Showing posts with label Alan Sharpe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Sharpe. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Aural Sex at the Kennedy Center this Saturday, August 31st

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African-American Collective Theater (ACT) is blessed to have some of the most supportive, loyal, patient, encouraging, generous, enthusiastic and understanding friends imaginable. 

Over the decades (!) you’ve faithfully followed us from makeshift performance spaces to church basements, to less than ideal, underfunded black box theaters. You’ve put up with box office lines, heat, humidity, “Sold Out” signs, leaky roofs, noise, failing lights, thunderstorms, inadequate sound systems, obscure locations, impossible parking, rickety stairs, dust, overflowing dumpsters, hard folding chairs…and even the occasional mouse.

As a way of expressing our gratitude, I wanted to make especially sure that you guys, our ACT family, all knew about the performance we have coming up this Saturday evening, August 31, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. 

For the third time, we will be returning to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ “Page-to-Stage Festival” this year, with our final performance of “Aural Sex” -- a program featuring readings of six of my short plays, ranging between ten and thirty minutes each. 

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Many of the folks onstage will be familiar to you, along with some new, young, faces making their first ACT appearances. The cast includes: Donald Burch III, Brian Hamlett, Rashard Harrison, Tristan Phillip Hewitt, Stanley Andrew Jackson, Cleavon Meabon IV, Darnell Morris, Juan Raheem, Reginald Richard, David A. Richardson, Michael Sainte-Andress and, of course, Monte J. Wolfe. In addition, Gregory Ford has graciously agreed to provide the narration. 

At last year’s festival appearance, so many of you turned out, that we quickly exceeded the capacity of the relatively small space into which we’d been scheduled. We had to scramble and present two performances of each play, with the incredible overflow audience seated in the huge third floor Grand Foyer, which was definitely less than ideal.

In light of your overwhelming support, as well as a standing-room-only audience earlier this summer, when we presented a version of “Aural Sex” at the DC Black Theater festival – this time Kennedy Center has booked us into the Terrace Theater – a beautiful space with almost 500 seats. 

So, we invite you to join us this coming Saturday evening and spend part of your Labor Day weekend with the rest of our ACT family members at the Kennedy Center, where -- for a change -- you can enjoy comfortable seats, plenty of bathrooms, lots of space, no lines, functioning AC, easy access, including the free shuttle bus from the Georgetown/Foggy Bottom station on METRO’s blue and orange lines, as well as --NOT inexpensive -- garage parking. (Arrive extra early to score any available on-street parking.) 

But “Aural Sex” is still a cheap date, because best of all: 

Admission is completely FREE. No tickets or advance reservations necessary. And, obviously, plenty of seats -- so feel free to bring as many folks as you like. The Kennedy Center is giving us this prestigious spot, so we definitely want to justify their vote of confidence. As usual, suggested for mature audiences, of course. (This is ACT, after all.)

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible Saturday evening and PLEASE -- share this and the attached info to help us spread the word!
Alan Sharpe
 


As always, thanks for having our back!
Alan Sharpe

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Time is running out to experience 11 x 8-1/2 INCHES (Washington D.C.)

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Our 9 p.m. show has sold out.

If you would like to get on the contact list for unclaimed seats or a possible second show please e-mail me.

Thanks for your support!

alan

Director/Writer
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)
& Reflections Media Group
Showcasing BLGBT Life & Culture since 1971

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Alan Sharpe's SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE this Sunday (DC)


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I'm thrilled and so very proud that for the very first time since 1992, the African-American Collective Theater (ACT) annual BLGBT Theater Showcase stage reading of my new play is included as a community partner event and featured on DC Black Pride's Official website! Thanks to Patricia R. Corbett and DCBP for making it possible. Please click the post's title to visit the DC Black Pride website.

Alan Sharpe
Director/Writer
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)
& Reflections Media Group
Showcasing BLGBT Life & Culture since 1971

Monday, May 17, 2010

Alan Sharpe's SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE 5/30 (DC)

Sunday evening, May 30, 2010, African-American Collective Theater (ACT) returns, for its 12th annual Memorial Day Weekend Showcase of BLGBT theater, with a staged-reading of "Something Borrowed, Something Blue" written and directed by ACT founder, Alan Sharpe.

