Arlington News

Tony Award winner Betty Buckley stars as a controversial celebrity psychic with blood on her hands in the latest Grand Guignolesque monologue play written & directed by Aaron Mark (The Horror of Dolores Roach), available exclusively on Audible beginning today, May 20th, 2021.

The League of Chicago Theatres has announced plans for upcoming in-person performances this spring and summer. Many companies are also preparing for fall venue and production openings and some are taking advantage of the warmer months to produce outdoors.

​​​​​​​Uniting US will partner and provide the Summer with the Arts programming with the Military Women's Memorial (MWM).

This summer Corn Exchange Newbury is inviting everyone to enjoy the very best cultural experiences, both indoors and outdoors, with the launch of their very first Out of Doors Festival as well as a summer season of shows in the main auditorium, classes and courses in the Learning Centre and workshops and exhibitions at The Base, Greenham.

The Arlington Theatre is set to reopen its doors on May 21. The theatre's reopening will coincide with its 90th anniversary, and to celebrate, Metropolitan Theatres will be holding a three-day event featuring showings of classic films.

Boston Gay Men's Chorus has announced that its annual benefit gala ENCORE will take place virtually on Saturday, May 1 at 7pm. ENCORE will feature all of the elements of the in-person experience, but will present them online.

Texas native Hannah Bell has been in Nashville for four years and in that amount of time, she has made quite an impact. Releasing six songs before the age of 20, she continues to grow and improve with each one.

Synetic Theater has announced the World Premiere of a new documentary, Transmogrification by Award-winning DC-based Azerbaijani filmmaker Shamil Najafzada. The film was shot in 2019 and followed the creation of Synetic Theater’s 2019 stage production Richard 3.0

Do you want to work with one of the greatest storytellers in the theatre from anywhere in the world? Tony Award Winner, Theatre Hall of Fame honoree, and legendary Broadway star Betty Buckley will be offering her Song/Monologue Master Class ONLINE, at the T. Schreiber Studio. Betty will share her own unique spiritual philosophy and meditation techniques to help actors and singers not only connect passionately and truthfully to their material, but understand how to bring that connection to each and every audience member.

Metropolis' signature fundraising event returns as Metropolis Virtual Gala: Mask-erade, including multiple ways to participate on Friday, April 30, 2021.

The Washington, D.C. area performing arts organization Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has awarded grants to eight local high schools across metropolitan Washington, D.C. grants to fund music, dance, or theater projects at their respective schools, as part of Wolf Trap's Grants for High School Performing Arts Teachers Program.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre will present outdoor performances of Little Shop of Horrors May 6 – June 19, 2021. During a solar eclipse, shy, love-struck floral assistant Seymour discovers a strange and unusual plant he names “Audrey II”- after his co- worker crush.

Constellation Theatre Company will kick off Season 14: Electric Impulses with Sue Jin Song's powerful one-woman show, Children of Medea. The production will be fully staged and filmed at CulturalDC's Source Theatre using a dynamic multi-camera setup and streamed online to audiences across the DC area and beyond.

Located just two miles from downtown Dallas, Fair Park, a National Historic Landmark, is installing ActivePure Technology in ten buildings within its 277 acres. Dallas-based ActivePure Technology is a global provider of air and surface purification products and technology focused on immediate solutions for eliminating the COVID-19 virus indoors.  

The Old Opera House Theatre Company will present the winning entries in the 2021 New Voice Play Festival. 

George Mason University's Arts Management Program presents Rethinking the President's Committee for Arts and Humanities: Opportunities for Policy Innovation Under a New Administration, Wednesday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m. as part of Mason Arts at Home and presented in coordination with Arlington Forward.

Piano Bar Live! (PBL!) streams this Tuesday, March 23 at 7:15 pm ET, celebrating St. Louis piano bar and cabaret, co-hosted by Scott Barbarino and Katie Dunne McGrath.

Urban returns for his second year after hosting the 55th ACM Awards in September, while this marks Guyton’s first time hosting the ACM Awards and the 29th time multiple hosts have taken the ACM Awards stage.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre plans to stage productions this spring and summer under a tent in Arlington Heights.

This grant will provide the 48-year-old theater the opportunity to renovate and improve their 52-year-old theater building. Since 2007, the ATF has contributed almost $21 million to the great city of Arlington to keep it thriving by supporting the causes which benefit the citizens and enhance the natural surroundings and lifestyle of the city.