Friday Night Jazz
Experience the soul music of Washington, D.C., this Friday, Sept. 19th, at 5:30 p.m. Come down to Canal Park in Capital Riverfront for a night filled with rhythm, hosted by the D.C....
CW: This article references fictitious sexual assault, murder and cannibalism. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources.
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Is it better to live a life defined by painful truths or comfortable illusions? Nomadic Theatre’s “Ghosts: A Family Tragedy” explores this question through its critical examination of family,...
Every year, Georgetown University’s Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society hosts the Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival (DBMOAF), a showcase of one-act plays that students write, direct, design and perform...
Georgetown University’s Nomadic Theatre and Black Theatre Ensemble’s (BTE) collaborative production of the deeply intense yet fabulously queer musical “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” embodies...
Just a few months shy of its 100th anniversary, “The Great Gatsby” remains firmly in the literary canon. Every high school teenager who endured an American literature class has, at some point,...
“Pippin,” first produced in 1972, has taken on many musical forms since its conception on Broadway. From classic musical theater songs such as “Magic to Do” and “No Time at All” to dark plots...
“On the Lawn,” a production put on by the Georgetown University theater and performance studies program, inventively highlights issues of climate change, ecological conquest and land transformation...
“I never blush,” declares the smirking Becky Sharp, the principal character of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “Vanity Fair.” Between scholarship, film and even a 2018 Amazon Studios miniseries,...
A post-apocalyptic society without television or electricity is the backdrop for an unnerving examination of entertainment itself in “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” a joint production by student...
A bare stage in Poulton Hall is shrouded in darkness. At once, a young man strolls out from stage right and begins speaking to the audience. He asks for someone to yell "Start the f---king play!" An...
First staged in London in 1982, “Top Girls,” written by Carly Churchill, is reborn at the Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C. The play chronicles the story of Marlene, a young woman living in Britain...
