You may not get the day off work or be able to find a card on someecards, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate Arts Advocacy Day. Each year, DC Advocates for the Arts participates in a national initiative to get the word out about the importance of the arts in our community. Today, advocates […]
Next weekend, on March 6th and 7th, the St. Mark’s Players will be holding auditions for Oliver! It is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist, about an orphan that falls in with a band of pickpockets. Performances will be the first three weekends in May. The organizers are looking to cast all […]
Let’s establish a couple of things right from the start: in the days prior to seeing Orestes, a Tragic Romp at the Folger Theater I had, for the first time, seen Milk and attended opening night of Richard II at the Shakespeare Theater. Both were wonderful, but I had more than my fill of the […]
In 2006, the Corcoran Gallery of Art bought the historic Randall School at 65 I Street, SW for $6.2 million with the intention of developing it as a new location for its College of Art + Design. But when development partners Lehman Brothers and Monument Realty went bankrupt and defaulted, respectively, the project halted. Now […]
Capitol Hill will be well-represented at this year’s Helen Hayes Awards. Folger Theater’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia received eight nods, including Outstanding Resident Play, Outstanding Leading Actress for Holly Twyford, Outstanding Director for Aaron Posner (both are also part of Folger’s Orestes – A Tragic Romp), Outstanding Supporting Actor for Eric Hissom and Outstanding […]