2025 Helen Hayes Awards And – Nominations for the 40th Helen Hayes Awards were announced this week at the ATLAS Performing Arts Center on H Street, Northeast, honoring the best theater in the nation’s capital. Judges . Douglas won two Oscars, for Hud (1963) and for acting alongside a revelatory Peter Sellers in Being There (1969). The actor was known for being an outspoken anti-fascist ever since visiting Europe in .










2025 Helen Hayes Awards And Theatre Washington announces nominees for 2025 Helen Hayes Awards : Photograph courtesy of Peter Marks. On Monday, the Helen Hayes Awards—an annual program that celebrates professional theater achievements in the DC area—announced this year’s honorary “Helen Hayes . Arena Stage marked a year of transition by dominating the Helen Hayes Award nominations, as the Avett Brothers musical “Swept Away” and director Janos Szasz’s avant-garde revival of .









