The title, Or, with its provocative comma, suggests the production’s playful attitude toward binaries—in gender, sexuality, and morality. Brought to Capitol Hill Arts Workshop by Theatre Prometheus, a company dedicated to centering “women-focused, diverse narratives,” it introduces us to Aphra Behn, one of the first female playwrights to earn her living primarily through her written […]

In 2001, a group of Mexican migrants were left stranded in the blistering desert heat east of Yuma, Arizona. Smugglers, whom they had paid for safe transport to the border, promised them that the nearest road was a few hours away and that they would return with water. The smugglers never came back. Fourteen people […]

In this play, Anon (Eiren Stevenson) and his mother Nemasani (Toni Rae Salmi) flee their war-desecrated county to go to a land that they have heard is just and prosperous. But when they get there, the evil King throws them in separate cages, and vows to send them back to their certain deaths.

Perhaps in years to come we will better appreciate the horrors of the battle of Aleppo, Syria which stretched from 2012-2016.  Playwright Darcy Parker Bruce makes a valiant attempt to render the story on a personal level in Soldier Poet, a world premiere at Theatre Prometheus which presents the human costs of war on the […]