Category Archives: Drama

Dante at 750: A Dramatic Reading of the Divine Comedy at Clarice Smith, Oct 29

Dante at 750: A Dramatic Reading of the Divine Comedy at Clarice Smith, Oct 29

Dante at 750: A Dramatic Reading of the Divine Comedy
Thursday, October 29, 2015. 7PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Free, no tickets required. Cafritz Foundation Theatre, general admission.

The Italian Cultural Society of Washington, DC in collaboration with the University of Maryland at College Park cordially invites you to a dramatic reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy done by students from the Department of French and Italian (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies.

The Bored of Education and Untitled at Clarice Smith, Oct 23 & 24

The Bored of Education and Untitled at Clarice Smith, Oct 23 & 24

The Bored of Education and Untitled

Fri, Oct 23, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 . 3:00PM
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Cafritz Foundation Theatre, General Admission.

The Bored of Education
Written and directed by Rebecca Mount

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein
Join five high school students as they challenge the one-size-fits-all approach to American education, and discover what it truly is to learn.

Untitled
Written and directed by Abi Carrol

A multi-media exploration of intercultural identity devised from the stories of DC-area residents who self-identify as Iraqi.

Free, tickets required. Get tickets here.

Raw at Venus Theatre, Oct 22-Nov 15

Raw at Venus Theatre, Oct 22-Nov 15

Raw
by Amy Bernstein
Venus Theatre World Premiere
Directed by Deborah Randall

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Opens October 22, 2015
Closes November 15, 2015
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Description: Eliza’s dairy farm is under siege: by Caroline, the documentary film-making, grudge-holding heifer she allows into her house to bear witness, for a fee; by Harriet, her inheritance-deprived sister; and by the bacteria lurking in the raw milk lying in wait for daughter Jamie. Woe descends on Red Robin Farm.

About the playwright: Amy Bernstein’s short comedies and dramas have been read and produced in New York City; Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Lexington, KY and elsewhere. She has twice been selected for readings at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival and was chosen to participate in intensive playwright workshops at the 2011 Association of Theaters for Higher Education (ATHE) Conference and at the Inkwell Theater in D.C. in 2012. A one-minute play was selected for production and videotaping in an annual short-play festival produced in Leeds, England. Amy is also a regular contributor of short dramatic WORK to the annual Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival and Free Fall Baltimore.

Tickets: Buy here.

The Mystery Plays by the Hard Bargain Players, Oct 9-24

The Mystery Plays by the Hard Bargain Players, Oct 9-24

The Mystery Plays
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Directed by April Dawn Weimer
October 9-24, 2015

Location: Hard Bargain Players

Performances: Fridays and Saturdays, October 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 8:00 PM

Synopsis: THE MYSTERY PLAYS is two interrelated one acts, loosely based on the tradition of the medieval mystery plays. In the first play, THE FILMMAKER’S MYSTERY, Joe Manning, a director of horror films, survives a terrible train wreck—only to be haunted by the ghost of Nathan West, one of the passengers who didn’t survive. As the police investigate Joe, he investigates Nathan, desperate to understand why he survived and what Nathan’s specter could possible want. In the second play, GHOST CHILDREN, Joe’s attorney and friend, Abby Gilly, travels to a small town in rural Oregon to make peace with the man who brutally murdered her parents and younger sister sixteen years earlier. The man—the murderer—is her older brother. Like the original medieval mystery plays, THE MYSTERY PLAYS wrestles with the most profound of human ideas: the mysteries of death, the afterlife, religion, faith, and forgiveness—in a uniquely American way.

Tickets for HBP performances are $10 for adults, $8 for students, seniors and members of the Alice Ferguson Foundation.

Intimate Apparel at Clarice Smith, Oct 9-17

Intimate Apparel at Clarice Smith, Oct 9-17

Intimate Apparel
By Lynn Nottage

Fri, Oct 9, 2015. 7:30PM
Sat, Oct 10, 2015. 7:30PM
Sun, Oct 11, 2015. 2:00PM
Wed, Oct 14, 2015. 7:30PM
Thu, Oct 15, 2015. 7:30PM
Fri, Oct 16, 2015. 7:30PM
Sat, Oct 17, 2015. 2:00PM
Sat, Oct 17, 2015. 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre, Reserved Seating.

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage explores the strength of the human spirit through the story of Esther, an African American seamstress in New York in 1905 when social and class lines were clearly drawn and seemingly impassible. Directed by Helen Hayes Award nominee Jennifer Nelson.

General Public: Regular: $25, Student/Youth: $10, NextLEVEL (Limit 2 per show): Regular: $20. Tickets.