Arena Stage

Our first CRAZYSEXYCOOL audiences are diggin' the scene—don’t miss out! 🔥

🎟️: arenastage.org/tlc
📸: Ambe J. Williams

THE MOTION is settled...for now.

Congratulations to the cast, creatives, and crew for bringing to life a production that surprised, intrigued, and left audiences with much debate—we'll be thinking about its questions for quite some time. 💭

THE MOTION
By Christopher Chen
Directed by Hana S. Sharif

Support for THE MOTION is provided by Michele and Allan Berman and Sue Henry and Carter Phillips.

CAST
Moderator: Nancy Robinette
Dr. Alan James: Barzin Akhavan
Dr. Sarah Matthis: Nikkole Salter
Prof. Lily Chan: Peregrine Teng Heard
Prof. Neel Bharara: Nehal Joshi
u/s Moderator, Dr. Sarah Mathis, Prof. Lily Chan: Yesenia Iglesias
u/s Dr. Alan James, Prof. Neel Bharara: Eli El

CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright: Christopher Chen
Director: Hana S. Sharif
Set Designer: Tim Mackabee
Costume Designer: Mika Eubanks
Co-Lighting Designer: Jason Lynch
Co-Lighting Designer: Xavier Pierce
Sound Design and Original Music: Charles Coes and Nathan A. Roberts
Wig, Hair, and Makeup Designer: LaShawn Melton
Casting: The Telsey Office/Destiny Lilly, CSA and Raiyon Hunter, CSA
Associate Director: Alexis Kulani Woodard
Stage Manager: Christi B. Spann
Assistant Stage Manager: Margaret V. Warner

FOR THIS PRODUCTION
Fight and Intimacy Consultant: Sierra Young
Assistant Director: Nakkia Smalls
Assistant Lighting Designer: Emily Pan
Production Assistant: Kyla S. Mermejo-Varga
Script Production Assistant: Grace O. Gyamfi
Dramaturgical Support: Caroline Cabe, Jovita Jacob Selwyn
Casting Associate: Cesar Mendoza
Stage Supervisor: Hannah Martin
Stage Carpenters: Megan Amos, Catherine Cooney
Props Technicians: Troy Johnson, Kayla Prough
Light Board Operator: Scott Folsom
Moving Light Programmer: Kelsey Swanson
A1: Keion Hocker, Ann Tran
Wardrobe Supervisors: Alice Hawfield, Caitlin O’Brien
Wardrobe Crew: Lily Komarow
Wigs, Hair, and Makeup Crew: Robin Maline
Wardrobe and Wig Cover: Viola Costen
Crew Swing: David Philip

🎥: Miceli Productions

Happy Tonys Sunday! 🎭🏆

Fifty years ago, at the 30th Tony Awards in 1976, Arena Stage was honored with the inaugural Regional Theatre Tony Award.

Presented by Christopher Plummer to Arena's Founding Director Zelda Fichandler, the award was given in recognition of providing the American theater with "an amazingly broad spectrum of new works, American premieres of important foreign plays, and distinguished revivals." Since then, the Regional Theatre Tony Award has been given annually to sister regional theaters around the country in celebration of their contributions to the American theater.

This year, we send special congratulations to:

👏 American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, for receiving the 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award

👏 League of Resident Theatres (LORT)—which was co-founded in 1966 by Arena's Founding Executive Director Tom Fichandler and helped create the foundation for today's regional theaters—for its 2026 Special Tony Award in recognition of six decades of artistic excellence, collaboration, and investment in the future of American theater

👏 Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia—fellow LORT member and the country's longest-running professional Equity theater—for being the very-first regional theater to receive a Tony Award in 1948