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A totally make-believe man who dresses properly for any occasion might seem unusual, but then, there's also the landscape painter who wears a lighted minor's lamp and only paints at night.

History Matters/Back To The Future, committed to promoting the study and production of women's plays of the past, has announced the winner of the second annual Judith Barlow Prize.

Imagination Stage's Acting Conservatory will perform LORD OF THE FLIES, an adaptation of the book by William Golding, April 29-May 1, 2016 in the Christopher and Dana Reeve Theatre.

The Kennedy Center announced today the schedule and artist lineup for American Acoustic with Chris Thile, a four-day festival curated by virtuoso mandolinist, singer, and composer Chris Thile.

Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) announces the return of playwright David Ives with The School for Lies in spring of 2017.

On Sunday, March 13th at 4pm, Young Artists of America at Strathmore (YAA) presented the youth premiere of the new symphonic version of Children of Eden by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell, Pippin and The Prince of Egypt).

More than 100 former fellows and interns will gather at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater Today, March 31 and Friday, April 1, 2016 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship Program.

Maestro Luke Frazier and The American Pops Orchestra - Washington, DC's innovative hometown orchestra - are proud to present the closing concert of their successful inaugural season.

From June 22-25, the Kennedy Center presents its first District of Comedy Festival, bringing together acclaimed stars and rising acts for an all-laughs takeover of the nation's center for the performing arts.

The regional premiere of the 2014 award-winning drama, The Body of An American, written by Guggenheim Fellow Dan O'Brien, plays at Theater J April 27 through May 22, 2016.

Faction of Fools Theater Company's finest comedians come together for a single day to create a rollicking comedy.

When playwright Motti Lerner wrote his controversial play The Admission, no one could have predicted the chain of events that would subsequently occur.

ANTIGONE NOW is based on the nearly 2,500-year-old Sophocles drama, but in Scena Theatre's hands it could use even more time to gel.

Arena Stage presents the final production of its 2015/16 season, Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama DISGRACED.

Creative Cauldron has received funding from from the Arts Council of Fairfax County and The Hanlon Family Fund at the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia to support a new Technical Theater Training Program for At-Risk Youth, in partnership with Homestretch, Inc.

The National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH by Karen Zacarias as its 57th Rolling World Premiere.

Arena Stage's Guy Bergquist received USITT's 2016 Wally Russell Professional Mentor Award Friday at USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City.

On Sunday, April 3rd, Washington, D.

Arcturus Theater Company will present August Strindberg's 1907 drama "The Pelican," May 14 to 22, 2016, at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1313 New York Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20005, within two blocks of the McPherson Square Metro stop (on the Orange and Blue Lines) and within three bloc

Mosaic Theater Company of DC announces a one million dollar grant from The Reva and David Logan Foundation, spread over four years from 2016 through 2020.

CAMMO, The Center For Military Music Opportunities, today announced that it has been selected to receive the annual J.

You know it, you love it, and it's made you partially blind, let us bring you the best of it we can find.

Disability integrated theatre, L'Enfant Rebelle Theatre, announced their Season One line-up this week, slated to feature four mainstage shows and a D.

Mosaic Theater Company of DC's Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival continues this month with the world premiere of Motti Lerner's powerful new family drama, AFTER THE WAR, under the direction of his longtime collaborator Sinai Peter.

In many ways All the Way is tailor-made for Washington audiences, and for Director Kyle Donnelly, who grew up in a die-hard Democratic household and whose father was a civil rights lawyer.