The official Kennedy Center Program organizes events by venue. For your convenience, we present a printable easy-to-follow guide to Page-to-Stage, organized by date and time.

The K.C. Cafe in the South Atrium Foyer will be open until 8 pm on Sunday and 6 pm on Monday. There are kiosk selling sandwiches and drinks on the main floor and the Atriums.

SUNDAY, Sept 6

2 – 3:30pm

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS
By Paco José Madden
Directed by Paco José Madden

In this revisionary version with a feminist spin of One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade is not the storyteller of Arabian lore, but a queen who marries a man each day and has his head served on a platter at night.
Washington Shakespeare Company in the Millennium Stage South

2 – 3:30pm

SHORTSTACK v5
New short plays for the “young at heart” written by Bob Bartlett, Audrey Cefaly, Deborah Finkelstein, and Gwydion Suilebhan.
AccokeekCreek TheatreCo in South Atrium Foyer

2-4:30pm

New Play Festival
Directed by Renee’ Charlow and Bob Bartlett
New short plays written by Sean Behrens, Sara Ilyse Jacobson, Kim Yaged, Pat Montley, Martin Blank, and Stephen Schutzman.  Bowie State University in North Atrium Foyer

2 – 4:30pm

THE TEMPLE OF THE SOUL
By Rebecca Nesvet
Directed by Catherine Aselford
Was Queen Elizabeth’s personal physician, Ruy de Lopez, a spy for Portugal or a loyal friend to the Queen? A victim of anti-Semitism or a traitor? A pawn in court intrigue or a schemer himself? Find out in this elegant historical mystery about the man on whom Shakespeare’s Shylock was based.  The Georgetown Theatre Company in the Terrace Gallery.

2 – 3:30pm

ANA AND THE CLOSET
By Tiffany Antone
Directed by Jessica Burgess
Happily married Iraq War widow Ana’s world is turned upside down when she gets a phone call from her “dead” first husband. When her two husbands mysteriously disappear into a closet in the apartment–a closet that breathes and belches–Ana enlists the help of a spunky (and armed) Sales Attendant from her favorite store to battle with the Underworld. Who will make it out alive in this powerful and inventive story about war, love, sacrifice, and the pain of letting go?  Forum Theatre is the South Opera Tier Lounge

4 – 6pm

HERCULES IN RUSSIA
By Allyson Currin
Jim Hercules is a black man born a slave in Alabama who finds his way to the court of Czar Nicholas II on the eve of the Russian Revolution. Jim must weigh his loyalty to his adopted country against demons from his tortured American past.  Washington Shakespeare Theatre in Milennium Stage South.

4 – 6pm

FISKER FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE
By Ernie Joselovitz
Directed by Nick Olcott
On an early morning in 1875, an hour or so before Mr. Anthony Trollope–like clockwork every day–sits down to write, characters on whom chapters are about to be written gather next door in the Substory Room. Hamilton K. Fisker is the only American except for one other, a woman whose hand (and thighs and lips) he seeks, slogging through the labyrinthine landscape of this 800-page English novel. Playwrights Forum and Washington Stage Guild in the South Atrium Foyer.

4:30 – 5:45pm

ANDY WARHOL: GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
By Josh Kornbluth
In collaboration with David Dower, Director
This one-man show considers the pop-art enigma who was commissioned to paint ten Jewish notables like Einstein, Gershwin, and Golda.  Theater J in Millennium Stage North.

4:30 – 5:30pm

Vignettes from Act 1 of LYRICS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS
By Steven M. Allen
Directed by Asya Heatley
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadows is an opera based on the life and love of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore. Violets and Other Tales records the first of the two years the couple would correspond before meeting. During the course of this span, Paul finds himself uncontrollably in love with a delusion while Alice learns to love the idea of a fairy tale romance.  Catholic University in the Terrace Gallery

4:30 – 6pm

FOOLISH FIRE: IGNIS FATUUS
by Kristen DeWulf
Directed by Helen Pafumi

Foolish Fire explores the American identity as it follows a disillusioned realtor trying to peddle a gutted and abandoned house. By examining, the issue in reverse order, the play begs the question: How can we reconcile a deeply rooted claim to an “AmericanDream” with personal responsibility? This is a tale for our time.  Presented by The Hub in the North Atrium Foyer

