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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater - Recipient of the 1976 Regional Theatre Tony Award. Fichandler Stage; Kreeger Theater; The Kogod Cradle; Capital Fringe Festival, with annual, temporary venues; Capitol Steps (closed in 2020) Constellation Theatre Company; Damascus Theatre Company; DC Improv; Discovery Theater at the ...
Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest, Washington, D.C. Established in 1950, it was the first racially integrated theater in Washington, D.C., [1] and its founders helped start the U.S. regional theater movement. [2] [3] It has three stages. The Artistic Director is Hana S. Sharif.
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SHH is the latest addition to the existing Lansburgh Theatre to create the new "Center For the Arts". Construction began in November 2004 and it opened on September 15, 2007. [1] Jack Diamond designed the theatre and Paul Beckmann of the DC firm Smithgroup designed the building that houses the theatre at a cost of $89 million.
The theatre in 2024 The theatre's kiosk in 2020. The Warner Theatre was originally developed by Aaron and Julian Brylawski in 1922. Originally named the Earle Theatre, it was built in 1924 as a movie palace presenting live vaudeville and first run silent movies. It was designed by theatre architect C. Howard Crane of Detroit and Kenneth ...
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
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 ...
The only theater of any kind located east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC, this 365-seat venue features a generous stage and professionally designed and installed sound and lighting systems that complement a full variety of productions.