The Shakespeare for the Young puppet show, led by Annie Houston, will be performing at the
Anacostia Playhouse this Saturday, September 22. This theatrical company of puppeteers is dedicated to bringing Shakespeare to young children, ages 2 and up, through a fun and interactive experience. All shows feature group activities after the performance with song, movement and interactive play. Stay tuned for our next show on November 3, 2018! No tickets or reservations are needed.
Flood City
Theater Alliance presents
Flood City
by Gabrielle Reisman
Directed by Jenna Duncan
May 10-June 17, 2018
Regional Premiere
“Tall metal beams, endless metal beams, that a dozen men can’t even move that are bigger than any train and we’re all making steel all day and all night in smoke. I know I’m seeing the future.”
In Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1889, the Great Flood has decimated the vibrant steel town, leaving behind a ragtag crew of survivors, aid workers, and surveyors to assess the damage and speculate what, or who, could be responsible. A century later, at a bar in Johnstown, recently laid off steelworkers ponder their uncertain futures in a town when industry, and the world, seems to have left them behind. Traversing time and space, Flood City is a hopeful dark comedy about disasters, corporate (ir)responsibility, and a community’s resilience in the wake of the unimaginable.
Ticket Prices
Adult – $40
Senior, Student, Military – $30
All previews are half price.
Radical Neighboring Initiative
Name Your Own Price tickets are available for each performance to make sure that he price of a ticket does not stop anyone from seeing live theater. To claim a ticket under the program just show up at the Box Office one hour before the show and there will be a minimum of 10 Name Your Own Price tickets available.
Auditions for Young Actors!
Anacostia Playhouse announces auditions for young actors for our spring youth production!
We are excited to announce this year we will be partnering with REACH Incorporated, a program of professionally-led teen tutors who have published 21 books through their own publishing arm, Shout Mouse Press. Our young actors will be bringing their young authors’ works to life adapting 4-5 of these short stories for the stage. Our director this year is Thembi Duncan, a long-time friend of the Playhouse who directed Yellowman for us in our 2016 summer season. She was also lead teaching artist at Ford’s Theatre, and Creative Programs Director at Young Playwrights’ Theater, with tons of experience bringing young people and their stories to the stage. Thembi is an actor, writer, performing artist and teaching artist and we are super excited to have her on board.
Audition info:
Saturday, February 24
Noon-4pm
Anacostia Playhouse
2020 Shannon Place, SE
Washington, DC 20020
Ages 6-14
No special preparation necessary
Five performances April 19-22
If interested, please email Adele Robey at arobey@fusemail.com. We are seeing actors on first-come first-served basis. No appointment necessary.
Record Store 24
All About the Drama Theatre Group, Prosperity Media Enterprise,
Inc., and The Zhanra Group present the premiere stage production of
RS/24, a one act play written and directed by acclaimed actor,
director and playwright, Clayton LeBouef for eight performances –
March 23 rd thru March 31 st 2018 at the Anacostia Playhouse.
Known for his TV roles in NBC’s Homicide Life on the Streets, HBO’s
The Wire, The Corner and Something the Lord Made, LeBouef is a
native of Yonkers, New York and now long-time resident of
Washington, DC. A veteran of the stage, LeBouef plays a record store
owner with a dream that he hopes won’t become a nightmare, in this
intriguing one-act play. He adds his performance in this original stage
production, at the Anacostia Playhouse, to his growing body of work that includes productions on local,
national and international stages.
RS/24 celebrates ancestral wisdom, vintage music and the return of vinyl.
RS/24 at the Anacostia Playhouse for eight performances
Friday, March 23 rd at 8:00PM
Saturday, March 24 th at 2:30 and 8:00PM
Sunday, March 25th at 2:30 PM
Thursday, March 29th at 8:00pm
Friday, March 30 at 8:00pm with talkback
Saturday, March 31st at 2:30pm and 8:00pm
Tickets: https://anacostiaplayhouse.secure.force.com/ticket/#details_a0Si0000004PJ8iEAG
$40 – General Admission
$35 – Seniors and Students
$25 – Groups of 10 or more (contact Anacostia Playhouse @202-290-2328)
$30- East of the River
The Raid
Theater Alliance presents
The Raid
by Idris Goodwin
Directed by Colin Hovde
Feb 8 – Mar 18, 2018
Would you die for your beliefs? Is it better to work within the system to change it or take up arms against the system to destroy it?
Idris Goodwin’s The Raid is a fabulation of a debate between two American icons: White abolitionist John Brown and Black abolitionist and social reformer Frederick Douglass. On the eve of Brown’s raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, these men argue the merits of violence and pacifism, order and chaos, and possibility of a nation free of the scourge of slavery. The Raid examines the difference between being an ally and an accomplice, the implications of race in social protest, and the limits of radicalism in the age of #Resistance.
Ticket Prices
Adult – $40
Senior, Student, Military – $30
All previews are half price.
Radical Neighboring Initiative
Name Your Own Price tickets are available for each performance to make sure that the price of a ticket does not stop anyone from seeing live theater. To claim a ticket under the program just show up at the Box Office one hour before the show and there will be a minimum of 10 Name Your Own Price tickets available.
Encore!: The Very Last Days Of The First Colored Circus
Kay Kendall and Jack Davies present a final opportunity for you to see Restoration Stage’s Helen Hayes Awards Recommended new musical, “The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus.” Steven A. Butler, Jr.’s redemptive story of love, loss, and family set against the backdrop of the 1927 Charles County Fair features Miles Folley and Ayana Reed. With new songs by director Courtney Baker-Oliver and Christopher Burnett and musical directed by Broadway veteran Wilkie Ferguson, it’s a story you’ll never forget.
For additional information on The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus and Restoration Stage, Inc. please contact 202-714-0646 or visit www.restorationstage.org
When Words Aren’t Enough
There are moments in life too great to be expressed by mere prose: the start of a new romance, losing a loved one, beginning a new adventure…for these moments, we have the international language of song; the language every heart speaks. ‘When words aren’t enough, there’s music.’
Monday January 15th, 2018
Tickets:$20
Forever Soulful
Tickets are only $20!
The Cool Yule Fundraiser!
Unsaid by Jared Shamberger
Unsaid is a brand new solo act written and performed by DC actor/director/playwright Jared Shamberger. Through a dozen different characters, he explores the nature of secrets and the messy, unpredictable, and sometimes comical effects of confession. Join Jared as he discovers if salvation can be found in the things we don’t say.
Dates:
August 25th, 8 pm
August 26th, 8 pm
Box Office- 7 pm
Doors Open- 7:30 pm