"Lip Service" . . . readings of new,gay-themed, short plays written & directed by Alan Sharpe and produced by African-American Collective Theater (ACT),a DC-based production company showcasing contemporary BLGBT life & culture locally, since 1976.

Write On...A series of staged reading(s)of works in progress for local playwrights. The playwrights have already been selected and in total there will be 3 plays staged in hopefully a (2) day event.

Democratic Theatre- It basically is a series of short skits and 10 minute plays where the audience gets involved and votes on the content, characters and whether the play should be lengthened or not. There are usually at least 7 fully staged skits.

Movement Experimental Theatre-This is the marriage of creative movement and poetic expression. The partnership with Theatre of Purpose and Life Through Dance produces what is now known as "edutainment".

The performers who brought you "Craigslist! The Musical" at Artomatic 2008 this year bring you "Flush Gordon vs. the Criminal Union of Nefarious Treachery".

Watch as Flush Gordon and Jo the Plumber travel through the magical Portal Potty to stop The Flasher from rounding up a band of evil-doers to put an end to Artomatic!

10:30 on the Cabaret stage.

fringe show about the impact of the HIV/AIDS in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The show is preventive...

"Medea Redux" from Neil LaBute's award winning play, BASH. Set in an interrogation room, a woman reveals how her relationship with her high school teacher when she was thirteen eventually led to the murder of her fourteen year old son many years later. Intense, dramatic 40-minute monologue.

"Kim and Rico" is a unique and hilarious two-person singing comedy team performs the play, HOOKED ON LOVE, a play showing the insane things men and women do just to feel loved. do just ffeaturing the insane things men and women do just to find

THE LAST DAYS OF KING SOLOMON by Anthony E. Gallo. Presented by the Seventh Street Playhouse and Daryl Winston Productions. Stars Lenny Levi, Cora Alter, Brian Doyle, Jean Hudson Miller, Helenmary Ball, Michael Sainte-Andress, and Meera. This two-act “black comedy is about doubt and faith during the latter days of Solomon, long-time ruler of militarily and economically powerful Israel. The legendary monarch, who built the impressive Temple and holds together a diverse Nation by shrewd domestic and foreign marriages, has lost God’s favor. He is the laughing stock of the nation because he supposedly can not even see the temple.. His treasonous chief minister is in hiding. Foreign countries wait to attack the borders, and the twelve tribes are fighting among themselves. He clashes with other characters as they try to save him and the kingdom. Chief Priest Zadok wants Solomon to return to Israel’s religion. Bathsheba wants to remain queen mother. Solomon’s sister Tamar, who once caused a civil war, is intent on building a divisive shrine. The deposed Queen of Sheba, Solomon’s closest ally, wants her kingdom back. A stranger who calls himself Absalom appears and becomes indispensable because he can meet the needs of the frustrated ruler and the people surrounding him.

Excerpts from two works-in-progress.

"According to Us" is a musical about three homeless people and their friend, a rector, who has died, leaving them a garden. Through a ragbag, a wand, a rock, each of them tell their stories. One person can make a difference.

"The Passion of Persephone" is a rock opera seeking justice through pain, bondage, and reincarnation. The alchemical journey of Persephone and her falling in love with Hades changes the Underworld forever. Leather and lace never sounded so good.

May 30th-The St. Mark's Players will be presenting songs from their most recent production "Parade" by acclaimed playwright Alfred Uhry (“Driving Miss Daisy”) and Jason Robert Brown, one of Broadway’s most promising young composers (“Songs For A New World”).

The story of "Parade" is based on the actual trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta during the early 20th century. Frank was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year old factory girl, Mary Phagan, on Confederate Memorial Day in 1913. The trial became a national sensation; Frank was convicted, but new evidence later came to light that pointed to his innocence. In 1915, Governor John Slaton commuted his sentence, leading to huge public outrage. A group calling themselves the "Knights of Mary Phagan" formed with the goal of kidnapping Frank from prison and lynching him. On August 17th, 1915, they executed their kidnap plot and ultimately lynched Leo Frank.

