Dates: 2/12/2026 - 3/7/2026
📍 Theatre: Spooky Action Theater
1810 16th Street NW (Universalist National Memoria Church)
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-248-0301
Tickets: $43, PWYC previews, limited $15 Economy, Student/Senior/Industry discounts
“You thought you was gonna sing a song about racism and change the world” – Bones
Tambo and Bones find themselves in a fix: they’re trapped in a minstrel show. And it’s damn hard to know what’s real and what’s not. The escape plan? Get famous…cash in…and get even. This time-traveling hip-hop fantasia from slam poet turned playwright Dave Harris dares to say the quiet part out loud, wrestling with America’s racist past and present and exploding its post-racial future.
“will make you second-guess everything you do in a theater…Tambo & Bones gets the highest possible marks” - TheaterMania “…INVENTIVE AND IMMERSIVE, constantly shape-shifting to both unsettle and surprise us.” —Indulge Magazine
Content Warning: flashing lights, haze, loud noises (including gunshots and sounds of violence), strong language and racial slurs, depiction of physical violence.
With TAMBO & BONES, Spooky Action Theatre takes on a satirical and biting piece that refuses to play by the rules, whether it be of narrative, of genre, or of comfort. What starts as a minstrel show quickly mutates into a centuries-spanning interrogation of race, capitalism, and the hunger for autonomy, all filtered through Dave Harris’s sharp, unruly script.
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The Day Before Christmas ARTfactory (12/11-12/13) |
