Virtual Events
Masterclasses
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays via Zoom. Each class is $70.
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September 30 and October 2 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Dramaturgy with Naysan Mojgani
October 7 and 9 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Choreography with Parker Esse
October 14 and 16 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Hip Hop Theater with Psalmayene 24 and DJ Nick tha 1da
October 21 and 23 from 5-7 p.m.
Create and Collaborate: Devise a Performance in 4 Hours with Arena Stage’s Community Engagement Staff
October 28 & 30 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Sound Design with Roc Lee
November 4 & 6 from 7 – 9 p.m.
Personal Playwriting: Writing from within with Aaron Posner
November 11 & 13 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Freeing the Intuitive Voice with Timothy Douglas
November 18 and 20 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Costume Design Workshop: Character Costume Collage with Ivania Stack
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Fall Classes
Online classes at Arena Stage allow participants, from preschoolers through adults, to try something new or explore a favorite artform more deeply. No experience is required.
Classes are held weekly via Zoom. Classes range from $60-$240. Zoom links are emailed to registered participants.
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Pre-School Classes
Bilingual Moving Stories
Historias en movimiento
Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17)
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Participants: Pre-K and K students and their caregiver
Elementary School Classes
Acting
Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17)
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Participants: Grades 2 and 3
Acting
Thursdays (10/1,10/8,10/15,10/22,10/29,11/5,11/12,11/19)
4 - 5 p.m.
Participants: Grades 4 and 5
Middle and High School Classes
Musical Theater Dance
Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17)
4 - 5 p.m.
Participants: Grades 5 - 8
Voices of Now: Devising Film for Change
Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17)
4 - 5:30 p.m.
Participants: Grades 7 - 11
Costume Design
Wednesdays (9/30,10/7,10/14,10/21,10/28,11/4,11/11,11/18)
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Participants: Grades 5-8
Acting for the Camera
Wednesdays (9/30,10/7,10/14,10/21,10/28,11/4,11/11,11/18)
4 - 5 p.m.
Participants: Grades 7-9
10-Minute Plays
Mondays (9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23)
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Participants: Grades 7-9
High School and Adult Classes
Dancing through the Decades:
Musical Theater Dance
Fridays (10/2,10/9,10/16,10/23,10/30,11/6,11/13,11/20)
7 - 8 p.m.
Participants: Grades 10 to Adult
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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, September 24
Natalie Hopkinson, essayist and critical-cultural scholar, assistant professor in the doctoral program in Howard University’s Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies.
Elijah Jamal Balbed, EJB Productions, The JoGo Project
Nick “tha 1da” Hernandez, DJ, musician, composer
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Thursday, October 1
Derek Goldman, Chair, Department of Performing Arts/Director, Theater & Performance Studies Program,Co-Director, Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University
Jaqueline Lawton, playwright, dramaturg, producer, and Access, Equity Diversity, and Inclusion facilitator.
Svetlana Petriichuk, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker
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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.
The Civil Dialogues are from 4-5:30 p.m.
October 19
The First Hundred Days: Under Biden, Trump, or Biden and a GOP-controlled Senate
Mr. Matthew Continetti, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Professor Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies
Professor Robert Lieberman, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University
Professor Suzanne Mettler, John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University
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