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World Premiere of AMERICAN PROPHET & More Announced for Arena Stage 2022-2023 Season

Ride the Cyclone, Angels in America In the Round, More Part of D.C.'s Arena Stage 2022-2023 Season

Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards Announce Second Round of 2021-22 Recipients

D.C.’s Women Cultural Leaders Speak Out

Taking Risks is Part of Camp Experience

From Alaska to Washington DC – Theatre Director Molly Smith Has Seen it All

Associate Artistic Director Teresa Sapien speaks with WPFW about Arena's 2021/22 Season.

Watch the video interview: 5 Questions with Artistic Director Molly Smith

Shonali Burke named Chief Marketing Officer of Arena Stage

Teresa Sapien named Associate Artistic Director of Arena Stage

May Adrales honored with Andrew R. Ammerman Directing Award

Arena Stage roars back: Molly Smith on resuming live performances

13 D.C. area theaters will require audiences to prove they're vaccinated 

Hear how youth feel about the pandemic in Waiting Room from Arena Stage

Hear voices of Generation COVID-19 in Waiting Room from Arena

Fairfax students shine in Arena's Waiting Room 

Arena Stage announces robust lineup for September reopening 

Local theaters rebound: reckoning and reinvention in a pandemic

Arena Stage remembers Martha Knight Clements, stage manager extraordinaire

Arena Stage premieres Waiting Room: A New Film by Voices of Now Ensembles

Arena Stage announces three-year partnership with Step Afrika! 

Step Afrika!’s exuberant ‘Drumfolk’ makes DC debut

Step Afrika’s Drumfolk brings the 1739 Stono Rebellion to life through the power of stepping

New York Review: New 42nd Street Presents at New Victory Theater Step Afrika!’s Drumfolk

"A collaboration that underlines Arena’s commendable engagement with the art makers of the capital city"

Arena Stage announces three-year partnership with Step Afrika! 

Watch Kristolyn Lloyd and Cornelius S. Smith Jr. perform "Let the Storm Come."

First look at American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Own Words

Sneak Peek at "Let the Storm Come" from American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Own Words

Interview with Cornelius Smith Jr. on World-Premiere Musical American Prophet

Cornelius Smith Jr. Will Star in World Premiere of American Prophet Musical at Arena Stage

Cornelius Smith Jr. to Play Frederick Douglass in American Prophet: Frederick Douglass In His Own Words

Charles Randolph-Wright Will Direct World Premiere of American Prophet Musical at Arena Stage

World Premiere of American Prophet Musical Announced at Arena Stage