Joshua Ford News

Olney Theatre Center is making a recorded video of a live performance of A.D. 16 (book by Bekah Brunstetter; music, lyrics and story by Cinco Paul; directed by Stephen Brackett) available for online viewing between March 16 -20, 2022. The dates correspond with the final extension week of the in-person run, which closes on Sunday, March 20.

The Ensemble Theatre and Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center (JCC a?" 'The J') celebrate their first-time collaboration to co-present City of Good Abode by Joshua Ford, an award-winning play detailing the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. opening Thursday, September 12, 2019, 7:30 p.m. at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center Kaplan Theatre, 5601 S. Braeswood, 77096.

Olney Theatre Center, an official state theatre of Maryland, will be hosting a book drive as part of its upcoming production of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. Audiences and community members are encouraged to bring a new or gently used children's book to donate when attending performances of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. The books will be distributed to two local organizations that specialize in getting books into the hands of kids in underserved communities, Velocity of Books, based in Wheaton, and Maryland Book Bank, based in Baltimore.

From the producers that brought audiences Rita, Sue and Bob Too! and The Salon, Regal Entertainments are back with brand-new comedy musical, Achy Breaky Bride next month.

Six D.C.-area playmakers have been selected to participate in the third installment of Playwrights' Arena, a year-long program that invites a small group of local theater makers to investigate their artistic process and develop their dramaturgical practice. The program is co-facilitated by Arena Stage Deputy Artistic Director Seema Sueko and Dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke, and participants convene once per month at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces an open call for submissions for the 2017 Playwrights' Arena, a year-long program which invites a small group of up to five local theater makers to convene once per month with Arena Stage artistic staff to investigate their artistic process to develop their dramaturgical practice while creating new work.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is seeking proposals from theater companies, ensembles and individual artists interested in participating in the 2016/17 Kogod Cradle Series as part of the American Voices New Play Institute. Now in its fifth season, the Kogod Cradle Series supports the exploration and development of new and emerging work in the theater's intimate 200-seat Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces three projects that have been selected for the 2015/16 Kogod Cradle Series as part of the American Voices New Play Institute. Focused on the development of new plays and devised work by artists from the Greater Washington, D.C. area and around the country, this series of readings and workshops invites artists and audiences to actively explore the new work development process.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces three projects that have been selected for the 2015/16 Kogod Cradle Series as part of the American Voices New Play Institute. Focused on the development of new plays and devised work by artists from the Greater Washington, D.C. area and around the country, this series of readings and workshops invites artists and audiences to actively explore the new work development process.

On February 28, as Black History month comes to a close, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival will dramatize two critical elements of the African-American experience, ranging from the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King to the struggle for equal opportunity by African-American professionals.

After two years of Reduced Shakespeare hijinx, Dustin heads out on tour in the stage version of a kid-lit classic.