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TRANS AM by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, directed by Fred Berman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
February 7, 2022
Washington City Paper Review: TRANS AM
Lisa Stephen Friday spent years slamming her electric guitar and singing into a blasting microphone as the frontwoman of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, the DIY glam rock band she...
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TRANS AM by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, directed by Fred Berman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
February 7, 2022
Metro Weekly Review: TRANS AM
Lisa Stephen Friday works the Keegan stage solo performing her moving rock musical memoir Trans Am, but she’s not up there alone. The singer-songwriter and former frontwoman for glam rock...
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TRANS AM by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, directed by Fred Berman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
February 3, 2022
Washington Post Review: TRANS AM
The grass stains on the knees of a small boy who wishes he were wearing a skirt. The cutting remark of a pharmacist asked to fill prescriptions. A janitor’s closet...
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TRANS AM by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, directed by Fred Berman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
February 1, 2022
MD Theatre Guide Review: TRANS AM
People contain multitudes, which is why telling the story of oneself can seem so daunting. It’s a challenge that “Trans Am,” a one-woman, autobiographical rock musical, meets with startling brashness....
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TRANS AM by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, directed by Fred Berman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
February 1, 2022
Broadway World Review: TRANS AM
Lisa Stephen Friday could have presented the eight semi-autobiographical songs she worked up with her band Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, just as she once did at a series of...
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TRANS AM by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, directed by Fred Berman. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
January 31, 2022
DC Metro Theater Arts Review: TRANS AM
More than anything, Trans Am is a vehicle for [writer and performer Lisa Stephen Friday] to tell the stories of the moments of her life: of a little boy trying...
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TRANS AM by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday. Photo: Mike Kozemchak
December 17, 2021
Announcing the Live World Premiere of Lisa Stephen Friday’s TRANS AM
December 17, 2021: The Keegan Theatre is proud to announce the live world premiere of Lisa Stephen Friday’s one-woman rock musical TRANS AM, featuring the music of cult-favorite NYC glam rock...
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AN IRISH CAROL by Matthew J. Keenan. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
December 14, 2021
Broadway World Review: AN IRISH CAROL
Matthew J. Keenan's An Irish Carol is an interesting updated take on Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol, with entertainingly colorful language and a heart-warming message through it all. ......
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AN IRISH CAROL by Matthew J. Keenan
November 18, 2021
Announcing the Cast and Team for AN IRISH CAROL
November 18, 2021: The Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce the cast and team of Matthew J. Keenan’s AN IRISH CAROL, Keegan’s own holiday tradition returning for its 11th year,...
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N by Adrienne Earle Pender. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
November 9, 2021
MD Theatre Guide Review: N
Keegan is currently presenting the regional premiere of N by Adrienne Earle Pender. This is a quick exploration of race, culture, and the heavy lifting Blacks did (and still do)...
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N by Adrienne Earle Pender. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
November 9, 2021
Washington City Paper Review: N
As playwright Adrienne Earle Pender’s N opens, Florence Howard (Lolita Marie) has just put her baby to bed when her smartly dressed husband Charles Sidney Gilpin (Kevin E. Thorne II)...
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N by Adrienne Earle Pender. Photo: Cameron Whitman Photography
October 27, 2021
Broadway World Review: N
The Keegan Theatre, as part of its 25th Anniversary Season, is giving Adrienne Earle Pender's play N its regional debut in a crisp production that finds some nuances in the story...
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