OUR NEW MISSION
Downtown Theater at an Affordable Price: The Stage has long been known for presenting some of the best theater in the Washington area and now we're sharpening our focus and goals. We will bring you an exciting line-up of contemporary, fresh plays that you won't see anywhere else outside of DC. We have chosen a dazzling variety of compelling, intellectual, progressive works, designed to get your heart beating faster, thrill every one of your senses and, most of all, make you think. Subscribe today and join in the re-making of what critics have called a community of artists dedicated "to the craft of live theater."
PROJECT UNDERGROUND
To push our new mission to the next level, we're developing plays that showcase our most challenging offerings, productions that few community theaters will take on, but ones that we know will excite and stimulate you. Project Underground features two thrilling works and gives you the opportunity to choose them for a discounted price. You won't want to miss these shows!
SUBSCRIBER BENEFITS
You get to choose the plays you want to see. You pick your own plan from 3 to 7 plays and save over regular ticket prices. The benefits are big: first choice of dates and seats, exchange your tickets anytime you want, get your tickets in advance so no wait at the box office, free tickets to our One-Act Play Festival and discounts on our holiday show and special presentations. See a whole season of plays for one ticket at the Kennedy Center or National Theater!
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2011
Annual One-Act Festival
August 18 - September 4
Special three weekend festival. The first weekend will be Irish playwright Brian Friels' Lovers: Winners and Losers. The second weekend is all new plays from local writers. The third weekend is a tribute to the 10th anniversary of September 11: The Guys and September 11 was a Tuesday.
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Based on a Totally True Story
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Directed by Sam Nystrom
September 16 - October 9, 2011
Offbeat hilarious, bittersweet romantic comedy of a twenty-something New Yorker with the opportunity to have one of his plays made into a movie. It's a quirky love letter to dreams, relationships and learning life lessons. "No laugh meter could measure the laughter here; it would require a seismograph." –Bloomberg News
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Dead Man's Cell Phone
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Jacy D'Aiutolo
January 13 - February 4, 2012
An inspired and zany comedy when a guy drops dead at a diner table, his cell phone rings and the stranger at the next table answers it. The stranger, to her astonishment and excitement, discovers that being the voice on the other end of the dead man's calls involves her in his life."Smartly entertaining packs a goodly amount of enjoyment." – Washington Post
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Holiday Show
A Christmas Carol
Directed by Donna Shute
December 9 - December 18, 2011
The holiday classic of Ebenezer Scrooge visited by the Ghosts of Christmas to reveal his past, present and future if he continues miserly ways. A short version of the family favorite that will delight audiences of all ages!
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Hapgood
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Douglas Krehbel
February 24 - March 17, 2012
A breathtaking, funny and brain teasing espionage thriller set in the Cold War of secret research that could be stolen. Stoppard wrote: "If there's a central idea in the play, it is the proposition that in each of the characters is the working majority of a dual personality, part of which is always there in a submerged state." "Witty, cerebral espionage drama." –NY Times
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Enchanted April
by Matthew Barber, from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
Directed by Laurie Freed
April 13 - April 29, 2012
Breezy, engaging and witty comedy when two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages with two very different English women to share. Among the wisteria blossoms, all four bloom again — rediscovering themselves in ways that they — and we — could never have expected. "A magical triumph!" –LA Times
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Stop Kiss
by Diana Son
Directed by Chris Curtis
June 29 - July 21, 2012
A striking, provocative and powerful story of two women whose first kiss prompts a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate. Emotions, preconceptions and relations are explored and tested, speaking to human nature and compassion."Irresistibly exciting, a sweet, sad, and enchantingly sincere play." –NY Times
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Guillaume Tourniaire
October 28 - November 19, 2011
Set in a darkly comic world between heaven and hell, a court case examines the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner. With raw language, imaginary flashbacks and testimony from Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud and Satan, this is a play to be experienced."A real jaw-dropper, dazzling and downright thrilling." –Variety
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Seth Ghitelman
May 18 - June 9, 2012
The darkly comic tale, set in the Irish countryside, of a plain and lonely woman in her forties who has her first and possibly final chance at love when her manipulative mother sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play's terrifying conclusion."Delights of farce and melodrama." –Guardian
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