Musical Millennium Stage - Aug. 31 at 6:00-7:00 p.m., Millennium Stage North
The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage presents an exciting hour of musical numbers from four new musicals.
Horizon Theatre’s South African Project, written and directed by Leslie Jacobson with music and lyrics by Roy Barber, focuses on concepts of domestic violence, relationships, and family in the “new” South Africa. Young Playwrights’ Theater’s Lil' Red is a humorous and heartwarming modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in D.C. and written by local elementary school students. Musical Wing of the Playwright’s Forum presents a preview of one of its newest musicals.

Rosemary and I by Leslie Ayvazian - Aug. 31 at 3:30-6:00 p.m., Terrace Theater
MetroStage
A young woman strives—in head, heart, and writing desk—to re-imagine and change the lives of her parents and the woman who was the love of her mother’s life.

New Play Slam - Aug. 31 at 7:30-10:00 p.m., Terrace Theater
See 7-minute scenes from new works with a cast of area actors, hosted by Tony®-nominated playwright Ken Ludwig and Jim Petosa, artistic director of Olney Theatre Center. Theatres include Cherry Red Productions, Keegan Theatre, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Charter Theatre, Theatre J, and others.

Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright - Aug. 31 at 3:30-6:00 p.m., Terrace Gallery
Charter Theater
Orange Flower Water is a deeply honest and bittersweet story about the tumultuous effects an adulterous affair has on two families in the fictional small town of Pine City, Minnesota. The play, written by Craig Wright (The Pavillion, HBO’s Six Feet Under), explores the mysteries and complexities of love, betrayal, and the desire to follow one’s dreams.

A New Play by Wendy Wasserstein - Aug. 31 at 3:30-6:00 p.m., North Atrium Foyer
Theater J
Tony Award®- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosenweig) unveils her most poignant writing to date in this world premiere developed by Theater J. A middle-aged writer conjures a myth about Cupid, the Venus di Norway, and the Smoked Fish King of Manhattan, as she undergoes experimental treatments for a phantom illness. A surprising relationship between patient and doctor ensues in this evening about mortality and the beguiling power of moisturizing cream.

TheatreExchange - Aug. 31 at 3:00-10:00 p.m., Grand Foyer
During the festival, be sure to make your way to this exciting community event! In the Grand Foyer, you can meet representatives from a variety of Washington-area theaters and get information about their upcoming season, artistic mission, performers, creative teams, and much more.

Miss Nelson Has a Field Day by Joan Cushing - Sept. 1 at 1:00-2:00 p.m., Millennium Stage South
BAPA Imagination Stage
Miss Nelson and Miss Viola Swamp are back! Guess which one is enlisted to whip the Smedley football team into shape? Count on another musical comedy extravaganza in this world premiere sequel to Imagination Stage’s hit children’s production, Miss Nelson is Missing.

The Happy Prince - Sept. 1 at 3:30-5:00 p.m., Millennium Stage South
The Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center’s Youth and Family program presents a staged reading of a new operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic tale The Happy Prince, featuring music by Michael Silversher and a libretto by Elizabeth Wong. In this charming tale of compassion filled with warmth, wit, and sparkling tunes based in classical, rock, and world music, a wistful prince and a winsome swallow form an unlikely but enduring partnership as they change the lives of the citizens of their town.

One Bad Apple - Sept. 1 at 7:00-9:30 p.m., Millennium Stage South
Musical Wing of the Playwright's Forum
It is the sixth day of creation, and the battle of the sexes has already begun. God is a woman, Lucifer has been recently ousted, and the archangels are competing to design the best human. Don’t miss this joyous romp through the first pages of Genesis!

Paying the Price by Mark Walter Braswell - Sept. 1 at 7:00-9:30 p.m., Millennium Stage South
Musical Wing of the Playwright's Forum
Playwright Mark Walter Braswell brings to life the true story of his father, Judge Edwin Maurice Braswell, an American B-17 tail gunner whose plane is shot down over Romania during World War II. He becomes a POW, but ultimately escapes and lives to tell his story.

Meteor Girl - Sept. 1 at 7:00-9:30 p.m., Millennium Stage South
Musical Wing of the Playwright's Forum
This new kind of American funky opera follows the intergalactic adventures of Meteor Girl, a modern-day heroine who teaches mankind how to live in a technological world. Her journey takes her from her mother Queen Cosmo's warm embrace, to the all-female planet Venus, and then to Earth. On her own for the first time, Meteor Girl faces obstacles at every turn—including a mad scientist who wants to turn all women into airheads.

