In a city where fact is hard to tell from façade, and the ship of state occasionally runs onto the rocks of unpleasant truth, it's easy to see the importance--and the challenge--of keeping up appearances. Whether it's spin, cover-up, makeover, or sleight-of-hand, there is plenty of evidence that the way things seem matters as much as the way they are, at least to some of us.

The Washington Stage Guild proudly invites you to join us for another season of literate and lively productions, four great plays that look behind the masks we wear to see our true faces.

Join us for our eighteenth season as we "keep up appearances" at Arena Stage at 14th & T Streets in what looks like--and is--one of the area's most exciting neighborhoods!

"What makes a mystery beautiful is not the truth it conceals, but the secret it enshrines."
A reclusive writer agrees to a rare interview, but the questions are not what he expects in this cat-and-mouse game of secrets revealed and turned inside-out. This recent hit from London's West End was translated by Jeremy Sams, whose work was previously seen by Guild audiences in Cocteau's Indiscretions.
by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Translated by Jeremy Sams : An area premiere