Interviews and Features

'People, Black and white, love the sight and sound of actors moving and dancing and projecting energy as they tell the story.' By RAVELLE BRICKMAN

The Yale Drama Series Award winner shares the origin stories of two premieres coming from Voices Festival Productions. By DEBBIE MINTER JACKSON

The director and conductor shares the personal origin of IN Series' new opera, 'The Return of Ulysses – Song of My Father.'  By TIMOTHY NELSON

Director Psalmayene 24 and choreographer Tony Thomas share how they staged Mary Zimmerman’s award-winning adaptation of ancient myths. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN

The Catholic University grad recently seen at Ford's in 'Little Shop of Horrors' enthuses about her career so far and her next gig at The Anthem. By ANDREA PEDEMONTE

Following 2022’s change in leadership at the Playhouse, a January eviction notice, and $40,000 in previously unpaid rent, the once symbiotic relationship between the two theater nonprofits has crumbled. By NICOLE HERTVIK and SARAH MARLOFF

In advance of his Helen Hayes tribute on May 20, an invigorating conversation about theater and theater criticism and what he wants to do next. By JOHN STOLTENBERG

The unconventional concert at the Kennedy Center on June 1 will culminate a week of events featuring the Black experience. By WILLIAM POWELL

The playwright talks about the artistic process that led to his 'burlesque intended for the talents of artists of color' now playing at Spooky Action. By DERYL DAVIS

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