Review: THE OTHER AMERICANS at Arena Stage
by David Friscic - November 04, 2024
An obvious labor of love by all concerned, actor and writer John Leguizamo’s The Other Americans is an extremely well-written and highly ambitious play that delineates the tragedy of a man’s fatal flaws ripping apart his family at the seams.
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Photos: John Leguizamo's THE OTHER AMERICANS In Rehearsal At Arena Stage
by A.A. Cristi - September 30, 2024
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has released photos from inside rehearsal for The Other Americans....
Review: EXCLUSION at Arena Stage
by Pamela Roberts - May 21, 2023
Exclusion, a thought-provoking and witty world premiere by Kenneth Lin at Arena Stage, explores the tug-of-war between what is true and what sells...
Photos: First Look At The Stars of EXCLUSION At Arena Stage
by A.A. Cristi - May 09, 2023
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has released pre-production photos for the world premiere of Exclusion, a wickedly funny Hollywood-set comedy. ...
Photos: First Look At The Cast of ANGELS IN AMERICA At Arena Stage
by A.A. Cristi - March 17, 2023
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced the cast and creative team of its upcoming production of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, which will run March 24 April 23, 2023, in the iconic in-the-round Fichandler Stage. See first look photos of the cast.
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Photos: Go Inside Rehearsals for ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE MILLENNIUM APPROACHES at Arena Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 27, 2023
Check out rehearsal photos for America, Part One: Millennium Approaches at Arena Stage. ...
Past Shows
Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!
10/23 - 10/30/2020
Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It! is a captivating call to action and look at the impassioned freedom fighter who became one of the most ...
Snow Child
4/13 - 5/20/2018
Eowyn Ivey’s debut novel The Snow Child, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is reborn as a magical new musical with a bluegrass-infused score. The ...
Two Trains Running
3/30 - 4/29/2018
It’s 1969 and the Civil Rights Movement is sending tremors through Pittsburgh’s Hill District. At the center of the community is Memphis Lee’s diner, slated ...
Hold These Truths
2/23 - 4/8/2018
There is a Japanese proverb that says, “The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hit.” In 1941, one American, the son of ...
The Great Society
2/2 - 3/11/2018
Robert Schenkkan’s Tony Award-winning play All the Way set the stage for President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s sudden ascent to the White House. In its D.C. ...
Sovereignty
1/12 - 2/18/2018
Some wounds refuse to heal. Mary Kathryn Nagle’s daring new work, which debuts as the fourth production in Arena Stage’s Power Plays initiative, travels the ...
Nina Simone: Four Women
11/10 - 12/24/2017
Velvet-throated songstress Nina Simone hypnotized audiences with her signature renditions of standards from the American songbook. But on September 15, 1963, a devastating explosion in ...
The Pajama Game
10/27 - 12/24/2017
The Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory is a tiptop model of efficiency—so why are things getting so steamy? It could have something to do with how hard ...
The Price
10/6 - 11/5/2017
Everything has a price—even our dreams. Victor Franz has returned home to settle his late father’s estate. In an attic overflowing with memories and furniture ...
Native Gardens
9/15 - 10/22/2017
Good fences make good neighbors…right? From the outrageous mind of playwright Karen Zacarías (Destiny of Desire) comes this hot new comedy about the clash of ...
The Originalist
7/7 - 7/30/2017
Four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Edward Gero is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in The Originalist. This smash-hit show from 2015 returns to offer audiences ...
Smart People
4/14 - 5/21/2017
Do our belief systems stem from our environment, or are some prejudices hard-wired into us? With barbed wit, Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly) explores the ...
A Raisin in the Sun
3/31 - 4/30/2017
Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking masterpiece follows the Younger family yearning for a better life far from the cramped confines of their Chicago tenement. Hope arrives in ...
Intelligence
2/24 - 4/9/2017
Inspired by true events, Intelligence is a fictionalized account of a covert operative who, tasked with protecting the national security of the United States post-9/11, ...
Watch on the Rhine
2/3 - 3/5/2017
Four-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) leads an ensemble cast as Fanny Farrelly in Lillian Hellman's suspenseful masterpiece ...
Roe
1/12 - 2/19/2017
The lawyer: a young, brilliant, courageous woman arguing Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court. The plaintiff: a complex, single woman seeking to end an ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions ...
The Blood Quilt
4/24 - 6/7/2015
Welcome to the Jernigan Gals’ Quilting Corner. Gathering at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia, four disconnected sisters meet to create a ...
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
4/3 - 5/3/2015
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play (and the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama League and the Drama Desk), Vanya and Sonia ...
The Originalist
3/6 - 4/26/2015
Four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Edward Gero (Red) returns to Arena Stage as one of America's most brilliant and polarizing figures: Supreme Court Justice Antonin ...
King Hedley II
2/6 - 3/8/2015
King Hedley has returned, but to reign for how long? With an angry scar down the length of his face and seven years of prison ...
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
1/16 - 2/22/2015
Get your deerstalker cap on— the play’s afoot! From the Tony Award-winning mastermind of mayhem, Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), comes a fast-paced comedy ...
Fiddler on the Roof
10/31 - 1/4/2015
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of an American classic! More than just a poor milkman, Tevye is a humble Jewish father who finds his devotion to ...
Five Guys Named Moe
11/14 - 12/28/2014
Need to chase the blues away? Pull up a seat at the Funky Butt Club to celebrate the fresh, feel-good music of “The King of ...
Our War
10/21 - 11/9/2014
An esteemed collection of some of America’s finest playwrights, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award, has been assembled to create ...
