At the historic Church Street Theatre
1742 Church Street, NW (half a block from JR's on Church between
17th and 18th Streets)
Photos from the opening night gala
Video Archive of Festival
click on the title to go to the video page
Karen Black - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Sing the Song
Time by David Bowie
Jesse by Janis Ian
on Alfred Hitchcock and Airport '75
Special
Agent Galactica - A Lady and Other People's Music
Mambo Italiano
Newphew Michael
Train Train
Air That I Breathe
Introductions/Stand Back
Great Gig in the Sky - An Eclectic Evening in Dance
Propeller 9
Variation #2
Selections from Pink Floy's Dark Side of the Moon
Great Gig in the Sky
Brain Damage/Eclipse
GLBT Comedy Night (clips coming soon)
Matt Henry
Joyce Rebar
Mikey Scott
Schedule of
Events
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Friday, October 19th
Opening Night Gala starring
Karen Black
World premier of her new One Woman Show
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Academy Award Nominee and two time Golden Globe Winner Karen Black
will kick off the festival with the World Premier of her new one
woman show "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Sing the Song
- An Evening with Karen Black".
Come spend a song and story filled evening with Karen as she shares
tales about her career - from Alfred Hitchcock to Robert Altman to
Airport '75 - and opens herself up to questions from the audience!
Gala Reception (Art Show, Cocktails, Hors
D'Oeuvres) - 8PM
Karen Black show - approx 9:15PM
click here for a complete bio on Karen Black
Opening Night Gala sponsored
in part by: Sully Designs, Jury's Hotel, Scott Segal, Alan
J. Savada and Will Stevenson, Passport Executive Travel,
Metro Weekly and Kinko's/FedEx
Saturday, October 20th
New Plays During the Day and a Special Late Night Event!
New GLBT Play Readings
(pay what you can donation)
3:00PM Yellow Lentils by Emily Solomon
A tantalizing dinner party at Raji and Robert's turns tragic as East
Indian tradition clashes with Western (or is it simply modern?) passion.
Directed
by Angie Prater
4:30PM The Ghosts of Summer by Arthur Joseph
Lundquist
A male AIDS nurse in the mid-nineties, obsessed with the memories of
his patients, attempts to revive the almost-forgotten spectres haunting
his summer home in this touching tragicomedy.
7:00PM Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday by
EM Lewis
Lynn Hallaby is leaving home to try and solve a thirty-something crisis
with a year on an Alaskan fishing boat, but not until her family does
their damnedest to keep her home and find out "why?". A comedy
of wills ensues as no one seems to be able to answer that question...not
even Lynn.
SPECIAL
LATE NIGHT EVENT 10:15PM Saturday Night!
10:15PM - Special Agent Galactica - A Lady and Her Other
People’s Music
A toe tappin', foot stompin', gut bustin', full-scale theatrical event!!! Experience
Special
Agent
Galactica in a fully produced music-filled extravaganza!
also featuring Stefan Taske, Chaney Tullos and John Milosich as "the Boys"
Galactica Show sponsored in part by: HRC Action Center, bebar, Metro
Weekly and Kinko's Fed/Ex
Sunday, October 21st
Choral/Vocal Music Day
(pay what you can donation)
11-2 – Art Gallery Exhibit open to public
2:00PM – 7:45PM Various Chorus/Vocalists
8:00PM – Gay Men’s Chorus’ Potomac Fever
8:45PM - Lesbian
and Gay Chorus of Washington DC concert
Monday, October 22nd
Piano and Poetry Night
(pay what you can donation)
7:00PM – 10:00PM
Come listen to selected pianists
and poets reading thier poetry.
Tuesday, October 23rd
Night of Controversy!
Did Abe Lincoln have a gay lover?
8:00PM Loves
of Mr. Lincoln by David Brendan Hopes Directed by Michael
Baron
The colossus seated in the Lincoln Memorial was once a man like other men, a
man who feared and desired and planned and loved. In the course of his life,
he loved his wife, his family; he loved the Union and the America he could foresee
in coming times. But first, before them all, he loved Josh Speed. This is the
story of those loves.
Wednesday, October 24th
Comedy Night
(pay what you can donation)
8:00PM -10:00PM – Local Comedy Night hosted by Matt Henry
(pay-what-you-can donation)
Also featuring:
Joyce Rebar,
Leon Bosman,
Kat Wilderotter,
Gary Walbridge, Mikey Scott
Thursday, October 25th
Special Halloween New Play Reading
(pay what you can donation)
8:00PM Tainted Blood by Tom Jacobson
Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend
off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller. Pick of the
week in LA Weekly and winner seven Valley Theatre League Awards. Directed by
Michael Bobbitt
Friday, October 26th
Rock and Roll Weekend
Great Gig in the Sky
An eclectic evening in Dance
Experience an eclectic evening in dance to the music of Pink Floyd's
Dark Side of the Moon, Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet, Rickie
Lee Jones, Mel Torme and more!
Great Gig in the Sky is Sponsored in part by: The
Washington Ballet, Leather Rack, Metro Weekly and Kinko's Fed/Ex
Saturday, October 27th
GLBT Rock and Roll Weekend Continues!
(Rock Musicians - ALL DAY - pay what you can donation)
1PM – 5:00PM – GLBT
Rock/Folk Artists
1-1:45 Tom Goss
2-2:45 Michelle Burleson
3-3:45 TJ Gaghan
4-4:45 Michael Fitzgerald
Sunday, October 28th
Closing Day
11AM-4PM Open Door Art Show with artists.
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