The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new plays-has received the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theater Company. Presented at theatreWashington's Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, the award recognizes and encourages the efforts of companies who are just getting started yet have produced a body of work that is new, daring, and groundbreaking.
The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new plays-has been granted $30,000 by The Reva and David Logan Foundation. The challenge grant supports general operating at $10,000 for each of three years.
The Kennedy Center hosts its 14th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Today, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2015, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. The 14th Annual Page-to-Stage event showcases more than 40 new plays by female playwrights and includes nine works that are part of the citywide Women's Voices Theater Festival, which officially begins on September 8.
The Kennedy Center hosts its 14th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2015, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. The 14th Annual Page-to-Stage event showcases more than 40 new plays by female playwrights and includes nine works that are part of the citywide Women's Voices Theater Festival, which officially begins on September 8.
The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work-has named Renee Calarco as its new artistic director. Calarco will lead the company through late 2015. She succeeds Bob Bartlett, who served as the company's artistic director during the development and production of his own critically acclaimed play happiness (and other reasons to die), and Caleen Sinnette Jennings, author of Not Enuf Lifetimes. Allyson Currin, author The Carolina Layaway Grail, was The Welders' inaugural artistic director.
Returning for its fifth year, The Theatre Lab's Dramathon, May 15 at 10:30 p.m. at Theater J, once again joins together the talents of some of the DC area's most well-known actors and accomplished playwrights - along with Theatre Lab students and alumni - in world premiere staged readings of short plays written for that night. All proceeds generated by the event go toward The Theatre Lab's scholarship fund.
The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work-have launched their third production. happiness (and other reasons to die), a new play by Bob Bartlett, opens May 30, 2015 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Gregg Henry will direct.
The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work-has named Bob Bartlett as their new artistic director. Bartlett will lead the company through mid-2015. He succeeds Caleen Sinnette Jennings, who served as the company's artistic director during the development and production of her own critically acclaimed play Not Enuf Lifetimes. Allyson Currin, author of the critical and box-office hit The Carolina Layaway Grail, was The Welders' inaugural artistic director.
Theater Alliance announces its 12th Season with a lineup of three world premieres by award-winning playwrights, the return of the holiday classic Black Nativity, and the third annual Hothouse reading series that will develop four new pieces from DC based playwrights.
Theaterspeak will present WRITE OUT FRONT, an installation of over 125 award-winning and up-and-coming playwrights writing new plays in the storefront window of the Drama Book Shop during store hours, today, August 1st - 31st. In each two-hour time slot for WRITE OUT FRONT, a different playwright will write a new play on a laptop, while the screen shot of their computer is projected onto a 42' monitor facing the passersby on the street, making their normally private creative process public.
Theaterspeak will present WRITE OUT FRONT, an installation of over 125 award-winning and up-and-coming playwrights writing new plays in the storefront window of the Drama Book Shop during store hours, August 1st - 31st. In each two-hour time slot for WRITE OUT FRONT, a different playwright will write a new play on a laptop, while the screen shot of their computer is projected onto a 42' monitor facing the passersby on the street, making their normally private creative process public.
Round House Theatre and the New York based company, The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) have created a dynamic partnership to present The 1st Washington, D.C. One-Minute Play Festival, to be performed July 12 - 14, 2014 at Round House Theatre. Following sold-out performances in more than 20 cities, this festival aims to celebrate local voices and investigate the local zeitgeist through this exciting process. Performances are at 8pm on Saturday, July 12, Sunday, July 13, and Monday, July 14.
The Artist, the Canvas, and the 'thunderous boss' come together to make 'Bareback Ink' a must see at the Iron Crow Theatre Company's Swirnow stage.
Iron Crow Theatre Company presents Bareback Ink. A mysterious, powerful man commissions an isolated and withdrawn tattoo artist to create a large work of 'ink' on the back of his beautiful, restless boy-toy. Greek mythology serves as inspiration for this modern, erotic tale of desire and possession. An earlier version of this piece was seen at the Capitol Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe in 2012. Now, playwright Bob Bartlett teams up with Iron Crow to workshop the play and take it to even more dangerous places.
Iron Crow Theatre Company presents Bareback Ink. A mysterious, powerful man commissions an isolated and withdrawn tattoo artist to create a large work of "ink" on the back of his beautiful, restless boy-toy. Greek mythology serves as inspiration for this modern, erotic tale of desire and possession. An earlier version of this piece was seen at the Capitol Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe in 2012. Now, playwright Bob Bartlett teams up with Iron Crow to workshop the play and take it to even more dangerous places.
The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work-has named Caleen Sinnette Jennings as their new artistic director. Jennings, who will lead the company through late 2014, succeeds Allyson Currin, who served as the company's artistic director during the development and production of her own critically acclaimed play, The Carolina Layaway Grail.
The Welders present their first production, Allyson Currin's The Carolina Layaway Grail, a post-modern comedy about a world peopled with sorcerers, sidekicks, villains, and incompetent bureaucrats.
The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new plays-has been granted $10,000 in general support by Venturous Theater Fund. The grant, which is open to applicants by invitation only, is offered to artists and organizations who create ambitious, challenging new work.
The Welders announce the full company and creative team for their first production, Allyson Currin's The Carolina Layaway Grail, a post-modern comedy about a world peopled with sorcerers, sidekicks, villains, and incompetent bureaucrats.
The Welders, a DC-based playwrights' collective whose mission is to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play development and production, today announced the members of its Board of Directors. The nine-member board of area professionals will advise, lead, and counsel the collective of DC playwrights.
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