Lillian Hellman Festival at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions and film screenings, January 25-February 5, 2017 to celebrate the iconic playwright, author and political activist. All Festival events are FREE but reservations are required. To reserve your tickets, visit arenastage.org/hellman-festival or call the Arena Stage Sales Office at 202-488-3300.

Arena Stage presents Howard University’s, College of Arts & Sciences, Division of Fine Arts,
Department of Theatre Arts Reading of
The Children’s Hour
Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell
Saturday, January 28 at 8:00 p.m.
In the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle
Hellman’s best-known and most-produced work, The Children’s Hour, is a drama that takes place in an all-women’s boarding school. A student who has run away from school accuses the two headmistresses of having an affair in order to avoid being sent back to her home. The accusation leaves the two implicated women struggling to recover their professional reputations and personal lives. Under the direction of Howard University lecturer and director Raymond O. Caldwell, the reading features Devonne Bowman, Ricky Brown III, Brittany Clark, Ezinne Elele, Madison Harris, Danielle King, Tehya Merritt, Shawnee Owens, Chinna Palmer, Kayla Parker, Adanna Paul, Alexcia Thompson, Kevin Thorne II and Kyra Walker.