Page & Stage: 1st Stage’s Book Club

In partnership with Bards Alley, 1st Stage is excited to bring
Page & Stage: a book club for every audience!

All Page & Stage book club meetings are free to attend. To purchase tickets for hang,
visit the show link here.


Next Meeting: Sunday, March 23 at 3:30pm

In conjunction with our upcoming production, hang, Page & Stage will be reading
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman.

Death and the Maiden

By Ariel Dorfman

The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship.

Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man—the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.

Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, Death and the Maiden is an inquest into the darker side of humanity—one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention.

*strong references and depictions of violence and sexual violence.

Questions? Comments? Need more information? Email audrajacobs@1ststage.org or call 703-854-1856.

Full Page & Stage 24-25 Schedule

  • I Remain In Darkness

    BY ANNIE ERNAUX

    MEETING DATE: Sunday, September 22

    In conjunction with our production of The Waverly Gallery.

  • Tell It To Me Singing

    BY TITA RAMIREZ

    MEETING DATE: Sunday, December 22

    In conjunction with our production of Laughs in Spanish.

  • If You See Me, Don't Say Hi

    BY NEEL PATEL

    MEETING DATE: Sunday, February 9

    In conjunction with our production of The Lake Effect.

  • August Wilson: A Life

    BY PATTI HARTIGAN

    MEETING DATE: Saturday, June 21

    In conjunction with our production of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.