June 26th-The St. Mark's Players will be presenting a "Cabaret" of songs and monologues; performed by their membership.

This collection of one-person shows is made up of 30-minute pieces about a variety of people, from Mohammed Ali to Lancelot. Each show is written, directed and performed by a Theatre IV student from Yorktown High School.

/////////////NIGHT ONE///////////////

This is an open improv jam hosted by White Phosphorus for all Washington Improv Theatre alumni.

There will be laughing.

There will be crying.

Someone may die.

EVERYONE may die.

No regrets.

Rock.

///////////////NIGHT TWO////////////////

White Phosphorus featuring monologist Doug Powell.

Be prepared to experience a mental hurricane that will burn your eyes from their balls in gleeful rapture. And this won't be some pithy earth hurricane either. We're talking a Jupiter-sized hurricane 75,000 miles across that will blow the expectations out the back of your head and into the Late Cretaceous only to be devoured by Utahraptors and Albertasaurs. We're talking complete pole-reversal. Armageddon. End-times. Comets made of puppies will rain down from the sky singing bad 50s doowop, smoking cloves indoors, and giving one-word responses to heart-felt e-mails, all while you laugh and scream and cry for more.

White Phosphorus is:
Frankie Abralind
Topher Bellavia
Sariel Lehyani
Murphy McHugh
Ben Willman

with guest monologist Doug Powell.

So come rock the universe with White Phosphorus.

Your brain will thank you.

The Joy of Holiday: This production, by Dehejia Maat takes you on a journey thru the life of Billie Holiday thru poetry and song. Experience how the past and present merge into one.

Dehejia Maat is a poet, actress, yogi, and painter. Deep rooted original Earth woman who greets the dawn chanting while doing Surya Namaskar. She is the theater director for the Dragon Box Theater in Washington DC and the hostess for the Innneractive Jam Session a weekly event for artist to transcend the norm at the Artmosphere Cafe. She has graced many a stage from the Kennedy Center to local clubs on Historic U street, rocking mics from Japan to Toronto. Co-Creator of No Goddess Left Behind writers workshop and Yoga teacher for Mayor Fenty’s Step up to Health program. Her current projects are The Joy of Billie Holiday, an original one woman show and The Yes that Leads to Infinity, her second book poetry. visit her online www.lotuswritingmovement.com

Boat-Car productions is proud to be showcaseing its first ever 10 minute one acts. Featuring serveral very talented artist around the local DC area.

Theatre games and improv for kids ages 5-12

WICKED PLEASURES FIRST, FOR ADULTS ONLY, a comic spectacular with a cast of 14 beautiful people, with French aristocrats, disporting themselves in fabulous WEALTH, LUST, HYPOCRISY, CRIME, JUSTICE, and ECSTASY with each other and their middle- and lower-class Lovers, Teachers, Toadys, and Yes-Men: Boy meets Girl, Boy meets Man, Girl meets Girl, Girl meets Boy and Boy (CLONES?), and an entirely new sexual act, not previously depicted on the stage anywhere. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Parma, the Baron, the Duke and his glittering Duchess, and the criminally handsome war-fighter Marquis Robert de San Loo caper rampantly in and out of bed and love, amid elegant parties crawling with PRIDE, GREED, LUST, and JOY.

Readings of one-act plays and/or monologue performances by area actors.

Katie Dufresne, Ashley Whitehurst, David Sewell, and Melissa Mock - newly minted veterans of the DC improv scene - come together as Entitlement League an explosive tour d'force of improv talent. Each brings a unique gift to the group - Katie can walk on her hands and knits scarves in 10 seconds flat, Melissa chews gum and can identify poisonous spider bites, Ashley tells fascinating stories about the one time she did that one thing, and David will freakin' kill you if you look at him one more time. It is with these skills, their dazzling good looks, and many hours of hard work that they bring to you the improv performance of a lifetime.

Improv Comedy

Troupe Members:
Michael Barics
John Bethke
AD Garrett
Elizabeth Dresser
Elizabeth (Zard) Snodgrass
Danielle Solof

Visual Story telling with painting, music and dance.