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The “Toni Stone” simulcast marks the most ambitious collaboration between the Nationals and Arena Stage, whose facilities sit less than a mile apart off the Southwest Waterfront. Over the summer, director Pam MacKinnon, the Tony winner at the helm of “Toni Stone,” even toyed with the idea of staging the play on the Nationals Park infield. But a test run with two actors made it clear that, without prohibitively expensive sound equipment, the dialogue-driven play would be too difficult to comprehend.“So then we pivoted to, ‘Let’s simulcast it and make this a big, free, community event,’ ” MacKinnon recalls. “I think it’s nothing but exciting.”
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