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Radical Neighboring. It's our thing.
At Theater Alliance, Radical Neighboring is a commitment: every performance offers Name Your Own Price tickets, because the cost of admission should never decide who gets to sit in the room. This promise is rooted in place—in Southeast DC, in Ward 8, in the neighbors who’ve watched this company build relationships long before it built a permanent home. Radical Neighboring means outreach that actually reaches; it means partnerships with schools and community organizations that outlast any single season; it means access as the foundation the work stands on. Theater, done right, belongs to everyone in proximity to it. We intend to keep it that way.
Pay What You Want
Pay What you Want is our $10-or-more flex price for Seniors, Students, Military, or anyone who wants to pay for a ticket and stay within their budget. Available online or at the door.
Radical Neighboring
We believe in welcoming everyone to our events. If $1 is what you can afford, come to the door and get a ticket to a radically amazing show.
Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence
ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence confronts gun violence by creating new works of theatre that spark critical conversations and inspire meaningful action in communities across the country. ENOUGH!‘s mission is to promote communications and playwriting as a tool for self–expression and social change, harnessing this generation‘s spirit of activism and providing a platform for America‘s youth to discover and develop their voices today.
Theater Alliance has been chosen to pilot a Core Theater program with ENOUGH!, and will implement this new play development curriculum as our primary education programming with DC youth. Our teaching artists will teach the fundamentals of storytelling as a tool for self–expression and social change.
2026 Schedule Coming Soon!
Embassy Partnerships
Theater Alliance partners with embassies around DC to explore cross-cultural values, and support the work of under-represented voices in our community.
Use Our Space.
This space was built to be shared. Theater Alliance is a resident company here, but residency was never the whole plan; we're stewards of a hub meant for the wider arts community: for the choreographer who needs a rehearsal room, the filmmaker looking for a screening space, the young dance company that's outgrown their basement space. Solidarity economics means something concrete to us: shared resources, flexible terms, a building that earns its keep by being useful to more people than just us. If you've got an event, a rehearsal process, a screening, a community gathering that needs a home, we'd like to hear about it. Reach out to Samba Pathak — we're neighbors to the arts community too, and we mean that as an open door, not a slogan.
Our new Art Hub will open in October, 2026!
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Woody Guthrie's American Song
From the iconic anthem “This Land is Your Land” to protest songs like “All You Fascists Bound To Lose,” the music of folk poet and social agitator Woody Guthrie persists as a dynamic force of dissent and hope for the American people. Woody Guthrie’s American Song is a musical that weaves Guthrie’s storytelling with scenes drawn directly from his life, wielding music as a loudspeaker for the voice of the working people, speaking up for those swept aside by economic collapse and political indifference. This production is a panoramic tribute to the legacy of activism in the arts, celebrating the spirit of what America looks and sounds like. As the United States marks its 250th Anniversary, Woody Guthrie’s American Song offers a necessary counterpoint – reminding us that America’s story is always unfinished and that the most joyful and enduring voices have always come from the people.
