DC Theater Arts

2 days ago | dctheaterarts.org | Deb Miller

In a livestreamed event at 11:00 this morning, co-hosted by Sarah Hyland (The Great Gatsby) and Orville Peck (Cabaret) at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, nominations for the 91st annual Drama League Awards, honoring outstanding accomplishments in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater, were announced in seven competitive categories, along with four previously announced special honors.

3 days ago | dctheaterarts.org | Deb Miller

Considered one of the greatest, most inventive, and groundbreaking British playwrights of our time, Caryl Churchill, now in her 80s, continues to write enigmatic and provocative new works in her distinctive combination of surreal, absurdist, and stream-of-consciousness styles.

4 days ago | dctheaterarts.org | Deb Miller

It’s 2018, in small-town Georgia, and Gen Z high-school juniors (five girls and two boys) are studying Sex Ed and working on an English honors class project on The Crucible with their supportive teacher Mr. Smith. The girls have also decided to form a feminist club, with him as their faculty sponsor, when their new counsellor Ms. Gallagher declines.

6 days ago | dctheaterarts.org | Deb Miller

Produced by Iconoclast Theatre Collective and presented by The Green Room 42, Iconoclastic Voices: Songs of Resistance, a one-night-only concert on Friday, April 25, starting at 7 pm, brings together a boundary-breaking lineup of debut stand-alone songs and selections from musicals-in-development by Tony-nominated and Emmy-winning composers, viral indie writers, and trailblazing voices in contemporary musical theater.

1 week ago | dctheaterarts.org | Deb Miller

SMASH, a stage version of the 2012-13 NBC TV series Smash, which ran only two seasons before being cancelled, has come to Broadway’s Imperial Theatre in a meta-comedy musical-within-a-musical take-off on the original that follows the problematic creation and crash of the new Broadway production Bombshell, about mid-century sex symbol Marilyn Monroe – a smash before the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s, some half-century ago, who used nude posing and the casting couch to advance her...