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INDECENT Comes to Endangered Species Theatre Project

Endangered Species theatre Project will present Paula Vogel’s Award-winning play Indecent.
Endangered Species Theatre Project to Present 6th Annual Frederick Shakespeare Festival

Endangered Species theatre Project will present their 6th annual Frederick Shakespeare Festival. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!
Loyola University New Orleans Presents GOD HELP THEM IF WE WAKE UP A New Play By Ann Mahoney And Starring Nadine Marissa

The Department of Theater Arts and Dance at Loyola University is pleased to present 'God Help Them if We Wake Up,' a powerful feminist drama from playwrights Ann Mahoney and Gillian Shelly, Nov. 9-18 at Marquette Theatre.
TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL Comes to the Frederick Shakespeare Festival

Endangered Species theatre Project (ESPtheatre) presents a d/Deaf/hearing integrated production of Twelfth Night or What You Will as its Mainstage Production in the Frederick Shakespeare Festival. 
GOD HELP THEM IF WE WAKE UP Comes to New Orleans This Year

The Walking Dead's Ann Mahoney, and D.C. theatre maven Gillian Shelly, have penned a new play. Recipients of The Carol Sutton/Sherri Marina Memorial Grant, they have also garnered a contribution of $37K in matching funds toward the first production of the piece. Described as 'A Beautiful Disaster Play with Feminist Cojones,' it is set to be performed in New Orleans, LA in November of this year.
Frederick Shakespeare Festival Announced

Endangered Species (theatre) Project's Frederick Shakespeare Festival is back with two of the bard's most celebrated works: Hamlet and The Merry Wives of Windsor, to be performed at the Hodson Outdoor Amphitheater at Hood College.
Endangered Species (theatre) Project Presents ROMEO & JULIET

Endangered Species (theatre) Project (ESP) presents Romeo & Juliet with Deaf artist Joshua M. Castille, a Broadway actor from the Tony Award nominated Spring Awakening, as Romeo. Joining Josh as Juliet is MD/VA/DC hearing actor Surasree Das. 
ANDTheatre Company Presents 14th Annual 'Eclectics' Festival

ANDTheatre Company has announced the 14th Annual 'Eclectic Evening of Shorts,' a benefit for ANDTheatre Co.
Signature Theatre Announces Cast Of THE STORY OF WALTER SigWorks Reading

Signature Theatre announces the cast for The Story of Walter, the second of four readings in its 2020/21 SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Reading Series. Now in its fifth year, the SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Reading Series has moved to an entirely digital format.
The Endangered Species (theatre) Project Presents The 2nd Annual FREDERICK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

The Endangered Species (theatre) Project presents its second annual Frederick Shakespeare Festival from August 15 to September 7th. The festival features: 'A Comedy of Errors' (Main-Stage), a teen production of Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill (based on the Jane Austin Novel), and staged readings from Shakespeare's famous love scenes.
VIDEO: Take A Look at The Cast of Red Branch Theatre Company's BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

Take a look at the cast of Red Branch Theatre Company's production of BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY!
Rainbow Theatre Project to Present Tennessee Williams' KINGDOM OF EARTH

Rainbow Theatre Project will produce a staged reading of Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of Earth. One of William's lesser known plays, Kingdom of Earth will be performed on Monday, October 16 at 7:30pm at the District of Columbia Arts Center.
Review Roundup: BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Red Branch Theatre Company

BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY will run at Red Branch Theatre Company through October 14, and the critics are weighing in!
Photo Flash: Meet the Stars of Red Branch Theatre Company's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

Red Branch Theatre Company (RBTC) continues its 2017 season entitled Mad About You with The Bridges of Madison County, a musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. Rehearsals are currently underway and special events are being solidified for the production that will run at Drama Learning Center, where Red Branch is the professional theatre in residence, from September 22 - October 14. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the stars in character below!
Cast Announced for THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Red Branch Theatre Company

Red Branch Theatre Company (RBTC) continues its 2017 season entitled Mad About You with The Bridges of Madison County, a musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. Casting has been completed and rehearsals are underway for the production that will run at Drama Learning Center, where Red Branch is the professional theatre in residence, from September 22 - October 14.
Photo Flash: Meet the Stars of Red Branch Theatre Company's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

Red Branch Theatre Company (RBTC) continues its 2017 season entitled Mad About You with The Bridges of Madison County, a musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. Rehearsals are currently underway and special events are being solidified for the production that will run at Drama Learning Center, where Red Branch is the professional theatre in residence, from September 22 - October 14. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the stars in character below!
Helen Hayes Award-Winning Factory 449 presents LELA & CO.

Playwright Cordelia Lynn's is well aware of the intense, yet important journey examined in LELA & CO. "I knew that the play could be horrifying and shocking and upsetting - and all those things you can get out of visual violence, without actually showing it," says Lynn. "I want the audience to leave and think there are things happening that I don't see -- maybe because I don't want to see".
Cast Announced for THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Red Branch Theatre Company

Red Branch Theatre Company (RBTC) continues its 2017 season entitled Mad About You with The Bridges of Madison County, a musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. Casting has been completed and rehearsals are underway for the production that will run at Drama Learning Center, where Red Branch is the professional theatre in residence, from September 22 - October 14.
The Rainbow Theatre Project to Stage Tennessee Williams' SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

The Rainbow Theatre Project's Generation Q Staged Reading Series is back in the new year with a presentation of Tennessee Williams' harrowing Southern Gothic classic, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. It will be paired with a reading of a short-play by Dr. Samantha McDermitt, JUSTICE DISORDERED. The readings take place Monday, February 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at Source in the District.
BWW Reviews: Heart-warming 'MAYTAG VIRGIN' at Quotidian Theatre

Romance must be in the air—maybe it's the invigorating chill of fall weather and the crunch of leaves underfoot, but whatever the reason it's time for Quotidean to offer a heart-warmer of a play as its season opener.  Quotidean's offering, as part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, is a premiere of Audrey Cefaly's two-hander, Maytag Virgin.  This tried-and-true plot of opposites attract is brought vividly two life by two stellar performers, and Cefaly's sturdy direction.

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