Jody's Jam of the Week

I admit, I’m not too up on the “intellectual” side of performing arts. The last production I saw was “Meet the Fockers,” I haven’t been to the Kennedy Center since fifth grade, and when somebody mentions Figaro, I immediately think of Alfalfa from the Little Rascals. Now, though, I have the perfect opportunity to expierence a truly intelligent and intellectual performance. From January 11 to February 20, two-time Nobel Prize nominated author, essayist and playwright Joyce Carol Oates’ latest work for the stage, “The Tattooed Girl” will be performing at Theater J in DC. The play, written simultaneously with her novel of the same name, is a tale of the relationship between an ailing, arrogant, Jewish author and his poor, drug-addicted, anti-Semitic assistant. Inspired by both Oates’ family history (she recently learned her grandmother was Jewish) and the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Moment Magazine calls “The Tattooed Girl” a “hopeful model of how bigoted minds can shed their misperceptions of others.”

When: January 12 - February 20;

Cost: $25-30

Where: DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036

For tickets, call 800-494-TIXS or visit www.boxofficetickets.com

For more information, visit www.dcjj.org/arts/theaterj/