Mark Shugoll News

On May 16, 2022, Virginia’s Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre will honor Carol Burnett with the company’s eleventh Stephen Sondheim Award. Paying tribute to Ms. Burnett with live performances are stars of stage and screen Bernadette Peters and Santino Fontana.

Theatre Washington, the service organization for Washington, DC-area theatres, and Limelight Insights by Shugoll, a national marketing research company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, conducted an online survey about whether regional theatre-goers want the current mask and vaccination requirements in theatres to end on April 30, 2022 or subsequent months.

Theatre Washington, the service organization for Washington, DC-area theatres, and Limelight Insights by Shugoll, a national marketing research company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, conducted an online survey about whether regional theatre-goers want the current mask and vaccination requirements in theatres to end on April 30, 2022. The study is based on 2,128 responses from DC area theatre-goers from March 14-March 17. Despite indoor mask and vaccination mandates terminating in many local jurisdictions, significantly more audience members respond negatively than positively about ending these requirements in theatres. Based on the survey results and in consultation with partner theatres, Theatre Washington has extended the Unified Mask and Vaccination Policy to April 30, 2022, and will be reviewing it further through the launch of the new season in August/September.

Shugoll Research, a national marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland, conducted an online survey with 743 DC area theatergoers on their intent to return to the theater when it reopens after the coronavirus pandemic and their views on systemic racism in area theaters. This is the second wave of this DC study and is intended to track changes from wave 1 in early April until now.

Shugoll Research, a national marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland, is releasing a Phase III study of theatergoers and their intent to return to the theater when it reopens after the coronavirus pandemic. This phase focuses on a national sample of theatergoers.

A new survey conducted by Shugoll Research shows that New Yorkers will not be immediately ready to return to theaters when they reopen.

Towards the end of the musical A Chorus Line, the director/choreographer asks of his auditioning dancers 'What are you going to do when you can't dance anymore?' The COVID-19 outbreak has affected everybody without question. Social distancing, face masks, and quarantining ourselves have become the 'new normal.' It's anything but that!

Shugoll Research, a national marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland, conducted an online survey with 2,762 DC area theatergoers on their intent to return to the theater when it reopens after the coronavirus pandemic. 

Helen Hayes Award winner and former Arena Stage Associate Artistic Director Kyle Donnelly (Ah, Wilderness!) directs the D.C.-area premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's smash hit OTHER DESERT CITIES with a cast that features Tony Award nominee and two-time Helen Hayes Award winner Helen Carey (Arena Stage's Long Day's Journey into Night, Broadway's Hedda Gabler) and two-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Larry Bryggman (Broadway's Harvey, CBS's As the World Turns). The show opened last night, May 2, and BroadwayWorld has photos from the festivities!

Last night, April 4, was the opening night celebration for THE MOUNTAINTOP at Arena Stage. Opening night fell on the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Scroll down for photos from the festivities, featuring notable guests playwright Katori Hall, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congresswoman Donna Edwards and Former Congressman Harold Ford, Sr.!

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, announces new leadership of its board of directors and seven new members. Philip Himberg, producing artistic director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, will assume the position of board president. He succeeds Martha Lavey, artistic director of Steppenwolf, who concluded a two year term in June. He will be joined by returning vice president, James Bundy, artistic director, Yale Repertory Theatre and newly appointed vice president Rachel Kraft, executive director, Lookingglass Theatre Company. Roche Schulfer, executive director, Goodman Theatre will serve as treasurer and Olga Sanchez, artistic director, Miracle Theatre Group, will serve again as secretary. Lavey will remain on the board as immediate past President.

Broadway favorites Julia Murney and Heidi Blickenstaff will take part in ArtSpeak!'s 13th season kickoff September 21.

Broadway favorites Julia Murney and Heidi Blickenstaff will take part in ArtSpeak!'s 13th season kickoff September 21.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce its new board of directors' leadership team and new members. Martha Lavey, artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, will assume the position of board president.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce its new board of directors' leadership team and new members. Martha Lavey, artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, will assume the position of board president.

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith announced that the Board of Trustees has appointed Edgar Dobie as the new Managing Director of the theater. With roots in non-profit theater management in the U.S. and Canada, Dobie is a Tony Award-winning commercial producer who will begin with Arena Stage at the end of March.

Arena Stage held a groundbreaking ceremony today to officially commence construction on its 47-year-old theater campus in Southwest, D.C. This expansion and renovation will make way for the new Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, a three-theater facility dedicated to the development and production of American theater