6 – 7pm

BURN YOUR BOOKES
By Richard Byrne
Directed by Marcus Kyd
Taffety Punk presents a sneak preview of a new play. Burn Your Bookes explores the sex, drugs, and baroque ‘n’ roll behind notorious alchemist Edward Kelley’s pursuit of the Philosopher’s Stone. The Punks will stage Act II of the play, where two alchemical pretenders are under a sentence of death by starvation. Edward Kelley happens to wander by their cages–or is he there for a reason?  Taffety Punk Theatre Company in the Family Theater

7:30 – 10pm

REALLY REALLY
By Paul Downs Colaizzo
Directed by B. Swibel
At a top New England University, members of the rugby team are forced to deal with allegations of sexual assault. Inspired by the infamous Duke lacrosse team rape case, Really Really explores the selfishness and harsh reality behind the motives and tactics employed by “Generation Me.”  Olney Theatre Center at Millennium Stage South.

7:30 – 10pm

PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE WORLD SPINS AND TURNS (A STORY OF RECOVERING ADDICTS)
By James J. Hsiao
Directed by S. Robert Morgan
Five recovering addicts make sometimes catastrophic attempts to survive a twenty-eight day recovery program. Relationships begin, strengthen, and disintegrate as these five lives spin, turn, evolve, and stand still.  The Essential Theatre in the South Atrium Foyer

7:30 – 10pm

Baltimore Playwrights Festival
WINNER’S SHOWCASE
Lies, secrets, surprises, life lessons, faith, and good old sex and desperation. Baltimore Playwrights Festival presents excerpts from all of the winning entries of the Festival’s 28th season.  in the North Atrium Foyer

7:30 – 8:30pm

DEAD GREEN EDEN
By James Johnson
The largest commissioning theater in Northern Ireland, Tinderbox brings you a new play-in-progress. This reading is your only chance to encounter the dangerous utopia of Dead Green Eden this side of the Atlantic.  Solas Nua in the Terrace Gallery

MONDAY, SEPT 7

2 – 4 pm

STONEWALL’S BUST
By John Morogiello
Directed by Juliana Avery
When a New Yorker lies about breaking a priceless statue of Stonewall Jackson in the Confederate Heritage museum run by his girlfriend’s family, he sets in motion a comic series of escalating events that jeopardize his relationship, his reputation, and possibly his life. J. T. Burian Theatricals in Millennium Stage South.

2 – 6pm

Catholic University of America (MFA Playwrights)
Readings of new plays by playwrights in the MFA in Playwriting program at The Catholic University of America. Playwrights include Bob Bartlett, Emily Bentley, and Timothy Guillot.  In the South Atrium Foyer

2 – 4pm

The Inkwell
The Inkwell presents 20-minute excerpts of six of the most daring plays in The Inkwell’s selection pool.

2 – 4pm

NICOLE AND ANTHONY
By Paul A. Notice II
Directed by Derek Goldman
This expressionistic drama follows the life of Nicole, a freed bi-racial woman who is brought back into slavery, then freed once more through a collision of circumstances.  Georgetown University’s Black Theater Ensemble in collaboration with the Theater and Performance Studies Program in the Theater Lab

2- 4pm

UNS
By Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Directed by Vera Katz
The prefix “un” means, “not, removed, released, reversed.” Undisclosed, Unmilked, Unlearned, and Uncovered are four short plays about black women who are not responsible for their predicaments, and are removed from the mainstream. Nevertheless, their energy is released.  African Continuum Theatre Company in the Terrace Gallery.

2 – 3pm

K.T. FOR PREZ!
By Jessica Macie North
Directed by Sandy Murphy
Six-year-old Kennedy Taylor (K.T.) believes she can be whatever she wants to be if she just rolls up her sleeves and gets to work. However, running a presidential campaign is more than a song and dance for this first grader. K.T. has two important votes secured (her mom and her big brother), but this election is going to take honesty, discovery, and passion.  Charter Theatre’s New Plays for Young Audiences in the Family Theater.

