Final weekend of Strawjam
On Thursday, two shows opened at 12th Ave Arts, as the final weekend of Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s Director’s Festival: Brotherly Love and Caught.
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Two plays, different styles.
As part of Strawjam, Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s multiweek director’s festival, two shows opened Thursday, which will run just for this weekend, at 12th Ave Arts. The two shows, Glass Kill Bluebeard’s Friends by Caryl Churchill and Catslut by Katherine Jana were thematically linked as they both deal with issues of trauma and sexuality. 
Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s Our Country’s Good
Our Country’s Good is a show which explores the ways in which theatre brings hope and meaning to those in
Bittersweet, nostalgic high school reunion at The Pavilion.
Craig Wright’s The Pavilion, directed by Greg Carter and produced by Strawberry Theatre Workshop, opened at 12th Ave Arts on
A Standing Ovation for Frost/Nixon
Last night, Peter Morgan’s award-winning Frost/Nixon opened to a standing ovation at 12th Ave Arts on Capitol Hill. Focused around
Strawberry Theater Presents “Why We Have a Body”
In producing Claire Chafee’s “Why We Have a Body”, the Strawberry Theatre Workshop has unearthed a sparkling gem of a
Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s “Lydia” at 12th Avenue Arts
Strawberry Theatre Workshop brings Octavio Solis’s award-winning Mexican-American family drama to 12th Avenue Arts.
Lydia, first performed in 2008, tells a twisted story of family, sex, sexuality, and immigration, set in 1970s Texas. In the aftermath of a debilitating car accident that leaves the youngest child in a semi-vegetative state, the Flores family hires Lydia, a recent immigrant from Mexico, as a maid. Sexual, socio-political, and supernatural tensions soon hurtle the family towards the play’s dark conclusion.
Loose Rhinoceros About—What’s a Person to Do?
Eugene Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros (1959) grew from his increasingly lonely witness to the attraction that Nazism held among the circles he traveled in during World War II. Ionesco (b. 1909, Slatina, Romania—d. 1994, Paris, France) and many of his friends would have been around 20 in 1939, the prime age for idealist fervor.
Strawberry Theatre Workshop intentionally produced this play to highlight the challenges of our current presidential election climate. Jess K. Smith’s direction found the play’s
9 Circles
Killing people bothers SOME people
It is difficult to find the words to express how great 9 Circles was!!!!!. Playing at 12th Ave Arts, produced by Strawberry Theatre Workshop, directed by Grey Carter, from a divinely inspired script by Father Bill Cain, S.J., with an exceptionally stellar cast, it was far more than just a good show. It was a spiritually uplifting EXPERIENCE which one rarely has in theatre or indeed in life.
