Rorschach Theatre

Get 20% of ELDRITCH INVESTIGATIONS: A Psychogeographies Project for a limited time! Code: darksummer. 7 summer adventures and a ticket to October’s chilling SLEEPING GIANT.

Conjuring up a brand new rock seance by Shawn Northrip with a brilliant first draft read last night. Thanks to everyone who made it happen. 🖤

#2025
📸1: AI nonsense
📸2: the most cheerful emo kids you ever ever seen, borrowed from

Rorschach in the wild.

Thank you to everyone who made The 1999 Bash AMAZING! It was a brilliant night full of so many old and new friends. Here's to the next 25 years! (Tag yourselves in the pix!)

to some of the excellent Rorschach parties of the past. This Saturday THE 1999 BASH kicks off at 7pm. Be there! (So you can be in the 50th Anniversary photo montage in a few years 😉) Tix and Donate link: https://rorschachtheatre.com/the-1999-bash/

We're just one week away! So what can you expect at The 1999 Bash?
*Beer from Atlas Brewing
*Tasty Treats from Founding Farmers & Well Dunn Catering
* "25 Years of Rorschach in 10(ish) Minutes" Performed by some of your fav Rorschach Artists
* Silent Auction with Highlights like:

--> NEVERWHERE Collectors' Edition signed by Neil Gaiman

--> Tix to see Caitlin Clark play the Mystics

--> Broccoli City Music Fest headlined by Megan Thee Stallion

--> Nats Tix in the Terra Club Level

--> Home Rule Fest VIP Tix

+ Games, Activities, Dancing and all the Rorschach nostalgia you can handle!

GET TIX TODAY: https://rorschachtheatre.thundertix.com/events/229472

The Helen Hayes Awards are tonight and we've got 3 nominations.
In honor of tonight AND our 25th Anniversary here's a peek back at some of our favorite Helen Hayes Award Recognized shows of the past quarter century. Which ones do you remember??

GOD OF VENGEANCE, 2001
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATION
OUTSTANDING RESIDENT COSTUME DESIGN
Justine Light & Lucas Maroney

TALE OF A TIGER, 2004
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATION
OUTSTANDING NON-RESIDENT PRODUCTION
Ami Dayan

REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT, 2007
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATIONS

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Shirley Serotsky

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS
Gabriella Fernandez Coffey

VOICES UNDERWATER, 2011
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATIONS
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Nicole Martin

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
David Ghatan

VERY STILL AND HARD TO SEE, 2015
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATIONS

OUTSTANDING PLAY (HELEN)
Rorschach Theatre

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION (HELEN)
Randy Baker

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN (HELEN)
Brian Gillick

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (HELEN)
Robbie Hayes

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN (HELEN)
Frank DiSalvo, Jr

FORGOTTEN KINGDOMS, 2017
HELEN HAYES AWARD WINNER

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN (HELEN)
Debra Kim Sivigny

And our 2024 NOMINEES:

SOMETIMES THE RAIN, SOMETIMES THE SEA
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINEE
CHARLES MACARTHUR AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PLAY OR MUSICAL ADAPTATION
Julia Izumi

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINEE
OUTSTANDING MEDIA/PROJECTION DESIGN (HELEN)
Kylos Brannon

ANGEL NUMBER NINE
HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINEE
CHARLES MACARTHUR AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PLAY OR MUSICAL ADAPTATION
James L. Rogers III and Jenny McConnell Frederick

TODAY IN RORSCHACH THEATRE HISTORY:
In the summers of 2008 & 2009, Rorschach took over the Performing Arts Center at Georgetown University to produce full seasons in just three months. Click below for an epic tracking shot from Season 9 created by Karl Miller and featuring many famous and familiar faces from DC theatre. (Tag the ones you see in the comments!). Fight camp in the loading dock next to the cemetery; costumes in the back halls, post-show parties every Friday.

WATCH: https://rorschachtheatre.com/season-9/

Get tix for our 25th Anniversary Bash or share your Rorschach stories at pix at rorschachtheatre.com!

Season 9 (2009)

LIVING DEAD IN DENMARK by Qui Nguyen; Directed by Casey Kaleba
DEAD CITY by Sheila Callaghan; Directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick
BRAINPEOPLE by José Rivera; Directed by Catherine Tripp
1001 by Jason Grote; Directed by Randy Baker

“an impoverished but balls-to-the-wall theater company” -Washington City Paper

From the Rorschach Vault: January 2007, rehearsals for ROUGH MAGIC. Have any of your own Rorschach pix and stories? Share them or get tix for The 1999 Bash at the link in our bio.

“IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE PLAY during the six-month-long Shakespeare In Washington Festival SEE ROUGH MAGIC… the play itself proves an inspired choice for an impoverished but balls- to-the-wall theater company.”
– Washington City Paper

Caliban has escaped from Prospero’s island after being imprisoned for 500 years. On the run from his sadistic and powerful master, he finds himself in modern-day New York where he joins forces with a dramaturg with magical powers and a love-struck lifeguard who might be the child warrior fated to save the world. Taking his cues from many of today’s most popular comic and graphic novel writers like Neil Gaiman (SANDMAN), Bill Willingham (FABLES) and Warren Ellis (PLANETARY), Aguirre-Sacasa, a writer for Marvel Comics and one of America’s hottest young playwrights, melds a very real New York with Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, creating a modern tale of thrills, chills and drag queen furies.

