Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This list of theaters and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C. includes present-day opera houses and theaters, cabarets, music halls and other places of live entertainment in Washington, D.C. Current theaters
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. The theatre company focuses primarily on plays from the Shakespeare canon, but its seasons include works by other classic playwrights such as Euripides, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Schiller, Coward and Tennessee Williams.
A few probable longest-running plays prior to 1853 are also listed. Not included below is the 1976 revival of the revue Oh! Calcutta! , which briefly overtook A Chorus Line as the Broadway show which had played the most performances, even though A Chorus Line had opened more than a year earlier and was still playing.
[39] [37] The three-stage theater complex is now the second-largest performing arts center in Washington, DC, after the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It is the largest regional theater in D.C. [11] [39] Arena Stage re-opened in October 2010 with Oklahoma!. [3] [5] The capacity of its three theaters follows:
The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [3]
List of plays with anti-war themes; B. Bahram Beyzai bibliography; Plays of L. Frank Baum; Blake's 7 (audio drama) C. List of Calderón's plays in English translation;
This plan was expanded upon by Carter T. Barron in 1947, as a way to memorialize the 150th anniversary of Washington, D.C., as the U.S. national capital. As Vice Chairman of the Sesquicentennial Commission, Barron envisioned an amphitheatre where "all persons of every race, color and creed" in Washington could attend musical, ballet, theater and other performing arts productions.
The theatre's initial production was Man of the World. [3] It was purchased in 1844 by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe of the B.O. Tayloe House for $13,950. [4] National Theater Washington DC The Times Picayune Wed Nov 13 1844. The theatre has been in almost continuous operation since, at the same Pennsylvania Avenue location a few blocks from the White ...