Michael Kahn News

Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn announced the Company's 2007-2008 season, which will open the Harman Center for the Arts

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will host its 20th Annual Gala on Sunday, March 4, 2007, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium (1301 Constitution Avenue NW).

Christine Andreas, Elena Shaddow, David Burnham, Steve Kazee, Judith Ivey and Bill Pullman are among the nominees of the 27th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, celebrating achievement in Washington, D.C.-area theatre.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Shakespeare Theatre Company present one performance of The Supreme Court Hears the Trial of Hamlet on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 7:30pm in the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater.

Disney's The Lion King will welcome back Patrick Page to the role of 'Scar' tonight at the Minskoff Theatre.

Helen Hayes Award-winner Geraint Wyn Davies stars with Drama Desk Award-winning Broadway actress Pamela Payton-Wright in Richard III at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.

Geraint Wyn Davies - the Welsh-born actor who won the Helen Hayes Best Actor Award for his acclaimed performance as Cyrano at the Shakespeare Theatre Company - will return to the boards in the title role of Richard III in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production, starting performances at company's Lansburgh Theatre from January 16 through March 18, 2007

Over the next six months, Washington, D.C. audiences will be treated to a veritable banquet of Shakespeare plays

An interview with Matthew Schleigh, star of It's a Wonderful Life, Ragtime, and Buddy.

A weekly column on Broadway and Baltimore/Washington Theater

A weekly column on Broadway, Baltimore, and Washington theater

A weekly column on Broadway, Baltimore, and Washington theater.

A new Washington, D.C. performing arts facility, Sidney Harman Hall, is being developed by the Shakespeare Theatre

The Helen Hayes Awards honor achievement, celebrate, and promote the Washington D.C. professional theatre.

Congratulations to the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, one of 3 local arts organizations included in this national event in DC in 2007!

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the upcoming the world premiere production of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY. Directed by Michael Bush, the production begins previews on March 23 and opens on April 11 at New York City Center - Stage II (131 West 55th Street).

The Jean Cocteau Rep will present a reading of Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio on January 23rd

Michael Kahn will step down from his job as director of the Drama Division at Juilliard in order to dedicate himself to his Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. while continuing to teach at Juilliard

The cast includes Jill Clayburgh (Bess), Richard Thomas (Jeffrey), Matthew Morrison (Thad), Susan Kelechi Watson (Juliet), James Yaegashi (Bill), Leslie Ayvazian (Elaine) and Ann Guilbert (Sadie).