Sign Interpreted and Captioned
Events
happening at the Kennedy Center and in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area
during April 2008
Kennedy
Center | Washington DC
Metropolitan Area | Baltimore Area
Sign
Interpreted and Captioned Events at the Kennedy Center
To purchase tickets to sign interpreted and/or captioned events at the
Kennedy Center call (202) 416-8524 (TTY) or (202) 416-8528 (voice). For
information go to
www.kennedy-center.org.
Kite in the
Wind: A Tale of Pakistan
- Family Theater
- Sign Interpreted: Saturday,
April 12 at 4:00 pm
- Sign Interpreters: Hank
Young and Pam Collins
- Young Shahab is a constant daydreamer in Lahore, Pakistan's bustling "City
of Gardens" and home to the springtime Basant celebration. He's even ignoring
the upcoming kite-flying contest--since his grandfather was a great champion
in the festival, he is reluctant to follow in those giant footsteps. But when
Shahab meets some friendly characters from Pakistani folklore in his
daydreams, they help him connect with his heritage as he and his father fly a
beautiful kite higher than the tallest mosque. Don't miss this unique
collaboration with the Pakistani National Council on the Arts, an inspiring
depiction of growing up in a metropolis bursting with rich tradition. For ages
9 and up.
Kennedy Center
American College Theater Festival - Performances Interpreted On-Request
To request sign interpreters, please contact
the Kennedy Center Accessibility Office at 202-416-8727 (voice/relay),
202-416-8728 (TTY), or
access@kennedy-center.org. More information about the festival is
available at
http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/festival.html.
- In the Blood - Tuesday, April 15, 7:30pm Terrace
Theater: Riffing on themes Nathaniel Hawthorne explored in The
Scarlet Letter, Suzan Lori-Parks’ In the Blood follows the efforts of a
modern-day Hester Prynne–a homeless mother of five living under a bridge in a
tough city–as she struggles to keep her children clothed and fed in a derisive
society that scorns them and whose systems of support come with a cost.
Recommended for mature audiences only.
- Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout - Wednesday, April 16, 7:30pm
Family Theater: Based on a deposition signed by fourteen chiefs of
the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian
Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout
is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost
their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their
language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever
having been signed. It is one of the most compellingly tragic cases of
cultural genocide to emerge from the history of colonialism, enacted by four
women whose stories follow each other like the cyclical seasons they
represent. Written in the spirit of Shuswap, a Trickster language within which
the hysterically comic spills over into the unutterably tragic and back, this
play is haunted by the blood of the dead spreading over the landscape like a
red mist of mourning.Recommended for mature audiences only.
- Rose and the Rime - Thursday, April 17, 7:30pm Terrace Theater:
Rose and the Rime is set in the fictional town of Radio Falls, MI, where it is
perpetual winter. The community has been laid waste by the terrible Rime
Witch, and is a world without flowers, apples, mail or dancing—but with an
abundance of snow, wind and ice cream. The shining beacon in the wintry gloom
is a young girl named Rose, who takes it upon herself to make a treacherous
journey to the frozen cave of the witch in the hope of changing her town’s
fate. Recommended for young people and their families.
- House Full of Letters - Saturday, April 19, 7:30pm Family Theater:
Hundreds of years from now, the United States is a barely functioning
fascist regime, a dark and dangerous place to live. A young political rebel is
exiled to a small town where he makes the residents want much more out of
their desperate lives, desires that lead to tragic consequences.
Washington DC Metropolitan Area
Bad Dates
- Olney Theatre Center
- Sign Interpreted:
Wednesday, April 3 at 7:45 pm
- Sign Interpreters: Bobbie Quinn and Alan Marcus
- Tickets and Information:
(301) 924-3400 or
www.olneytheatre.org
- Walk a mile in Haley Walker’s shoes, all 600 pairs! This divorced single
mom moves from Texas to New York and reenters a dating scene more daunting
than breaking-in a new pair of stilettos. A string of rotten romances, Tibetan
Buddhists, and even the Romanian Mafia all get in the way of finding Mr.
Right.
