2010 - 2011 SEASON
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February 18 through
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TETHER Reviews and NEWS!!!
Nelson Pressley in the Washington Post
Jane Horwitz Washington Post column Backstage talks about the production
Ben Demers of DC Theatre Scene
Montgomery County Gazette
The Slate
Funding in part for TETHER was made possible by the Puffin Foundation
Reviews:
DC Theatre Scene Spotlight!
AllArtsReview4U: Critics Choice and Best Acting
The 9th Annual J.F. Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival in Washington, D.C. September 4, 2010 on the Millennium Stage South
Doorway Arts Ensemble Theater Company presented..
A Reading of HUTTO by Rose-Mary Harrington, directed by Christopher Gerken
produced by Tammy Roberts
Featuring: Ariana Almajan, Andra Garcia Guyker, Christopher Gerken, Bethany Hoffman, Madeleine Russell, Justin Radano, Alex James Svatko, and Sammy Zeisel
2009-2010 SEASON
SEX AND EDUCATION by Lissa Levin, A Learning Experience in One Act
Directed by Matt Ripa
Producing Director: Claire Myles
Cast: Carly J. Bales, Sarah Holt and Hunter Hoffman
This world premiere of SEX AND EDUCATION was produced as part of the Capital Fringe Festival from July 16-25, 2010
Reviews: DC Theater Scene http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/07/22/sex-and-education-a-learning-experience-in-one-act/
In SEX AND EDUCATION, Sex and syntax converge in this smart and scintillating comedy. Written by award-winning Los Angeles playwright Lissa Levin. Directed by Matt Ripa, the play met with standing ovations as Doorway Arts Ensembles entry in last year’s Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival. This world premiere production tells the story of Joe Marks, a basketball star whose college scholarship is suddenly in jeopardy when his attempt to pass a lascivious note to Hannah, his cheerleader girlfriend, is intercepted by his high school English teacher, Miss Edwards. With nothing to lose as she bids farewell to her teaching career, she puts an unorthodox approach to the test to see if she can light an intellectual flame under one last underachiever.
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Presented as Doorway Arts Swan Day event on SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2010
THE MATING OF ANGELA WEISS By Renee Calarco
Directed by Danielle A. Drakes
Featuring: Sarah Holt, Tuyet Pham and James Radack
The John F. Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts 8th Annual Kennedy Center
Page-To-Stage Festival on September 5, 2009
Doorway Arts Ensemble and Producing Artistic Director Claire Myles presented…
Readings of SEX and EDUCATION by LISSA LEVIN, directed by MATT RIPA.
Featuring: Sarah Holt, DeShaude Barner, Kristin Garaffo
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OWL MOON by LIZ MAESTRI directed by TIFFANY FORD
Featuring: Jeremy Brown [ member Actors Equity Association (AEA)], Bethany Hoffman, Karen Lange, Jean Hudson Miller, Sabrina Shahmir
2008-2009 SEASON
HERBIE: POET OF THE WILD WEST by Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Cyana Cook
Producing Director: Claire Myles
Cast: Juan Carlos Sanchez, Christopher Herring, Branda Lock, Jim Epstein, Dave Bobb, Tammy Roberts, Madeline Russell, Bethany Hoffman, David Berkenbilt, Claire Myles
This world premiere of HERBIE was produced as part of the Capital Fringe Festival from July 15-26, 2009
"spirited light fare...and an energetic all around talented cast...that really doesn't have a weak link"
- David Winkler DC Theater Scene
"Herbie: Poet of the Wild West" by Adam Szymkowicz is a total laugh-out-loud parody of the "Hamlet" story done with gunslingers rather than dueling swords... Some additional characters...just added more laughs to the evening. The top star…Ophelia (Branda Lock as Amelia) with her languishing, contortionist body…has all of the comedic talent and "takes" of a Carole Burnett. Juan Carlos Sanchez as Hamlet (Herbie) gave a powerful extensive range of emotions as the "put upon" Dane..."
- Bob Anthony allartsreview4u.com
HERBIE: POET OF THE WILD WEST by the award winning Playwright Adam Szymkowicz offers a raucous parody of Hamlet. The play, set when the west was still wild, tells how Herbie the poet plans revenge on his uncle Dead Eye Dan, who has murdered his father, married Herbie’s mother and taken over the family’s saloon. The play humorously follows the action of Herbie’s quest for revenge, his Uncle’s lust for power, and a posse of clowns including a blind gunslinger, a performing bear, a desperately ugly saloon girl and a lesbian cowgirl.
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2007-2008 SEASON
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ANIMA
by Christiaan Greer The Washington, DC premiere was produced as part of the 2007-2008 Mead Theatre Lab Program at Flashpoint, 916 G. St., Washington, DC 20001 April 22-May 11, 2008.
Photos by Colin Hovde. |
ANIMA by Christiaan Greer was presented as a staged reading at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Page -to- Stage New Plays Festival on September 3, 2007 in Washington, DC.













