In a damaged world, four characters search for the light. Angry, funny, defiant, kind and cruel, Crave is a deeply personal meditation on the meaning of love. Pulsing with loss and longing, its resonance will be doubly powerful as we begin to reconnect our lives after the loneliness and seclusion inflicted by a global pandemic. CRAVE By […]
Kings – Studio Theatre
Newly elected congresswoman Sydney Millsap arrives in DC armed with her ideals and sense of duty, and refuses to play by the rules of special interests—or her own party. Kate’s a lobbyist who backs winners. The two collide in the audio adaptation of the lacerating comedy Studio produced just after the last midterms. With its snappy dialogue […]
Strategize, Organize, Mobilize: A Protest in Eight – Theater Alliance
Eight short plays about legislative changes that will address the calls for racial justice and change from the Black Lives Matter Movement. Tickets October 27 — DEFUNDING POLICE: The Obedient Mirage by Roney Jones As tensions with protestors rise outside of the Vaughn home over the murder of Dashawn Bashaam, a Black police officer and his […]
Signature Vinyl
Signature Theatre’s sizzling tribute to the golden age of the turntable featuring the hits of Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Carole King, Marvin Gaye, Berry Gordy, Joni Mitchell, Elton John and others. Nineteen of Signature’s favorite performers including Nova Y. Payton, Natascia Diaz, Tracy Lynn Olivera and Robbie Schaefer team up with Mark G. Meadows and […]
What the Constitution Means to Me – Amazon Prime
Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show, Heidi resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. To view: Free with Amazon Prime […]
A Christmas Carol – American Shakespeare Center
Marley, the three ghosts, and Tiny Tim are all back in ASC’s new adaptation of the timeless Dickens novel, starring John Harrell as the curmudgeonly Scrooge. ASC is keeping the lights on & sharing the warmth. Performances: In person and streaming Tickets
Children of Paradise (1945)
“It is one of a handful of astonishing films that is a world unto itself. The camera work alone – those lingering closeup are mesmerizing – is simply amazing, not to mention the actors, director and the highly romantic story. “No one’s film or theatre education is complete without seeing Children of Paradise (1946) directed […]
Trans Am – Keegan Theatre
TRANS AM explores the most complex and personal parts of the human experience, through the lens of Lisa Stephen Friday. With stories and songs, Lisa shares her own trans journey as a means of understanding our common human desire for self-actualization and respect while calling out the absurdity of a world obsessed with other-ness. An […]
From Gumbo to Mumbo – Keegan Theatre
FROM GUMBO TO MUMBO features a New Orleanian science teacher turned rhyme speaker (Drew Anderson) and a dreadlock-rocking Southeast DC b-boy (Dwayne Lawson-Brown) who together conjure a dynamic cauldron of hip hop, poetry, and theatre. They dig into what it means to be authentic, question the culture and politics of today, and ultimately celebrate love […]
The Marriage Proposal – Edge of the Universe Players 2
An online audio presentation of an 1889 farce with dark reflections on the human character by Anton Chekhov. Details
Orphée et Eurydice – IN Series
Gluck’s revolutionary opera is the first in a trilogy of projects about love and loss in the time of COVID. Real-life husband and wife Benjamin Williamson and Paula Sides take on this story of love at the edge of life and death. Directed by Timothy Nelson Details
Gonzales Cantata
In time for the election, a docu-opera of Melissa Dunphy’s setting of the transcripts from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s 2005 congressional hearings into the style of Handelian oratorio is art as satire – at turns funny, charming, moving, and always convicting. This new INVISION production features the premiere of a unique organ transcription by the […]