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Exclusive Interview with The Color Purple actress/singer Bianca Horn

Bianca Horn: A Force within The Color Purple

August 11, 2018 Dean Rogers Interviews, Theatre, Theatre News

On today’s edition of THE INTERVUE, The Color Purple is making its round across the great land and right now, its here at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre until August 26th. My guest today is a unique triple threat in the world of theatre. A graduated of Southern Methodist University, she is the understudy for Shug Avery, part of the amazing 3 person greek chorus and she is also the dance & fight captain. Not only that, I know we will have a great story to tell about Bianca Horn

Mike Daisey returns to Woolly Mammoth July 31st to tell The Story of the Gun

July 17, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the second production of its 2018-2019 season, The Story of the Gun. Performed by acclaimed monologist Mike Daisey, The Story of the Gun will run from July 31 through August 5, 2018.

Three more times to visit Camelot now thru July 8th

Shakespeare Theatre Company announces extension of Camelot

June 4, 2018 Dean Rogers Theatre, Theatre News

Following its overwhelming success and the high demand for tickets the Shakespeare Theatre Company announces an extension of Lerner and Loewe’s much-beloved musical Camelot. The production directed by Alan Paul will now play through July 8, 2018, at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW).

Exclusive Interview with "Waitress" actress Desi Oakley

Desi Oakley is Serving Up Smiles in Waitress at the National Theatre

May 15, 2018 Dean Rogers Interviews, Theatre, Theatre News

On this latest edition of INTERVUE: Today’s guest has been featured in such Broadway shows as Les Miserables, Wicked and Annie. She has also been featured in the national tours of Evita and Wicked. As a singer-songwriter, her music can be found on both Spotify and iTunes. Now, she’ll be baking her way across the country as Jenna in the brilliant movie turned Broadway musical “Waitress” coming to the National Theatre May 15^th– June 3^rd.

Oakley plays Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker who dreams of a way out of her small town and loveless marriage. A baking contest in a nearby county and the town’s new doctor may offer her a chance at a fresh start while her fellow waitresses offer their own receipt for happiness but Jenna must muster up her own strength and courage to rebuild her life. Ladies and Gentlemen: here’s the wonderful Desi Oakley

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.

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.

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