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Bask in the Glow of Stories with Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights (opens the original)
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Ever bust your ass for a group project only for one person to get all the credit? That’s kind of what happens in Hannah Khalil’s play Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights, written with a quartet of contributors and now playing at Spooky Action Theater in association with Solas Nua. Sure, Scheherazade is the hakawati, or storyteller, spinning yarns for One Thousand and One Nights to save herself and other women from a bloodthirsty king. The problem with that, according to one of those other wom
Sharing Is Caring: How the 2026–27 D.C. Theater Season Got Made (opens the original)
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Putting together a theater season is like three-dimensional chess, a game of calendaring, budgeting, and logistics nonprofits play long before the lights go up on their first show. Three years ago, City Paper spoke to area theaters about gaming out their 2023–24 season at a time when pandemic-era financial relief was drying up but audience turnout was nowhere near pre-pandemic levels. One source called it the hardest season he had ever planned. Fast-forward to the nascent 2026–27 season, and by
Merriment Isn’t the Only Thing Being Forced in Brontë Sister House Party (opens the original)
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There’s no torment quite like forced merriment. In Brontë Sister House Party, Courtney Bailey’s play now running in a production by Nu Sass under the direction of Kathleen Barth, the titular icons of Victorian literature are tormenting themselves with nightly soirees, laboring toward a moment of “celebratory reverence” that will bust them out of purgatory. Judging by Lanae Sterrett’s modern costumes and the soundtrack of 21st-century party bops, they’ve been at it for a while. The problem is tha
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