Washington, DC-Area Theatres to Collect Donations for Theatre Washington’s Taking Care Fund

Washington, DC-area theatre productions will take part within the 2022 Spring Bucket Brigade, Might 19-22, to lift funds and consciousness for Theatre Washington’s Taking Care Fund, supporting native theatre makers.

Persevering with an extended custom of Taking Care Fund Bucket Brigades, following every efficiency the performers in lots of space productions will do a curtain speech to attraction for assist for his or her fellow Washington, DC-area theatremakers – asking audiences to drop donations into the signature yellow buckets or give on-line to the Taking Care Fund at theatrewashington.org.

The Taking Care Fund was established in 2012 to offer monetary reduction to Washington-area theatre professionals in instances of unexpected hardship. Since March 2020, when COVID-19 prompted a swift near-shutdown of the theatre business, the Taking Care Fund has raised and distributed over $830,000 in grants to theatre professionals, overlaying residing bills associated to lack of work, medical care, and debt reduction. And though many productions are again on stage in our area, the necessity persists. Theatre Washington, with the assist of our companions, has dedicated to elevating a million {dollars}, in whole, by the top of 2022.

Data on the Spring Bucket Brigade may also be discovered on the Theatre Washington web site.

Collaborating Productions

The businesses of the next productions will take part within the 2022 Spring Bucket Brigade:

• The Pleasure that Carries You, Olney Theatre Heart

• Rocky the Musical, Toby’s Dinner Theatre

• There’s All the time the Hudson, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Firm

• Xanadu, Workhouse Arts Heart

• Into the Woods, Artistic Cauldron

• Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, Washington Stage Guild

• Marys Seacole, Mosaic Theater Firm

• John Proctor is the Villain, Studio Theatre

• The Upstairs Division, Signature Theatre

• Our City, Shakespeare Theatre Firm

• Do You Really feel Anger, Theater Alliance