Purlie is home on a mission-to buy back his father's church and liberate the sharecroppers he grew up with from the brutal segregationist who still runs their plantation. Purlie Victorious features a madcap plot, survival techniques forged in the Jim Crow South, and satiric targets that feel as urgent as they did when the play premiered in 1961-its 2023 Broadway revival was nominated for six Tony awards. Psalmayene 24 (The....
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In this tour-de-force performance, Ming-Trent dares to rescue himself from the "slings and arrows" of his past. Born with a gift for poetry but rejected as unfit to play the part of the poet, Ming-Trent's search for home is relentless, and the results are by turns hilarious and tragic.....
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Olney Theatre Center is closing out its season with the theatrical equivalent of a wicked grin. From July 2 through August 23, 2026,...
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There are stories about art, and then there are stories that become art about why art matters. Paula Vogel's Indecent, now extended through...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the celebrated author of Topdog/Underdog, delivers a bold, whip-smart theatrical rollercoaster in Sally & Tom, now playing at...
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