The 4th Annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival

FREE! The 4th annual festival hosts free readings and open rehearsals to give you a glimpse of upcoming plays and musicals as part of Washington's new theater season.

• Sep 3 - 5, 2005
• Throughout the Center

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About the Program

Saturday-Monday, September 3-5 from 3-10 p.m.
Various venues throughout the Kennedy Center
Free, no tickets required.
Limited seating available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
General admission seating opens approximately 30 minutes prior to the start of each event.

During this three-day event, the Kennedy Center welcomes more than 25 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area with the goal of producing and supporting the success of new plays and musicals. Featuring free readings, special events, and panel discussions, the festival lets you catch a glimpse of upcoming Washington premieres in the 2005–2006 theater season.  This year will include new works by Ken Ludwig, Stephen Massicotte, Horton Foote, Qian Yi, and many more. Among the participating companies are:

The Actors' Theatre of Washington | Accokeek Creek Theatre Company | African Continuum Theatre Company | Black Women Playwrights' Group | Catalyst Theater Company | The Catholic University of America | Charter Theatre | DC Cabaret Network | Firebelly Productions | Journeymen Theatre Company | MetroStage | Olney Theatre Center for the Arts | PlayGround Playwrights Group | The Playwright's Forum | Quotidian Theatre Company | Rorschach Theatre Company | Round House Theatre | Scena Theatre  | The Shakespeare Academy for Classical Acting | Signature Theatre | Smallbeer Theater Company | Synetic Theater Company | Theater of the First Amendment | Theatre Alliance | Theatre J | Trumpet Vine Theater Company | Tsunami Theatre Company | Washington Improv Theater | Washington Shakespeare Company | Washington Women in Theatre | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | Young Playwrights' Theater
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Check back soon for full roster of readings and complete schedule.
Programs and artists subject to change. 

Treasure Island
by Ken Ludwig Adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
With Michael Ray Escamilla, Daniel Frith, Rick Foucheux, Jennifer Mendenhall, Karl Miller, Paul Morella, Hugh Nees, Holly Twyford, Michael Anthony Williams, and Geraint Wyn Davies
The Kennedy Center's Kenan Apprentice Program in association with The Alley Theatre
Tony Award(r)-nominated playwright Ken Ludwig's work has been translated into 16 languages and been performed in more than 30 countries around the world. This adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is a work of dazzling artistry and creativity for all ages.

A Robe for the Moon
by Qian Yi
The Kennedy Center
Chinese Opera star Qian Yi has been praised by the New York Times as "a graceful charmer… the body is discreet but the eyes speak ambiguously of both innocence and knowingness." Her new production explores the clash between modernity and tradition as love and loss take on a haunting form.

Vrrrroooom: A NASComedy
by Janet Allard
Conceived and Developed with Michael Bigelow Dixon
Directed by Rick DesRochers
Signature Theatre
Sit back, buckle up, and get ready for this high-octane satirical spoof of one of America's fastest sports. A cast composed primarily of women turns the high-intensity male world of NASCAR on its ear!

Pervert
by Stephen Massicotte
Featuring Kathleen Coons, Michael Ray Escamilla, and Jennifer Mendenhall
Theatre Alliance
Writer and actor Stephen Massicotte's play Mary's Wedding received seven Helen Hayes Award nominations last season, including Outstanding Resident Play. Massicotte now presents his new theatrical work, Pervert, a dark comedy about longing, marriage, and adult book stores.

The Beginning of Summer
by Horton Foote
Quotidian Theatre Company
Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatist and Academy Award(r)–winning screenwriter Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies) wrote The Beginning of Summer in 1955. Never before staged, it is the second installment of a three-part play that returns to the characters of Albert and Julia, who are preparing to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, even as their marriage is falling apart.

Kingdom
by David Emerson Toney
Directed by Jennifer Nelson
African Continuum Theatre Company 
Loosely based on Shakespeare's Richard III, this gritty urban tale is set above a barbeque joint in Cleveland. Eddie, Rickey Trey, and Clarence are at odds over who will win the family business. When a young woman enters the picture in order to produce an heir, the rivalry turns into complete chaos.

Over, or Those Crazy Kids!
by Christopher Gallu
Catalyst Theatre Company
Balancing the contrast between comedy and tragedy, this is the story of a husband and wife's struggle to protect their family from the invasiveness of modern culture.

Pain and Suffering–A Comedy
by Keith Bridges, Chris Stezin, & Richard Washer
With Rachel Gardner Bridges, Hope Lambert, and Ray Ficca
Charter Theatre
This work-in-progress will eventually evolve from its three sections to become one unified play. The pain, loss, and politics in America create hilarious situations for a variety of off-beat characters, including a cockatoo with Tourette's Syndrome. 

Croatoan
by Ross Maxwell
Directed by Dominic D'Andrea
Journeymen Theatre Ensemble
A haunting message–and a note left by a husband who abandoned his wife and daughter–is reexamined on the eve of an impending hurricane, when an edgy young Bible salesman brings new clues to the mystery of "croatoan."

