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Note: PWYC = Pay What You Can.
These tickets generally cannot be reserved, and are available at the door, usually for cash only.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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$49 Orchestra Seats, Tues thru Thurs, July 7 - 9
Spring Awakening. Winner of eight 2007 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening makes its D.C. premiere featuring an original score by Grammy-nominated recording star Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.
In the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater.  Use code: SPRING. To order, call 202 467-4600 or

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Free Reading, July 4 & 5
House of America by Ed Thomas, July 4 at 5 pm
Art and Guff by Catherin Treganna at noon and
The Drowned World by Gary Owen, July 5 @ 5 pm
Part of the reading series: Welsh Words: Theatre from Wales produced by Studio Theatre and Wales’ Sherman Cymru. All at Studio Theatre,  1501 14th St NW, Washington, DC.

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WSG Reading, Sun, July 12 at 2:30 pm and 7 pm
Break of Noon by Paul Claudel . Four travelers - a woman and three men who, in different ways, love her - come to the turning point that is the noon of their existence, midway through life’s journey. Each must choose a path without refusing the spiritual and ineffable challenges along the way. Claudel won the Nobel Prize for Literature during a career as poet, playwright and diplomat that included a stint here in DC as French Ambassador to the US. At The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW, between 9th and 10th Streets. Free . Donations accepted at the door. To reserve, call 240 582-0050 or email info@stageguild.org. Include name, phone, date and time of performance.

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PWYC Preview, Tues, July 14 at 8 pm
Barack Stars , written and performed by Chicago’s The Second City. In Barack Stars, Chicago’s favorite son is given his satiric due, with an economy on the ropes and maybe just a touch of swine flu for good measure. Perfecting the art of comedy revue with sketches, songs and a little improvisation, The Second City storms the Capital City to tackle partisanship, the politics of race, a terrifyingly tiny Rahm Emanuel, and a host of other headline-grabbing personalities. Note:  These PWYCs at Woolly Mammoth are very hot tickets, indeed. Best to get in line by 5:30.

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WSG Reading, Sun Aug 9 at 2:30 and 7 pm
The Dragon by Yevgeny Schwartz. Directed by Steve Carpenter . Dragons must be slain, as every child knows. But once that’s done, do they need to be replaced? Schwartz’s Soviet-era play about a knight-to-the-rescue has the familiar outlines of a fairy tale, but a “happy ending” is hard to achieve when those rescued prefer a familiar life with a Dragon to an unfamiliar life without one. And if this is an allegory, just who is the Dragon? At The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW, between 9th and 10th Streets. Free . Donations accepted at the door. To reserve, call 240 582-0050 or email info@stageguild.org. Include name, phone, date and time of performance.

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WSG Reading, Sun, Aug 23 at 2:30 pm and 7 pm
Barbellion adapted from The Journal of a Disappointed Man by Alan Wade. Directed by Alan Wade. Shortly after World War I, Bruce Frederick Cummings published his diaries under the pseudonym W.N.P. Barbellion, and the frank account of his physical challenges, and resignation to his fate, was an immediate sensation. Washington actor and director Alan Wade has adapted The Journal of a Disappointed Man into a richly theatrical script that is both moving and inspiring. At The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW, between 9th and 10th Streets. Free . Donations accepted at the door. To reserve, call 240 582-0050 or email info@stageguild.org. Include name, phone, date and time of performance.