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Wed, Oct 2, 2013

10/2/2013

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Oct 1

7:27 pm

Jada F. Smith




The Ford’s Theater Society receives no federal financing and employs no federal workers, but the site where President Abraham Lincoln was shot has been barred from hosting any shows or performances during the government shutdown.

“Lincoln Legacy” events are being rescheduled or canceled, and Tuesday night’s performance of “The Laramie Project,” about the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo., was moved to the Woolly Mammoth Theater.

The society, a private nonprofit group, continued its performances during the last government shutdown 17 years ago. But officials with the group said they had received conflicting messages over the last few days about whether the theater — a national historic site owned by the federal government but run by the society — would stay open during the shutdown.

“I think the reality is there were cooler heads prevailing back then,” Paul Tetreault, the society’s director, said of the shutdown in 1996. “We believe that the costs the federal government incurs from Ford’s Theater are negligible. We gave assurances that we would reimburse them for any of those costs. But these decisions are not being made by logical or practical matters, and are being made by ideological matters. Our patrons and employees are being taken in as pieces in a greater chess game.”

The theater’s Center for Education and Leadership, which is across the street from the theater and is owned by the society, will remain open for daytime visits, including two floors of exhibits about Lincoln’s assassination and legacy.


http://www.nytimes.com/news/fiscal-crisis/2013/10/01/performances-canceled-at-fords-theater/?_r=0

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PWYC 10/3

9/30/2013

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Thursday, October 3 at 8:00p: PWYC Preview of THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY by Tennessee Williams. Presented by Spooky Action Theatre  at Universalist Church, 1810 16th St. NW.  Street parking free after 6:30pm & wkends. Free parking Fri/Sat eve perfs. in Masonic Temple lot.  www.spookyaction.org  202-248-0301.

Sibling rivalry, compassion and dark humor intersect w phantasmagoria and madness in highly autobiographical play Williams called "my most beautiful since Streetcar."  Artistic Dir. Richard Henrich directs veteran local actors Lee Mikeska Gardner and David Bryan Jackson as rival sibling actors stranded in State Theater.

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Ticket Offer!

9/26/2013

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FREE TICKETS to Opening Night at Olney Theatre Center.

RANCHO MIRAGE
By Steven Dietz
Directed by Jason Loewith


Join us Saturday, September 28th at 8:00pm as we celebrate the opening of this biting black comedy about what happens when the fictions that hold our lives together are exposed. In Dietz's sharp and surprising sojourn into the 2013 American psyche - where affluence is perhaps our greatest mirage- three couples find themselves at a dinner party where everyone finally decides to tell the truth.


To reserve complimentary tickets to this world premiere, email mdouglas at olneytheatre dot org with your full name and number of tickets requested. Space is limited.



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