The History
Boys
- The Studio Theatre
- Sign Interpreted:
Saturday April 5 at 2:00 pm
- Sign Interpreters: M. Keith Island & Cheryl Henderson
- Tickets and Information:
(202) 332-3300 (voice) or (202) 667-7267 (TTY), or
www.studiotheatre.org
- The 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Play! Alan Bennett’s sharply funny and
touching comedy goes inside the world of a British boys school, where two
teachers become rivals for the minds and hearts of eight unruly students.
Founding Artistic Director Joy Zinoman re-imagines this warm, brilliant and
epic play, which features a cast of 12.
Hand in Hand
- Imagination Stage’s Deaf Access Company
- April 5 & 6 at 2:00 &
4:00pm at Imagination Stage
- April 12 & 13 at
Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus
- Tickets and Information:
(V) 301-280-1660 or
www.imaginationstage.org
- Imagination Stage’s Deaf Access Program presents Hand in Hand ,
performed by the Deaf Access Company, comprised of deaf and hearing teens.
Join us as the performers tell their tale of The Town Mouse and The
Country Mouse in this highly visual production featuring dance, poems,
and songs, and is performed in sign language and spoken voice. The performance
will be presented in conjunction with Language for the Eye, an
interactive exhibit about deafness and deaf culture created by the National
Children’s Museum and Imagination Stage. Enjoyed by ages 5 and up.
Mary J. Blige
and Jay-Z: Heart of the City Tour
- Verizon Center
- Sign Interpreted:
April 6 at 7:30 pm
- Sign Interpreters: Nicole Pack & Pam Collins
- Tickets and Information:
(202) 661-5065 (v) or (202) 661-5066 (TTY), or 661-5066 (TTY),
http://www.verizoncenter.com/mci_subpages/acc_seating.shtml
- At long last, with over 70 million combined albums sold worldwide and 12
Grammy wins together, Mary J. Blige and JAY-Z announced today that they will
embark on a historic 25-date North American co-headlining tour. The “Mary J.
Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City” tour marks the first time in more than 15
years that an African American male/female bill of this stature have
co-headlined a national concert tour.
Gallaudet
University Theatre Arts Department: Agamemnon
- Gilbert C. Eastman Studio Theatre, located in Elstad Annex at Gallaudet
University
- Performances:
Thursday April 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm; Friday April 11, 2008 at 8:00 pm; Saturday
April 12, 2008 at 2:00 pm AND 8:00 pm; Sunday April 13, 2008 at 2:00 pm;
Thursday April 17, 2008 at 8:00 pm; Friday April 18, 2008 at 8:00 pm; Saturday
April 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm AND 8:00 pm; Sunday April 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm
- Performances will be open captioned for non-signers.
- Tickets
and Information: (202) 651-5500 (voice), (202) 651-5502 (TTY),
theatre.tickets@gallaudet.edu or
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/theatre/
- Humanity at its most savage. AGAMEMNON marks the first time that
Aeschylus' difficult Oresteia trilogy--written in 458 B.C.--will be translated
into American Sign Language and produced specifically for Deaf-deaf
audiences. The play picks up immediately in the Trojan War's aftermath:
Agamemnon, king of Argos and general of the Greek armies, returns home at the
pinnacle of his glories, only to be ambushed and butchered by his wife and her
lover. His son returns to Argos from exile to avenge his father's murder, and
for that act, he is put on trial by the gods: at its heart is the morality of
his deed. The act of vengeance is never without consequence.
- This production
contains intense moments of brutality and violence which are inappropriate for
children under the age of 12.
Beautiful
Tour: Margaret Cho with Special Guests Liam Sullivan and Kelly
- Warner Theatre
- Sign Interpreted:
Friday, April 11 at 7 pm
- Sign Interpreters: Kalen Beck & Jan Nishimura
- Tickets and Information:
To reserve tickets in the sign-interpreted seating section, call (202)
783-4000
- International comic sensation Margaret Cho returns to the Warner Theatre
with her new touring show Beautiful.
