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Onstage, Georgetown: September
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Weekend Roundup, August 29 through September 2
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City Tavern Club to Close Aug. 31, Will Sell Historic Building
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘August Wilson: A Life’
September 13, 2023
•This biography’s brilliance approaches that of its subject. The celebrated playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) was born Frederick August Kittel Jr. to a Black mother and a White father who abandoned […]
Arena Stage’s Season of Wilson
September 13, 2019
•Running from Sept. 13 to Oct. 26, “Jitney,” technically the first of the 10 plays in August Wilson’s monumental cycle, focuses on the lives and world of black cab drivers confronted with change and gentrification.
Smith: Now Is the Best Time to Be Making Theater
June 17, 2019
•Molly Smith, who spoke in Georgetown on June 13, has done a lot and seen a lot at Arena, taken risks and chances, staged plays that excited, puzzled, outraged and engaged audiences from the start.
Wilson’s ‘Two Trains’ at Arena Stage
March 8, 2018
•With the coming of “Two Trains Running,,” starring Carlton Byrd, Washington theatergoers will see why August Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle” is so fluid and appealing to all sorts of audiences.
Wilson’s ‘Two Trains’ at Arena
March 7, 2018
•Carlton Byrd is back. And so is August Wilson. Actor Carlton Byrd is returning to Washington, where he was last seen in a production of cutting-edge playwright Robert O’Hara’s “Antebellum.” […]