ALSO PLAYING AT ARENA STAGE WHAT: Six members of the inaugural Playwrights group will share excerpts from each of their plays and discuss their writing process. WHEN: March 6-9, 2014 Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday at 7:30 p.m. COST: Tickets are $10 INFORMATION arenastage.org/artistic-development/new-play-institute/playwrights-arena/. WHAT; Kogod Cradle Series […]
‘Camp David’ at Arena Stage
Everyone involved with Camp David is an award winner. The historic drama about the meeting of three Nobel Prize world leaders was written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author and stars Emmy and Tony Award winners. Pulitzer Prize winning author Lawrence Wright’s drama takes place over the 13 days at […]
‘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 […]
Arena Stage Special Events
SAVE THE DATES SOUTHWEST NIGHTS: Friday, November 29 at 2:00 p.m. Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life Tuesday, December 24 at 7:30 p.m. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner SPECIAL EVENTS AT ARENA WHAT: GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER-DINNER WHEN: NOV. 19 In the spirit of Arena Stage’s upcoming Guess Who’s […]
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner at Arena Stage
Television actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show) makes his Arena Stage debut in a new adaptation of the 1967 classic film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. If you remember 1967, it was the year the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v.Virginia. In Hollywood history, it was the […]
Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life at Arena Stage
WHAT: Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life WHERE: Arena Stage WHEN: November 15-December 29, 2013 MORE INFORMATION: arenastage.org/shows-tickets/the-season/productions/maurice-hines-is-tappin-thru-life/ Tap dancing greats, Broadway’s Maurice Hines and Southwest DC’s Manzari Brothers, add another page to the history of American tap dance in this incredible production coming to Arena Stage in November. The […]
Arena Stages Launches Civil War Collaboration
Arena Stage launched a multi-city multi-year theater-university collaboration with The National Civil War Project on Feb. 28. Four universities and five performing arts organizations are planning new plays, conferences and community programs in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. The project is commissioning 12 new works about […]