The Keegan Theatre is happy to announce the brand new works and writers to be featured within the 2023 Boiler Room Collection. The initiative invitations audiences to expertise theater growth in motion whereas supporting playwrights and their works in progress, which lie someplace on the trail from “playwright’s first spark” to “mainstage manufacturing.” 2023 occasions embody half-day workshops of the featured items, culminating in dwell public desk readings with viewers talkbacks instantly afterward – which all helps to gasoline the featured writers’ work as they proceed to develop these promising items for the stage.
As a approach of celebrating and lifting the mission of the Boiler Room Collection, this yr’s occasions are sharing the highlight with a pair of World Premieres which had been commissioned and developed as a part of the 2022 Boiler Room Collection.
“For the 2023 Boiler Room Collection,” shares BRS creative director Josh Sticklin, “we’re scheduling our workshops round our World Premiere productions of PUSH THE BUTTON and THE WILTING POINT – marrying the event work the Boiler Room Collection does with the ultimate merchandise of commissioned, totally produced new works on the mainstage.”
PUSH THE BUTTON, a brand new hip-hop musical by Drew Anderson & Dwayne Lawson-Brown and supported partly by the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts, performs on the Keegan mainstage March 25-April 7, 2023. THE WILTING POINT, the opening entry of the four-part ELEMENTS play cycle by Keegan’s 2022-2023 Playwright in Residence Graziella Jackson, then performs April 13-30, 2023. The three different performs of the ELEMENTS cycle will kick off the Boiler Room Collection occasions, which embody:
Monday, April 10, 7:00 pm @ The Keegan Theatre
AIR (a part of the ELEMENTS play cycle)
by Graziella Jackson
directed by Momo Nakamura
stage managed by Amina Dunn
that includes Beverlix Jean-Baptiste, Cheryl Campo, Wilmer Juarez, Jennifer Osborn, Josh Sticklin, and Sophia Colón Roosevelt
Monday, April 17, 7:00 pm @ The Keegan Theatre
EARTH (a part of the ELEMENTS play cycle)
by Graziella Jackson
directed by Josh Sticklin
stage managed by Kristen Davis
that includes Beverlix Jean-Baptiste, Sophia Colón Roosevelt, Sally Flores, Momo Nakamura, Karina Hilleard, James Finley, and Rocheny Princien
Monday, April 24, 7:00 pm @ The Keegan Theatre
FIRE (a part of the ELEMENTS play cycle)
by Graziella Jackson
directed by Paige Washington
stage managed by Philippos Sourvinos
that includes Bayron Celis, Bianca Lipford, Judy Lewis, Axandre Oge, Sam Lunay, Beverlix Jean-Baptiste, Sophia Colón Roosevelt, and Seth Rosenke
Monday, Could 1, 7:00 pm @ Smithsonian Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
ENTER GRETTA
by Kate Black-Spence
directed by Momo Nakamura
stage managed by Philippos Sourvinos
that includes Bianca Lipford, Nick DePinto, Maryanne Henderson, and Vishwas
Monday, Could 8, 7:00 pm @ Smithsonian Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
by Alyssa Haddad-Chin
directed by Paige Washington
stage managed by Philippos Sourvinos
that includes Mary Yee and Yihong Chen
Sunday, Could 14, 3:30 pm @ Smithsonian Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
WAITING FOR MANILOW
by Stephen Mills
directed by Oscar Ceville
stage managed by Jillian Riti
that includes Shannon Rodgers, Keith Burkland, Byron Escobar, Melissa Robinson, and Kellan Oelkers
Monday, Could 15, 7:00 pm @ Smithsonian Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
THE OREOS
by Angelle Whavers
directed by Josh Sticklin
stage managed by Kristen Davis
that includes Abel Haddish, Bowen Fox, Tatenda Rameau, Nina Brewton, Stan Shulman, and Ariana Caldwell
All occasions happen at both The Keegan Theatre, positioned at 1742 Church Road NW, Washington, DC 20036, or on the Smithsonian Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, positioned at 1901 Fort Place SE, Washington, DC 20020. Tickets for the entire 2023 Boiler Room Collection occasions can be found Pay What You Can, however on-line reservations are strongly inspired. Particulars about the entire occasions – in addition to on-line reservations and donations to help the Boiler Room Collection – can be found on-line at www.keegantheatre.com.