Just Because - Sept. 1 at 6:00-7:00 p.m., Millennium Stage North
Signature Theatre
Helen Hayes winner Sherri Edelen (Side Show) performs in this intoxicating musical cabaret event featuring songs by Washington-area composers.

Unspoken Prayers by Claudia Allen - Sept. 1 at 1:00-3:00 p.m., Theater Lab
Horizons Theatre
In the East Coast premiere of this riveting play for young adults and their families, a high school student is killed and her family deals with the pain of sudden, senseless loss, while deciding whether to request the death penalty for the crime’s perpetrator.

Columbinus by The United States Theatre Project - Sept. 1 at 7:00-9:30 p.m., Theater Lab
The Shakespeare Theatre
Don’t miss this powerful and poignant exploration of the layers of adolescent experience, inspired by the Columbine High School massacre.

Homecoming by Chanon Bernstein - Sept. 1 at 1:00-3:00 p.m., Film Theater
Small Beer Theater
Small Beer Theater presents this four-character, one-man show.

Twelve Days of Christmas by Ian Allen - Sept. 1 at 6:00-8:30 p.m., Film Theater
Source Theater
A widow feels the Oklahoma City blues when her personal tragedy is shuffled aside in the furor over 9/11. An impressionistic departure for Cherry Red’s Allen.

Interrogation Room - Sept. 1 at 6:00-8:30 p.m., Film Theater
Source Theater
Things turn black-and-white for men in blue when the race card is played at the station house.

Juliette and Other Cherry Red Tidbits by Jon Elston - Sept. 1 at 8:30-10:30 p.m., Film Theater
Cherry Red Productions
Playwrights Ian Allen, Paul Donnelly, Anton Dudley, Jeff Goode, Emily Rems, and Justin Tanner bring together a collection of six short plays inspired by the Marquis de Sade’s epic novel, Juliette.

Lost in the Appalachians by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra - Sept. 1 at 1:00-3:30 p.m., Rehearsal Room 1
Trumpet Vine Theatre Company
When a scientist’s experiments in time/space relativity go terribly wrong, three people from three distinct moments in space/time are inexplicably brought together, with hilarious and profound results.

The Titans by Bob McElwaine - Sept. 1 at 6:00-8:30 p.m., Rehearsal Room 1
American Century Theater
This riveting play dramatizes the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962 through the actual words of its primary participants, including President John F. Kennedy, his brother and advisor Robert Kennedy, and Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Scaramouche - Sept. 1 at 8:30-11:00 p.m., Rehearsal Room 1
Washington Shakespeare Company
The Kennedy Center’s own Gregg Henry directs this new play adapted by acclaimed playwright Barbara Field from Rafael Sabatini’s thrilling novel, which unfolds over the years leading up to the French Revolution. The main character, Andre Louis, has a grand flair for high adventure, and behind the story lies a great mystery as to Louis's parentage that keeps you guessing to the end.

Six Student-written Plays, University of the District of Columbia - Sept. 1, 1:00-3:30 p.m., Rehearsal Room 3
UDC’s Theater Department presents six student-written new plays: Turnabout by Dexter Holmes, Blue and Nikki by Shawn Wilson-Hill, The Ride by Olaniyi Laguda, The Green Hat by Jordan Abramson, Preparation by Renee Santoro, and a new play by Kimberly Durham-Bates.

Two Student-written Plays, American University - Sept. 1, 6:00-8:30 p.m., Rehearsal Room 3
American University’s Department of Performing Arts, Theatre/Music Theatre Program presents two student-written, one-act plays. In Tempted, written by Caroline Angell and directed by Georgia Schlessman, a young woman copes with destructive fantasies that threaten to destroy her art, her family, and ultimately herself. In Yield, written by Liz Chomko and directed by Patrick Crowley, friendships are strained, pride is wounded, and important issues are confronted as six good friends ride back from a weekend of anti-war protests in New York City.

Two Student-written Plays, Catholic University - Sept. 1, 8:30-11:00 p.m., Rehearsal Room 3
The Catholic University Theater Department presents two plays written by students from the CUA M.F.A. Playwriting program: The Curator, written by Warren Perry and directed by John Paul Pizzica, and The Birth of Flight, written by Glenn Mas and directed by Lara Haberberger.

Falling Water by R. Dennis Green - Sept. 1 at 1:00-3:30 p.m., Terrace Gallery
Playwrights Forum
A reading of this full-length production about Frank Lloyd Wright explores the interplay of crisis, genius, and polarized egos during critical moments in the famed architect’s life from 1934 to 1938.

