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One of Mosaic’s Most Popular Shows Returns for 5 Week Run

Mosaic Theater Company Remounts Helen-Hayes Nominated Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies

April 26, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

The penultimate production of Mosaic Theater Company’s third season will be a remount Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies, written by local rising star Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and directed by Mosaic’s Managing Director Serge Seiden with Associate Director Vaughn Ryan Midder. Mosaic’s first production of Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies is currently nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play, which gives DC audiences the rare opportunity to see a nominated production during the same month as the awards.

August Wilson’s TWO TRAINS RUNNING extends due to popular demand

April 11, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

August Wilson’s masterpiece drama on the civil rights movement, Two Trains Running, will receive an additional five performances during its run at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Under the direction of Juliette Carrillo and in a co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Two Trains Running now plays through May 6, 2018 on the Fichandler Stage.

The cult classic Beetlejuice is heading to the National Theatre in October 2018

New musical comedy BEETLEJUICE to have pre-Broadway world premiere at DC’s National Theatre

March 28, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

The National Theatre confirmed today that the pre-Broadway world premiere of the new musical comedy BEETLEJUICE will open its 2018-19 “Broadway at the National” season. This will be the second consecutive year the National Theatre opens its season with a pre-Broadway world premiere, following last season’s sold-out engagement of MEAN GIRLS.

Drew Gehling to lead the cast of world-premiere musical DAVE

March 27, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces Drew Gehling (Waitress, Jersey Boys) will play both President Bill Mitchell and the title role in Dave, the world-premiere musical debuting this summer, based on the blockbuster Academy Award-nominated comedy. The production, by three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan (Annie, Hairspray, The Producers), Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin (Mean Girls, Legally Blonde) and Pulitzer Prize and two-time Tony Award winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, If/Then), is directed by Tina Landau (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) and will run July 13-August 19, 2018 in the Kreeger Theater.

Auditions on Monday, April 2 at the National Theatre

Child actress needed for role of “Lulu” in national tour of WAITRESS at DC’s National Theatre

March 19, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

WAITRESS, the Tony Award-nominated musical making its Washington, D.C. premiere at the National Theatre from May 15 thru June 3, 2018, is looking for two young girls to perform the role of Lulu during the national tour’s D.C. engagement.

Theatre Revue: Something’s Rotten at the National Theatre

Something’s Rotten in the State of DC

February 7, 2018 Beth Korman Theatre, Theatre Reviews

The stage is set when a charming minstrel, (Nick Rashad Burroughs) graces the stage to set the scene to welcome us to the Renaissance in London, England. His funny exaggerated facial expressions are amplified when the entertaining ensemble joins in the welcome song to add enjoyable dance moves to amuse the audience. They sing about new modern things which makes the audience laugh, as they are old to us. The tone was set for comedy and the cast delivered.

DC Premiere of The Raid by Award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin

Theater Alliance produces DC premiere of The Raid

January 30, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

Theater Alliance kicks off 2018 with Idris Goodwin’s The Raid, an imagined debate between two American icons. On the eve of the raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, John Brown and Frederick Douglass argue the merits of violence and pacifism, order and chaos, and the possibility of a nation free of the scourge of slavery.

World premiere theatrical concert tells the story of a father and son relationship in the shadow of the Holocaust

Strathmore, Beth Morrison Projects present world premiere of Iron & Coal—a Holocaust survivor’s story

January 24, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

Strathmore and Beth Morrison Projects will present the world premiere of Iron & Coal, a theatrical concert by composer/lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld and director Kevin Newbury, in the Music Center at Strathmore on Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4, 2018 at 8 p.m.

Theatre Revue: Step Afrika’s Step Xplosion at Strathmore

Stepping In The Right Direction

January 22, 2018 Derrick Dunn Theatre, Theatre Reviews

As a fan of dance, my expectations were high when I found out that I would be attending “Step Afrika’s Step Xplosion at Strathmore. The event which wasn’t an all-out competition, but more or a less a celebration of stepping and, how it helps children on their journey into adulthood.

Revue: The Illusionists - Live from Broadway at the Kennedy Center

More than Just Magic with The Illusionists

December 29, 2017 Derrick Dunn Theatre, Theatre Reviews

Thursday, December 28th was opening Night of THE ILLUSIONISTS – LIVE FROM BROADWAY at the world-renowned John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington D.C. Optical illusions and the wonderful world of magic tricks were front & center in a night filled with comedy, breakdancing and of course magic.

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