Dazzling waterfront edifice becomes an instant national theater landmark

Beginning this evening, Friday October 22, 2010, Washington’s venerable Arena Stage launches its gala re-opening weekend, celebrating its rebirth in a gleaming, attention-grabbing new facility that will open to the public for the very first time. Dark for roughly thirty months while Arena’s casts and crew mounted productions elsewhere in the area, Arena’s once aging complex has been utterly transformed into a multifaceted, landmark venue whose brash and quintessentially American aim is to propel the U.S. theater scene to still greater heights in this still-new 21^st century. [Read more...]