(May. 12 11:57 AM) - WIVES & WITS, OVERRULED & VILLAGE WOOING by George Bernard Shaw has been extended at Washington Stage Guild through May 27.

(May. 10 12:59 PM) - The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present Chicago Human Rhythm Project's (CHRP) "JUBA! Masters of American Tap" December 7, 2012 in a rare, full-length performance of American concert tap dance.

(May. 10 10:38 AM) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will announce the hire of Jocelyn Prince as the theatre’s new Connectivity Director.

(May. 10 12:30 AM) - Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) presents an original ensemble created production for the Fredneck in all of us, The All New Grand Ole Hee Haw Hootenanny Hoedown Jamboree. The title says it all, the Jamboree is sure to have you busting a gut, tapping your toes, singing along and pulling the straw from your teeth. The show will feature hilarious original sketches and a revolving roster of guest artists and musical acts. Directed by MET Artistic Director Tad Janes and Associate Artistic Directors Gené Fouché and Julie Herber, the show runs from tonight, May 10 through June 3 every Thursday through Sunday at the MET, located in the historic FSK hotel at 31 W Patrick Street.

(May. 10 12:30 AM) - THE ICE CHILD, presented by Factory 499, performs tonight, May 10 to June 3 at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint (916 G Street, NW). Performances are Thursday – Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm with Pay-What-You-Can performances May 17 & 18 (8pm). An additional Pay-What-You-Can Industry Night performance is scheduled for Monday, May 20 (8pm). Press night is May 19 at 8pm.

(May. 9 11:09 PM) - President Obama welcomed guests to the East Room at the White House tonight, May 9, for the In Performance at the White House series. The program honored Burt Bacharach and Hal David, legendary songwriters, with The Gershwin Prize. The following is a transcript of the president's award presentation.

(May. 9 5:21 PM) - The Kennedy Center presents Memphis in the Opera House from June 12 to July 1, 2012.

(May. 9 3:57 PM) - "Let My People Go" given a new meaning in this terrific production

(May. 9 12:53 PM) - The Shakespeare Theatre Company, recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award, brings its celebrated 25th Anniversary Season to an end with William Shakespeare’s riotous romp The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by celebrated British director Stephen Rayne. The production marks the first performance of this comedic favorite at STC in more than a decade. Merry Wives will take place in the Company’s Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) from June 12-July 15, 2012.

(May. 9 10:51 AM) - Coinciding with AIDS 2012, the biennial International AIDS Conference in D.C. July 22-27, 2012, Arena Stage will host a special benefit performance of The Normal Heart along with the Washington AIDS Partnership Monday, July 23 at the Mead Center for American Theater.

(May. 9 12:30 AM) - Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater hosts a four-day festival featuring performances by 11 youth ensembles from the Community Engagement program Voices of Now. The festival will bring together more than 150 young artists, ages 11-23, from D.C., Maryland and Virginia who have been working with professional theater artists from Arena Stage for eight months to devise original one-act plays. The ensembles will come together today, May 9 through May 12, 2012 to perform and discuss their work in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.

(May. 9 12:30 AM) - Tonight, May 9th, as part of their “In Performance at the White House” series, the President and First Lady will host a concert in the East Room honoring songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, who will be awarded the 2012 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. President Obama will present the award as he did in 2010 and 2009, when the Library of Congress honored Sir Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, respectively. The program will include performances by Sheryl Crow, Michael Feinstein, Diana Krall, Lyle Lovett, Mike Myers, Rumer, Arturo Sandoval, Sheléa and Stevie Wonder.

(May. 8 9:57 PM) - Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts: Maria Lopez De Leon, member, National Council on the Arts, and Emil J. Kang, member, National Council on the Arts.

(May. 8 9:56 PM) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the public launch of its fundraising campaign Free the Beast, an innovative effort that will support the production of 25 new plays starting 2012 through 2022.

(May. 8 9:19 PM) - The Keegan Theatre will present a special engagement of Spring Awakening, opening June 2, 2012 at the Church Street Theater in Washington, DC. Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening is based on the play by Frank Wedekind, and features a book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik.

(May. 8 3:43 PM) - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb in the Eisenhower Theater June 8 to July 1, 2012.

(May. 8 11:13 AM) - Paola Prestini's multimedia opera Oceanic Verses is described as :the most ambitious undertaking of her career to date, and the one that best reveals her sensibility. With her collaborators—including the film artist Ali Hossaini, the librettist Donna Di Novelli and the directorKevin Newbury—Prestini has expanded the work from a 35-minute oratorio to an evening-length opera commissioned by VisionIntoArt and produced by her frequent cohort, Beth Morrison Projects in association with Washington Chorus and Trinity Wall Street."

(May. 7 8:49 PM) - The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country’s alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, has announced the winner of the 2012 Smith Prize for a new play on American political themes: George Brant’s Grounded, the powerful, surprising story of an F-16 pilot who gets “repurposed” to fly drones following her unexpected pregnancy. In addition to upcoming development stints with the New Harmony Project and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Grounded will receive a staged reading at NNPN’s Annual Conference at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, MO on June 8, directed by Artistic Director Cynthia Levin.