MetroStage presents 365 Days/ 365 Plays

MetroStage presents two entertaining events in one evening –
365 Days/ 365 Plays followed by Bricktop – a sizzling new cabaret

Thursday, February 1, 2007
7:00pm
Tickets: FREE

In November 2002, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks sat down and committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days. The world premiere of this play cycle will be performed as a year-long national festival simultaneously in 14 major cities and communities around the country by over 600 theatres in the largest theatre collaboration in U.S. History. 365 Days/ 365 Plays runs from November 13, 2006 to November 12, 2007. MetroStage will perform all 7 plays on one night, Thursday, February 1, at 7pm, with direction by Michael Bobbitt.

Stay for Bricktop (at 8pm) and get tickets
for a special price: $25 (Students: $20)

Bricktop, a sizzling new cabaret

Happy New Year!!

It's been awhile and I haven't been good at keeping up our blog, but I promise to do better this year. If you haven't checked out our website, we've added some new and exciting features that I think you will like- a calendar, past seasons, metro information, etc.

And check out information on our current production under "Now Playing", Bricktop- a sizzling new cabaret which opened January 17th. Audience members are loving the show as they leave saying, "You've done it again!," "What great music!," "...such an excellent cast, where did you find them?" They are being called "The Other Dreamgirls." Another critic said there was enough energy and talent in this production to light up DC for a fortnight!

Everybody who was anybody frequented Bricktop's club in Paris in the 1920's. Come to MetroStage for a "party to end all parties." Bricktop and friends Mabel Mercer, Alberta Hunter, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and more sing, dance, party and tell the remarkable story of these artists during the Jazz Age and the lasting impact of their music.

Bricktop runs until February 25, 2007 with performances Wednesday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 5:30 and 8:30pm, and Sunday at 3:00 and 7:00pm.

Come see for yourself.

SPECIAL OFFER WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY this week only (Janurary 24 and 25)
$20 tickets (CODE: Let's Party at Bricktops)
Call 703-548-9044

Catherine Flye performs at the Canadian Embassy

MetroStage

will present

SHAKESPEARE'S WILL
as part of the
Shakespeare in Washington Festival
Friday, February 9, 2007 • 8:00pm

By Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen
Directed by John Vreeke
Starring Catherine Flye as Anne Hathaway

This remarkable one-woman play is Anne Hathaway’s provocative recollection of her life as the wife of William Shakespeare on the eve following his funeral. The production exposes the woman who had a life and dreams of her own as she raised Shakespeare’s children alone in Stratford while the Bard wrote the greatest plays of all time in London, separate and apart from his wife and children.

A reception follows the performance.

Canadian Embassy

501 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,

Washington, DC.

Metro: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square

This production is sponsored by the Canadian Embassy. MetroStage has produced many Canadian plays including Bea’s Niece, One Good Marriage, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl and Filler Up.