Starring Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck; Lincoln) and directed by Derek Goldman, the play recounts the astonishing and largely unknown story of Polish World War II hero and Holocaust witness Jan Karski. It is presented in partnership with The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University and Bisno Productions.
Everyman Theatre has announced its 25th anniversary season. For the first time ever, the company will present a rotating repertory of two masterpieces of American theatre: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Both productions will feature the same cast and performances will rotate from day to day. Known as The Great American Rep, this event will take place from April 5 through June 12, 2016.
Tonight before a crowd of 1,200 theatre-makers and theatre-lovers at the historic Lincoln Theatre, theatreWashington celebrated excellence on Washington stages at the 2015 Helen Hayes Awards. The awards celebration was a night of excitement and surprise as 57 Washington theatre artists, theatres, and ensembles received honors in 47 categories for their outstanding accomplishments during the 2014 theatre season. Scroll down for the full list of winners!
One of the country's most prestigious cultural honors, The Helen Hayes Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in professional theatre throughout the Washington metropolitan area. theatreWashington will host The 2015 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony tonight, April 6, 2015 at the historic Lincoln Theatre.
Slow Falling Bird, written by acclaimed Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program faculty member Christine Evans, who 'writes from the gut with a darkly gritty world-view' in this 'multi-layered, superlatively textured script' (San Francisco Bay Times), makes its area premiere at Georgetown's Davis Performing Arts Center, in the Gonda Theatre from tonight, March 26-April 11 (showtimes below). Slow Falling Bird, written by acclaimed Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program faculty member Christine Evans, who 'writes from the gut with a darkly gritty world-view' in this 'multi-layered, superlatively textured script' (San Francisco Bay Times), makes its area premiere at Georgetown's Davis Performing Arts Center, in the Gonda Theatre from March 26-April 11 (showtimes below).
The Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program presents for one-night only Belgrade-based DAH (meaning "breath") Teatar, known for its acutely personal yet profoundly political performances. The Monday, March 30, 2015 workshop performance at 8 p.m. of their duet piece "The Quivering of the Rose," excerpted from a larger ensemble work called The Presence of Absence, gives voice to the pain and constant presence of absence endured by families of the missing - those lost to ethnic and political conflict, crime and misfortune, and to the unknown and undefined.
Slow Falling Bird, written by acclaimed Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program faculty member Christine Evans, who "writes from the gut with a darkly gritty world-view" in this "multi-layered, superlatively textured script' (San Francisco Bay Times), makes its area premiere at Georgetown's Davis Performing Arts Center, in the Gonda Theatre from March 26-April 11 (showtimes below). Slow Falling Bird, written by acclaimed Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program faculty member Christine Evans, who "writes from the gut with a darkly gritty world-view" in this "multi-layered, superlatively textured script' (San Francisco Bay Times), makes its area premiere at Georgetown's Davis Performing Arts Center, in the Gonda Theatre from March 26-April 11 (showtimes below).
Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, continues its 77th Anniversary season with George Brant's Grounded, directed by Derek Goldman, running tonight, February 25-March 22 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab.
Energetic and talented cast shines in new version of Stephen Schwartz hit musical.
Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, continues its 77th Anniversary season with George Brant's Grounded, directed by Derek Goldman, running February 25- March 22 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. Grounded is a co-production with Baltimore's Everyman Theatre, where it was seen last October. Grounded is the story of an ace fighter pilot who becomes pregnant and gets reassigned to operating drones from a windowless trailer on an Air Force base in the desert outside Las Vegas. Hunting terrorists by day and coming home to her family at night, the boundaries between reality and the screen - between the desert where she lives and the desert where she fights - blur until the pressure becomes impossible to bear.
Tonight before a crowd of 150 theatre makers and theatre lovers, theatreWashington announced the nominees for the 2015 Helen Hayes Awards. One of the country's most prestigious cultural honors, The Helen Hayes Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in professional theatre throughout the Washington metropolitan area. Watch the full announcement below, and scroll down for the list of nominees!
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The sold-out, award-winning London hit Grounded lands in Baltimore for the first time in a new production at Everyman Theatre starring City Paper's 2014 Best Actress and Everyman Resident Company Member, Megan Anderson. She's a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. Her unexpected pregnancy ends her high-flying career over the Middle Eastern skies. She finds herself instead flying remote-controlled drones half a world away while in a comfortable trailer just outside of Vegas.
The sold-out, award-winning London hit Grounded lands in Baltimore for the first time in a new production at Everyman Theatre starring City Paper's 2014 Best Actress and Everyman Resident Company Member, Megan Anderson. She's a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. Her unexpected pregnancy ends her high-flying career over the Middle Eastern skies. She finds herself instead flying remote-controlled drones half a world away while in a comfortable trailer just outside of Vegas.
Olney Theatre Center, Maryland's destination for professional theater performance and education, proudly announced its 2015 Season at the opening of its current hit show, Avenue Q, on Saturday, June 16. One of Maryland's two state theaters, Olney Theatre Center continues its commitment to producing great American classics, new works, as well as family-friendly shows in its 77thyea
Synetic Theater will conclude their 2013/14 Season in May with a new adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog).
Synetic Theater will conclude their 2013/14 Season in May with a new adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog).
Synetic Theater's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is an ingeniously witty exploration of the trials and tribulations of traveling all told through the exploits of three men and their dog cruising the Thames.
The cutting-edge theater genre 'Participatory Theater' will be the focus of the 2014 Zeitgeist DC International Festival and Symposium. Theater innovators from Germany, Switzerland and Austria will collaborate with Washington, DC actors and directors on audience-interactive performance events and a unique hands-on symposium. The Festival, which takes place at the Goethe-Institut and at Georgetown University today, May 10-12, 2014, will examine integrative techniques, technology design and theory.
The Davis Performing Arts Center and the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University, a joint initiative between the Theater and Performance Studies Program and the School of Foreign Service, are pleased to announce a world premiere staged reading of 'Remember This: Walking with Jan Karski,' featuring Academy Award Nominee David Strathairn ('Good Night and Good Luck', 'Lincoln,' 'Bourne Ultimatum') as Jan Karski (1914-2000), with an ensemble of Georgetown students. The work, written/adapted by Prof. Derek Goldman and Clark Young (COL '09) and directed by Prof. Derek Goldman, will be presented tonight, April 24, 2014 at 5 p.m., on Karski's centennial, in the Davis Performing Arts Center's Gonda Theatre.
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