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LYDIA R. DIAMOND (Playwright) is a 2013/14 Arena Stage resident playwright. Award-winning plays include Smart People, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, Harriet Jacobs, The Inside and Stage Black. Theaters include Broadway’s Cort Theatre, The Arden, Chicago Dramatists, Company One, Congo Square, Goodman, Guthrie ...
- Smart People | Arena Stage
Arena Stage is alive as a center for American Theater in our...
- 2020/21 season - Arena Stage
Based on Martha Ackmann’s book Curveball: The Remarkable...
- Smart People | Arena Stage
Arena Stage is alive as a center for American Theater in our nation’s capital with productions, diverse and innovative works from around the country and the nurturing of new plays. Our focus is on American artists. We produce and present all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit. We explore issues from the past, present and future that reflect ...
Apr 13, 2017 · Tickets: http://bit.ly/ArenaSMARTPEOPLEDo our belief systems stem from our environment, or are some prejudices hard-wired into us? With barbed wit, Lydia R. ...
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Lydia R. Diamond has written a very smart play and our Arena Stage audience is filled with smart people. This story highlights several aspects of the modern American experience — race, relationships, sex, politics — in a contemporary way. I cannot wait to hear the conversations in the lobby. Lydia digs into important questions to get to the ...
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Oct 3, 2021 · Based on Martha Ackmann’s book Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, award-winning playwright Lydia R. Diamond (Smart People, The Bluest Eye) tells the dynamic story of Stone’s journey of perseverance and resilience just to do what she loved the most — play baseball.
Apr 3, 2017 · What a fascinating play to produce now, a few months into a new administration that is quite the opposite of the one featured in the play. Lydia’s play will take on new meaning in the current era of fake news.” Playwright Lydia Diamond expressed what an honor it was to have Arena Stage producing the D.C. premiere of her play.
Apr 24, 2017 · Jaysen Wright as Jackson Moore and Lorene Chesley as Valerie Johnston in Smart People at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (Photo: C. Stanley Photography) Jaysen Wright shows the various sides of the accomplished surgeon who can unleash a torrent of anger from the castigation he’s fought his way through to the upper echelon ...
