The 2014-15 Southwest Nights are as follows: The Shoplifters – Sept. 9, 2014 – 7:30pm Fiddler on the Roof – Nov. 28, 2014 – 2pm Five Guys Named Moe – December 26, 2014 – 8pm Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery – January 21, 2015 – 7:30pm King Hedley II – February 24, 2015 – 7:30pm […]
The Shoplifters Premieres at Arena Stage
The world premiere of The Shoplifters by the noted Canadian playwright and director Morris Panych will open Arena Stage’s 2014-15 season. The comedy is a merry spin as three oddball characters battle wills and confront significant issues. It starts when a steak that Alma, a career shoplifter, has applied her “five finger discount” to falls out of her clothing […]
Upcoming Events at Arena Stage
WHAT: Healing Wars Arena ends its 2013-14 season with a world premiere dance event. Healing Wars is Liz Lerman’s newest theatrical dance piece, which explores the experiences of healers — medics and soldiers from the Civil War to the present — who are tasked with treating the physical and psychic wounds of battle. Healing Wars is a collaborative […]
Smokey Joe’s Café Comes to Arena Stage
Just how long can popular music stay popular? Two musical events occurring in Southwest DC in May feature music that has long since proven that the answer might be “forever.” It’s hard to imagine American pop music without “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Stand by Me,” and “Love Potion #9.” What would American music have been […]
Final Two SW Nights at Arena Stage
Save the dates for the final two SW Nights of the season at Arena Stage: Sunday, April 20th, at 6:00 p.m. Camp David Tuesday, May 27th, at 7:30 p.m. Smokey Joe’s Café Southwest DC residents may buy discounted tickets for specially designated performances of each production. Tickets are $35 for musicals and $25 for non-musicals, plus fees. […]
‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ and More at Arena Stage
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children has been called by some the greatest anti-war play ever. The astonishing work, written in a month in 1939 on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, tells of a single mother determined to keep her family alive and her business afloat during the Thirty Years War that […]