6 pm and 7:30 pm, in the Helen Hayes Gallery
The National Theatre
1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004

* FREE ADMISSION *
Seating is limited!!  Tickets are Required, and are
Distributed 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.

The programs are supported by the Mary & Daniel Loughran Foundation and the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation. The National Theatre is deeply appreciated of this valued assistance.

Inaugurated in 1980, the series is
produced by Donn B. Murphy and hosted by Todd Clark.

Schedules can 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.

SEPTEMBER 28
SPIN THIS! bombards you with tantalizing ten-minute-tidbits from Source Theatre Company.  Area playwrights pull back the curtain on Washington's most popular pastime, proving that all politics is loco.  The audience votes.  No stump speeches, filibustering or contributions under the table!

OCTOBER 5
SY-CLONE is Tapestry Theatre's riveting story of a scientist who succeeds in cloning himself, rocketing into a 5th dimension where he confronts his mirror image.  Identical in habit, memory and personality -- up to a point -- experimenter and clone clash, with identity-
disturbing results.

OCTOBER 19
WHAT I NEVER TOLD YOU BECAME A POEM by Toni Asante Lightfoot is a play in poetry, set in a downtown bar during happy hour.  Five workers relax together, sharing their battles and victories of the day, as they exchange lively and revealing views on love, family, media, music and
politics.

OCTOBER 26
MUSIC OF THE NIGHT is Opera Music Theater Ensemble’s brew of mystery, murder, ghosts and mayhem, highlighting Macbeth, The Medium, Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll & Hyde, Sweeney Todd, and Faust.  Producer-Director James McCully honors actor John McCullough, who died in this theatre 100 years ago?
 

NOVEMBER 9
SEMPLE-MINDED is a one-act comedy-drama based on the hilarious and socially astute "Jess B. Semple" short stories by renowned Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes.  Marshall Johnson stars as “Semple,” and Kwame Alexander adapts the stories and directs for BlackWords, Inc.

NOVEMBER 16
CANTANTI SINGING ENSEMBLE hosts a spirited and entertaining concert-festival of familiar songs and arias from opera, operetta, Italian folk songs, musical Theatre and American standards in duets, trios and solos.  The group sings in English and in other original languages of  the lyricists.

NOVEMBER 23
THE DRUMMINGS, an original musical with words and music by Erik Orton and Joshua Williams, surveys the strife which has raged across the generations in Ireland.  Stunning songs and fiery text limn the life of Daniel O’Connell, an Irish patriot who chose peace over war.
 
 

NOVEMBER 30
BALINESE MUSIC and DANCE presented by Mitra Kusuma includes rhythmic music, graceful dances and exotic costumes.  The music, in the contemporary style of gong kebyar, is hypnotic with a variety of drums, gongs, and other metallophone instruments that make up a glittering gamelan orchestra.
 

DECEMBER 7
INVASION is a high-powered Beatles Tribute Act with the mop-top look, the gear moves, and best of all the unique sound of the fab four, recreating a band and an era which changed us all.  Enjoy a nostalgia riff with I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Hard Day's Night, and much, much more.