Arena Stage’s Female Force

Arena Stage will reopen in the new Mead Center for American Theater in fall 2010, thanks to some of Washington’s most forward-thinking women.

Jaylee Mead, Molly Smith, Arlene Kogod, Michele Berman, Beth Newburger Schwartz (Photo by Joseph Allen)

 Currently undergoing a facelift of facelifts, Arena will reopen as Arena Stage at The Mead Center for American Theater in fall 2010 with the 683-seat Fichandler Stage, the 514-seat fan-shaped Kreeger Theatre, and the new Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle, a 200-seat theater with all the bells and whistles to make it one of the most dramatic spaces in Washington.