3:30 – 5:45pm

MIKVEH
By Hadar Galron
Directed by Shirley Serotsky
Inside the secretive world of the ritual bath, eight women’s stories unfold in this sensitive depiction of religious observance and evolving feminist consciousness.  Theater J in the South Opera Tier Lounge

4 – 5pm

HALL OF MIRRORS
By Colin Hovde
This is a reading of Hovde’s latest work in progress, an initial exploration of the questions surrounding the masks we hold up in front of self and the idea of true self.  Artists’ Bloc in the Family Theater

4:30 – 6:30pm

DIAGRAM OF A PAPER AIRPLANE
By Carlos Murillo
Directed by Michael Dove
As a final act before his death, a once-promising playwright turned mentally unstable vagabond sent fragments of his play to his surviving friends–fragments that can only be made whole if the group comes together to read it. Driven by curiosity and guilt, they arrive at the memorial service hoping the play will reveal the truth behind a tragic mystery that has haunted them for two decades.  Forum Theatre in the Theater Lab

4:30 – 6pm

LITTLE GIVES
By Paul Downs Colaizzo
Directed by Caroline Angell
When forced to pick between security or love, happiness or ideals, control or freedom, which is the easiest to sacrifice? When the choices at hand are that which is safe versus that which is stirring, how much are we willing to risk and surrender to the idea of destiny? Little Gives is a comic drama that weighs everything against love.  Didactic Theatre Company in the Terrace Gallery.

5 – 6:30pm

PANEL DISCUSSION: The Actor and the New Play
Presented by The Inkwell in the North Atrium Foyer

5:30 – 7:45pm

EAT ME OR WHAT YOU WILL
By Karl Miller
During the busy week before their wedding, a young couple falls prey to an elaborate guerilla marketing scheme in this consumer conspiracy comedy. Rorschach Theatre Company in the Family Theater

6 – 7pm

AMERICAN MUSICAL VOICES PROJECT
Signature Theater highlights the works of up-and-coming composers, including Michael John LaChiusa, Ricky Ian Gordon, Joseph Thalken, Adam Guettel, Adam Gwon, and Matt Conner.  Signature Theatre in Millennium Stage North

7:30pm – ?

IN OUR SHORTS: FIVE FROM THE PLAYWRIGHTS’ GYMNASIUM
Washington’s only process-oriented playwrights’ workshop presents five one-acts that range from the mystical to the comical to the carnal.  The Playwrights’ Gymnasium in Millennium Stage South

7:30 – 9:30pm

JULIUS BY DESIGN
By Kara Lee Corthron
Directed by Danielle A. Drakes
Jo and Laurel fill their days with crossword puzzles and decorating for the holidays while trying to heal from an unthinkable loss. But a surprising letter sends Jo on an unexpected journey.  theHegira in the South Atrium Foyer

7:30 – 10pm

THE F WORD

Melissa Blackall’s The F Word focuses on the dirtiest word in the English language: fat.  The Inkwell in the North Atrium Foyer

7:30 – 10pm

DRACULA
By Bram Stoker
Adapted by Nathan Weinberger and Paata Tsikurishvili
Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili
From vampiric wolves howling in the Transylvanian night to the erotic blood-lust of the demonic Count and his consorts, this is a Dracula that is not to be missed. Company member Dan Istrate performs the title role in a show featuring some of Synetic’s most heart-pounding choreography and drama.  Synetic Theater n the Theater Lab

7:30 – 10pm

A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH OF RABBITS
By C. Denby Swanson
Directed by Elissa Goetschius
Coming up with names is a problem for Mare when she starts giving birth to an endless stream of bunnies. But that’s only the start of her problems. Who can she turn to? Enter The Stork: raconteur, impresario, and OB-GYN, all rolled into one.  Forum Theatre in the Terrace Gallery

7:30 – 10pm

FANATICS, OR THE VAMPIRE HUNTERS GUILD OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, SECOND CHARTER
By Nathan McGaughey
Directed by John C. Bailey
A group of young, normal, run-of-the-mill vampire hunters get exactly what they bargained for…and then some. Ganymede Arts in the South Opera Tier Lounge

8:30 – 10pm

IT CLOSED ON OPENING NIGHT
Music and Lyrics by Christian Imboden
Book by Shawn Northrip
Directed by Shirley Serotsky
In a revival of the 1977 Broadway belly-flop When I Just Can’t Say It Anymore, The Musical!, a showgirl misses her chance to leave the stage and lead a decent life. Plagued by multiple book writers, overzealous producers, and a fading diva, the production proves nothing is scarier than a bad musical.  Bouncing Ball Theatrical Productions in the Family Theater