An embittered Ari Roth today announced that he has resigned as Artistic Director of Mosaic Theater Company, the company he founded six years ago after parting with Theater J. Board of Directors Bill Tompkins announced that the Board unanimously accepted his resignation. Roth revealed that unidentified staff had leveled charges of “white supremacist culture and […]
First look at Psalmayene 24’s Dear Mapel from Mosaic Theater
Dear Mapel, written and performed by Psalmayene 24, is a theatrical exploration of his relationship with his deceased father currently in workshop development at Mosaic Theater. Structured as intimate letters to his father, he presents a collage of memories, feelings, and queries to communicate with his estranged father as he ponders – how do you […]
Mosaic cancels Fall season; Ari Roth takes a sabbatical
DC’s Mosaic Theater Company will not produce its Fall schedule of plays, Board Chair Bill Tompkins announced in a press release which DC Theatre Scene received today. “Conditions remain too uncertain for a resumption of in-person performances at this time. Like so many other arts organizations, we have to do what’s best for the whole […]
Mosaic Theater prepares to open Alexandra Petri’s Inherit the Windbag on Aug 19.
Update: The live performance of this show has been canceled. Mosaic will create a video performance, for Fall 2020 release. On August 28, 1968, two iconic intellectuals — author, editor, political commentator and (PBS) television host William F. Buckley for the right and author, lecturer, frequent television guest and occasional actor Gore Vidal for the […]
Psalmayene 24 receives Mellon Foundation award for 3 year residency at Mosaic Theater
Just announced – Psalmayene 24 will join Mosaic Theater’s Senior Artistic Staff where, over the next three years, the DC playwright and director will create new works, participate in Mosaic’s community outreach programs and audience interactions and initiate a new Directors/Playwrights Cohort. This is being made possible by an award from The National Playwright Residency […]
Review: Pilgrims Musa & Sheri in the New World from Mosaic Theater, a delightful romcom
Beneath differing customs and languages, are people basically the same? Playwright Yussef El Guindi makes a strong case with his unique and endearing romantic comedy Pilgrims Musa & Sheri in the New World. After a chance meeting, a free spirited American waitress and an Egyptian immigrant cab driver forge their own path together, while navigating […]
7 upcoming plays which are about to tell us where we lost our humanity and where we can find it again.
Tim Treanor was asked to recommend 7 plays for the lecture DC Theatre Season 2020 held January 14 in the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center. Since we’ve had several requests for his remarks, we publish it here, along with our thanks to the other critics Chris Klimek (Washington City Paper),Nicole Hertvik (DC Metro Theater Arts) […]
Our 22 most memorable performances of 2019
One last standing ovation for these performers whose work quite simply blew us away this year. Ian Merill Peakes, Amadeus, Folger Theatre In Amadeus, Ian Merill Peakes brought Peter Shaffer’s Salieri to brilliant, anguished life. He was a childishly sweet-scarfing confidant explaining to future generations the way his young court-rival genius, Mozart, curdled Salieri’s heart and activated […]
Review: Eureka Day, vaccinations’ controversy in Jonathan Spector’s whip smart, insightful comedy from Mosaic Theater
Is it possible for everyone to be right at the same time? How do we hold society together when people can’t agree on basic facts? Mosaic Theater Company’s whip-smart Eureka Day takes a darkly comic journey through present day disputes around vaccination, social justice, and internet disinformation. This painfully timely comedy/drama from playwright Jonathan Spector […]
Review: Theory at Mosaic Theater, freedom of speech on a college campus rings true
If you were given free rein to say whatever you want about anything you want…how far would you go? And if you were the moderator of that kind of environment, at what point would you interfere? That’s what Norman Yeung explores in Theory, making its American debut at Mosaic Theater Company. The play was originally […]
Review: Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
It has become a trope of a certain type of made-for-TV movie for the successful, career-driven woman in the Big City to have to return home to her humble beginnings and learn the true meaning of happiness (usually with the assistance of a hunky Everyman). But none of them look anything like two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
What Eric Ruffin found while directing Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation or The Re-Education of Undine
When Mosaic Theater decided to stage two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Lynn Nottage’s satirical Fabulation or The Re-Education of Undine, artistic director Ari Roth sought a director who could find something perhaps a little different from the script. Roth placed a call to Eric Ruffin about directing, though it wasn’t a slam-dunk yes. Nottage’s play tells the […]
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