Six Black students at the city’s worst high school wait out Friday detention, but no one can figure out how “College Bound Erika” ended up stuck here too. The rules are simple: a teacher has to sign their form before anyone can leave the room. But no adults have made it yet, so the teens fill their time by flirting, fighting, and forming plans for the long weekend ahead—until a more sinister probability comes into view. This gut-punch of a comedy interrogates how a racialized public school system fails its students by design, who gets the chance to escape it, and what they must leave behind to do so.
Studio Theatre is at 1501 14th St. NW, Washington, DC.
WIT's Queer Variety Cavalcade Presents: Queers in Space! (9/28/24-9/28/24)
POTUS Among Us: Beyond Belief (9/27/24-11/2/24)
The Colored Museum (7/3/24-7/3/24)
Panti Bliss (6/26/24-7/7/24)
Panti Bliss: If These Wigs Could Talk (6/26/24-7/7/24)
Problems Between Sisters (5/8/24-6/16/24)
At the Wedding (3/13/24-4/21/24)
Washington Improv Theater Presents (9/15/23-10/21/23)
Espejos: Clean (9/13/23-10/22/23)
Washington Improv Theater: Genre is a Construct (7/7/23-7/29/23)
Now in its 41st season, Studio has carved out a distinctive place for itself by investing in excellence up close and by producing plays of big ideas on a human scale—plays that challenge assumptions, spark conversations, and offer both surprise and connection. Over its four decades, Studio has produced an eclectic mix of works that reflect the contemporary world, offering a repertoire of provocative new and contemporary writing from around the world and inventive stagings of contemporary classics.
POTUS Among Us: Beyond Belief (9/27/24-11/2/24)
WIT's Queer Variety Cavalcade Presents: Queers in Space! (9/28/24-9/28/24)
Videos
Exception to the Rule
Studio Theatre (9/18 - 10/27) | ||
Cracking Zeus
Spooky Action Theater (9/19 - 10/13) | ||
The Cradle Will Rock
Goldman Theater DCJCC (10/5 - 10/13) | ||
Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert
Hylton Performing Arts Center (10/6 - 10/6) | ||
The Pilgrim's Progress
World Stage Theater (8/29 - 10/6) | ||
Sondheim Tribute Revue
Creative Cauldron (10/3 - 10/27) | ||
Comedy of Errors
STC's Klein Theatre (9/10 - 10/20) | ||
Babbitt
Harman Hall - Shakespeare Theatre Company (10/1 - 10/27) | ||
Mike Super - Magic & Illusion
Center for the Arts at George Mason University (2/2 - 2/2) | ||
Balsam Range
Hylton Performing Arts Center (10/19 - 10/19) | ||
Noseda conducts Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben | Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven’s “Emperor”
Concert Hall at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (10/10 - 10/13) | ||
The Age of Innocence
Fichandler Stage at Arena Stage (2/28 - 3/30) | ||
Broadway Center Stage: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Kennedy Center - Eisenhower Theater (10/11 - 10/20) | ||
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