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The Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions at Studio Theatre

Dates: 11/12/2025 - 12/21/2025

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Studio Theatre


1501 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005
Washington, DC,DC 20005

Phone: 202.332.3300

Tickets: $55-105


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The latest semiautobiographical work from Pulitzer Prize-winner and DMV native Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) traces 40 years and five evictions in a very funny play about a very unhappy family. Siblings Martha and Carl are barely teens for their first eviction in 1962, growing up gay in the out-sized orbit of their glamorous, exacting, alcoholic mother. The family’s odyssey through the DC suburbs takes them from one roach-infested apartment to another, and from the Sexual Revolution to the Disco Era to ’90s New Age. A Broadway hit last season, Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions is wry, savage, and surprisingly tender, an exorcism as well as a ritual of forgiveness. 

Cast and Creative team for The Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions at Studio Theatre

Cast

Kate Eastwood Norris

Phyllis


Stanley Bahorek

Carl


Zoe Mann

Martha




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