Alan Wade Appears in Washington Stage Guild Show

The Stage Guild returns to the boards this October, featuring our favorite playwright - George Bernard Shaw

Shaw is at his most insightful in this pair of one-act plays, as politicians deal with disenfranchised voters, incompetent civil servants, an unpopular war, and romantic scandals in public life. The perfect Washington show, perhaps?

Press Cuttings is a hilarious look at public figures facing down angry mobs during a struggle for women's emancipation; while Augustus Does His Bit is a satiric look at bureaucrats who support the war effort without ever fighting themselves.

Directed by Bill Largess and brought to life by Washington's most expert talkers - the actors of the Stage Guild company: Vincent Clark, Laura Giannarelli, Helen Hedman, John Lescault, Lynn Steinmetz, & Alan Wade.

Don't miss out on the fun!

Strange Bedfellows -

Press Cuttings & Augustus Does His Bit

Where & When

Dates: September 30 through October 18, 2009

Time: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday Evenings

at 8 pm;

Saturday & Sunday Matinees

at 2:30 pm

Location: Callan Theatre at Catholic University of America,

3801 Harewood Road, NE, Washington, DC

Tickets: $50.00 Friday & Saturday Evenings;

$40.00 all other performances -

Discounts for Students & Seniors!

RSVP: 240 582-0050 or

info@stageguild.org

DTSB&CO Premieres ISLAND, a new multi-media dance

Dance Place Presents
DANA TAI SOON BURGESS & CO.
Artistic Director, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, “area’s leading dance artist” –The Washington Post

October 9 and 10 at 8 p.m.
October 11 at 7 p.m.
Dance Place 3225 8th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20017

To purchase tickets,
Visit www.danceplace.org
Or call 202-269-1600
General Admission: $22
Dance Place members: college students, senior and artists: $17
Children 17 and under: $8

Dana Tai Soon Burgess awarded 9th Annual Metro DC Dance Awards for "Outstanding New Choreography"

Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at George Washington University was awarded the 9th Annual Metro DC Dance Awards for "Outstanding New Choreography" for his multi-media dance entitled Hyphen. This dance premiered at GWU's Lisner Auditorium last October to critical acclaim "In the 16 years since he founded his company here, Burgess has emerged as the area's leading dance artist, consistently following his own path and producing distinctive, well-considered works." The Washington Post

This prestigious award is chosen through an adjudicated panel of dance experts and is the highest award in the DC region for dance. The Metro DC Dance Award was presented on the evening of September 14, 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Burgess's Hyphen is a multi-media dance work including projections by video visionary Nam June Paik. This work was toured by the US State Department to South America this summer and also was presented in NY at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. It deals with contemporary American identity and the concept of how we as hyphenated Americans, for example, Asian and American, Latino and American, view identity in a multi-faceted cultural landscape. Hyphen will be presented again in DC on Oct 9-11 at the Dance Place in NE, DC 202-269-1600.

The Metro DC Dance Awards is a spectacular event celebrating the excellence of Metropolitan DC, Maryland, and Virginia's dance community. It showcases the diversity of DC's finest with performances ranging from tango to tap to modern dance, and gives distinction to artists in thirteen categories - including Outstanding Youth Performance, Emerging Choreographer, and Outstanding New Choreography. The Metro DC Dance Awards is the only annual opportunity in Metropolitan DC for artists and audiences to recognize professionals and youth in the dance field.

From-Prison-to-The-Stage

* I am directing the play readings and Pati Griffith, our colleague in the English Department, has adapted one of the scripts and will be reading stage directions.
Would love to see you all there! -Jodi Kanter

The printed program for our prisoner-written plays at the Kennedy Center to take place on September 5, 2009 is going to the printer tonight. Call our director Dennis Sobin directly at 202-393-1511 by 5 pm if you want to be included in it as a supporter. Simply use your credit card to make a donation in any amount you can afford and you will be recognized in the program along with the following supporters who are making this landmark Kennedy Center event possible:

Open Society Institute, Framme Law Firm, Joseph Lea, A.B.C. Consulting Services of Delaware, Joan Covici, Maxine I. Lyons, Alex Friedman, Dorothy R. Farden, Eckington House for Mental Health Services, Ronald E. Smith, esq , Elizabeth Evans, Drug Policy Alliance, Diane Flanel Piniaris, Coralie Farlee, BleakHouse Publishing, Robert Johnson, Sonia Tabriz, Liz Calka and Patricia E. Tichenor, esq.


Thank you.
Here are the plays that will be presented FREE on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 from 7:30 to 10 pm during our "From Prison to the Stage" program on the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC. with your support:

1. The Love That Divides by Hakim M. Abdul-Wasi, Music by Inner Voices
"A man returns home to his Christian family after converting to Islam while away, only to find his family upset and unaccepting of his new beliefs."

2. One Fine Day in Inferior Court by Alex Friedman
"A wacky judge, a clueless defense attorney, a bloodthirsty prosecutor and a hapless defendant fall over each other in this courtroom farce."

3. I Am a Woman on Death Row
by Kathleen O'Shea,
Music by Lorri Carter
"Not one woman but dozens on death row in America today tell their stories of hope and survival."

4. Reading Slim by Raymond McGee
"A hostile prisoner resists taking advantage of educational opportunities in his prison to hide his inadequacies, including a shameful secret from his past."

5. Homeward Bound by Richard Dyches,
Music by Dennis Sobin
"About to leave his correctional institution, a prisoner finds that his shortcomings are still in need of correction as he prepares to face his wary wife and confused son."

6. Time In by Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble and the women of York Correctional Institution.
Music by Women of the Cross
"Story, song and dance about the heartaches and triumphs of women in prison."

"The Safe Streets Arts Foundation, incorporating both the Prisons Foundation and the Victims Foundation, is proud to sponsor the annual From-Prison-to-The-Stage Show at the Kennedy Center and the Prison Art Gallery at 1600 K Street. NW, Suite 501, Washington, DC, three blocks from the White House."

Congratulations to Dana Tai Soon Burgess!

The GW Department of Theatre & Dance is pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of State has honored Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Department Chair of Theatre & Dance, as September’s State Department Alumni of the Month.


More from From the Department of State’s website: http://exchanges.state.gov/alumni/alumnus.html

GW dancers to perform at Arts on Foot Festival

The Arts on Foot Festival (founded 17 years ago by a GW alum) September 10, 11, 12th. Check it out and support our dancers!,
http://www.artsonfoot.org/

“The Penn Quarter Arts on Foot Festival is a visual and performing arts festival featuring Washington, DC theaters, museums, and arts at a variety of venues in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC. The festival becomes an art walking tour with area restaurants, theaters, galleries, museums, and more than 80 visual artists participating and dozens of Downtown attractions hosting visual art exhibits, performances, workshops, demonstrations, films, concerts and children's activities.”
http://dc.about.com/od/specialevents/a/ArtsonFoot.htm

Alumn Amanda Rosenberg, Associate Producer 'Mystery Diagnosis'

Tune in to see the work of one of our very own TRDA Alum, Amanda Rosenberg, Associate Producer of 'Mystery Diagnosis'. The first episode premiers tonight 8/31 on the Discovery Health Channel at 10pm and will air again Sat, Sept 5 at 5pm. The second episode premiers at 10pm on Monday Sept 7.