The elegant stars of Nollywood—Nigeria’s $3 billion film industry—are the subjects of Iké Udé's Nollywood Portraits. Udé juxtaposes his subjects against colorful backgrounds and dark shadows, making for mesmerizing, surreal photos.
America’s national pastime is the star of this exhibit, which showcases how baseball has been depicted in stamps and other memorabilia throughout history.
The 42 finalists in this year’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition were selected from more than 2,700 entries. Their work challenges and democratizes portraiture, and will be on display at the Portrait Gallery before making rounds across the country.
Traveling through space and time, The High Ground brings the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre into conversation with where the country finds itself today. This story of love and loss offers a portrait of what it means to root, to resist and to proceed from devastation.
Did you like The Bear? Help yourself to a serving of Clyde's, Lynn Nottage's dark comedy that takes place inside a truck-stop sandwich shop run by former convicts.
It might be Beauty and the Beast, but this is no Disney musical, and there are no talking teacups in sight. Synetic Theater's adaptation of La Belle et la Bête draws on the darkness and sensuality of the original French novel.
When Sarah Pleydell's mother-in-law Etta Lynch died in isolation in her Texas retirement home, there was no memorial to mark her passing. So Pleydell created The Power Behind the Comb, a theatrical memorial for Lynch that celebrates the undercover feminist that she was, and celebrates her living and her dying in high Texas style—with a hefty […]
Pacific Overtures, an ambitious musical about 19th century Japan's forced Westernization, is one of the least-performed Stephen Sondheim musicals. Catch it at Signature Theatre while you have the chance.
Five decades after Gloria Steinem began raising her voice and championing the voices of others, her call for equality is as urgent as ever. Holly Twyford directs this exploration of the iconic feminist’s extraordinary legacy, and of the women who inspired her.
Based on the children’s book King and King by Linda Haan and Stern, Príncipe y Príncipe captures the charm of fairy tales at their finest. $12.
Blanca, a U.S. immigration lawyer by day and drag queen by night, meets a mysterious stranger one night at a local dive bar. What ensues in Tacones (Rhymes With Cojones) is a raid by La Migra that reveals a trail of loss and pain, and a search for redemption that spans generations and countries.
Inspired by Gayle F. Wald’s book Shout, Sister, Shout!, this new musical tells the story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe—one of America’s most influential rock, R&B and gospel crossover singers and guitarists. $36–$72.
A Union general, who was a lawyer before the Civil War, commands a fort in not-yet-seceded Virginia. When a runaway enslaved man arrives making a plea for sanctuary, whose laws must the general follow? Based on a true story, Ben Butler makes its area premiere this spring. $50–$60.
Once upon a time, a rain cloud fell in love with a human. Dolan, who bears an uncanny resemblance to author Hans Christian Andersen, tries to tell this simple and sweet story, but characters in the story keep turning into figures from Dolan’s own history of turbulent relationships. An adaptation, a reimagining, and a critique […]
Muscogee leader Ella Jean Hill traces her family’s history from the Trail of Tears to her grandfather’s allotment in central Oklahoma. In this one-woman play, she shares her story—the Native boarding school she fled on foot, her marriage to a young Bengali scholar, and the advocacy that became her life’s work.
Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents? Through a series of absurd autobiographical vignettes, Aya Ogawa’s The Nosebleed delves into complications of parenthood, as both a parent and a child.
Inspired by the works and words of Shakespeare, Our Verse in Time to Come bridges the past with the present through verse, song and memory, and interrogates whose stories remain and whose role it is to ensure they survive. Free.
