Sanctuary City at Arena Stage

Sanctuary City

Arena Stage
1101 Sixth Street, SW Washington

Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok brings us the powerful story of two young DREAMers who fight to establish a place for themselves in America, the only country they know as home. Poignant, timely and highly theatrical, Sanctuary City illuminates the triumphs and challenges these lifelong friends face, and how much they are willing to risk for each other when they have everything to lose.

Thru - Nov 27, 2022

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 202-488-3300

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Sanctuary City Reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...It's to Majok's credit that the central relationship is strong enough that the broader barriers these characters must traverse - of xenophobia, classism and American bureaucracy - often read more like accessories than the story's foundation. But by the end, "Sanctuary City's" blueprint is clear: Majok is here to comment on undocumented immigrants' strife, and put human faces to the ways in which the American Dream can slip into a nightmare."

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- Thomas Floyd

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Martyna Majok's Sanctuary City pulls no punches. From this powerful drama's first moments, we are plunged headlong into the traumas that inflect the daily lives of undocumented immigrants. For Majok's two teenage protagonists living in post-9/11 Newark, the situation is especially harrowing. Their countries of origin are the stuff of myth: the U.S. is the only home they have ever known."

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- Amy Kotkin

MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...A humane indictment of this country’s broken, bedeviled immigration system, Sanctuary City, by Pulitzer-winner Martyna Majok, asks pertinent questions about who’s afforded which rights and privileges in the United States."

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- Andre Hereford

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...With just three actors, "Sanctuary City" spellbinds in its no-punches-pulled, one-act drama. A compelling argument for immigration reform, it makes visible struggles that were too long hidden from the public eye. The hopelessness and desperation in Majok's script makes this heavy viewing, but the tight pacing will hold you on the edge of your seat. Here's hoping policymakers make their way to Arena Stage for this production."

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- Charlotte Selton

BroadwayWorld - Somewhat Recommended

"...The show came here with the same trio of actors and set. Unfortunately, director David Mendizabal left his Associate Director Cara Hinh to handle the staging for this cross-country transfer. To be fair, Berkeley Rep's stage is closer to the Kogod Cradle with the audience on top of the action so maybe that would have helped matters but Hinh somehow managed to take all the tension out of Majok's script. That is not an easy fete. The big scene between the three characters toward the end of the show throttled you out west but here it just seemed flat as if Hinh forgot she had to play the show to the balcony of the Kreeger."

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- Elliot Lanes

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Sanctuary City Reviews

Washington Post - Recommended

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

MetroWeekly - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

BroadwayWorld - Somewhat Recommended

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