2023 Helen Hayes Nominations Announced; 37th Awards Show Returns Live at Anthem May 22
• February 9, 2023

And now, returning live, let’s give it up!  For the first time since the pandemic began the Helen Hayes Awards will be returning live for a 37th Awards gala at […]

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 2021-2022 Season
• July 30, 2021

ABOUT THE 2021-2022 SEASON TEENAGE DICK In Association with Huntington Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse By Mike Lew Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel   Sept 20 – Oct 17, 2021 […]

Woolly Mammoth Virtual Free Gala
• April 23, 2021

Our annual gala returns virtually on Monday, May 3, 2021 at 8pm ET with a very “Woolly” interpretation on the rite of spring cleaning! SOAPBOX: A MAMMOTH SPRING CELEBRATION is free and online. […]

Reset at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• March 5, 2021

(Washington, D.C.) This March, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company launches RESET, a new, free digital collection featuring historical resources, excerpts, and video performances curated by Nicole M. Brewer, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Jordan Ealey, Kristen Jackson, Leticia Ridley, and Nikkole Salter. […]

Weekly Arts Round Up, December 3, 2020
• December 3, 2020

The Washington Ballet will present a virtual Nutcracker Tea Party on Sunday. On Tuesday, a Phillips Collection curator will chat with activist projectionist Robin Bell.

Pandemic Forces Performing Arts Leaders to Rethink
• September 15, 2020

The Georgetowner asked leading figures in D.C. theater to suggest silver linings of the pandemic, even as it has stolen the livelihood of countless arts workers and threatened the very future of many performing arts organizations.

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.    

Weekend Round Up September 12, 2019
• September 12, 2019

On Friday at noon, cartoonist Lynn Johnston will illustrate a presentation in real time. Up Wisconsin Avenue from Georgetown, 19 Tenleytown venues are participating in Art All Night on Saturday.

DC Artswatch: 6 New Leaders
• September 12, 2018

The announcements of new D.C. arts leaders have been coming fast and furious. Here are six of the latest. SHAKESPEARE THEATRE On Aug. 1, 2019, following the “Grand Finale Season […]

Mike Daisey’s ‘The Story of the Gun’
• July 30, 2018

The one-man show, with one table, one chair and many glasses of water, opens tomorrow, July 31, at Woolly Mammoth and has already been extended through Aug. 9.