Karen Zacarías’s stage adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence is a three-hour and 15-minute slow burn that still leaves the audience wanting more. Now playing at Arena Stage, this classic novel preserves much of the original text so that the audience gets the whole experience of Wharton's tongue-in-cheek social commentary and trademark humor.
Read MoreEveryone carries something: a secret, a shame, a weight tethered to their heart. In The Bedwetter, performed at Arena Stage and directed by Anne Kauffman, that weight is literal for ten-year-old Sarah Silverman—she still wets the bed.
Read MoreArena Stage’s production of August Wilson’s Jitney, newly extended through October 27, 2019, is a tour de force. It’s moving.
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