From the Executive Producer: UNKNOWN SOLDIER
We live in an age of easily available images so the idea of an image capturing something unknown is deeply compelling. Unknown Soldier, a poignant musical tale from Daniel Goldstein and Michael Friedman, makes so much sense to be told at Arena Stage. Because we reside in our nation’s [...]
Voices of Now Featured Artist: Winta Habtemichael
Voices of Now (VON) is a drama and writing program run by Arena Stage that devises autobiographical plays with ensembles of middle-school, high-school, and adult artists. Fast-paced, physical, and collaboratively written, the plays pose challenging social questions relevant to the artists and their communities, and investigate these questions [...]
Dramaturgy Note: Archives of Self, Chasing Unknowns
“When Michael Friedman and I set out to write Unknown Soldier, we were interested in figuring out how the past and the present merge, how objects trace through time, and how your history is more fluid than you think and your future less of a mystery than [...]
