| Mosaic Theater's Weekday Matinee Schedule is here! As a valued Season One, Two and Three partner, you are the first to see our Season Four Weekday Matinee Schedule! |
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Dear Partner,
Thank you so much for your incredible support of Mosaic Theater Company. Thanks to you, our weekday matinee audiences have been larger, more inclusive, more well-rounded, and more diverse than ever before. We are in awe of your continued commitment to our programming and mission.
Our Fourth Season was recently announced, and we would love to have you and your group back as part of our Mosaic.
So as a little thank you, we wanted to make sure you got information about our new Season Four weekday matinee schedule before anyone else. Tickets in Season Four are still affordable at $8 per ticket for groups of 10 or more only! This price is a bargain compared to other DC Theaters. We also have multiple weekday matinee performances for selected shows. All performances start at 11 AM. We hope you will take advantage of this deal to return for Season Four: How Hope Happens.
Please note: we have revised the weekday matinee performance dates for Shame and The Shooting Gallery. Please see updates below.
If you have any questions about purchasing group tickets, please email Maria Benzie, Patron Services Manager, at maria@mosaictheater.org.
With much gratitude,
Mirvlyne Brice
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| Marie and Rosetta By George Brant | Directed by Sandra L. Holloway
Featuring Roz White as Rosetta Tharpe
At the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang Theatre
September 13th and 27th Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music that would become a rhythmic precursor to rock and roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a pioneer of mid-20th-century music with a huge influence on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and Ray Charles. Set in the showroom of a funeral home, in Mississippi, 1946, this musical celebration of two extraordinary Black Women chronicles the unlikely first rehearsal between Rosetta and the prim young, Marie Knight, to see if the potential protégée could summon the stuff to allow for a professional partnership that might topple the male stranglehold suppressing Rosetta's career. They would embark on a tour to establish them as one of the great duos in musical history. "It is so rare for a play about the inner lives of black women to center on their intimacy and not world politics or degradation that the very [existence] of George Brant's loving two-character script is refreshing." - The New Yorker "When it sings, it really swings!" - The New York Times |
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| The Agitators By Mat Smart | Directed by KenYatta Rogers
At the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang Theatre
November 8th and 15th This brilliant play examines the 45-year friendship and occasional rivalry between two great, rebellious, and flawed American icons: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Young abolitionists when they met in Rochester in the 1840s, they were full of hopes, dreams and a common purpose. As they grew to become the cultural icons we know today, their movements collided and their friendship was severely tested. This is the story of that 45-year friendship - from its beginning in Rochester, through a Civil War and to the highest halls of government. They agitated the nation, they agitated each other and, in doing so, they helped shape the Constitution and the course of American history. A loving and faithful portrait of two historical figures, Mat Smart's story also brims with modern urgency and relevance.
"A brilliant success in illuminating the rights of American citizenship —not to be missed. The Agitators faithfully demonstrates the demarcation line of wills that brought these two forces of nature together, when race and gender issues, equality and voting rights, were being forged in the wake of slavery and the Civil War."-Rochester Democrat & Chronicle |
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| Oh, God By Anat Gov | Directed by Michael Bloom Featuring Mitchell Hébert and Kimberly Schraf
At the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang Theatre December 20th Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival In this witty and touching play, a psychotherapist named Ella, single mother of an autistic child, gets a visit from a new and desperate patient: God. The late Anat Gov was known as Israel's Wendy Wasserstein, and in her gently veiled analogy, Ella and God must learn to help each other--after all, God is suffering from having accrued too much power, while Ella has lost whatever faith (in God) she might have had. As both battle low-grade depression, the fate of the world may just hang in the balance! With a clash of biblical quotes framed by a modern-day wit. "A funny, witty, poignant, often brilliant text that asks intriguing questions about the nature of the Deity and our relationship to Him, all in a delightful 80 minutes." - The Jerusalem Post |
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| Shame (With Comments From The Populace) By Einat Weizman and Mourad Hassan Directed by John Vreeke | Adapted by Ari Roth
At the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang Theatre February 14, 2019 Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival A blistering documentary portrait about the precariousness of cross-cultural collaboration when Israelis and Palestinians work against formidable opposition. Shame centers on the relationship of two theater artists who relive the dramas on their embattled world premiere of SABBATH WORKER in Haifa (which would premiere in America at Mosaic in 2017 under the title THE RETURN), a run originally aborted when funding for the Al Midan Theater was severed because of controversial content from a related production. Integrating performance excerpts and often disrupted by comments from Facebook, tweets, and angry telephone threats, the play covers ensuing censorship controversies at both the Akko Festival and Jaffa Theater also involving the once famed TV actress and newly controversial lightning rod, Einat Weizman's work involving the trial of a Palestinian poet accused of incitement for a poem posted on Youtube, and the attempt to share letters of prisoners organizing a hunger strike from jail. "Succeeds in creating a shared space where Jewish Israeli and Palestinian citizens and theatre spectators can pay attention profoundly to what's happening in their society and are probed to give attention to address issues that are often suppressed." – Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East |
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| Native Son By Nambi E. Kelley | Directed by Psalmayene 24
At the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang Theatre
April 4th, 11th, and 19th
Richard Wright's iconic novel about oppression, freedom, and justice comes to life on stage in this ground-breaking adaptation. Suffocating in rat-infested poverty on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas struggles to find a place for himself in a world whose prejudice has shut him out. After taking a job in a wealthy white man's house, Bigger unwittingly unleashes a series of events that violently and irrevocably seal his fate. Adapted with theatrical ingenuity by Chicago's own Nambi E. Kelley, this Native Son captures the power of Richard Wright's novel for a whole new generation. "A bold new tone..distills Wright's novel into 90 intermission-less minutes that are all action. It appreciates Wright's book for its intensity, refusing to slow down." - Hartford Courant |
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| The Shooting Gallery Performed and Written By Aaron Davidman Directed by Michael John Garcés
At the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang Theatre April 25th
A minister in Virginia. A cop in Los Angeles. A surgeon on the South Side of Chicago. A hunter in Tennessee. These are a few of the characters in Aaron Davidman's searing and heartfelt world premiere performance piece about the most divisive issue in America today: gun violence. The creator of Wrestling Jerusalem comes back to Mosaic after travelling the country to chronicle our nation's love affair with firearms and the brutal consequences that lay in its wake. |
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| Sooner/Later By Allyson Currin | Directed by Gregg Henry At the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Sprenger Theatre May 30th part of Locally Grown Mosaic When teenage daughter Lexie helps her reluctant single mother Nora re-enter the dating scene, an unlikely suitor emerges in Griff – the guy at the coffee shop who inadvertently witnesses Nora's string of unsuccessful dates. As choices collide with coincidences and longing mixes with reality, each character must face the complications that always arise in the search for intimacy and the closeness of family. This captivating world premiere with a metaphysical twist navigates the paths of romance, marriage and parenting while exploring the pains and pleasures of all three. |
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| Written/Performed by KELVIN ROSTON, JR.
Directed by DERRICK SANDERS
A Co-Production With Baltimore Center Stage and
The Apollo Theatre
July 11th
This emotionally charged musical play about soul singer and composer Donny Hathaway—best known for his duets with fellow Howard U alum, Roberta Flack—is an immersive portrait about the brilliant musician's compelling inner struggle, brought to life by the multi-talented Kelvin Roston, Jr."Brilliantly performed"— Baltimore Sun
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