Tag: Arena Stage
DCTA 2022 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Performances
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Playwright Martyna Majok on finding hope in impossible situations
A candid conversation with the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 'Cost of Living' now on Broadway and 'Sanctuary City' now playing at Arena Stage.
The trauma of two undocumented teens in powerful ‘Sanctuary City’ at...
A vivid glimpse into the personal costs of living in limbo as a Dreamer.
The woman who freed Frederick Douglass: a Q&A with Kristolyn Lloyd
Behind every great man is a great woman, and the actor who plays Anna Douglass in 'American Prophet' at Arena Stage reveals the power in that truth.
Unforgettably powerful ‘American Prophet’ is on fire at Arena
Inspiring new musical based on Frederick Douglass’ revolutionary speaking and writing evokes his public and private life.
Step Afrika!’s fiery ‘Drumfolk’ dances to the beat of not-so-distant history
A story about a rebellion and a suppression begins a multi-year partnership between Arena Stage and the renowned African American dance company.
‘Change Agent’ at Arena asks if a JFK mistress made history
The new Power Play proposes that pillow talk prodded his policies.
How 20th-century DC theater helped African Americans take center stage
'Proclaiming Presence from the Washington Stage,' a new book by Blair A. Ruble, tells a history with repercussions today.
DC-area theaters unite to extend COVID vax and mask requirements
Shows go on as Theatre Washington announces continued safety efforts.
DCMTA 2021 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Performances in Professional Theater Productions
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCMTA 2021 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Design Elements in Professional Theater Productions
These professional design elements made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCMTA 2021 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Digital Theater
30 online productions that wowed us and got us through theater shutdown.
‘I have to live in hope’: Tazewell Thompson gets personal
In rehearsal for August Wilson's 'Seven Guitars' at Arena Stage, the renowned director opens up about the future of theater and America.
DMV theaters unite to require proof of COVID vaccination
Policies in effect through December also mandate masks for audiences.
Hear voices of Generation COVID in ‘Waiting Room’ from Arena
New film highlights stories of more than 100 student artists during the pandemic.
Arena Stage to roar back with mix of bubbly and soul
2021/22 season to feature inspiring dramas, a high-energy musical, contemporary dance, electrifying music, diverse voices.
Shots from the vaccination site at Arena
Arena Stage has partnered with DC Health and MedStar Health to support and provide an accessible and safe location to help steadily vaccinate DC...
The Bengsons create new indie-folk musical for Arena Stage
Shaun and Abigail Bengson met in New York City at a party and after talking, decided to start a band together. Their first rehearsal...
A critic at play
During the past seven-odd years that I've contributed to DC Theater Arts, I've written about upwards of 600 shows—sometimes as the designated reviewer (when...
Molly Smith: “Our job as artists is to remind our fellow...
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
—Bertolt Brecht (motto to Svendborg Poems)
When I saw the...