Ripcord by David Lindsay-Abaire
RIPCORD BY DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
October 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm
Abby wants to be alone. So when she is forced to share her highly-desirable room-with-a-view at Bristol Place Senior Living Facility with Marilyn, she'll go to any length necessary to get rid of her chipper new roommate. A seemingly harmless bet between the two women quickly escalates into all-out war, revealing their tenacity and their underlying vulnerabilities. Deeper truths (and a few belly laughs) bubble to the surface as Abby and Marilyn hilariously one-up each other in Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire's "compelling look at the pleasure of a challenge and the challenge of finding pleasure" (Time Out).
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
SWEAT BY LYNN NOTTAGE
August 25, 26, 27, September 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16
NOTE: There are no performances Labor Day weekend.
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm
Lynn Nottage's timely winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize tells the story of a friend group, a town, and a nation, all at once. Set at a bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, Sweat follows a cadre of blue-collar friends and co-workers from all walks of life as their livelihoods are threatened by layoffs and picket lines, pitting them against each other. Sweat is a "keenly observed and often surprisingly funny…but ultimately heartbreaking" (New York Times) tale of the fight to stay afloat while the water level in the world around you quickly rises.
Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE BY SARAH RUHL
July 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm
Dead Man’s Cell Phone begins with a question: what would happen if you answered a stranger’s cell phone while they ignore it? That’s what Jean does. This seemingly insignificant act leads her on an increasingly surreal odyssey down the funny, romantic, occasionally dark road to morality, redemption, and connection in an age of technological isolation. This comedic drama from two-time Pulitzer finalist Sarah Ruhl “blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving” (New York Times) into a highly theatrical commentary on humanity and its search for meaning.
Meteor Shower
April 21-22, 28-29 & May 5-6 at 8:00pm
April 23 & 30 at 3:00pm
April 27 & May 3-4 at 7:30pm
Native Gardens
Native Gardens is a comedy that follows a young Hispanic couple, lawyer Pablo and pregnant doctoral candidate Tania, who move in next door to Frank and Virginia, two white stalwarts of the DC community. A feud over a property line that will destroy Frank's perfectly manicured garden while restoring Pablo & Tania's legal land ownership spirals into a hilarious war of class and privilege in Karen Zacarias's "biting, perceptive, and ultimately hopeful sendup to our fraught relationships with those around us" (DC Theatre Scene).
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
Third
At an elite New England college, Professor Laurie Jameson accuses her student, Woodson Bull III, or “Third,” of plagiarism. A jock from a red state, Third is not the typical student for Laurie’s feminist lectures on demasculinizing Western literature. But is Laurie’s feud really with Third, or with the increasingly unstable world she finds herself occupying as she enters her own third act? The last play completed by the late Tony and Pulitzer winner Wendy Wasserstein, Third asks the audience to “acknowledge their fears, their limitations and the possibility that they might be wrong on subjects they were once sure about” (New York Times). NOTE: There are no performances the weekend of Labor Day.
I and You
High school senior Anthony gets more than he anticipated when he shows up at his classmate’s house, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in hand, to complete an assignment. Sardonic Caroline has been homebound for months with an illness that’s left her tired and lonely, and she's leery of her visitor. As the young pair let their guards down and begin to really see each other, Lauren Gunderson’s I and You taps into the deeper mysteries of youth, love, and human connection in a play offering “the best thing a play can offer: we might be better people after seeing it” (DC Theatre Scene).
A Kid Like Jake
A Kid Like Jake
By Daniel Pearle
June 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25
Jake is just like any other 4 year-old: he loves drawing, playing with his friends, and watching his favorite movies. But unlike his peers, Jake prefers Cinderella to G.I. Joe and dreams of being a princess. When his parents, Alex and Greg, begin the application process for a slew of rigorously competitive private schools, his “gender-variant play” becomes a source of division in their relationship. As Jake’s behavior becomes more erratic and perplexing, Greg and Alex’s marriage begins to fracture in A Kid Like Jake, Daniel Pearle’s “searching, keenly perceptive” (Time Out NY) study of intimacy and parenthood.