Washington Improv Theater’s lease at Source Theatre will end after August.
“From U Street to the Cotton Club” explores Black Broadway and Harlem’s famed Prohibition-era performance space.
Chinese Dragon and lion dancers will entertain passersby outside of Source to hype a new play, Journey to the West.
FRIDAY: >> Even though Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is an obvious choice for the movie-going crowd this weekend, the Avalon Theatre — just north of the Potter madness at the Uptown — is showing Talk to Me, the new biopic on the life of famed Washington, D.C., talk-show host and activist Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. 5:50 and 8:30 p.m. >> Unbuckled alumni The Vita Ruins celebrate the release of their…
Written by DCist contributor Salima Appiah-Kubi. Remember when we thought the Source Theatre was doomed? After public outcry from the theater community, costumed protests and several tense ANC meetings, last Tuesday it was revealed that the Source has been saved. Pursuant to an agreement between the Theatre, the Cultural Development Corporation (CuDC) and the Bedrock Management Company, the Source has been wholly entrusted to the CuDC, which will run it as a performance space for…
DCist is through with living a lie. We have to confess: we’re developing quite the crush on Kate Eastwood Norris. After seeing her shine as the barb-tongued Beatrice in Folger’s Much Ado About Nothing last October, it was no surprise to catch the Helen Hayes award nominee investing Anna, one half of the tumultuous lesbian couple at the center of David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, with the same kind of unbridled energy and wry wit we…
I was intrigued to see workers in front of the Source Theatre on 14th St. NW over the weekend hanging a marquee sign for the opening of David Mamet’s Boston Marriage on Feb. 17. For one thing, the Source Theatre Company has been basically closed for 2 years. For another, I had heard last month at a neighborhood association meeting that the building was likely being sold to the owners of Bedrock Billiards, who plan…
