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Review: SCORCHED at Atlas Performing Arts Center's ExPats Theatre

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

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!
ARCH/Valley Place Arts Collaborative Presents Staged Readings of BRUTE FARCE, An Original Comedy By Craig Houk

BRUTE FARCE by DC based playwright, Craig Houk will receive four staged readings at the Anacostia Arts Center on Oct 27th, 28th & 29th, 2022.
Hilarious Afterlife Comedy WHAT COMES NEXT, OR MEET THE DUNNES Premieres as Audio Play

What Comes Next, or Meet the Dunnes, a new comedy by award-winning playwright Drama Desk nominee and Edgar Award recipient Laurence Klavan, is now available online from the 21st Century Players with free access to all. What Comes Next asks the question to which just about everyone who has ever lived has sought an answer: where do we go after we die, and can a person get a decent meal there?
BWW Review: THE INFINITE TALES at 4615 Theatre Company

There's a lot of energy and creativity onstage during 4615 Theatre Company's world premiere of The Infinite Tales -- and they come not only from the actors. The performers are accompanied by live and recorded music, props that take up a good part of the stage (mostly suitcases and trunks, suggesting the long-distance travel the main characters must undergo), shadow puppets and screens, and paper cut-outs, among others.
BST Presents THE CHANGELING And THE DUCHESS OF MALFI In Repertory

BST's fall repertory explores depraved violence, sexual obsession, and female determination in two of the greatest tragedies written for the early modern stage. In The Changeling, Beatrice-Joanna goes to any lengths rather than be forced to marry a man she doesn't love--including murder. Though four hundred years old, this gripping play presents an all too familiar picture of women's entrapment and degradation at the hands of men. The Duchess of Malfi also follows the tragic efforts of a noblewoman to marry for love and to free herself of the writhing political, religious, and erotic web spun by her family. Inspired by a true story, his macabre, punk beauty of a play draws together extraordinary language, violent delights, and some of the most complex and memorable characters in Jacobean drama.
BWW Review: The Klunch Presents Wildly Funny ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

The premise is promising: when a group of porn stars decides to make a "real movie", hilarity ensues. Veteran director Joe Banno and a talented cast make the absolute most of it in the Klunch's production of Elaine May's play ADULT ENTERTAINMENT - to fun, fizzy, and surprisingly human effect.
BWW Review: WSC Avant Bard's EMILIE: LA MARQUISE DU CHATELET DEFEDS HER LIFE TONIGHT a Heady, Brilliant Evening

As effervescent and fun as it is filled with the world of ideas (and equations), 'Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight' is a heady evening, bringing a great women back to brilliant life both onstage and in our collective memory.
Photo Flash: First Look - 'EMILIE' Blazes a Trail for Women in Science at Avant Bard

Avant Bard begins Season 28 with Lauren Gunderson's Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight - a witty reincarnation of a passionate and defiant woman who in 18th-century France dazzled Voltaire and blazed a trail for women in science. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Avant Bard Announces Full Cast and Design Team for Lauren Gunderson's EMILIE

Avant Bard announces full casting and creative team for its first production of the season, Lauren Gunderson's Emilie: La Marquise Du Ch telet Defends Her Life Tonight--a witty reincarnation of a passionate and defiant woman who in 18th-century France dazzled Voltaire and blazed a trail for women in science.
BWW Review: WAR OF THE WORLDS at Scena Theatre Will Have You On the Edge of Your Seat

Taking a trip to the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street will also transport you to a time when radio was king and one of the princes of the medium was the maverick actor-director Orson Welles. Welles and his Mercury Theatre Company on the Air produced a series of classic dramas on CBS Radio in the 1930s. Their most infamous broadcast was their adaptation of the H.G. Wells scifi classic "The War of the Worlds, sent over the airwaves on October 30, 1938 from New York City. That historic and iconic radio play has been translated to a new medium - the stage - by Scena Theatre in a riveting adaptation by Robert McNamara who also directed the production. Crackling with the excitement of live radio, Scena captures the ingenuity, talent and drama of that night.
BWW Reviews: TWELVE ANGRY MEN a Spirited Send-off for American Century Theater

The American Century Theater's tenure as the DC area's advocate for neglected 20th century American drama comes to a close with a revival of one of their signature productions, the authorized stage version of Reginald Rose's classic Twelve Angry Men. Jack Marshall, TACT's Artistic Director directs a solid cast in this legal drama, which plays out in taut, edge-of-your seat real time.
TACT's 20th and Final Season Concludes TWELVE ANGRY MEN, Beginning Today

The American Century Theater ends its twentieth and final season with the first play it produced in Arlington, VA: Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, directed by TACT Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Jack Marshall, today, July 17.
TACT's 20th and Final Season to End with TWELVE ANGRY MEN, 7/17-8/8

The American Century Theater ends its twentieth and final season with the first play it produced in Arlington, VA: Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, directed by TACT Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Jack Marshall. 
BWW Reviews: THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH at The American Century Theater Feels Lackluster

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH at The American Century Theater has the potential to be strong and funny; however, several factors keep it from being a solid start to the company's final season.
American Century Theater to Present JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, 5/30-6/28

The American Century Theater will present the Abby Mann stage adaptation of his classic film and teleplay, Judgment at Nuremberg, May 30 - June 28, 2014 at Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two, in Arlington.
BWW Reviews: A Gripping, Wrenching JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG at American Century Theater

Opening as it does to coincide with the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Joe Banno's moving production reminds us just how much we are still haunted by the ghosts of World War II, and the horrific moral dilemmas of those days. With a large cast that is mostly up to the material Banno has given us a memorable evening of theater that challenges us. Forget plays that give you a cozy, morally superior perch, Mann the playwright and Banno the director force us to think about how we contributed to the monster that was Adolf Hitler.
American Century Theater Presents JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, Now thru 6/28

The American Century Theater will present the Abby Mann stage adaptation of his classic film and teleplay, Judgment at Nuremberg, today, May 30 - June 28, 2014 at Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two, in Arlington.
American Century Theater to Present JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, 5/30-6/28

The American Century Theater will present the Abby Mann stage adaptation of his classic film and teleplay, Judgment at Nuremberg, May 30 - June 28, 2014 at Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two, in Arlington.
The American Century Theater to Present Live Teleconference of A CHRISTMAS CAROL Radio Drama, 12/22

The American Century Theater presents a live re-creation of the classic 1936 A Christmas Carol Radio Drama via FREE Teleconference on Sunday, December 22, at 8:00 PM EST.

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