Virtual Events

Molly's Salon

A weekly Salon featuring artists and leaders of Arena Stage.

These half-hour-long weekly conversations will include some of our best thinkers and creative firebrands. Molly will sit down with a variety of artists and leaders to discuss new ideas they are excited about and glimmers of hope for the future.

Molly Salon's are from 7-7:30 p.m

Thursday, December 3
Aaron Posner, playwright and director (JQA)
Heather Raffo, playwright and actress (9 Parts of Desire, FLASH ACTS)
Ximena Varela, Associate Professor & Program Director, Arts Management - American University and President, Association of Arts Administration
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Thursday, December 10
Jackson Gay, director (Kleptocracy)
Lt. Col. Jacob Sotiriadis, Chief, Strategic Foresight and Futures Branch
at United States Air Force
Kyle Donnelly, director and former Arena Stage Associate Artistic Director (1992 to 1998)
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Molly's Salon: Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Christine Evans and Felicia Curry

Molly's Salon: Melanie Adams, Leslie Ishii and Alejo Vietti

Molly's Salon: Bill Rauch, Misha Kachman and Victor Simonson

Molly's Salon: Kia Cothron, Mauricio Pita and James C. Nicola

Molly's Salon: Derek Goldman, Jacqueline E. Lawton and Svetlana Petriichuk

Molly's Salon: Elijah Jamal Balbed, Nick "tha 1da" Hernandez and Natalie Hopkinson

Molly's Salon: J.J. Johnson, Gary L. Perkins III, Monica Hopkins

Molly's Salon: Psalmayene 24, Deborah Brevoort and Lex Sant

Molly Salon: Khaled Nabawy, Michael Edwards and Jackie Reyes-Yanes

Molly's Salon: Octavio Solis, Tazewell Thompson and Najma Roberts

Molly's Salon: Sheldon Epps, Leah C. Gardiner and Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Molly's Salon: Travis LeMont Ballener, Soraya Chemaly and Dawn Ursula

Molly's Salon: Sean Malarkey, Deborah Nash and Lance Pennington

Molly's Salon: Kate Baldwin, Jamil Jude and David Inoue

Molly's Salon: Robert Barry Fleming, Nathan Alan Davis and Kathleen Turner

Molly's Salon: E. Faye Butler, Theresa Rebeck and Timothy Douglas

Molly's Salon: Lawrence Wright, Phylicia Rashad and Robert Lynch

Molly's Salon: Carey Perloff, Nehal Joshi and Georgia Stitt

Molly's Salon: Wendy C. Goldberg and Robert Raben

Molly's Salon: Peter DuBois

Molly's Salon: Stephanie Ybarra, C. Brian Williams and Mark Clements

Molly's Salon featuring Daniel J. Maldonado, Erin Weaver and Joe Montoya

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Molly's Salon featuring Jenn Sheetz, Africa Shimizu Banks and Mary McBride

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Civil Dialogues

Arena Stage hosts community conversations that provide an opportunity for members of the Washington, D.C., community to engage in civil discourse about social and political issues, and will demonstrate — with the goal — that people of diverse viewpoints can have fruitful dialogues with one another.

Watch more Civil Dialogues here.

Arena Civil Dialogues: Suffer the Children: Child Care and Schools if Covid Persists

Arena Civil Dialogues: Reaching the Other: How to Dialogue with those with whom we Differ Greatly

Arena Civil Dialogues: Health Care Rationing and End of Life Decisions: Who and How?

Arena Civil Dialogues - Is China the new enemy? Confront or Cooperate?

Arena Civil Dialogues: Politics in the COVID-19 Age

Arena Civil Dialogues: Campaign Finance