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Applications open for the Allen Lee Hughes BIPOC Fellowship Program

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 to roar back with mix bubbly and soul 

Arena Stage announces robust lineup for September reopening 

Local theaters rebound: reckoning and reinvention in a pandemic

Arena Stage announces 2021/22 Season featuring Corbin Bleu, Cambodian Rock Band and more 

Corbin Bleu will star in Catch Me If You Can during Arena Stage's 2021/22 Season 

Theater on the Nats Park jumbotron? It's a whole new ballgame in arts presentation.

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! 

A conversation with Lydia R. Diamond 

Photos: Arena Stage hosts streaming of Toni Stone at Nationals Park

Final inning for Toni Stone is a fans outing at Nats Park

A conversation with Tony Award-winning director Pam MacKinnon

Toni Stone chronicles first woman in Negro Leagues at Arena Stage, Nationals Park

Arena Stage teams up with the Washington Nationals for a simulcast of the baseball play Toni Stone

Interview with Santoya Fields, taking on the trailblazing role of Toni Stone

Meet Toni Stone, who broke barriers in baseball

Lydia R. Diamond on Arena Stage's Toni Stone and contradictions in Black performance 

Arena Stage premieres play about Toni Stone's complexities 

Toni Stone hits it out of the park at Arena Stage

BWW Review: Toni Stone at Arena Stage is a grand slam

Thoroughly enjoyable Toni Stone gets a hero's welcome at Arena Stage

Serving up history on the stage - interview with JaBen Early 

"Do it because this is your 'why'" - Chatting with Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. 

DC Grays General Manager chats about collaborating with the cast of Toni Stone

Toni Stone takes some big swings in Arena Stage's winning return to live theater

Get Out There: Toni Stone at Arena Stage

Arena Stage launches 2021-2022 Season September 3 with Toni Stone 

Theatre + Baseball Collide: Toni Stone slides into Nationals Park

Arena Stage poised to present story of unsung heroine Toni Stone

DC native choreographs success at Arena Stage

Pam MacKinnon talks about directing Toni Stone at Arena Stage

The story of Toni Stone comes to life in the nation's capitol 

'A Quick 5' with Deimoni Brewington in Toni Stone at Arena Stage

Why Toni Stone's story needs to be told: A Q&A with Santoya Fields

DC Grays work with Arena Stage

Arena Stage to Simulcast Toni Stone at Nationals Park 

Arena Stage to Host Free Live Simulcast of Toni Stone at Nationals Park

Photos: Inside First Rehearsal for Toni Stone at Arena Stage 

Arena Stage announces Toni Stone cast and creative team

Arena's Celia and Fidel could not be more timely: Heather Velazquez

Tickets now on sale for live simulcasts of Celia and Fidel

Eduardo Machado on bringing Celia and Fidel to Washington audiences 

A conversation with Marian Licha about taking on the role on Celia Sánchez

A powerful and meaningful Ceila and Fidel at Arena Stage

Liam Torres chats about the timeliness of Ceila and Fidel

Celia and Fidel returns to Arena Stage

Castro, rewritten: Celia and Fidel graces Arena Stage

BWW Review: Celia and Fidel is a must-see play

Eduardo Machado on revisiting Celia and Fidel 

Arena Stage's Celia and Fidel presents two competing visions for Cuba's future

Arena Stage prepares to launch pandemic-delayed premiere of Celia and Fidel

A conversation with Eduardo Machado about penning Celia and Fidel

Original cast and creative team return for Celia and Fidel at Arena Stage

A look at Eduardo Machado's Celia and Fidel

Eduardo Machado on penning Celia and Fidel

Eduardo Machado talks about inspiration behind Celia and Fidel

Celia and Fidel: why the timing is perfect for a new play about Castro

At Long Last, Eduardo Machado Faces Fidel

GALA Hispanic Theatre and Arena Stage amplify Cuban voices with a twofer of plays by Nilo Cruz and Eduardo Machado

World Premiere of Celia and Fidel Is Announced at Arena Stage

Robert M. Jimenez, Marian Licha and more will star in the world premiere of Celia and Fidel at Arena Stage

The blues in August Wilson's Seven Guitars at Arena Stage are exhilarating 

Tazewell Thompson on directing August Wilson's Seven Guitars

A conversation with the ladies of August Wilson's Seven Guitars

For actor Michael Anthony Williams, offstage day jobs have sharpened his craft onstage

Arena Stage presents August Wilson's Seven Guitars

'I have to live in hope': Tazewell Thompson gets personal

Cast and creative team announced for August Wilson's Seven Guitars

Spotlighting August Wilson's Seven Guitars

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