The Shoplifters
9/5 - 10/19/2014
Meet Alma, a career shoplifter who prefers the “five-finger discount” over some lousy senior citizen deal, whose elaborate life of petty crime is halted by ...
Healing Wars
6/6 - 6/29/2014
World premiere. June 6–29, 2014 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle A pioneer in the world of contemporary dance, Liz Lerman’s newest theatrical dance ...
Camp David
3/21 - 5/4/2014
World Premiere March 21–May 4, 2014 in the Kreeger Theater Sixty-two miles north of Washington, D.C., nestled in Catoctin Mountain Park, lies the clandestine retreat ...
Mother Courage and Her Children
1/31 - 3/9/2014
January 31–March 9, 2014 in the Fichandler Stage Tough-as-nails matriarch Mother Courage profits off the very war that steals her children from her one by ...
The Tallest Tree in the Forest
1/10 - 2/16/2014
Tectonic Theater Project’s World Premiere Presentation January 10–February 16, 2014 in the Kreeger Theater Bursting with soulful music and poetic storytelling, The Tallest Tree in ...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
11/29 - 1/5/2014
November 29, 2013–January 5, 2014 in the Fichandler Stage Broadway and Arena Stage favorite Kenny Leon (every tongue confess) returns to direct a new adaptation ...
Tappin' Thru Life
11/15 - 12/29/2013
A co-production with Alliance Theatre and Cleveland Play House November 15–December 29, 2013 in the Kreeger Theater Broadway legend and Tony Award nominee Maurice Hines ...
Love in Afghanistan
10/11 - 11/17/2013
World premiere by Resident Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright October 11–November 17, 2013 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle From resident playwright Charles Randolph-Wright (Blue, Cuttin’ ...
The Velocity of Autumn
9/6 - 10/20/2013
Exclusive Pre-Broadway Engagement September 6–October 20, 2013 in the Kreeger Theater In a simple Brooklyn brownstone, 79-year-old Alexandra lives a solitary existence with her fleeting ...
One Night with Janis Joplin
6/21 - 8/11/2013
With a voice like whiskey and a laugh like pure joy, Janis Joplin took the music scene by storm. Simultaneously rough and vulnerable, Joplin was ...
Smokey Joe's Cafe
4/25 - 6/8/2013
April 25–June 8, 2014 in the Fichandler Stage Staged by Randy Johnson, the visionary behind One Night with Janis Joplin, Smokey Joe’s Café—The Songs of ...
Other Desert Cities
4/26 - 5/26/2013
After a six-year absence, Brooke Wyeth returns to her Reaganite parents’ Palm Springs enclave for the holidays. But the warm desert air turns chilly when ...
The Mountaintop
3/29 - 5/12/2013
Hailed as “daring, rousing and provocative” by Entertainment Weekly, The Mountaintop is Katori Hall’s bold reimagining of the last night of the historic life of ...
Mary T. & Lizzy K.
3/15 - 4/28/2013
Writer-director Tazewell Thompson (dir. M. Butterfly, Yellowman) stitches together an insider's look at the unlikely friendship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her talented ...
Metamorphoses
2/8 - 3/17/2013
“THE SOUL WANDERS IN THE DARK, UNTIL IT FINDS LOVE. AND SO, WHEREVER OUR LOVE GOES, THERE WE FIND OUR SOUL.” Back in D.C. for ...
Good People
2/1 - 3/10/2013
Good People By David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Jackie Maxwell In the Kreeger Theater February 1 – March 10, 2013 Enter South Boston’s Lower End, where ...
The Grand Parade (of the 20th Century)
2/6 - 2/10/2013
Immerse yourself in the “unpredictable and imaginative” (American Theatre) world of acclaimed theater troupe Double Edge Theatre. Inspired by the multi-layered paintings of Marc Chagall, ...
My Fair Lady
11/2 - 1/6/2013
Just as Molly Smith’s record-breaking production of Oklahoma! was enthralling audiences at Arena Stage, her fresh reinterpretation of My Fair Lady set the all-time box ...
Pullman Porter Blues
11/23 - 1/6/2013
Pullman Porter Blues A world-premiere co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre By Cheryl L. West Directed by Lisa Peterson In the Kreeger Theater November 23, 2012 ...
One Night with Janis Joplin
9/28 - 11/4/2012
written and directed by Randy Johnson in the Kreeger SEPTEMBER 28 – NOVEMBER 4, 2012 With a voice like whiskey and a laugh like pure ...
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
8/23 - 10/28/2012
by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel directed by David Esbjornson in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle AUGUST 23 – OCTOBER 28, 2012 Academy Award ...
Videos
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Your Name Means Dream
Theater J (3/12 - 4/6) | |
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CONSTELLATIONS
Constellation Theatre Company (2/6 - 3/9) | |
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INSeries presents: Poppea
IN Series (3/14 - 3/29) | |
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Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS
Constellation Theatre Company (2/6 - 6/1) | |
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The Dumb Waiter
DC Arts Center (3/7 - 3/23) | |
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Blame It On Beckett
The Writers Center (3/14 - 3/30) | |
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Kunene and the King
Klein Theatre - Shakespeare Theatre Company (2/16 - 3/16) | |
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We Are Gathered
Arena Stage (5/16 - 6/15) | |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue
Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (3/22 - 3/22) | |
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Wipe Out
Milton Theatre (6/18 - 7/27) | |
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Shucked
Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (4/1 - 4/6) | |
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RIVERDANCE 30 – The New Generation
Opera House at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (3/4 - 6/16) | |
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