Minister of Culture and Censorship." DC Theater Arts A refugee story set to Jewish wedding music? Christian Barry explains. Sep 1, 2022 The coauthor and director of ‘Old Stock’—coming to Theater J—talks about how the acclaimed klezmer musical merges comedy and sex with the sorrow of loss. DC Theater Arts The woman who freed Frederick Douglass: a Q&A with Kristolyn Lloyd Aug 19, 2022 Behind every great man is a great woman, and the actor who plays Anna Douglass in 'American Prophet' at Arena Stage reveals the power in that truth. DC Theater Arts Who’s the one with blue hair in ‘Hot Wing King’? A Q&A with Michael Kevin Darnall Aug 1, 2022 In the Pulitzer Prize–winning play now at Studio, the brilliant local actor plays a gender-nonconforming gay Black male who has found a new family. Folger Theatre Call for Ushers at Folger Theatre Jul 21, 2022 Folger Theatre is looking for some enthusiastic volunteers to assist with our upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the National Building Museum. Shakespeare Theatre Company STC Offers Free Ticket Program and Fundraising for Taking Care Fund During the Run of Our Town Apr 29, 2022 Shakespeare Theatre Company will be participating in the Free Will and Taking Care Initiatives for the entire run of Our Town (May 12 through June 11). Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page ›› Last page Last »
DC Theater Arts Timothy Nelson on the high-wire thinking behind IN Series’ ‘Alceste’ Sep 8, 2023 In an in-depth conversation, the artistic director shares the conception and components of a new play with music inspired by a lost Euripides play.
DC Theater Arts ‘Power in service for others is real power’: Pearl Cleage on her new play at Ford’s Aug 26, 2023 In 'Something Moving,' the renowned playwright reflects on Atlanta’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson, for whom she was press secretary and speech writer.
DC Theater Arts ‘Huge themes are the proper domain of theater’: a Q&A with José Rivera Jun 23, 2023 The award-winning playwright and screenwriter on why he writes about life, death, and the soul.
DC Theater Arts Musical makers Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith score a Helen Hayes nomination May 13, 2023 Get to know the creative duo who are up for the prestigious Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical.
DC Theater Arts A talk with a Holocaust historian and the actor who plays her in ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ May 13, 2023 At Shakespeare Theatre, Elizabeth Stahlmann stars as Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, the real-life archivist who received a mysterious album of Nazi photographs.
DC Theater Arts Getting to know Elizabeth Dinkova: ‘I like creating a brave space’ Apr 27, 2023 The incoming artistic director of Spooky Action Theater is the face of renewed hope for a company whose very survival was in doubt just a year ago.
DC Theater Arts At play in the ashes of the dead: János Szász on directing ‘Angels in America’ Apr 18, 2023 Inside the creation of the Arena Stage production, which transforms our understanding of a great work in a way that finds in it new truth.
DC Theater Arts Playwright E.M. Lewis on how ‘How the Light Gets In’ happened Mar 16, 2023 A chat with friend and playwright Bob Bartlett about her very personal play now at 1st Stage.
DC Theater Arts Jason Tamborini and Aria Velz on what takes the cake in ‘The Cake’ Mar 10, 2023 As Prologue's resplendent production transfers to NextStop, the designer and director share their winning recipe for authenticity and astonishment.
DC Theater Arts Michael Urie and Ryan Spahn spill the tea on ‘Jane Anger’ at STC Dec 26, 2022 The actors play Shakespeare and his apprentice in their friend Talene Monahan's feminist revenge farce now at Shakespeare Theatre Company.
DC Theater Arts Sheldon Epps on being a Black artistic director in the American theater Nov 25, 2022 A frank conversation with the eminent artist about being 'chased by race' and an exclusive excerpt from his inspiring new memoir, 'My Own Directions.'
Rep Stage Howard Community College Announces Final Season for Rep Stage Nov 13, 2022 Rep Stage, the professional regional theatre at Howard Community College, will present its final season with “Ghost/Writer” and “Falsettos”.
Theater J Alicia Louzoun-Heisler to Receive Theater J's 2021 Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize at November 15th Benefit Nov 9, 2022 Theater J is proud to announce the winner of the 2022 Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize: Alicia Louzoun-Heisler with her play Bashert.
Theatre J Itamar Moses to Receive Theater J’s 2022 Trish Vrandenburg New Jewish Play Prize at November 15th Benefit Nov 9, 2022 Theater J is proud to announce the winner of the 2022 Theater J Trish Vradenburg New Jewish Play Prize: Itamar Moses with his play The Ally.
DC Theater Arts My lunch with Ari Roth, who appears barely disguised in his own new play Oct 5, 2022 A conversation with playwright Ari Roth and dramaturg Debbie Minter Jackson previews "My Calamitous Affair with the Minister of Culture and Censorship."
DC Theater Arts A refugee story set to Jewish wedding music? Christian Barry explains. Sep 1, 2022 The coauthor and director of ‘Old Stock’—coming to Theater J—talks about how the acclaimed klezmer musical merges comedy and sex with the sorrow of loss.
DC Theater Arts The woman who freed Frederick Douglass: a Q&A with Kristolyn Lloyd Aug 19, 2022 Behind every great man is a great woman, and the actor who plays Anna Douglass in 'American Prophet' at Arena Stage reveals the power in that truth.
DC Theater Arts Who’s the one with blue hair in ‘Hot Wing King’? A Q&A with Michael Kevin Darnall Aug 1, 2022 In the Pulitzer Prize–winning play now at Studio, the brilliant local actor plays a gender-nonconforming gay Black male who has found a new family.
Folger Theatre Call for Ushers at Folger Theatre Jul 21, 2022 Folger Theatre is looking for some enthusiastic volunteers to assist with our upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the National Building Museum.
Shakespeare Theatre Company STC Offers Free Ticket Program and Fundraising for Taking Care Fund During the Run of Our Town Apr 29, 2022 Shakespeare Theatre Company will be participating in the Free Will and Taking Care Initiatives for the entire run of Our Town (May 12 through June 11).
