Women's Voices Theater Festival

Magic Time!: A Report on the Women’s Voices Theater Festival Reading...

The Kennedy Center’s entry in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival was a one-night-only reading of Roe, a new two-act play by Lisa Loomer that...

Audrey Cefaly’s New Southern Drama ‘Maytag Virgin’ Opens This Friday, 10/2...

Quotidian Theatre Company kicks off its dynamic 2016 season, and its participation in the Washington, DC Women’s Voices Theater Festival, with the world premiere...

Dangereuse: ‘Texts and Beheadings/Elizabeth R: The Heart of a Lonely Queen’

“f I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom,” said the legendary...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘No Spring Chicken’ at NextStop Theatre...

NextStop Theatre Company’s contribution to the Women’s Voices Theater Festival is the extraordinary No Spring Chicken, written and performed by Ginna Hoben and directed...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Phoebe in Winter’ at the Single...

War is a horrible thing. It not only affects those who fight in the trenches, but it impacts those waiting for their loved ones...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘texts&beheadings/ElizabethR’ at The Folger Theatre

“The past cannot be cured” is a phrase attributed to Queen Elizabeth I (ElizabethR). But it certainly can be revisited. And that revisit comes...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival ‘Destiny of Desire’ at Arena Stage

DC playwright Karen Zacarías' world-premiere musical comedy Destiny of Desire is a delightfully soapy mix of magic realism and situation comedy - so sit back in this...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival ‘Princess Margaret’ at The Thelma Theatre

Princess Margaret, a world premiere by Thelma Theatre, is an intriguing new play about a Catholic school and the universal power struggle between student...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Point’ at Arcturus Theater Company

Four-year-old Arcturus Theater Company—a group of DC theater enthusiasts committed to presenting plays that will “prompt discussion on topics that do not come up...

An Interview with Playwright Gabrielle Fulton on ‘Uprising’ Now Playing at...

Talking with Gabrielle Fulton was like connecting with a long-lost sister. While her roots are solidly Southern, she received degrees at Columbia U. and...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Another Look at ‘Uprising’ at MetroStage

Uprising by Gabrielle Fulton, and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, integrates live blues guitar and song by local musician David Cole with the...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Queens Girl in the World’ at...

Find my place in the world is a major question at the center of Queens Girl in the World now playing at Theater J....

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Uprising’ at MetroStage

Uprising is, quite simply, what live theater is meant to be. The gripping story, set in 1859 and told with pathos and humor, asks...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Requiem’ at The Highwood Theatre

Think the promise, even the future of American theater lies in the hands of those imaginative, impassioned, gutsy young Millennials who for the last...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Now Comes the Night’ at 1st...

Visceral, haunting, and beautifully executed, Now Comes the Night at 1st Stage is an excruciating and suspenseful look at lives of three journalists whose...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Inheritance Canyon’ at Taffety Punk Theatre...

How did you get to where you are today? Was it with help from your loved ones, or in spite of them? Are you...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The October Issue’ at Washington Improv...

Over 50 DC theater companies have joined together this fall to showcase new work written by women. All the big names in the area...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘If I Hold My Tongue’ at...

If I Hold My Tongue is a short play written by Patricia Henley, a former Perdue University professor, who now lives in Frostburg, MD. The play...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel...

Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick, a new play written and directed by Jennie Berman Eng and produced by similarly nascent company Thelma...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘A Matter of Worth’ at Live...

A transformation awaits at Marcia E. Cole's A Matter of Worth as the house lights dim, and the stage is lit as a cotton field with...