Falling Grace by Mark Scharf - Sept. 1 at 6:00-8:30 p.m., Terrace Gallery
Rep Stage
Baltimore-based playwright Mark Scharf has created this fable about the impact of unwanted miraculous occurrences on one woman’s life and her very un-miraculous Baltimore neighborhood.

Oh, the Innocents by Ari Roth - Sept. 1 at 8:30-11:00 p.m., Terrace Gallery
Theater J
Betsy sings from the heart; Jeremy plays in his head; Joshua watches from his window in this rueful romantic comedy about young people striving to make honest music in a corrupting market. Acclaimed for its premiere at New York’s Gev Theatre, this newly revised update moves to Washington, circa late 1990s, when Bohemia was on the take and a gilded class was trying to reclaim its innocence.

The Scottish Play by Lee Blessing - Sept. 1 at 3:30-6:00 p.m., Terrace Theater
The Kennedy Center in association with The Guthrie Theater
After 30 years of honoring superstition and avoiding theatrical disaster, the Northernmost Shakespeare Festival announces its first production of The Scottish Play (a.k.a. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth). Everything seems to be going well until the announcement of a television star in the title role garners national headlines—but then the curse kicks in! Fair is foul—and foul is funny—in this uproarious comedy. Commissioned as part of the Guthrie Theater’s New Play/New Translation Program/Directed by Ethan McSweeny and featuring Helen Carey and Holly Twyford.

UpCity Service(s) by Dominic Taylor - Sept. 1 at 7:00-9:30 p.m., Terrace Theater
ACTCo
Chronicling a day on 147th Street and Broadway in Harlem, UpCity Service(s) takes the Black Baptist Church service and uses it as a frame to look at secular uptown life.

as we are, as we ain't by Jason Lemire - Sept. 1 at 1:00-3:30 p.m., North Atrium Foyer
Project Y
Comic and fading, tender and savage, ten characters abandon rumination and philosophy to consider who they are—and who they would have themselves be—in this collection of monologues that explores the different ways men and women handle the unique responsibility of having a physical body.

1984 by George Orwell - Sept. 1 at 6:00-8:30 p.m., North Atrium Foyer
Catalyst Theater Company
Based on one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, 1984 is a dark vision of the near future that warns against the dangers of a totalitarian government fueled by high technology. In a world devastated by nuclear war and poverty, bureaucrat Winston Smith fights to maintain his humanity under the watchful eye of “Big Brother” by joining a mysterious group of revolutionaries.

After The Flood by Randy Baker - Sept. 1 at 8:30-11:00 p.m., North Atrium Foyer
Rorschach Theatre
A young American academic returns to his roots in Southeast Asia to study the dying art form of Malay Shadow Puppetry. Upon his arrival, an old master of the form disappears. As the researcher hunts for him through remote villages, actual shadow plays telling fables of kings, warriors, princesses, and fools intermingle with the narrative, performed to traditional gamelan music.

The War with the Newts by Karel Capek - Sept. 1 at 1:00-3:30 p.m., South Atrium Foyer
Washington Stage Guild
In this adaptation of a science-fiction novel that chronicles a world take-over by human-like salamanders, a Czech sea captain finds intelligent newt salamanders in the South Pacific, teaches them to talk, and begins using them for cheap labor. Things go haywire when the newts revolt and begin eliminating most of the continents in order to replace them with shallow seawater, their favored habitat.

Phoebus' Lodging by Paul Donnelly - Sept. 1 at 6:00-8:30 p.m., South Atrium Foyer
Theater Alliance
This play is a comic look at the couplings and uncouplings among a bride’s unhinged family during a would-be sedate hunt country wedding. The cast features Jon Cohn, Kathleen Coons, Adele Robey, Sarah Wiggin, and others.

When the Sun Comes Out by Jeffrey Johnson - Sept. 1, 8:30-11:00 p.m., South Atrium Foyer
Actors' Theater of Washington
Meet Fred and Ethel. Not Mertz, but Washington. In a last-ditch effort to salvage their 30-year marriage, they journey to a quaint New Orleans bed and breakfast. But when Ophelia Swims—a woman with as many names as stories to tell—explodes on the scene, the Washingtons find themselves in over their heads and searching for answers. Combining the bite of Edward Albee with the wit of Neil Simon, Jeffrey Johnson’s play explores the outrageous nature of identity and relationships and how people can ruthlessly feast on each other.

TheatreExchange - Sept. 1 at 1:00-11:00 p.m., Grand Foyer
During the festival, be sure to make your way to this exciting community event! In the Grand Foyer, you can meet representatives from a variety of Washington-area theaters and get information about their upcoming season, artistic mission, performers, creative teams, and much more.