A View from
the Bridge
- Arena Stage in the Crystal Forum
- Sign Interpreted:
Sunday, April 13 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, April 24 at 8:00 pm
- Open Captioned:
Wednesday, May 7 at 7:30 pm
- Tickets and Information:
202-488-3300 (voice), 202-484-4380 (TTY) or
www.arenastage.org
- Like Death of a Salesman, this passionate drama about Italian-American
immigrant life in the 1950's also examines the promise and failure of the
American Dream. Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone lives in a tight-knit
Italian neighborhood with his wife Beatrice and orphaned niece Catherine,
whose emerging independence and womanhood disturb him. When two of Beatrice's
impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the country illegally, Catherine falls in
love with one of them and agrees to marry. As he desperately tries to keep his
family from unraveling, Eddie's feelings for his niece turn into an obsession
he can neither understand nor acknowledge. His actions have far-reaching
effects in the community and lead to a climatic confrontation in a tale of
love, betrayal and revenge.
The Stinky
Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales
- Adventure Theatre
- Sign Interpreted:
Sunday, April 20 at 1:30 pm
- Sign Interpreter: Denise Kight
- Tickets and Information:
www.adventuretheatre.org
- The extremely cockeyed—and enormously popular—Caldecott Honor Book is even
more fun when the fairy tales take on lives of their own and go berserk right
on stage! Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella, Jack, the Giant and the Little Red Hen
burst into songs as they find themselves in each other’s stories. Directed by
Steven S. Mazzola
Lord of the
Flies
- Round House Theatre, Inc.
- Sign Interpreted:
Thursday, April 24 at 8:00 pm
- Sign Interpreters:
Bevin McNamara & Steve Phan
- Tickets and Information:
(240) 644-1100 or
www.roundhousetheatre.org
- A group of English schoolboys, marooned on a tropical island, see the dark
side of humanity as they descend into savagery.
1776
- Olney Theatre Center
- Sign Interpreted:
Wednesday, April 24 at 8:00 pm
- Tickets and Information:
(301) 924-3400 or
www.olneytheatre.org
- Finally, a history lesson you won’t sleep through! 1776 is a light-hearted
look at John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson as they grapple
with the Continental Congress and independence from Britain. Inspired by the
words of our founding fathers, this critically acclaimed musical comedy is
filled with lively songs, witty dialogue, and true American spirit. Winner of
the Tony award for Best Musical.
Death of a
Salesman
- Arena Stage in the Crystal Forum
- Sign Interpreted:
Thursday, May 1 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 18 at 7:30 pm
- Captioned: Wednesday,
May 14 at 7:30 pm
- Tickets and Information:
202-488-3300 (voice), 202-484-4380 (TTY) or
www.arenastage.org
- This Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece was hailed by the New York Times
as "one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater."
Exhibiting Miller's skill as a storyteller and social commentator, it has lost
none of its potency or relevance as it examines our national obsession with
wealth and success. In the iconic figures of Linda and Willy Loman, Miller
created two of the most remarkable characters ever seen on a stage. Willy has
made his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine. While chasing his elusive
American Dream, he has put unrelenting pressure on his sons to achieve at all
costs. Faced with the end of his career, he's haunted by missed opportunities
and a troubled past. As the truth unravels, Linda struggles to help her
increasingly desperate husband.
Marisol
- The University of Maryland - Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
- Sign Interpreted:
Sunday, May 4 at 2:00 pm
- Tickets and
Information:(301) 405.-2787 or
www.claricesmithcentre.umd.edu
- Winner of the 1993 Obie Award for playwriting, Rivera’s tale of magical
realism takes us on a harrowing journey through a world gone mad. Abandoned by
her guardian angel, Marisol encounters revolution and social disorder before
discovering compassion, courage and humanity.
Baltimore
A Little Night
Music
- CENTERSTAGE - The Pearlstone Theater
- Sign Interprteted:
Friday, April 11 at 8:00 pm
- Sign Interpreter: Lisa Weems and Monique Holt
- Tickets and Information:
(410) 332-0033 (voice) or
www.centerstage.org
- Set in Sweden at the turn of the 20th century, A Little Night Music tells
the story of middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his new young bride, Anne. One
evening at the theater, Egerman spots Desiree Armfeldt, an actress and former
lover. When the two have an assignation, they are interrupted by Desiree’s ex,
the married Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm. News of the fling reaches Anne.
Meanwhile, Desiree has invited Fredrik and his family to spend a weekend with
her at her country estate. Anne accepts the invitation, while Count Malcolm,
determined not to lose his mistress, decides that he and his wife Charlotte
will attend as well. Once all of the players arrive at the isolated estate,
the stage is set for a sexually charged weekend of thinly veiled accusations
and unexpected revelations.
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