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Smart People at Arena Stage

Dates: 4/14/2017 - 5/21/2017

📍 Theatre: Arena Stage


1101 Sixth Street SW Washington, DC 20024
Washington, DC

Phone: 202-488-3300

Tickets: $40-90


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Do our belief systems stem from our environment, or are some prejudices hard-wired into us? With barbed wit, Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly) explores the unavoidable nature of cultural bias and other sticky subjects in the controversial and fiercely funny new play Smart People. Four intellectuals — a doctor, an actress, a psychologist, and a neurobiologist studying the human brain's response to race — search for love, acceptance and identity in a complex world where political correctness comes face-to-face with cold hard data.

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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the company for Toni Stone, written by Arena alumna resident playwright Lydia R. Diamond. Set in the 1950s, Toni Stone was the first woman to play baseball in the Negro Leagues, also making her the first woman to play in a professional men's league.

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Full Cast of TONI STONE by Lydia R. Diamond Announced at Arena Stage

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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced the company for Toni Stone, written by Arena alumna resident playwright Lydia R. Diamond. Set in the 1950s, Toni Stone was the first woman to play baseball in the Negro Leagues, also making her the first woman to play professionally in a men's league. Against all odds, Stone blazed a path in the male-dominated sports world, shattering expectations and creating her own set of rules.

About the Theatre

Arena Stage

1101 Sixth Street SW Washington, DC 20024
Washington, DC

Phone: 202-488-3300

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Arena Stage
1101 Sixth Street SW Washington, DC 20024, Washington, DC

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