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Video: SUMO The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company’s New York Premiere
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 12, 2025

The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company is presenting the New York premiere of SUMO, a new play written by Lisa Sanaye Dring and directed by Obie Award winner Ralph B. Peña. See footage here!

Photos: Inside Opening Night of SUMO
by Jennifer Broski - Mar 6, 2025

Review Roundup: SUMO Opens At The Public Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 6, 2025

Read reviews for The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company’s New York premiere of SUMO, a new play written by Lisa Sanaye Dring and directed by Obie Award winner Ralph B. Peña. 

Photos: SUMO at The Public Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 28, 2025

Check out new production photos for The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company’s New York premiere of SUMO, a new play written by Lisa Sanaye Dring and directed by Obie Award winner Ralph B. Peña. 

SUMO Extended at The Public Theater Through Late March
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 13, 2025

Ma-Yi Theater Company and The Public Theater will begin previews for the New York premiere of SUMO 相撲 with a Joseph Papp Free Performance on Thursday, February 20. The production has been extended. Learn more about the show!

Photos: In Rehearsals for Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUMO
by Nicole Rosky - Jan 27, 2025

The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company will soon present the New York premiere of SUMO, a thrilling new play written by Lisa Sanaye Dring and directed by Obie Award winner Ralph B. Peña. Check out photos from rehearsals here!

Cast Announced For Ma-Yi Theater Company's SUMO 相�'� At The Public Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 15, 2024

Ma-Yi Theater Company and The Public Theater announced the cast for SUMO 相撲, featuring a diverse ensemble of performers. The production explores themes of tradition and identity through the lens of sumo wrestling.

Cast and Creative Team Set for THE HANDLESS KING at Amphibian Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 11, 2024

Amphibian Stage has revealed the complete cast & creative team for The Handless King by Harley Elias, the third Main Stage offering in their 25th Anniversary Season. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Video: See Highlights From SELLING KABUL At Northlight Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 6, 2024

Northlight Theatre, continues its 2023–2024 season with the suspenseful 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury, directed by recent Northlight Artistic Fellow Hamid Dehghani. See video highlights from the play below!

Review: SELLING KABUL at Northlight Theatre
by Zac Thriffiley - Feb 4, 2024

Northlight Theatre's production movingly captures the pessimistic practicality and undying hope that still plagues those most affected by a conflict that never really ended. The play runs through February 25.

Photos: First Look At Pulitzer Prize-Winning SELLING KABUL At Northlight Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 3, 2024

Northlight Theatre, continues its 2023–2024 season with the suspenseful 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury, directed by recent Northlight Artistic Fellow Hamid Dehghani.

Review: SCORCHED at Atlas Performing Arts Center's ExPats Theatre
by Morgan Musselman - Sep 26, 2023

On stage now through October 15 at ExPats Theatre is Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched, a renowned play inspired by the life of Soha Bechara and events in the Lebanese Civil War.

SCORCHED Comes to Expats Theatre This Month
by Stephi Wild - Sep 14, 2023

Expats Theatre will present the live stage production of Scorched (original French title Incendies) by Lebanese-Québecois playwright Wajdi Mouawad. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!

Texas Talent Sweeps National Acting Competition at Amphibian Stage's 1st Annual Acting Competition
by Stephi Wild - Jun 27, 2023

Amphibian Stage held an acting competition June 8, 9, and 10th as part of SparkFest 2023, an annual festival of new plays in development, workshops, concerts, and parties. This year, the 14-day event focused on MENASA (Middle Eastern/North African/South Asian) culture, bringing together 68 playwrights, directors, musicians, actors, and other creatives from across the country.

Review: HOLIDAY at Washington's Arena Stage: Deeply Flawed Show, Flawless Performance
by Jack L. B. Gohn - Oct 17, 2022

They sure don't write them like Holiday anymore. A play about the foibles of a family of rich White people that supplies no meaningful social or racial context, a critique of the world of wealth which is bafflingly superficial, and a romance almost lacking in visible courtship, playwright Philip Barry's 1928 Broadway hit has very little claim to be produced now. Yet it's given a sumptuous and impressive production by Arena Stage in Washington. Go for the performances, the costumes, and the direction, and you'll be fine. Seek more, and you may be disappointed.

Review: HOLIDAY at Arena Stage
by Alexander C. Kafka - Oct 14, 2022

Philip Barry's 1928 classic is a romantic comedy, as advertised, but its layers of bittersweet emotional valence come through in this handsome production, directed by Anita Maynard-Losh.

BWW Review: HOTTER THAN EGYPT at ACT
by Jay Irwin - Feb 4, 2022

Seattle has been honored with a number of new works from Seattle based author and ACT Core Company member Yussef El Guindi. Each one examining cultural differences that face immigrants especially Arab-Americans and Muslim Americans. And while his current World Premiere at ACT, “Hotter Than Egypt”, certainly deals with those cultural divides, it also wonderfully shows the cultural similarities between the races and does it with tons of humor.

ACT Season Opens With HOTTER THAN EGYPT This Month
by Stephi Wild - Jan 7, 2022

It’s 2022 and ACT - A Contemporary Theatre is thrilled to officially announce casting for the first production of its return season, Hotter Than Egypt, written by acclaimed local playwright, Yussef El Guindi (Threesome and People of the Book).

RED BIKE By Caridad Svich Makes DC Premiere As Multi-Site Community Celebration
by Nicole Rosky - Oct 3, 2021

Pan Underground will produce RED BIKE by Caridad Svich, as part of a multi-site installation, premiering first in Anacostia on October 24, followed by The Parks at Walter Reed on November 6.

BWW Review: PILGRIMS MUSA & SHERI IN THE NEW WORLD at Mosaic Theater Company
by Barbara Trainin Blank - Jan 26, 2020

An emphasis on immigrants and how well they integrate (or not) in this country is nothing new. If anything, the issue has become more heated in the past few years.