FREE!!
FREE!!
FREE!! FREE!!
Seating is
limited!! Tickets are Required,
and redistributed
without charge
one Half-Hour
Prior to Performance,
on a First-Come
First-Served policy.
This weekly showcase in the Fall, Winter and Spring, features local performers, and provides free quality live entertainment to the Greater Washington Area community. Original plays, singers, musical ensembles, dance, drama and comedy are on the bill.
These programs
are made possible through the generous support of
THE MAX AND
VICTORIA DREYFUS FOUNDATION
and the Trustees
of the National Theatre.
The National
Theatre is deeply appreciative of this valued assistance.
The series
is produced by Donn B. Murphy
and hosted
by Todd Clark (pictured) with LaJuan Liles and Gregory Lee.
Schedules
may be secured by sending a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope to "Monday
Night," National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
20004.
Recorded
program information is also available at 202-783-3372.
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January
28
ENCORE! - Meet
MR. DARRYL WINSTON, in the person of a beloved Old Time Baritone who is
about to present one more boring and pretentious concert in his 4th or
5th Farewell Tour (Who can remember?). But tonight he skips the mundane
concertizing and goes right to the great, lush, audience-pleasing songs
usually held back for audiences demanding encores! Laugh, cry, and
sing along with Mr. Winston as he reinterprets masterful melodies introduced,
recorded or made famous by such "Old School" singers and immortals as Nelson
Eddy, Lauritz Melchoir, Lily Pons, and John Charles Thomas.
February
4
SOURCE THEATRE'S
10-MINUTE PLAYS - The ever-inventive playwrights of our National Capital
had one eye on the keyboard and one on the clock as they devised devilish
and delightful plays which make their mark in the blink of an eye. Remain
on High Alert! Source wordsmiths will bombard you with hot dispatches from
the DC-area's best and brightest, a tribunal of talent, a laugh alliance.
Vote for the Audience Favorite! Cast those ballots, dimple those
chads, wave the flag and pick the winner. Let our Comedy Coalition
prevail!
February
11
March
4
ANDREW McKNIGHT,
hailing from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Middleburg,
Virginia, is an environmental engineer-turned-songwriter. He is a
Shenandoah Valley storyteller and poet, with the passions of the historian,
geographer and naturalist. His mountain-based music evokes an oral
history of the past, musically rooted in the present. Andrew blends
wry and romantic stories with keen tuneful observations in a delicious
mix of folk, blues and bluegrass. He ranges from the sprightly spiritual,
"How High The Mountain," to a look at aging in "Million Miles Together,"
to an Appalachian lament for a dying "Company Town," to an elegy for elderly
lovers waltzing under a "Shenandoah Moon." He's a man not to be missed!
March
11 - Due to a change in schedule for performances of CONTACT on our mainstage,
the booking of Edgeworks Dance Theater has been postponed until Fall of 2002.
EDGEWORKS DANCE THEATER - Under the vibrant artistic direction of award-winning
choreographer HELANIUS J. WILKINS, this all male dance company presents an evening
of intense, electrifying gymnastic physicality in riveting and viscerally charged
works that mesmerize with movement as they shatter stereotypes of men, and of
men in dance. Compelling choreographic patterns and dynamic partnering provoke
thoughts and questions leading to new insights about the male identity in America,
and indeed many human relationships, from the perspective of African-American
men.
PHOTO BY PAUL
GORDON EMERSON
March
18
March
25
CITY AT PEACE
- A diverse group of young people from the Greater Washington Area take
us into their world and their lives. Teen performers, most making
their stage debut, forge their dreams and disappointments into astonishing
theatre. Using their own experiences of abuse, violence, drugs, racism
and hatred, they use the alchemy of dynamic drama, choreography, mime,
movement and original music to convert nightmares into dreams and despair
into hope. SANDY HOLLOWAY directs. This is a profound performance
you will not soon forget.*
April
1
April
8 *Parental guidance suggested
for children under 13 years of age.
March is AUDIENCES OF ALL
AGES Month
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The National Theatre is a member of the United Arts Organization
The United Way of the National Capital Area, and the Combined Federal Campaign
Your contribution to #8663 helps keep this historical playhouse alive,
and is greatly appreciated.
This series was established in
1980
and produced until 1995 by Kathleen
B. Barry
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Nebraska for the "grand drape" background used on this web page.