SPECIAL
EVENTS, OFFERS
& HAPPENINGS
American Century Theater
• Pay-What-You-Can previews of
Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man,
Wed, Sep 15, Thu, Sep16, & Wed,
Sep 22 at 8 pm, Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two. Tickets on sale at
the box office 1 hour prior to performance.
• "Talkback
Thursday" Post-show
discussion
following the 8 pm performance of Paddy Chayefsky's
The Tenth Man on Thurs, Sep 23
in Gunston Arts Center Theatre Two.
Arts on Foot Festival
• Visit
the Penn Quarter Sat, Sept. 11
from 11am to 5pm for this annual arts festival featuring local artists,
downtown restaurants sampling their menus, music and entertainment
stages. A number of downtown theatres and the Helen Hayes Awards
will have booths with activites, ticket raffles, and other
surprises. This year, Arts on Foot partnered with the Shakespeare Theatre at
the Harman Center for the Arts. Arts on Foot attendees will have an
opportunity to see a production preview for the fall arts season from
20 local performing arts and theater organizations, every 2 hours.
‘Alternative Art Space’ is another addition to Arts on Foot. Using
lobbies and unused raw building spaces, local art organizations will
turn these spaces into an exhibition, which will be on the Arts on Foot
tours.
Discovery Theater
• Starry,
Starry Night, Stone
Lion Puppets tell this imaginative introduction to stargazing.
Recommended for ages 2-7. Thu, Sep 23 and Fri, Sep 24 at 10:15am,
11:15am & 12:15pm, tickets $3-6, Air and Space Museum.
Ford's Theatre
• History
on Foot: Detective McDevitt,
a walking tour with the
detective investigating the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy. Sats. Sep
11-Oct 23 at 10:15 a.m. Tickets $12. Comfortable shoes recommended.
• History
on Foot: Elizabeth Keckly,
a walking tour with a freed slave
who became a confidante to Mrs. Lincoln. Sats. Sep 11-Oct 23 at 11:15
a.m. Tickets $12. Comfortable shoes recommended.
Kennedy Center
• Page
to Stage New Play Festival,
featuring more than 40 theaters from the D.C.-area, offers a series of
free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed
by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and
composers. Sept 4 - 6, 2010 from 2pm-10pm. Free. Schedule can be
found here:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/?fuseaction=showEvent&event=XKPTS
MetroStage
• Pay-What-You-Can Glimpses
of the Moon,
a new Jazz
Age Musical Wed Sep 8 and Thu Sep 9 at 8 pm, box office open one hour
before the show ($10 minimum)
• Previews Sat. Sep. 11, 3pm
and 8pm; tickets $25, call 703-548-9044 or www.metrostage.org to reserve.
Olney Theatre Center
• Post-Show
Discussion with
cast members for Dinner
With Friends,
Wed., Sep. 8.
• Pay-What-You-Can
performances
of The
Scarlett Letter, Wed.,
Sep. 15
and Thu.,Sep. 16 at 7:30pm Tickets on sale at the box office one
hour
prior to performance.
Playwrights Forum
• Reading: Henry
James: From Page to Stage.
Adaptations by Bari Biern, directed by Laura Giannarelli.
Saturday, Kennedy Center's Page to Stage, Terrace Gallery. Sep 4. Free.
• Reading: The
Road to Havana by Sidra
Rausch. Directed by Catherine O'Connor. Monday, St. John's
Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase. 7 p.m. $3 donation at door.
Rep Stage
• Pay-What-You-Can performances of Travels
with My Aunt, Weds., Sep 1 & 8 at 7pm. Rep
Stage at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway,
Columbia, MD 21044.
SCENA Theatre
• Special
Event:
Cockney
Cabaret:
Enjoy food, beer,
wine & music after Sink the Belgrano! Sat, Sep 4 at
8pm. H Street Playhouse, 1365 H Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002.
Tickets: $35. www.scenatheater.org.
Studio Theatre
• Pay-what-you-can: Circle
Mirror Transformation by
Annie Baker. Sat, Sep. 11 at 2pm.
• Studio
District Night, Circle
Mirror Transformation by
Annie Baker. Wed., Sep 8 at 8pm.
• Discussion
Matinee, Circle
Mirror Transformation by
Annie Baker. Sun, Sep 19 at 2pm.
• Studio
District Night Songs
of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
by Young Jean Lee. Wed., Sep 29 at 8pm.
Teatro de la Luna
• Arpas
de América - Latin
American Harp Festival 2010. Fri, Sep. 17 &
Sat, Sep.
18 @ 7:30 pm. Tickets: $30; $25 students/seniors (SAVE 10% Buy
on-line now). Rosslyn Spectrum Theater (1611 N. Kent St., 'LL'
Level, Arlington VA 22209). More info:
http://www.teatrodelaluna.org
Theater J
Post-Show Talkbacks for Something You Did; free with any
Something You
Did ticket.
• Sun, Sep 5 at
4:30pm: Scripture Unscripted:
Clerical Perspectives on
Protest & Punishment, Prisons & Parole.
•
Sun, Sep 12 at 4:30pm: How the
60s Changed the World with
Elizabeth McAlister, Co-founder of Jonah House, wife of Philip Berrigan
of the Catonsville Nine and Dave Eberhardt, Poet and member of the
Baltimore
Four.
•
Sun, Sep 12 at 9:00pm: When Protest
Comes to Shove: How Far is Too
Far? With Mark Goldstone: chair of the Demonstration Support
Committee
of the Washington DC chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Phil
Hirschkop, Civil Rights Lawyer since 1965; and Dave Eberhardt, Poet and
member of the Baltimore Four.
•
Thu, Sep 16 at 9:00pm: Cast Talkback.
•
Sun, Sep 19 at 4:30pm: Switching
Sides: Neo-Conservatism and the
Journey of Gene Biddle with Daniel Halper, Writer for The Weekly
Standard.
•
Sun, Sep 26 at 4:30pm: Protest
Movements and the Internet: Political
Activism Yesterday and Today.
Tea@2 Reading of Haymarket by Zayd Dohrn Mon, Sep 27
at 2:00 pm.
Tickets $5. Tickets on sale 1 hour prior to performance.
Washington
Shakespeare Company
• Special Event: By Any Other Name: An Evening of
Shakespeare in
Klingon: WSC's first-ever gala event, featuring scenes from
Shakespeare
in both English and Klingon presented by WSC's Acting Company along
with special guest George Takei, Sulu in the original Star Trek
television series and films, with an introduction by Marc Okrand,
creator of the Klingon language. Tickets $150 (one ticket to the By Any
Other Name performance and four WSC 21st Season Theatrepasses) &
$250 (also includes VIP Reception following the performance).