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April 8, 2025
Washington City Paper Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE
The 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville became a watershed moment in recent American history. ... Playwright and performer Priyanka Shetty was a graduate student in the theater department at...
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April 3, 2025
Stage and Cinema Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE
Priyanka Shetty’s #Charlottesville, currently running at the Keegan Theatre, is a searing and deeply personal exploration of one of the darkest moments in recent American history — the 2017 “Unite...
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April 1, 2025
Washington Post Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE
Relevance is essential to Priyanka Shetty’s “#Charlottesville,” a methodical, sometimes stirring solo play recalling the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in the college town. Now in a world premiere...
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March 25, 2025
Broadway World Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE
When I walked into the Keegan Theatre Saturday evening to see the galvanizing play #Charlottesville, I noticed two changes since I reviewed this play at the Capital Fringe Festival one...
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March 24, 2025
MD Theatre Guide Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE
“Happiness is a place called Charlottesville.” But what comes of that happiness when Charlottesville is plagued with the violence of hundreds of white supremacists? #CHARLOTTESVILLE at The Keegan Theatre bravely tackles...
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March 23, 2025
DC Theater Arts Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it — the famous quote by the philosopher George Santayana — was running through my mind as I watched/witnessed #CHARLOTTESVILLE,...
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March 7, 2025
World Premiere of #CHARLOTTESVILLE Opens at Keegan March 22
March 7, 2024: The Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce the world premiere run of Priyanka Shetty’s solo play #CHARLOTTESVILLE, directed by Yury Urnov and presented in partnership with Voices...
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February 27, 2025
Washington Post Review: HAND TO GOD
Hand to God, Robert Askins’s brilliantly discomfiting comedy about the sordid but humane goings-on in the youth ministry of a suburban Houston Lutheran church, is an ecclesiastical riddle wrapped in...
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February 17, 2025
Metro Weekly Review: HAND TO GOD
First, let’s give a hand to the performer in Keegan Theatre’s Hand to God who spends most of Robert Askins’ raucous comedy with his fist inserted firmly up another performer...
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February 15, 2025
MD Theatre Guide Review: HAND TO GOD
Robert Askins’ “Hand to God” had its Broadway debut in 2015 and picked up several Tony nominations including Best Play. Part satire and part laugh-out-loud look at some deeply entrenched...
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February 10, 2025
Broadway World Review: HAND TO GOD
The audacious and lively play Hand to God is a daring and yet, an oddly compelling and textured meditation, on society’s hypocrisies set within a more intimate framework of five...
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February 10, 2025
DC Theater Arts Review: HAND TO GOD
There’s something a little slithery about the way Drew Sharpe maneuvers his sleeve-and-stick orange puppet Tyrone in the first moments of Hand to God at Keegan Theatre, even before it...
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