07/17/2025
For our 20th anniversary season, The Birth of Myth, we proposed a radical idea — that a small, scrappy theater can be an incubator for the most daring and vital new works. In the Fall, we premiered Christopher T. Hampton’s contemporary epic “Cracking Zeus;” this production, directed by Mosaic Theater’s Reginald L. Douglas, and produced in collaboration with Howard University, garnered us a Helen Hayes Award for Lo**ta Marie’s Outstanding Supporting Performance. In the Winter, we transformed our space into an underground club: our cabaret series was launched by Tony Award-winning playwright and rock musician Stew Stewart (“Passing Strange”), and spotlighted the eclectic duo Here & There (Jordyn Taylor & Deimoni Brewington) and Chilean powerhouse singer-songwriter Fran Tapia. In the Spring, we produced our first new musical, and the best-selling show in Spooky Action’s history: the anti-authoritarian fantasia “Professor Woland’s Black Magic Rock Show,” heralded by critics as “a major new contribution to American musical theater” (DC Theater Arts) and “one of the most authentically political productions of the year” (Washington City Paper). In the Summer, we celebrated World Pride with the transcendent Lucy Eden, who merged circus and advocacy into “Circus of the Self,” an empowering show about living as your authentic self. Stay tuned over the next week to hear what we’re cooking up for next season!