Theatre In DC

TheatreInChicago has already gone Hollywood, and now it's going political! Now, mixed in with your daily dose of all things theatrical, TheatreInChicago will be posting political soapbox rants from all of your favorite on-the-fringe bloggers and journalists! About all of your favorite "isn't-this-a-dead-horse-by-now topics!"

Don't worry, thankfully this is not what TheatreInChicago is doing at all. What TheatreInChicago is, in fact, doing is expanding yet again, this time into the buzzy, vibrant theatre scene of Washington, D.C. And this time, it's doing things a little differently with the new site www.TheatreInDC.com.

Again, this does not mean TheatreInChicago will be posting any fringey political rants. Although it may be posting stories about the political rants of fringey theatre companies. Or, it may be posting stories about the fifteenth national tour of The Lion King. Or maybe both. For the articles and features TheatreInChicago is actually teaming up with a very popular website in the DC area.

This other website is called DCTheatreScene.com, and it has been a popular D.C. area site for several years, billing itself as a "virtual theatre lobby where people from both sides of the stage come together to learn and share history and opinions about theatre in the Washington D.C. area." Recently, DCTheatreScene itself has expanded to include coverage of the New York City and Philadelphia areas as well, and to cover all the happenings, employs a staff of nine writers and two columnists.

Even so, TheatreInChicago founder and editor Mark Meyer was presented an opportunity. "I had been looking into the DC area market, and was aware of DCTheatreScene and knew there was a chance for us to both work together," says Meyer. "The forte of the TheatreInChicago and TheatreInLA sites is their comprehensive, easy-to-navigate show listings. The strength of the DCTheatreScene site is their feature content. So I thought, instead of competing, why not cooperate?" Meyer and Lorraine Treanor, the editor and publisher of DCTheatreScene, worked with each other on the collaboration. "I am a fan of TheatreInChicago and TheatreInLA and see how popular they are in their respective markets. I believe this will be a useful and exciting collaboration," Treanor says.

To that end, both DCTheatreScene.com and the new TheatreInDC.com sites will be slightly redesigned to complement and support one another. Article content posted on TheatreInDC will link back to its origin on the DCTheatreScene site, and links on that site for show listings will bring the viewer to an iFrame containing the TheatreInDC page. In addition, TheatreInDC will have almost all of the same features as its sister sites in Chicago and L.A., such as the Review Round-up, Theatre Map, Seating Charts, and Restaurant Guide, as well as the most comprehensive and up-to-date listing of all the shows currently playing in the D.C. coverage area.

Except, you know, the shows currently playing at 1600 Pennsylvania and the Capitol Complex. Because I suspect you've seen those ad nauseam.