ALDERSGATE CHURCH COMMUNITY THEATRE
Aldersgate United Methodist Church
1301 Collingwood Road
Alexandria VA 22308
703-799-7061
THE AMERICAN CENTURY THEATER
PO Box 6313
Arlington VA 22206
703-553-8782
www.americancentury.org
Jan. 7 - Feb. 5, 2005
Tea and Sympathy
Robert Anderson's first major success was this 1953 drama set in the dormitory of a boy's school in New England. Its treatment of homosexuality, masculinity and infidelity was a breakthrough at the time. Steven Mazzola directs.
March 31 - April 30, 2005
Moby Dick Rehearsed
Jack Marshall again directs most of the original cast members from his well-remembered 1997 production of Orson Wells' exploration of the power of theatrical suggestion.
July 8 - Aug. 6, 2005
The Emperor Jones
Ed Bishop directs Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play about an escaped convict who flees to a Caribbean island where he takes control of the government and sets himself up as the Emperor, only to be felled by his own arrogance.
DOMINION STAGE
Mailing address:
3700 S. Four Mile Run Drive
Arlington VA 22206
703-683-0502
www.dominionstage.org
January, 2005
Fuddy Meers
A comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Early Spring, 2005
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
The first half of Tony Kushner’s view of America in the Reagan era concentrates on the stories of an HIV positive man and his frightened lover, a conservative Mormon with a mentally ill wife and real-life character Roy Cohn dying of AIDS.
LITTLE THEATRE OF ALEXANDRIA
600 Wolfe Street
Alexandria VA 22314
703-683-5778
www.thelittletheatre.com
Jan. 15 - Feb. 5, 2005
Das Barbeqü
A country music style comedy in which Wagner's Die Walküre is given a very strong Texas flavor including a tribute to guacomole. This is the Potomac region premiere.
Feb. 26 - March 19, 2005
Pack of Lies
Hugh Whitemore's thriller of a family disrupted when a visitor to their home seems to be the target of an international spy ring was based on a true story.
April 23 - May 14, 2005
Biloxi Blues
Following up on the success of his thinly disguised autobiographical play Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon wrote this gentle comedy of his experiences in Army boot camp during World War II.
June 4 - June 25, 2005
Run for Your Wife
A comedy by Ray Cooney about a bigamist trying to keep his wives separate.
METROSTAGE
1201 North Royal Street
Alexandria VA 22314
703-548-9044
www.metrostage.org
Feb. 16 - March 27, 2005
The All Night Strut
A revue devised by Fran Charnas draws from the music of Duke Ellington, Hoagy Charmichael, Cab Calloway and the Gershwin's.
April 21 - May 29, 2005
Sophocles' Electra
The adaptation by Frank McGuinness which was well received on Broadway in 1999 will be directed by Michael Rissotto with Jennifer Mendenhall in the title role.
June 15 - July 24, 2005
The Last Five Years
Jane Pesci-Townsend directs Will Gartshore and Tracy Lynn Olivera in Jason Robert Brown's intriguing two-person musical about a marriage that didn't work out. It is told in a series of songs for the man progressing from their meeting through their marriage to their breakup while a separate series of songs for the woman has her looking back from the day the divorce becomes final. Their big duet, of course, comes in the middle.
NATURAL THEATRICALS
Mailing address:
605 Queen Street
Alexandria VA 22314
703-739-9338
www.naturaltheatricals.com
PORT CITY PLAYHOUSE
PO Box 19507
Alexandria VA 22320
703-838-2880
www.telgo.com/pcp
Jan. 21 - Feb. 5, 2005
Collected Stories
Donald Margulies' drama shows the tensions between an established writer/teacher and her young student/protégé whose first novel draws its material from the teacher's youthful fling with a prominent poet.
April 8 - 23, 2005
Fences
August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play looks at the fate of a Negro League baseball player who ended up as a garbage man because the color barrier hadn’t yet been broken.
June 10 - 25, 2005
Power Plays
These two one act plays by Elaine May and Alan Arkin are "The Way of All Fish" about an inhibited secretary whose fantasies of mayhem emerge after a few glasses of wine and "Virtual Reality" about a dry-run of an illegal act that takes on more weight than a mere rehearsal.
SIGNATURE THEATRE
3806 S Four Mile Run Drive
Arlington VA 22206
703-820-9771
www.signature-theatre.org
Jan. 11 - Feb. 20, 2005
Fallen From Proust
The latest play by Playwright in Residence Norman Allen (Nijinsky's Last Dance, Melville Slept Here) is set in a San Francisco where "an ancient volume of Proust holds the key to all mysteries."
Feb. 14 - 19, 2005
Signature In The Schools
The annual performance of a production developed in partnership with the students of Wakefield High.
March 11 - 12, 2005
Lovin' Life
The Signature Cabaret Series presents Jane Pesci Townsend.
March 15 - April 24, 2005
Ten Unknowns
An exploration of the nature of art and the ties that bind artists together is set in New York's art world in Jon Robin Baitz's new play given its Potomac Region premier.
May 13 - 14, 2005
Songs My Mother Made Me Sing
The Signature Cabaret Series presents Donna Migliaccio.
May 17 - July 3, 2005
Pacific Overtures
Eric Schaeffer directs the Sondheim/Weidman musical based on the opening of Japan to the western world covering the period from 1853 when Admiral Perry sailed into "the floating kingdom" through the introduction of the Sony Walkman.
TAPESTRY THEATRE COMPANY
PO Box 20006
Alexandria VA 22320
703-960-3398
www.tapestrytheatre.com
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