IN THE NEWS | 'Broke-ology' at the Anacostia Playhouse

Broke-ology now playing at the Anacostia Playhouse
(photo courtesy of Washington City Paper)

The reviews are in and boy are they are good! It seems everyone is thrilled for the new Anacostia Playhouse and 'Broke-ology', the first full run performance to christen the new arts venue. Get your ticket now for he new play -- it is great!  FYI - On Thursdays you can name your own admission price! How sweet is that?!

Including some of the recent news coverage of the new Anacostia Playhouse and "Broke-ology."

The Anacostia Playhouse is located at 2020 Shannon Place SE, right behind The HIVE co-working lab.

August 16, 2013
The Washington Post
In Anacostia, new playhouse opens in a community eager for more cultural assets

Excerpt:

“I just think it’s an exciting time to be east of the river,” said Edmund Fleet, executive director of THEARC, a nonprofit arts and education organization that opened eight years ago on a campus on Mississippi Avenue SE. Fleet views the Playhouse as an advancement for an idea of Anacostia as a community of artists. “I really feel like it’s an opportunity for artists and arts groups to define this niche, because unlike U Street and H Street, we’re not just a neat little block. The arts and the creative economy can lead the revival east of the river.”

August 19, 2013
The Washington Post
Theatre Alliance’s ‘Broke-ology’ christens Anacostia Playhouse stage

Excerpt:

The performers respond well to the script’s earnestness, and so do the designers. Harlan Penn’s small, realistic kitchen/living-room set illustrates the family’s ultra-tight budget but also the neatness Sonia insisted on while she was alive. Reggie Ray’s simple but fetching dresses for Sonia accomplish the same thing. The bluntness is appealing, and the welcoming Playhouse stage — with John Johnson’s “I Am Anacostia” and then David Henry Hwang’s “Bondage” from Pinky Swear Productions coming in the fall — frames it well.

August 23, 2013
Washington City Paper
In the Anacostia Playhouse's debut show, a tale of have-nots

Excerpt:

Broke-ology, the 2008 debut of playwright Nathan Louis Jackson, is a tender, quietly revelatory tale of a family struggling against poverty, ill health, grief, and looming obligation. As Theater Alliance’s first production in the new, 150-seat Anacostia Playhouse, it’s a calculated choice, but a sound one: Though Jackson has since moved on to more political plays (and to writing for TV dramas like Southland and Lights Out), this is an easily embraceable if ultimately somber story of a strong African-American family living in a tough neighborhood and doing its best to get by. The play is set in Jackson’s native Kansas City, Kan., which is separated by a river from its more prosperous neighbor, Kansas City, Mo. Sound like any place we know?