Alice
Based on the book by Whoopi Goldberg
Adapted by Kim Hines
Kennedy Center's Education Department
So you think being rich will get you a giant house, fun times, and lots of great friends? Smart and sassy young Alice believes it will, so when she wins a mysterious sweepstakes in the mail, there's no time to lose to claim her prize! Alice heads into the topsy-turvy neon wonderland of the Big City in a race against the clock in this world premiere adaptation of Whoopi Goldberg's children's book.

The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Randy Baker
Directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick
Rorschach Theatre Company
Amongst the rubble in Baghdad, a modern-day soldier tells the tale of Gilgamesh, an ancient hero who risked everything in a quest to overcome death.

Cabaret and Cabernet
DC Cabaret Network
The Kennedy Center, in conjunction with Judy Simmons and the DC Cabaret Network, showcases talented singers in cabaret standards as well as new compositions.

Throat
by Mando Alvarado
Directed by Michael Ray Escamilla
Round House Theatre's New Play Laboratory 
Returning home from the war in Iraq, a soldier must turn to his best friend, his therapist, and the lonesome pigeons in the park to confront and overcome a painful past.

New Play Slam
Back by popular demand! Don't miss this opportunity to see snippets from new plays in development with a cast of favorite area actors.

PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
Schedule and artists subject to changes without notice.

FF - Family Friendly

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

3:00 p.m	TERRACE GALLERY The Epic of Gilgamesh, Rorschach Theatre Company	NORTH ATRIUM FOYER The Thing of it Is, Scena Theatre	MILLENNIUM STAGE SOUTH Footsteps, Smallbeer Theater Company	THEATER LAB Pop Goes the Weasel , Metrostage
5:30 p.m.	SOUTH ATRIUM FOYER Lysistration, Venus Theatre Company
6:00 p.m.	MILLENNIUM STAGE NORTH Captivated: the Musical Comedy of a Modern Scheherazade, Olney Theatre Center for the Arts FF
7:15 p.m.	TERRACE GALLERY Throat, Round House Theatre's Artists' Lab–"The Kitchen"	NORTH ATRIUM FOYER Croatoan, Journeymen Theatre Ensemble	SOUTH ATRIUM FOYER Fin & Euba, Accokeek Creek Theatre Company	MILLENNIUM STAGE SOUTH Dracula, Synetic Theater	MILLENNIUM STAGE NORTH Vrrrroooom: A Nascomedy , Signature Theatre

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

3:00 p.m	NORTH ATRIUM FOYER Uncommon Acts, The Playwright's Forum in association with The Actors' Center	SOUTH ATRIUM FOYER Bulletins from Fatland, Women's Work Writer's Group	TERRACE THEATER Alice , Kennedy Center Youth and Family Programs FF	KC CAFÉ Natural Selection, The Sitters, and The Death of Memory , The Catholic University of America
6:00 p.m.	MILLENNIUM STAGE NORTH Lunch, Washington Shakespeare Company	KC CAFÉ Cabaret and Cabernet, DC Cabaret Network
7:15 p.m.	TERRACE GALLERY The Beginning of Summer , Quotidian Theatre Company	NORTH ATRIUM FOYER Artist and Protector of Children: The Life of Henry Darger, PlayGround Playwrights at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	SOUTH ATRIUM FOYER Take Stock, New Play House	MILLENNIUM STAGE SOUTH Common Threads, Black Women Playwrights' Group	TERRACE THEATER Pervert , Theatre Alliance

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

3:00 p.m.	TERRACE GALLERY Kingdom , African Continuum Theatre Company	NORTH ATRIUM FOYER Whole Against the Sky , Trumpet Vine Theater Company	SOUTH ATRIUM FOYER Fireflies (Kami Wo Kakiageru) , Tsunami Theatre Company	TERRACE THEATER A Robe for the Moon , The Kennedy Center Festival of China	KC CAFÉ Washington Improv Theater	THEATER LAB El Virgen, Theater of the First Amendment
5:30 p.m.	THEATER LAB Augusta , Contemporary American Theatre Festival
6:00 p.m.	KC CAFÉ Cabaret and Cabernet, DC Cabaret Network
6:30 p.m.	TERRACE GALLERY Best of Rising Tide: a Flood of New 10-minute Plays, Smallbeer Theater Company and Source Theatre
7:15 p.m.	NORTH ATRIUM FOYER Pumpkin' and Poopsie, Actors' Theatre of Washington	SOUTH ATRIUM FOYER Happy Holidays , The Playwright's Forum	MILLENNIUM STAGE SOUTH Monkeyboy, Charter Theatre	TERRACE THEATER Treasure Island, The Kennedy Center Kenan Apprentice Program in association with Alley Theatre FF
8:00 p.m.	TERRACE GALLERY Expert Americans, The Shakespeare Academy for Classical Acting	THEATER LAB Over, or Those Crazy Kids! , Catalyst Theater Company

 


All events and artists subject to change without prior notice.

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