By presenting Tennessee Williams’ complete, unabridged text, with just four performers - no props, no set- this production can exist anywhere. It strips bare to the bones the greatest piece of American drama.

“Have you ever had anything caught in your head?”

Tennessee Williams’ descent into family, sex, death and decay is a haunting: family, trauma, relentlessly recurring patterns of destruction. It’s about the abuse we heap upon ourselves, and the pleasures we use to forget.

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Overview

A Pop-Up Exhibition & Panel Discussion | Architecture and the Question of Democracy Series

Dates: May 8 – May 17, 2026
Panel Discussion & Reception: May 9
Location: Dupont Underground
Cost: $5.00

About the Event

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, and in dialogue with Miró and the United Statesexhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró and The Phillips Collection, Dupont Underground presents a nine-day pop-up exploring on the transformative power of creative collaboration.

Miró and Sert: Art, Architecture, and Resistancetraces the decades-long friendship between artist Joan Miró and architect Josep Lluís Sert.

Structured as a journeybackward in time—from the iconic Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona to the 1937 Spanish Pavilion in Paris—the exhibition reveals how art and architecture became instruments of cultural resistance, creating spaces for freedom and democracy in the shadow of exile and dictatorship.

Highlights

The Exhibition:Photographs, archival materials, and architectural documents—includingthose of Sert’s own archiveand well-known photographer Joaquim Gomis. Sources: theFundació Joan Miró; Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya; The Josep LluísSert Collection. Frances Loeb Library. Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Key Sites: The Fundació Joan Miró (1975), Fondation Maeght (1964), Joan Miró’s studioin Mallorca (1956), and the 1937 Spanish Pavilion in the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniquesdans la Vie Moderne.

The Series:Architecture and the Question of Democracy, highlight Dupont Underground’s commitment to transnational cultural exchange and dialogue.

On View

Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 11-15, self-guided tours

April 11-14, lunch time overview from 12-1:30. Receive a brief overview and guided walk through from our show curator and Dupont Underground Founder, Lucreia Laudi.

Special Feature: Panel Discussion & Reception

A conversation for artists, architects, students, designers, and anyone thinking about how to act, create, and engage today.

Saturday, May 9 | 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM Included with your $5 admission.

Join us for a panel discussion asking:

“What can art and architecture do in difficult times? Miró, Sert, and the Future of Public Space" moderated by Lorena Bello(Harvard GSD) featuring panelists Elsa Smithgall (The Phillips Collection), Robert Lubar(Miró Scholar), and Eric Mumford (Washington University in St. Louis).

Followed by a reception featuring an in-kind donation from Catalonia Trade & Investment, Generalitat de Catalunya.

Join us for this electrifying production of Cabaret, the iconic Tony Award–winning Broadway musical by Joe Masteroff, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.

Beneath the historic streets of Dupont Circle, where Dupont Underground transforms 15,000 square feet of forgotten passageways into a one-of-a-kind immersive arts venue, the world of Cabaret comes vividly to life—a subterranean escape beneath a city dancing on the edge of turmoil.

Set inside the infamous Kit Kat Club, Cabaret follows young American writer Cliff Bradshaw and English cabaret performer Sally Bowles as they navigate love, ambition, and political unrest in 1930s Berlin. As the club’s irreverent Master of Ceremonies invites audiences into a world of glitter and illusion, the rise of the Nazi party and violent fascism looms over them.

Performances run May 14–17, 2026 at 7:30 PM, with a matinee performance on May 17 at 2:00 PM.

For people who want to be part of the action—upgrade your ticket to an Immersive Seat! You’ll be seated at tables that become part of the performance, with actors moving and dancing around you.

This production is proudly presented by The Theatre Lab, DC’s largest independent drama school. The Theatre Lab works to make the artistic and the real-life benefits of theatre training accessible to all. 

Join us for the fifth installment of Read the Room, a six-part poetry series that turns the Underground into a refuge for urgent truths and literary magic. This opening night features a curated lineup of poets excited and engaged, ready to share, and eager to nurture your love of poetry.​

Poetry here is treated as high-quality art and powerful entertainment — your ticket directly supports the poets through a dedicated revenue share.

Doors: 6:00

Show: 6:30goes here

The Year That Comedy Got Cool. (A Picnic Theater Company Parody)

On Thursday June 4, join Picnic Theatre Company at Dupont Underground for a parody performance of My Favorite Year: The Year Comedy Got Cool!

It's 1967 New York in the age of live television, and an aging silver screen legend is slated to appear on the top-rated late night sketch comedy show, the King Kiser Comedy Hour.

A young writer (based on the life of Mel Brooks) is tasked with keeping her sober and on script for the broadcast, while comedy writer veterans navigate the tumultuous changes in American society during the burgeoning era of rock and roll, Vietnam, feminism and the youth revolution.

6pm Cocktails and Music

7pm Performance, 90 minutes

Tickets $20, all proceeds benefit the preservation of the Dupont Underground historic urban art space.

Directed and Adapted by Steve Rochlin

Cast: Sara Cook Matthew Gregory Nihal Krishan* Paul Massaro* Alexa Newlin Antonio Olivo Marisela Ramirez* Steve Rochlin* Adam Ruben* Christina Sevilla* Courtney Sexton* Ram Viswanathan* Shawn Westfall* David White