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Today the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced the launch of a new artseducation initiative to help turn around low-performing schools, developed in cooperation with the U.

theatreWashington announces the first annual theatreWeek, presented byThe Washington Post with more than 30 Washington theatres participating.

In honor of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 25th Anniversary Season and William Shakespeare's birthday, STC is offering a special celebratory gift for patrons of $25 during the Bard's birthday week, Monday, April 23, to Sunday, April 29, only.

Surprise guest, lyricist Alain Boublil appears on stage at Baltimore's Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to the delight of an SRO crowd

Oscar and Tony Award winning actor and arts advocate Kevin Spacey will receive the Helen Hayes Tribute at the 28th Helen Hayes Awards ceremony tonight, April 23, 2012.

Tonight, April 23 and tomorrow, April 24, 2012, at 7:30pm, at GALA Hispanic Theatre (3333 14th St.

Silver Spring Stage presents Enchanted April by Matthew Barber, from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, directed by Laurie Freed and produced by Pauline Griller-Mitchell and Gerry Schuchman.

theatreWashington has announced their first annual theatreWeek, presented by The Washington Post.

When theatreWashington toasts actor and arts advocate Kevin Spacey and Washington theatre artists during the 28th Helen Hayes Awards, the most prestigious awards in Washington theatre, they will be joined by some of the top talents in politics, media and the arts.

The Washington Stage Guild presents the area premiere of George Bernard Shaw's Wives & Wits, Overruled, directed by Alan Wade and Village Wooing, directed by Laura Giannarelli through May 20.

Kicking off with the 28th Helen Hayes Awards on April 23rd, theatreWeek will celebrate Washington's world-class professional theatre while introducing new audiences to it's diverse offerings.

Kicking off with the 28th Helen Hayes Awards on April 23rd, theatreWeek will celebrate Washington's world-class professional theatre while introducing new audiences to it's diverse offerings.

Now in its ninth year, APASSIONATA Europe's most successful live entertainment show, featuring more than 40 horses and seen by more than five million fans in over forty cities, will make its North American debut on April 27, 2012, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.

This year's Will on the Hill is marked by a performance of Speak the Speech, I Pray You!, an original play by Peter Byrne with assistance from The West Wing Writers Group.

When theatreWashington toasts actor and arts advocate Kevin Spacey and Washington theatre artists during the 28th Helen Hayes Awards, the most prestigious awards in Washington theatre, they will be joined by some of the top talents in politics, media and the arts.

theatreWashington has announced their first annual theatreWeek, presented by The Washington Post.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater's production of MerEdith Wilson's The Music Man, helmed by Artistic Director Molly Smith, stars Kate Baldwin (Tony Award nominee for Broadway's Finian's Rainbow) as Marian the librarian, joined by Burke Moses (original Gaston in Broadway's Beauty a

Legendary choreographer, dancer, and director George Faison revives the writings of influential African Americans in the staged production Steppin' Out of the Negro Caravan.

Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Choral Arts Society in a concert featuring popular favorites from musicals such as Les Miserables and Miss Saigon on Thursday, April 19 at 8 p.

Landless Theatre Company presents DC Premiere, SPIDERMUSICAL, A Second Chance for Awesome, April 19-29, Thursdays - Sundays at 7:30 pm, at the DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St.

The Kennedy Center presents Come Fly Away in the Eisenhower Theater from April 18-29, 2012.

Legendary choreographer, dancer, and director George Faison revives the writings of influential African Americans in the staged production Steppin' Out of the Negro Caravan.

It's another fun-filled, romantic summer of classics.

Family Equality Council, which connects, supports, and represents the one million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents raising two million children in the U.

theatreWashington announces the first annual theatreWeek, presented by The Washington Post.