Diversity and Its Discontents: It Was Never About the Money
The business case for a more diverse American theatre is a distraction from our core human and artistic values, which is the ground we must stand on in the fight for DEI.
All Stories About Arena Stage
A Marriage of True Minds in ‘We Are Gathered’
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s new play for Arena Stage both celebrates and complicates hard-won marriage equality rights just as D.C. welcomes WorldPride festivities.
Life and (Near) Death in Broadway’s ‘Swept Away’
The star of this season’s shipwrecked Avett Brothers musical reflects on the show’s brief, brilliant voyage—and how its dark depths rescued his first love.
Black Motherhood and Parenting Play Festival Streams New Season
The festival includes new plays by E.J. Batiste, Lynne Streeter Childress, Gail Lou, and D.L. Patrick.
How to Survive an Election: Laugh With ‘POTUS’
Selina Fillinger’s popular farce about women taking control of the White House hits different this fall.
Zelda Fichandler: Print the Legend
2 new books show and tell the instructive story of Arena’s path-breaking co-founder, Zelda Fichandler—both the work she did and the work she left for us to continue.
‘We Are in the Wrong Place’
In 1968, one of the regional theatre’s founding mothers wrote an urgent memo to her board: It was long past time to integrate the company and diversify the audience.
2 Days in April: TCG Goes to Washington
Theatre leaders gathered to train, talk, and meet with Congressional staff about urgent issues facing the industry.
Changes Come Fast, Change Comes Slow
How a cohort of artistic directors of color, recently hired at major U.S. theatres, have confronted unforeseen upheavals.
This Month in Theatre History
November recalls the play Lincoln first saw Booth in, Kern’s Princess Theatre musicals, a Puerto Rican literary godfather, a gospel Oedipus musical, and a century-defining epic.
