The day after Christmas, Adele Robey showed up to work to find a scene that offered little Yuletide cheer: Her theater had been burglarized. “They just violated us,” said Robey, executive director of Anacostia Playhouse in Southeast Washington. and these guys don’t care.”D.C. police said burglars stole more than $1,700 in items, as well as $500 in cash, from the Anacostia Playhouse sometime after Christmas Eve. The Anacostia Playhouse opened in 2013 after a previous incarnation of the theater moved from H Street in Northeast Washington. “If that’s not Christmas, I don’t know what is.”

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2018 19:33 UTC