The debut of new work each spring, is a fundraiser for the production company’s various theater and film projects supporting its mission to “…showcase contemporary BLGBT life and culture, promote visibility and raise awareness of issues facing our community.”

Additional details to follow shortly. In the meantime, please...

Save the Date!

Alan Sharpe
Director/Writer
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)
& Reflections Media Group
Showcasing BLGBT Life & Culture since 1971

Please click the post's title to visit the ACT website.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Black Voices: Stories We're Planning To Tell 1/17 (DC)

ARENA STAGE AMERICAN VOICES NEW PLAY INSTITUTE
HOLDS SECOND SYMPOSIUM TO EXPLORE ISSUES ON
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AMERICAN THEATER
Black Voices: Stories We're Planning To Tell
a convening of 30 OF AMERICA 's LEADING BLACK Playwrights

FREE public presentation Sunday, January 17 at 7:30 p.m. at
Georgetown University 's Gonda Theatre.
The Arena Stage American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI) in partnership with Georgetown University 's Theater and Performance Studies Program presents Black Voices: Stories We're Planning to Tell a public presentation following a private, two-day convening of 30 of the nation's leading black playwrights and artistic leaders. The private convening will address the following questions: what stories are black playwrights allowed to tell in American theater today; what are the issues presented in their works; and what are the challenges facing development of new plays by black playwrights?

The public presentation will share discussion points from the convening and will feature Lydia R. Diamond, Marcus Gardley, Paul A.Notice II, Rha Goddess, Daniel Beaty and others personally reading selections from their own works-in-progress. Following the readings, the convening's participating playwrights will be available to answer questions from the audience about the playwrights' experience in the field and their approach to creating new plays.

The free public event will be presented at the Gonda Theatre in the Davis Performing Arts Center ,Georgetown University, Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. Reservations can be made by calling the Arena Stage Sales Office at (202)488-3300.

The public event will also be webcasted live here: http://arenastage. org/about/ news/black- voices.shtml. Questions and comments can also be tweeted to the panelists by using the hashtag #newplay.

The participants of Black Voices: Stories We're Planning to Tell include:
Christina Anderson (Good Gods)
Neil Barclay (CEO, National Black Arts Festival)
Daniel Beaty (Resurrection, Emergence-SEE! )
Pearl Cleage (Blues for an Alabama Sky)
Kia Corthron (Light Raise the Roof)
Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly, The Bluest Eye)
Karen Evans (We MissYou, Executive Director Black Women Playwrights' Group)
Kamilah Forbes (Hip Hop Theater Festival ArtisticDirector)
Farrell Foreman (Playwright, Poet and Dir. of Bear ArtsFoundation)
Marcus Gardley (Every Tongue Must Confess)
Sandra Gibson (President & CEO, Association ofPerforming Arts Presenters)
Rha Goddess (performance artist, LOW: Meditations Trilogy Part 1)
Danai Gurira (Eclipsed and co-author of In the Continuum)
Katori Hall (TheMountaintop)
Paul Carter Harrison (The Drama of Nommo)
Jacqueline Lawton (Blood-bound and Tongue-tied)
Jennifer Nelson (African Continuum Theater FoundingArtistic Director)
Paul A. Notice II (Nicole & Anthony)
Lynn Nottage (Pultizer Prize-winner of Ruined)
Robert O'Hara (Antebellum, dir. of world premiere of Brother/Sister Plays)
Psalmayene 24 (Zomo the Rabbit-A Hip-Hop Creation Myth)
Nikkole Salter (co-author of In the Continuum)
Regina Taylor (Crowns)Dominic Taylor (PersonalHistory, Associate Artistic Director Penumbra Theatre)
David Emerson Toney (Kingdom)
Shay Wafer (VP of Programming, August Wilson Center for AfricanAmerican Culture)
Talvin Wilks (An American Triptych, 2009 coordinator for the Black TheaterInitiative)
Tracey Scott Wilson (The Good Negro)
Alan Sharpe
Director/Writer
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)
& Reflections Media GroupShowcasing BLGBT Life & Culture since 1971