READINGS
Places
The Alla Nazimova Story
Written & Performed by Romy Nordlinger
2019 Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
Saturday, August 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Family Theater
Directed by Cailin Heffernan
The theater and silent film legend returns to set the record straight about her battles with bigotry, misogyny, and homophobia, and remind us that the fight for justice and equality for everyone is far from over.
Lake Effect
By Richard Brockman
2018 Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
Saturday, September 1 at 3 p.m. in the Bird Room
Directed by Kelsey D. Phelps
The cold and stormy weekend on Lake Geneva when Mary Shelley created Frankenstein, of The Modern Prometheus.
Farm Hall
By David C. Cassidy
Monday, November 20, 2017 - 7 p.m.
@ Carnegie Science
1530 P Street, NW | Washington, DC 20005
Directed by Kurt Elftmann
As World War II draws to a close the leading minds of the Nazi atomic weapons program are held in secret at a remote manor house in the English countryside.
Emilie's Voltaire
By Arthur Giron
Friday, November 10, 2017 - 7 p.m.
@ The Alliance Française of Washington, DC
2142 Wyoming Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Directed by Kelsey D. Phelps
From the first tempestuous night they found a passion that bound two kindred hearts and minds together for a lifetime.
Reykjavik
By Richard Rhodes
2017 Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
Monday, September 4 at 4:30 p.m.
Directed by Kelsey D. Phelps
In 1986 at the height of the Cold War President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev met in Iceland to decide the future of the nuclear arms race. Despite mutual suspicion, politics, a huge bluff and no agreement, a friendship was formed that would change the course of history.
Reykjavik
By Richard Rhodes
@ The Meeting of the American Physical Society
Sponsored by: The Forum on the History of Physics, The Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public and The Forum on Physics and Society
Sunday, January 29, 2017 - 8 p.m.
Wardman Park Marriott
Washington, DC
Directed by Kelsey D. Phelps
In 1986 at the height of the Cold War President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev met in Iceland to decide the future of the nuclear arms race. Despite mutual suspicion, politics, a huge bluff and no agreement, a friendship was formed that would change the course of history.
Strings
By Carole Bugge
2016 Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
Monday, September 5 at 7:00 PM at the Millennium Stage South
Directed by Stevie Zimmerman
A new draft born out of Tonic's 2015 P2S reading audience feedback. Riffing on a real-life train ride in which American physicists Burt Ovrut and Paul Steinhardt and English physicist Neil Turok tweaked the Big Bang theory, changing it forever. En route from Cambridge to London, the fictional trio discusses science, explores old jealousies and infidelities and is visited by famous dead scientists Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Max Planck.
Contains strong language and adult subject matter.
Dahlia
By P. Seth Bauer
2016 Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
Saturday, September 3 at 6:00 PM in the Russian Lounge
No reservations required
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
Directed by Kelsey Phelps
Josh struggles with his own memories and with evidence, published by his Uncle Steve Hodel in Black Dahlia Avenger, that his Grandfather George Hodel was responsible for the 1947 Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short. Could his grandfather be responsible for the gruesome, macabre and unsolved crime? (not for children)
Contains strong language and adult subject matter.
Moving Bodies
By Arthur Giron
Monday, December 7, 2015 - 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20418
Directed by Rachael Murray
Stage Manager: Julie DeBakey Smith
Join Tonic Theater Company at the National Academy of Sciences for a free reading of Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron on Monday, December 7 at 6:30 p.m. Presented in partnership with Cultural Projects of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS), there will be a post reading discussion with the playwright. Giron, recently represented on Broadway by his book for the musical Amazing Grace, has crafted a beautiful play about the life of outspoken scientist, and bongo player, Richard "Dick" Feynman, taking us from his youth as a science enthusiast to his strong criticisms, as a member of the Rogers Commission, of the political minds that ultimately caused the shuttle Challenger disaster.
Moving Bodies was commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Strings
By Carole Bugge
2015 Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival.
Saturday, September 5 at 4:00 PM in the Israeli Lounge
No reservations required
A brief conversation with the playwright, director and cast will take place from 5:30 - 5:45 PM.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/XPPPS
Directed by Stevie Zimmerman
Loosely riffing on a real-life train ride in which American physicist Burt Ovrut, Paul Steinhardt and English physicist Neil Turok tweaked the Big Bang theory, changing it forever. En route from Cambridge to London, the fictional trio discusses science, explores old jealousies and infidelities and is visited by famous dead scientists Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Max Planck.
Contains strong language and adult subject matter.
Darwin at Down
By Gino DiIorio
2014 Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
Monday, September 1 at 1:00 P.M in the Family Theater
A brief conversation with the playwright, director and cast will take place from 2:45 - 3:00 P.M.
Directed by Rachael Murray
Charles Darwin struggles with his decision to write On the Origin of Species. His wife Emma objects, fearing they will be punished by God for challenging the Biblical account of The Creation. When their daughter Anne falls suddenly and mysteriously ill, it seems that Emma's worst fears are confirmed and the disagreement between Charles and Emma boils over.
Peace, Freedom, Bankruptcy
By Ernie Joselovitz
Tonic Theater Company @ The Playwright's Forum
Monday, August 5, 2013 at 7:00
The Playwright's Forum: Iona Senior Services Center
4125 Albemarle St, NW, Washington, DC 20016
Directed by Gillian Drake
Benjamin Franklin and John Adams don't exactly see eye to eye - on anything. John Jay just has to manage their "delicate" relationship... and help negotiate a peace with England, establish the borders of a whole new country, fund that country, navigate French intrigue and, of course, deal with a dysfunctional Congress. It makes the Federalist Papers sound easy.
Readings from:
Emilie's Voltaire - By Arthur Giron - Directed by Alex Polmer
Lake Effect - By Richard Brockman - Directed by Jennifer J. Hopkins
Monday, April 1, 2013 at 7:00pm
The Getaway
Columbia Heights
We'll visit the stormy weekend when Mary Shelley built her Modern Prometheus and the tempestuous night that bound two kindred hearts and minds together for a lifetime.
T.J.
By Mark Dunn
Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7pm
The Getaway
Columbia Heights
Director: Gillian Drake
Full title of the play:
"T.J.
or
THE PUBLICK AND PRIVATE INTRIGUES
OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS ILLUSTRIOUS CIRCLE
a quasi-historical tragicomedy in two acts"
Join us as we explore what the history of the Founding Fathers might look like if some of those rumors and myths about them were true.
Darwin at Down
By Gino DiIorio
Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 7pm
The Getaway
1400 Meridian Place NW
2nd Floor
Columbia Heights
Director: Gillian Drake
Synopsis: In 1849 Charles Darwin is in a race against time. Over the objections of his wife, Emma, he has begun writing his book, “On the Origin of Species”. Charles knows that other scientists are working to publish about this problem and that this work will change scientific inquiry forever. Emma fears that God will smite them for challenging belief in the creation. When Annie, Darwin’s young daughter, suddenly contracts a serious illness but Charles continues his work, the rift between Emma and Charles grows.
