Press Releases
2024/25 Season
DEC
18
2025
Arena Stage Announces First Annual DC-Area Performing Arts Camp Fair
DEC
12
2024
Arena Stage Casts Two-Time Tony Nominee Shoshana Bean to Lead Sarah Silverman's "The Bedwetter - A New Musical"
NOV
12
2024
Arena Stage Announces Limited Engagement of Step Afrika!'s "Magical Musical Holiday Step Show"
OCT
30
2024
Arena Stage Announces Grant of Support from The Mellon Foundation
OCT
25
2024
Arena Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif’s D.C. Directorial Debut, Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile"
OCT
8
2024
Arena Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for Suspenseful New Silicon Valley Thriller "DATA"
SEP
19
2024
Arena Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for John Leguizamo-Penned World-Premiere Drama "The Other Americans"
AUG
28
2024
Arena Stage Announces Community Day 2024
AUG
9
2024
Arena Stage Names Judy Leventhal as Chief Financial Officer
AUG
1
2024
Arena Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for Tony Award-winning Broadway Sensation "Jaja's African Hair Braiding"
JUL
25
2024
Tickets On Sale Now for Jocelyn Bioh's Tony Award-Winning Production "Jaja's African Hair Braiding"
JUL
17
2024
Arena Stage Adds Sarah Silverman’s "The Bedwetter - A Musical" to its 2024/25 Season
2023/24 Season
May
28
2024
Arena Stage Celebrates Step Afrika! Partnership with Presentation of Expanded Production of "The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence"
MAY
14
2024
Arena Stage Announces Hana S. Sharif's Inaugural 2024/25 Season
MAR
6
2024
Arena Stage Announces Return of Military Appreciation Night
MAR
4
2024
Arena Stage Honors U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson with the American Voice Award
FEB
20
2024
Arena Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for D.C. Premiere of Heartfelt Original Musical "Unknown Soldier"
JAN
16
2024
Arena Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for New Play Celebrating Anna Julia Cooper, "Tempestuous Elements"
DEC
6
2023
Arena Stage To Extend Its Smash Hit "Swept Away"
NOV
17
2023
Arena Stage Reveals A Surprise Addition to 2023/24 Season "Mindplay"
SEP
7
2023
Arena Stage Announces Full Cast and Creative Team for Soul-Stirring New Musical "Swept Away"
AUG
24
2023
Arena Stage Announces "POTUS" Cast
JUN
28
2023
Arena Stage Announces Senior Leadership Team Promotions
JUN
23
2023
Arena Stage Announces Principal Casting of New Musical "Swept Away"
JUN
15
2023
Arena Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for “Cambodian Rock Band” – its First Production of 2023/24 Season
2022/23 Season
MAY
3
2023
Potomac Law Group's Catherine Guttman-McCabe Unanimously Elected as Board Chair for Arena Stage
May
2
2023
Arena Stage's Voices of Now Festival Returns for 18th Annual Production May 17-20
APR
25
2023
Arena Stage Names Hana Sharif as its New Artistic Director
APR
21
2023
Arena Stage to Honor Molly Smith with Beth Newburger Schwartz Award at Star-Studded Gala
Mar
30
2023
Cast Announced for Tenth World-Premiere Power Play "Exclusion"
Mar
8
2023
Arena Stage Announces 2023/24 Season
Feb
22
2023
Playwrights’ Arena Announces Eighth Cohort
Feb
22
2023
Application Period Open for Allen Lee Hughes BIPOC Fellowship Program
Feb
9
2023
Cast Announced for Great American Epic "Angels in America"
Feb
7
2023
Ride the Cyclone Extended!
Jan
13
2023
Cast Announced for New Drama Responding to Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Dec
9
2022
Cast Announced for Beloved Cult Musical "Ride the Cyclone"
Nov
16
2022
Announcing Step Afrika!'s "Magical Musical Holiday Step Show"
OCT
25
2022
Arena Stage Names Lear deBessonet 2022 Recipient of Andrew R. Ammerman Directing Award
OCT
13
2022
Arena Stage's "My Body No Choice" Goes National
Sep
17
2022
Management Consultants For The Arts To Conduct Artistic Director Search For Arena Stage
Sep
16
2022
Arena Stage Announces Cast for Tale of Two DREAMers, "Sanctuary City"
SEP
8
2022
Arena Stage Announces "My Body No Choice – Molly Smith's Final Production as Artistic Director
Aug
25
2022
Arena Stage Announces Cast for Sparkling Romantic Comedy "Holiday"
Jun
10
2022
Molly Smith To Retire From Arena Stage In 2023
Jun
8
2022
Arena Stage Announces Cast For World-Premiere Musical
2021/22 Season
May
17
2022
Voices of Now Festival Returns In-Person
Apr
26
2022
Arena Stage Announces 2022/23 Season
Apr
12
2022
Step Afrika!’s 'Drumfolk' Begins May 31st
Mar
18
2022
Theater, Television And Film Artist Charles Randolph-Wright Named 2022 Recipient Of Arena Stage’s “American Artist” Award
Feb
9
2022
Craig Lucas’ 'Change Agent' available to live stream beginning February 23
Feb
2
2022
Registration open for Camp Arena Stage 2022
Jan
20
2022
Cast and creative team announced for 'Catch Me If You Can'
Dec
8
2021
Cast and creative team announced for 'Change Agent'
Dec
6
2021
Applications open for the Allen Lee Hughes BIPOC Fellowship Program
Nov
4
2021
Live simulcast option available for 'Celia and Fidel'
Oct
20
2021
Cast and creative team announced for August Wilson's 'Seven Guitars'
Oct
5
2021
Shonali Burke named Chief Marketing Officer at Arena Stage
Oct
1
2021
Teresa Sapien named Associate Artistic Director at Arena Stage
Sep
14
2021
Original cast and creative team return for 'Celia and Fidel'
Sep
9
2021
May Adrales honored with Andrew R. Ammerman Award
Aug
11
2021
Free live simulcast of 'Toni Stone' to be presented at Nationals Park
Jul
14
2021
Arena Stage announces cast and creative team for 'Toni Stone'
Jun
3
2021
Arena Stage Announces 2021/22 Season
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