Women's Voices Theater Festival
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Another Look at ‘Uprising’ at MetroStage
Uprising by Gabrielle Fulton, and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, integrates live blues guitar and song by local musician David Cole with the powerful storytelling of a highly talented ensemble. Set...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Queens Girl in the World’ at Theater J
Find my place in the world is a major question at the center of Queens Girl in the World now playing at Theater J. It is a beautifully engaging, semi-autobiographical personal and political memory...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Uprising’ at MetroStage
Uprising is, quite simply, what live theater is meant to be. The gripping story, set in 1859 and told with pathos and humor, asks questions about the nature of freedom, family, sacrifice, and...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Requiem’ at The Highwood Theatre
Think the promise, even the future of American theater lies in the hands of those imaginative, impassioned, gutsy young Millennials who for the last several years have musically and dramatically set...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Now Comes the Night’ at 1st Stage
Visceral, haunting, and beautifully executed, Now Comes the Night at 1st Stage is an excruciating and suspenseful look at lives of three journalists whose lives were ripped apart while covering the...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Inheritance Canyon’ at Taffety Punk Theatre Company
How did you get to where you are today? Was it with help from your loved ones, or in spite of them? Are you experiencing déjà vu? What is the price of fame? Can you really achieve greatness just by...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The October Issue’ at Washington Improv Theater
Over 50 DC theater companies have joined together this fall to showcase new work written by women. All the big names in the area ranging from Arena Stage and The Studio Theatre to Shakespeare Theatre...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘If I Hold My Tongue’ at Compass Rose Theater
If I Hold My Tongue is a short play written by Patricia Henley, a former Perdue University professor, who now lives in Frostburg, MD. The play was selected as one of 51 by and about women for the...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick’ at Thelma Theatre
Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick, a new play written and directed by Jennie Berman Eng and produced by similarly nascent company Thelma Theatre as part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival is a...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘A Matter of Worth’ at Live Garra Theatre
A transformation awaits at Marcia E. Cole’s A Matter of Worth as the house lights dim, and the stage is lit as a cotton field with layer upon layer of waves of white cotton. A barn stands to one side,...
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Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Ironbound’ at Round House Theatre
There are grand political themes and exceptionally intimate granular-level personal matters splendidly illustrated in the Round House Theatre’s stunningly dark, world-premiere production of Martyna...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Caps for Sale The Musical’ at Adventure Theatre MTC
When I was in eighth grade, I wrote a ten-minute play based on Esphyr Siobodkina’s beloved picture book Caps for Sale. It was selected as one of a handful in our class to be performed and toured...
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‘UPRISING’ Plays September 17-October 25th at MetroStage as Part of The Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Producing Artistic Director Carolyn Griffin is pleased to announce that MetroStage will open the 2015-16 season with the Rolling World Premiere of UPRISING by Atlanta playwright Gabrielle Fulton as...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Women Laughing Alone With Salad’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Women Laughing Alone With Salad is a completely mesmerizing, multi-media show. Like a gourmet salad bar, this one has all the good stuff, plus a lot of dressings – and undressings. It earns five stars...
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Spine: An Interview with Playwright Jennie Berman Eng on ‘Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick’ and The Women’s Voices Theater Festival
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival, more than fifty world premiere plays written by women — now that’s a happening! I am as excited by the notion that stories from a woman’s perspective will dominate...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival Launch Party: The Astonishment Begins
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival Launch Party was more than a celebration. It was a defining moment for DC theater. The National Museum of Women in the Arts was a superb setting for the exuberant...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Oregon Trail’ at Flying V Theatre
Hitch up your wagon, take one last visit to Matt’s General Store, and say hello to your teenage years once again. Flying V is serving up a healthy dose of nostalgia with their current production of...
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Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Night Falls on the Blue Planet’ at Theater Alliance
Kathleen Akerley’s Night Falls on the Blue Planet is a rapturously funny and brainy comedy about a woman named Renee who is losing her mind and finding her body. (Or something like that. It’s...
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Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Pat Connelly’s ‘Princess Margaret’ Opens September 19, 2015
What happens when a religious institution like the Catholic Church puts the reputation and status of its priests and nuns ahead of the needs of their most vulnerable members, children? In her new...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Jennie Berman Eng’s ‘Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick’ Opens September 17, 2015
Did the one who got away really get away? Does the right match come down to timing, or compatibility, or courage to take a leap? In this tale of a friendship-turned love affair, two friends from...
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Quotidian Theatre Company Presents Audrey Cefaly’s ‘Maytag Virgin’ October 2-November 1st As Part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Quotidian Theatre Company Presents Audrey Cefaly’s New Southern Drama Maytag Virgin as Part of D.C.’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival Quotidian Theatre Company kicks off its dynamic 2016 season, and...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Witches Vanish’ at Venus Theatre Company
Underlying Witches Vanish, the new play by Venus Theatre Company (and third entry in the DC area-wide Women’s Voices Theater Festival), is a cold bedrock of fact: A tremendous amount of women are...
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘What Do Women Want? Playwrights Edition’
The opening of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival is a good time to reflect on the state of gender parity in the American theatre, in respect to playwrights. The numbers are, frankly, appalling....
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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘#DeathParty’: ‘How We Died of Disease-Related Illness’ and ‘Bones in Whispers’ at Longacre Lea
The eagerly anticipated Women’s Voices Theatre Festival kicked off with the opening of Longacre Lea’s production of two world-premiere one-acts, which the company collectively dubs #DeathParty. The...
