REINVENTING SOURCE, CuDC’s film on the legacy of Source is now available for viewing online. Just click the "play" icon below.

Source, at 1835 14th Street NW, has been one of DC’s landmark performing arts spaces for nearly three decades. It’s been a springboard for many of the city’s emerging talents and a home to the arts crusaders who helped revitalize 14th Street in Northwest DC as an arts corridor. Source Theatre Company, along with Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, pioneered the revitalization of this neighborhood at a time when other investors deemed it unappealing — leading the area’s economic and social resurgence.

The DC arts community was therefore outraged early in 2006 upon hearing that the Source property, which closed its doors due to ongoing financial strains on the theatre company, was slated for sale to a local restaurateur. Fearing the irrevocable loss of a precious artistic resource, area artists, patrons and activists rallied together, enlisting CuDC’s help to save Source. Gathering input from performing arts companies, individual artists and theatre patrons, CuDC created a plan to revive Source and re-establish the theatre tradition in this historic DC art space. We officially acquired the property in October 2006 and planning for the theatre’s renovation shortly thereafter.

After completing major renovations in the spring of 2008 — including the addition of an upstairs rehearsal studio, classroom and workspace for arts organizations and replacing all sound and light equipment in the facility — CuDC re-opened the theatre to the public in late June, 2008. Early in 2009, we will begin Phase II improvements at Source. The theatre will remain open during this time, continuing to play host to some of the area’s finest talents.

For more information, check out www.sourcedc.org.