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“You know the way young children playing together can get so excited that they seem to be catching joy from one another? Like when they squeal and scream in giggles so gleeful there’s no border between fun and frenzy? — and you, as a grownup watching them, can’t but marvel at the joie de vivre that’s driving their delight? That’s kind of the feel you get when five adults take the stage at Theater Alliance acting like kids who can’t stop laughing.” DC Theater Arts
“..the creative team employed a variety of staging techniques and methods, including live images projected onto a backdrop screen, film and video replay, puppetry, shadow boxes, and live microphones. These multiple techniques reflected the variety of approaches Reynolds employed in the stories of Look Both Ways. Narratively, Caldwell’s techniques and staging both reflected and expanded the novel, turning the adaptation into something fresh and dynamic.” DC Theater Arts
“encompasses multiple ways of knowing and sharing: communal, embodied, rhythmic, circuitous, accrued, and juxtaposed, to name a few. Its mixture of poetry, movement, and song highlights the limits of each medium while also creating a whole greater than its parts. Where words struggle, movement uplifts. Where dance abstracts, words concretize.” DC Theater Arts
“This production was really successful in giving you a sense of June’s personality AND PERSONALITIES over a range of ages. This production accomplished that through the juxtaposition of live performances of her pieces against the media background that consisted of interviews with Jordan and others in her life… I walked away from this production having experienced the breadth of her influence.” - DC Theater Arts
“With this production, Theater Alliance affirms its commitment to providing the community with socially conscious theater, giving audiences the opportunity to explore vital issues, broaden perspectives, appreciate fine artistry, and, in the midst of it all, enjoy some really good laughs.” MD Theatre Guide
“Developed in concert with national social justice organizations such as Black Lives Matter Houston, Project SAFE, and Southerners on the New Ground (SONG), the festival ensures that audiences are not simply enjoying the plays in a vacuum but also are connected to on-the-ground work that is occurring across the country. A Protest in 8, then, arms audiences with the tools not only to strategize, organize, and mobilize, but to dare to envision a better world.” DC Theatre Scene
“City in Transition fragments the narratives and sutures scenes together out of order. What this creates is an abstract, experimental cinematic and theatrical style. I was fascinated by this generative blending of content and form... Ultimately, I find Caldwell’s, Ali-Coleman’s, and the creative team’s artistry to be inspired. Their Quadrant Series sparked what can be considered a love letter to Washington, DC, a city ever in transition.” - DC Theater Arts
“This is a visceral show that demands the audience acknowledge and think about the deleterious and on-going effects of centuries of abuse, cruelty, and dehumanization that have led to names on an underpass. The show makes these points with force and vigor because these people have basically died in a war, but where is the memorial honoring their sacrifices?” MD Theatre Guide
“… a lusty, delirious, time-suspending and pulse-pounding journey. — Every aspect of the production is inspiring.” DC Theatre Scene
“Day of Absence comes at a time when black lives are being taken without repercussion and where people live in servitude to those who would only care about them if they were suddenly gone. Theater Alliance has issued a wake up call to us all, using satire to show the cracks in the system.” - DC Theatre Scene
The third annual Word Becomes Action Festival includes six new works that ask us to confront the revolutions and moments of resilience within our daily lives. Shining the spotlight on local DC theater artists, Word Becomes Action offers a dynamic glimpse into the themes and topics explored throughout Theatre Alliance’s main-stage season.
“It is a monumental performance, combining lyrical poetry, sensual dance, familiar tunes, catchy raps and chants, and ancestral invocation. And it is DC’s first mainstage production of a play written and performed by a local trans artist of color.” - DC Metro Theatre Arts
“Every once in a while a play comes along that is so electric and alive and thought-provoking and mesmerizing that you want to shout about it from the rooftops. This is one such play. Don’t miss this one.” - MD Theatre Guide
“The Events is an ambitious production that tackles questions of faith, good and evil, the roots of toxic masculinity, and all the ways in which suffering continues beyond the act of violence itself. Theater Alliance puts on a visually impressive production that will ravage audiences in the moment but leave them contemplative, sober, maybe even hopeful once the curtain drops.” - DC Metro Theatre Arts
“I needed time for the show to settle on me overnight. We’re so used to first impressions and the immediacy of what hits you at the moment. This show seeps into you as if needing time to marinate.” - DC Theatre Scene
“… Flood City at Theater Alliance is an immensely enjoyable and wildly original ride on a torrent of audacious comedy. It’s like comic relief for when disaster relief is not enough.” - DC Metro Theater Arts
“… an industrious and sometimes striking Theater Alliance production, Idris Goodwin’s play “The Raid” imagines an argument between Frederick Douglass and John Brown as the latter prepares to lead the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.” - The Washington Post