Beyond the Stage

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The Seagull on 16th Street

Audience Enrichment Events

 

Theater J offers a variety of programs to engage our audience beyond the stage.  Below is the current schedule of Artistic Director Roundtables, Peace Cafes and Cast Talk Backs.  We can also develop additional programs tailored for your group to be held either here at the theater or we can bring the program to you. 

Contact Shirley Serotsky at (202) 777-3228 or email her with any further questions.

THESE ARE FREE DISCUSSIONS AND OPEN TO ALL

 

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S ROUNDTABLES            

 *Sunday Discussions are approx. at 5:30 pm following the matinee, and Thursday Discussions are approx. at 10:00 pm following the 7:30 pm show.

Sunday, June 21:  A Discussion with the Artistic Team

Thursday, June 25:  Cast Talk-Back

Sunday, June 28:  The Russian Soul - Directing Chekhov 

  • Derek Goldman, Freelance Director; Theater and Performance Studies Program at Georgetown University
  • Kasi  Campbell, Freelance Director; Theater Professor at Howard Community College
  • Paata Tsikurishvili, Artistic Director, Synetic Theater

 

Thursday, July 2:  Where Are We?  16th Street and This Seagull

Sunday, July 5:  Pieces of Chekhov -- Treplev, Trigorin, Dr. Dorn and Nina

  • Jeffrey Sichel, Stage Director, Writer, Professor (Catholic University)
  • Catherine Schuler Professor of Russian Theatre, University of Maryland at College Park

 

Thursday, July 9:  The Translator's Dilemma

  • Elena Lozinsky, Translator and Professor, University of Maryland at College Park

 

Sunday, July 12:  "New Forms"  -- Adapting the Classics

  • Joe Banno, Former Artistic Director of Source Theater, Freelance Director
  • Jackie Lawton, playwright and dramaturg
  • Jason Loewith, playwright and adapter, Executive Director of the National New Play Network

 

Thursday, July 16:  Cast Talk-Back

Sunday, July 19:  Treplev's Vision -- And Ours.  A Jewish Theater's Mission


 

 

Theater J and Washington DCJCC Rapid Responsa presents:

 

A Discussion with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak: 
The Presidential Elections in Iran and the Violent Government Response to Student Protests

June 24, 2009 at 10:00 pm
(Following the performance of The Seagull on 16th Street)

 

Join Mahmood Karimi-Hakak (Co-creator of Benedictus: An Iran-Israel-US Collaboration, produced at Theater J's Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival in March 2009) as he shares his insights into the recent Presidential Elections in Iran and the aggressive government response to the protests that continue to rage.

 

Mahmood Karimi-Hakak is the Artistic Director of Mahak International Artists Inc. and a Professor of Creative Arts at Siena College, has written, produced, directed, designed and/or acted in over 50 stage and screen plays in the U.S., Europe and his native Iran. His plays and films have received international acclaim and awards at such festivals as Edinburgh, Netherlands, Berlin, Delhi, Montreal, New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Springs, Maryland and Tehran. A recipient of the 2005 Raymond C. Kennedy Award, Dr. Karimi-Hakak’s literary credits include five plays, two books of poetry, several translations from and into Persian and numerous articles and interviews both in English and Persian. Prior to his tenure at Siena, he taught theatre in Belgium, Germany and his native Iran, as well as CUNY, Towson and Southern Methodist Universities here in the U.S. and served as Artistic Director of Community of International Artists (CIA), Forough Ensemble (FE) and Creative Arts Street Theatre (CAST).