Have a Rorschach story? We're collecting memories, magic moments and urban legends from across Rorschach's 25 year history. We'll put them all on display at the Bash on June 1st.

Share you tales and memories here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG1Rjm1Hw8SXrSe-ofx44KS3mo917JlkE5Rz5SOM0aYqworQ/viewform

(Extra credit if you can tell us in the comments what these pix are from.)

TIX ON SALE NOW!
Saturday, June 1st 7PM-11PM
1020 Connecticut Ave NW

Party like it's 1999 with the only theatre company you know named for a swiss psychologist. Drinks, food, dancing, nostalgic vibes and the theatrical debut of "25 Years of Rorschach in 10(ish) Minutes". It's going to be awesome. duh.

Attire: Glitter & Grunge

TIX: https://rorschachtheatre.thundertix.com/events/229472

Happy closing to these beautiful bots! Thank you for sharing your humanity with us. ❤️

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HUMAN MUSEUM closes today every last admission has been sold, BUT if you're not ready to say goodbye (we aren't!) all our HUMAN MUSEUM souvenirs are on sale this week! Check the link below to get T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Totes & Notebooks! (or if you are one of the lucky ones who got a ticket for today, everything in on-site Museum Shop will be 50% off!)

SHOP NOW: https://rorschachtheatre.threadless.com/

Nepobaby Intern is helping us prep for the 25th Anniversary bash in June 1st! Recognize any of these shows?

There’s no place like Rorschach. 💖🍩

No matter how talented your cast, how sharp your script, how clever your director or how beautiful your design NOTHING happens in live theatre without a top notch Stage Management team. Sophia, Natasha, Makayla, Ainsley & Nukie make everything happen smoothly and we are so happy to have them. To be honest though…Nukie’s not really as busy as the rest of the team, but what he lacks in productivity he makes up for in cuteness and enthusiasm. Pretty good for a stuffed bear. ❤️❤️ 🐻 ❤️❤️

HUMAN MUSEUM is Helen Hayes Awards Recommended. Congrats to the cast and creative team! Just two weekends left to catch it before it’s gone May 5th.

65: I had to sort the internet for this.
237: I had to sort bombs and guns and nano drones.
65: So how can you still see beauty in this?
237: That’s my programming. Despite all their flaws, I still wish I could’ve met them.

HUMAN MUSEUM
By Miyoko Conley, Directed by Randy Baker
Now through May 5
1020 Connecticut Ave NW

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Scouting hot young talent today at Meridian High School’s IDR for Danielle Mohlman’s FRANKENSTEIN directed by Shawn Northrip. 🔥🔥🔥 Go check it out this weekend!

Exhibits in the HUMAN MUSEUM are curated around humans’ doomsday films. Check out these brilliant designs by Sofía Olivar and Gavin Moiser. Drop a robot emoji in the comments if you think we should offer these up to buy after the show.

Excellent to be at the Mayor’s press conference today and hear about all the initiatives making pop-up space activations like ours more viable for more artists. (And big thanks to and for the shout outs today!)

HUMAN MUSEUM dramaturg Divinia Shorter and playwright Miyoko Conley, at last week’s opening, looking as fabulous as they are talented. 💛🧡💖💜💙

LAST CHANCE FOR 40% OFF HUMAN MUSEUM TIX: TODAY ONLY! Code “FirstContact” for the Sunday 4/21 3pm performance.

"promisingly metafictional” —WASHINGTON POST


📸 DJ COREY PHOTOGRAPHY

“As the half-dozen characters embodied by Baker’s winningly committed cast navigate this upended are-we-alone-in-the-universe inquiry, they’ll find themselves unpacking ideas about the importance and the limitations of connection, the uncertainties of interpretation, the nature and even the purpose of knowledge." —Washington Post

Meet the Artists of HUMAN MUSEUM

CHRISTIAN SULLIVAN, Technical Director

Christian Sullivan has done at least something for most every theatre in the area. A Technical Director, carpenter, actor, fight choreographer... he's done a lot. Currently, he's looking for a full time job and a girlfriend. So, if you have any leads on other, feel free to reach out.

Meet the Artists of HUMAN MUSEUM

MIKAYLA SMITH, Assistant Stage Manager

Makayla Smith is an apprentice in the Arts Institute for Creative Advancement (AICA) at The Theatre Lab. After doing theatre for seven years in Mississippi, she recently moved to the DC area for the AICA program in order to accelerate her career in professional theatre emphasizing stage management and costuming. I'm addition to Human Museum, Makayla was the Assistant Stage Manager for Breakout Theater's production of Proof, also directed by Randy Baker. She is also set to call her first show as the stage manager in May.