Interviews and Features

The veteran actor goes deep into the role and the repressive era of the play. By ERIC COLCHAMIRO

In his seventh role at Arena Stage, the actor plays a Doctor who treats an amnesiac soldier and has a memorably weird song-and-dance number. By IAN KIRKAND

The playwright previews her new script’s big question: who gets to tell what story and who gets to own it? By DEBBIE MINTER JACKSON

The two leading lights worked together on 'At the Wedding' at Studio Theatre — he as director, she as mother of the bride — and they had a lot to say about it. By DERYL DAVIS

The playwright, great-granddaughter of immigrants, reflects on how easily we forget that America is a land of migrants. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN

Puppeteers Jay Frisby and Ryan Sellers on performing inside the people eater. By JILLIAN PARKS

Comedy, satire, and pain in a wildly imaginative work about Native American identity and a First Lady descended from Pocahontas. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN

'Spring Break' by Joe Calarco opens on March 15 designed, acted, and directed by local teenagers who went on a journey like the characters in the play. By SOA ANDRIAMANANJARA

A dancer, playwright, choreographer, director, and producer, she reimagined classic stories as musicals and inspired generations in the District and beyond. By LAURETTA MALLOY

In a series called 'The Companies We Keep,' DC Theater Arts spotlights the good work done by theater companies in the DC region. This month we focus on a company that builds the next generation of theater artists. By LISA TRAIGER

He co-founded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and inspired countless Black theater artists. Here some of them share how he touched their lives. By LEEANÉT NOBLE and LAURETTA MALLOY

The world premiere play resurrects a scandalous chapter in the life of DC educator Anna Julia Cooper, known as the Mother of Black Feminism. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN

In 1971, ‘The Rep’ became DC’s premiere Black cultural organization, offering opportunities to Black artists and cultivating Black theatergoing audiences. By LEEANÉT NOBLE AND LAURETTA MALLOY

The playwright talks about the comedy he gender-swapped from his popular farce 'Lend Me a Tenor.' By JEFFREY WALKER

As the founder of Howard University’s Children’s Theatre in the 1970s, Collie opened doors for young Black students in the nation’s Capital. By LEEANÉT NOBLE

Black history is American history; it is blended into the fabric of our nation. Introducing a series about Black theater creatives who helped shape DC theater. By LEEANÉT NOBLE and LAURETTA MALLOY

'My big goal,' the playwright says, 'is to tell a different kind of racial reconciliation story.' By GREGORY FORD

Hana S. Sharif, new Arena Stage artistic director, shares her thoughts on choosing ‘Mindplay’ as her first production. By ERIC COLCHAMIRO

The couple credit son and creative partner Gideon Grody-Patinkin with their newfound social media fame. By NICOLE HERTVIK

The festival is well on its way to becoming a must-attend event on the DC theater scene. By CAROLINE BOCK