Arena Stage Southwest Nights for Upcoming Season

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘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 […]