2008-2009 Season
Real Life Stories of the F.I.B., the Fraudulent Identity Bureau
In celebration of our 5th Anniversary Season, JTE is licensed to thrill by the Fraudulent Identity Bureau (F.I.B.). Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to crack three comedies where mistaken, assumed and false identities cause confusion, corruption and controversy.
It's all in a day's work at the Journeymen Theater Fraudulent Identity Bureau - in residence all year at Church Street Theater, 1742 Church Street, NW, Washington, DC
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As American As By Ken Prestininzi Directed by Shirley Serotsky October 22-November 15, 2008 Purchase tickets |
| Homeland security comes at a personal price in this dark comedy when war and terrorism come home to Middle America, the Penini's basement is transformed into a black site and a hooded man is interrogated by two Franks. | |
Performance Schedule
| Previews: | October 22 and 23 at 7:30pm (PWYC) |
| Press/Opening Night: | October 24 at 8:00pm |
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Wednesdays at 7:30pm: Always Pay-What-You-Can! Thursdays at 7:30pm Fridays at 8:00pm Saturdays at 2:00pm and 8:00pm |
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The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol Directed by Kathleen Akerley February 4-28, 2009 Purchase tickets |
| In this 19th-century masterpiece of dramatic satire, the system of graft, corruption and ineptitude in Tsarist Russia plays out in a backwater village, where local leaders and their cronies curry favor by giving a visiting official money, women and more. But are they greasing the right man's palm? |
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Performance Schedule
| Previews: | February 4 and 5 at 7:30pm (PWYC) |
| Press/Opening Night: | February 6 at 8:00pm |
| Performance Schedule: |
Wednesdays at 7:30pm: Always Pay-What-You-Can! Thursdays at 7:30pm Fridays at 8:00pm Saturdays at 2:00pm and 8:00pm |
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Tartuffe By Moliere Directed by Karl Kippola May 20-June 13, 2009 Purchase tickets |
| Beneath a pious facade, Tartuffe is a schemer intent on securing Orgon's fortune and his daughter's hand in marriage. Will Tartuffe be rewarded with riches or will the slippery hypocrite get the comeuppance he richly deserves? | |
Performance Schedule
| Previews: | May 20 and 21 at 7:30pm (PWYC) |
| Press/Opening Night: | May 22 at 8:00pm |
| Performance Schedule: |
Wednesdays at 7:30pm: Always Pay-What-You-Can! Thursdays at 7:30pm Fridays at 8:00pm Saturdays at 2:00pm and 8:00pm |
Other events...
Third Annual Capital Fringe Festival
July 10-27, 2008
Ball and Chain
Directed by John Michael McDonald
Featurting: Krista Cowan and Tyson Slocum
We have asked for the submission of original 10 minutes plays from local playwrights that address the aforementioned topic. The show will include the “winners” of this search and will be augmented by who knows what to create a fun-filled evening sure to entertain. The Fringe Festival is our chance (and we take it) to play and take great artistic risks!
| Where: | The Universe — Universalist National Memorial Church 1810 16th Street NW, Washington DC |
| When: | July 16 @ 7:00 p.m. July 19 @ 9:30 p.m. July 24 @ 8:45 p.m. |
July 18 @ 9:30 p.m July 23 @ 9:00 p.m. July 26 @ 1:00 p.m. |
The Kennedy Center Annual Page-to-Stage Festival
August 30, 2008
A Delicate People
By Jacqueline E. Lawton
Directed by Deborah Kirby
Location: Terrace Theater
Time: 7:30pm
A Delicate People is a play about faith and homosexuality. This heartbreaking, lyrical, passionate, and uncompromising story is a meditation on love and the sacrifices made to protect those we hold most dear.
The Faithful
by Scott Organ
Director by Andy Wassenich
Location: Terrace Theater
Time: 5:00pm
David is a former minister who tells people his wife is dead. Kate was a child bride who is leaving the safety of her "family" behind. Alan took a fall and thinks he's seen God. The Faithful is a play about life and love and the loss of both; and the walls and shelters, both real and imagined, we build to protect ourselves from harsh realities. What happens when something, or someone knocks the walls down?
Saturday Readings
Second Saturday of every month from
10:00am - 1:00pm
Read through new plays with actors, directors, and playwrights
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