DC Area Premiere! Perisphere Co-Artistic Director Gerrad Alex Taylor will direct The America Play, by Suzan-Lori Parks, with performances from January 31-February 15, 2025. Parks was the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for Topdog/Underdog in 2002, and Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people of 2023. The America Play centers around an African-American gravedigger and Abraham Lincoln impersonator and his estranged family. Parks found one of her early career successes in this play that explores the way Blackness is represented and erased in mainstream narratives of United States History.  

Mission: Perisphere Theater produces plays that examine personal and collective history and the notion of history itself. 

Vision: A theater experience that gives audiences a greater appreciation of history and of those who are often left out of its retelling. 

Values: Artistic Excellence, Diversity, Antiracism, and Respect