Dates: 6/4/2025 - 6/29/2025
📍 Theatre: Theater J
Theater J
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
East Rockaway, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 777-3210
Tickets: Varies
Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great-grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy in The Berlin Diaries. How do you find home when a family history is scattered like the torn pages of a journal entry released to the wind? Two performers become generations of characters in an attempt to stitch together clues and restore memories formerly lost to time.
How do people become verschollen, lost, like library books, leaving only the dusty outline – a life reduced to negative space? Stolowitz searches for clues that propel her forward and backward in time, pursuing a family history formerly lost to war. In a breathtaking journey around the world, what will remain lost and what will be found at the intersection of national history and private lives?
Andrea Stolowitz's 90-minute autobiographical play, The Berlin Diaries, challenges her two actors, and Dina Thomas and Lawrence Redmond meet the heck out of all the challenges; they play multiple roles readily and skillfully.
Theater J brings Andrea Stolowitz's autobiographical play The Berlin Diaries to the stage. Coming off of a nation-wide “rolling world premiere,” Stolowitz considers Theater J's upcoming production to be the culmination of the play's highly-acclaimed year-long premiere.
Theater J has unveiled its 2024-2025 season. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.
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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (10/17-12/06) |
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Frida...A Self Portrait Shakespeare Theatre Company (10/08-11/08) |
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The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity NextStop Theatre (11/05-11/29) |
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XXII FUEGO FLAMENCO FESTIVAL GALA Hispanic Theatre (11/05-11/22) |
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Some Like It Hot Bernard Family Theatre, Olney Theatre Center (9/18-11/08) |
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Steel Magnolias ARTfactory (2/26-3/14) |
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The Living Dead Chevy Chase Pavilion (10/08-11/08) |
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Kenya's Soul, the Musical Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center - Gilliam Hall (11/07-11/08) |
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Follies Shakespeare Theatre Company - Harman Hall (5/18-6/20) |
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The Dinner Detective DC True Crime Mystery Show The Dinner Detective Washington DC (12/12-12/12) |
