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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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