I just wanted to provide an update on scheduled spring projects due to the COVID-19 health crisis.
4615 Theatre Company’s production of Museum 2040 will close two weeks early, on March 15.
Through the amazing efforts of the McKinley Elementary School administration and in under 24 hours of preparation, we were able to record a no-audience run of their spring production of Momotaro, directed by me through Educational Theatre Company, in order to circulate amongst the families of the 50-student company. This occurred after Arlington County Public Schools closed our production on March 12, the day it was scheduled to open, and announced that all schools would close for distance learning beginning the following Monday, March 16.
Arts on the Horizon’s spring production of By the Seashore is postponed indefinitely, as well as its scheduled subsequent remount at the Kennedy Center, for the National TYA Conference in May.
Baltimore Center Stage’s Young Playwrights Festival 2020 event celebrating this year’s winners and producing their plays, is postponed indefinitely.
Goethe-Institut’s commission of Schubertiade, reassembling the team from Spooky Action’s The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers, is postponed indefinitely.
We Happy Few’s spring production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is postponed indefinitely.
Adventure Theatre MTC’s summer production of Madagascar is postponed indefinitely.
All scheduled spring and spring break classes with Educational Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, and Imagination Stage have been canceled.
All scheduled tours with the Kreeger Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the National Building Museum have been canceled.
This will be a tough time for freelance artists. Please consider donating to theatreWashington’s Taking Care COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund here. Personal donations will be accepted on Venmo @dmarredondo.
