2024 Helen Hayes Awards Recap
• May 28, 2024

The 40th Annual Helen Hayes Awards took place at The Anthem earlier this month. The celebration of all things theater in D.C. honored productions including “Fela!” which won five awards […]

Holly Twyford Directs GU Students in ‘Dog Act,’ a Post-Apocalyptic Comedy
• November 3, 2022

Four-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Holly Twyford is directing Georgetown University students in the post-apocalyptic comedy ‘Dog Act,’ by Liz Duffy Adams, with performances running nine days only — today through […]

Studio Theatre Lights Up (photos)
• February 23, 2022

Studio Theatre, located on Washington D.C.’s 14th Street corridor, unveiled its new bright yellow marquee sign at 6 p.m. on Tues., Feb 22.  Henceforth, the Theatre’s name will be emblazoned […]

DC Artswatch
• September 15, 2020

This month’s DC Artswatch column includes items about the Helen Hayes Awards, Twins Jazz, Planet Word and Shakespeare Theatre Company.

The Irreplaceable Victor Shargai
• December 26, 2019

The New York-born founding chairman of TheatreWashington, which started out as the Helen Hayes Awards, passed away on Dec. 24.    

Helen Hayes Awards: A Portrait of D.C.’s Theater Community
• May 16, 2019

This year’s presentation of the Helen Hayes Awards, the 35th annual, took place on May 13 at the Anthem in the Wharf development.          

Helen Hayes Nominees Announced
• February 6, 2019

If you look at the data enmeshed in the announcement of the 2019 nominees, you get a pretty good sense of our local theater community — how it’s changed, its growth, its pulsating diversity and to some extent its uniqueness.

Helen Hayes Awards for English, Spanish ‘In the Heights’
• May 16, 2018

There may still be some vestigial confusion resulting from the practice of bestowing Helen Hayes Awards on the basis of the ratio of Actors’ Equity contracts involved in a particular production, […]