Hayley Finn News

Theater J has announced that, due to popular demand, their world premiere production Hester Street will be extending its run through April 28. 

Theater J has unveiled its 2024-2025 season. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

Mosaic Theater Company will present the world premiere of Nancy, an audacious and funny new play exploring ancestry, ambition and motherhood through the figures of Nancy Reagan and Esmeralda, a Navajo mother.

Beginning on March 27 and running through April 21, Theater J brings the world premiere of Hester Street to the stage.

What an odd thing the human mind is! –for it can make false assumptions, construct facile rationalizations, and rely on preconceived notions---as the audience soon finds out through the alternately clever, character-driven, and coiling convolutions of Theater J’s east coast premiere of the play This Much I Know. This is a play that asks questions more than it supplies answers and in that the audience can find sufficient satisfaction.

Get a first look at an all new trailer for Theatre J's This Much I Know. Written by the highly acclaimed playwright Jonathan Spector, This Much I Know will be directed by Theater J Artistic Director, Hayley Finn, making her directorial debut for the company. 

Hayley Finn makes her directorial debut with Theater J's production of 'This Much I Know'. Inspired by the research of Daniel Kahneman, the play explores the fracture of a marriage and the search for self-discovery. Starring Firdous Bamji.

'See You Tomorrow' is a timely and poignant one-woman play set in Israel, exploring themes of family, caregiving, and memory. Don't miss this world premiere production by award-winning comedian and actor Iris Bahr at Theater J.

Get the latest news on Theater J's upcoming world premiere of the stage adaptation of 'Hester Street.' Directed by Oliver Butler, this highly-anticipated production brings Joan Micklin Silver's beloved film to life in April 2024. Don't miss your chance to experience this new adaptation at Theater J in Washington DC.

Beginning on October 11 and running through November 5, Theater J brings The Chameleon to the stage. This production is a world premiere from New York-based playwright Jenny Rachel Weiner, directed by fellow New Yorker, Ellie Heyman. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!

Theater J has announced its 2023-2024 season, the first season planned by the theater’s new Artistic Director, Hayley Finn. Featuring world premiere productions, the debut of a solo play series, and an abundance of new works by emerging writers within the American theater landscape, this season builds on Theater J’s legacy as a home for exceptional new work within Washington, DC and throughout the country.

The Dominic Orlando Fund, which was created in 2022 following playwright Dominic Orlando's passing in 2021, announces the inaugural recipient of the Dominic Orlando Playwriting Award: José Casas. The two other finalists for the award were Tyla Abercrumbie of Chicago and Roger Q. Mason of Los Angeles.

What happens to us when we look? What happens when we don't? Those questions underpin the DC premiere of Unseen, Mona Mansour's suspenseful new work about the trauma experienced—and documented by—American conflict photographer Mia.

Audiences are buying tickets closer to the actual show date - but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re making the decision to see the show late. In a post-COVID era, audiences are more attuned to the fact that things can shift, and so in an effort to protect themselves from navigating a cancellation, they’re waiting to purchase their tickets.

Theater J has announced that Hayley Finn (she/her) will become its new Artistic Director on February 1, 2023.

In January, New Conservatory Theatre Center will kick off 2023 with Dipika Guha's stirring story of self-discovery in the world premiere of Getting There.

Little Known Facts is a weekly podcast hosted by stage and film actress Ilana Levine. Today's episode features Mona Monsour! Mona Monsour's THE VAGRANT TRILOGY made its New York City debut in April 2022 at the Public Theater, directed by Mark Wing-Davey.

The Public Theater will begin performances for the New York premiere of THE VAGRANT TRILOGY on Friday, April 8 with a Joseph Papp Free Performance, after the cancellation of the 2020 production just five days before the first performance and a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Cygnet Theatre announces the inaugural Dee Silver M.D. Commission, which will award $10,000 and an unrestricted time limit on the creation of a new play that responds to our present times with hope and healing. The first commission award goes to playwright Ray Yamanouchi, an up-and-coming east coast playwright who approaches difficult subject matter with a tilt towards the mystic and develops characters with gentleness.  

Six Points Theater presents Chanukah in the Dark, a world premiere with original songs, commissioned by the theater, and written by Hayley Finn, with music by Adam Wernick and directed by Jennie Ward. It's the first holiday show for Six Points Theater in two years.