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This semi-autobiographical one-woman play chronicles the life of Jacqueline Butler, a black middle-class doctor's daughter growing up in Queens in summer, 1962. When Jackie's parents decide to send her to a predominantly Jewish school in Greenwich Village, her world is turned upside down. Jackie tries to put the pieces of her identity together as she rides the E train between Queens and Manhattan, between black and white worlds, and between cream soda and Crème de Menthe. Learn more...

Marian Licha's one-woman show operates on the conceit that the audience members sit among Frida Kahlo's students at La Esmeralda School for Painting in Mexico City. Frida inspires her students to live life with passion. Her teaching unfolds as a personal story-packaged as ten "lessons." It reveals itself with the black humor of tragedy, accidents, opposites, and irony that ruled her memorable life. The first lesson becomes the final lesson--death can be life and vice-versa. Learn more...

In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared in the midst of the most dangerous and ambitious flight of her career, leaving behind a legacy as one of the most inspiring figures and most intriguing mysteries in American history. Performing on a 12-foot spinning plane sculpture, aerial actor Mara Neimanis explores the whirlwind life of America's legendary aviatrix in an athletic performance that is deeply introspective and dazzlingly expressive. Learn more...

Forum Theatre presents the second of Tony Kushner's two-part Angels in America epic: Angels in America: Perestroika. In Reagan-Era New York City, a colorful array of characters confront the AIDS crisis and questions of morality, community, guilt and forgiveness. This acclaimed play won Tony and Drama Desk Awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more...

Forum Theatre presents Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. In Reagan-era New York City, a colorful array of characters confront the AIDS crisis and questions of morality and community. One of the most acclaimed plays of our time, it won Tony and Drama Desk Awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more...

FarFar Oasis is a companion piece to the original theatrical scrapbook, Low Tide Hotel. Taking the Middle Eastern desert as its inspiration, it uses old-time luggage labels, tales of great explorers and the notion of mapping the unknown; a collage of Arabiana songs like the Sheikh of Araby, as well as original compositions, the poetry of Rumi, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam and Ozymandias, and the riddle of the sphinx. Learn more...

A solo piece performed with musician Tina Chancey, Digging Into Shakespeare is based Jon Spelman's mostly disastrous experiences with Shakespeare productions. Spelman recounts details about the shows, his relationships with the actresses in them, and his encounters with nutty Shakespearian critics. Learn more...

In playwright Steven Dietz's highly theatrical retelling of Bram Stoker's classic horror tale, solicitor Jonathan Harker's journey to remote Transylvania unleashes a terrifying evil upon England -- the vampire Count Dracula. Directed, designed, stage managed, and performed entirely by high school students in conjunction with Round House Theatre, Dracula closely follows Stoker's original text. Learn more...

Round House Theatre presents theHegira's production of Anna K. This bold and insightful adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina recasts the heroine as an African-American artist living in 1920s Paris. Learn more...

Bouncing Ball Theatrical Productions' pair of unconventional mini-musicals were an award winner at the 2007 Fringe Festival. In Cautionary Tales for Adults, an unhinged librarian teaches several unsuspecting people about the injustices of life. In The Many Adventures of Trixie Tickles, a high-strung children's TV star learns her own valuable lessons - like "being pretty is all that matters." Learn more...

Helen Hayes Award-winner Will Gartshore assembles an hour-long musical scrapbook of unforgettable moments, missed opportunities and temporary thrills. With wry humor, quirky insight and his distinctive voice, Will sings stories of auspicious beginnings, messy endings and love's beautiful flaws. The program is an eclectic combination of pop, rock and contemporary theater songs, including gay themes and content. Learn more...

Round House Theatre in Silver Spring welcomes Contradiction Dance. Known for their thought-provoking blend of modern, hip-hop, tap, and jazz dance with storytelling and theatre, they'll be presenting Objects of Hope: Washington D.C, an exploration of the city's history, and the way that history affects residents' identities today. Learn more...

Round House Theatre presents Rock the Voting Block: X-Plays DC Edition 7. This show by performance group eXtreme eXchange features a series of original short plays intended to stimulate discussion on the political matters facing the nation today. Learn more...

This cutting-edge drama follows all-star freshman Dante Green, an explosive running back who is sprinting his way to the top of the college game. But when scandal erupts, he must tackle the conflict between commercial success and academic integrity. Learn more...

He directed "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront," but at the peak of his career, Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan was thrown into the fight of his life when his name was dropped before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the early 1950s. Helen Hayes Award-winning actor Rick Foucheux stars in this biographical play, an account of the search for truth and justice. Learn more...

In The Seven Ages of Mime Mark Jaster transforms what it means to be a mime. No longer a street-corner pest, Jaster's mime draws on the lost art pioneered by Marcel Marceau, to whom Jaster served as teaching assistant in a series of seminars. Sure to win over skeptics and prove there's more to mime than meets the eye, the Washington Post called Jaster a "clown extraordinaire...one of the most graceful performers you will ever see on a stage." Learn more...

Halloween encourages us to explore our capacity for both the monstrous and the humane, and Frankenstein at the Round House explores just that. How does a magnificent creation become a malignant monster? Who is more human, who is more humane? Who bears the responsibility for hatred, fear and violence? What is the power of science? What is the power of love? Learn more...