Beltway Drama Series

01/02/2013

We have a fifth play in the line up for January 16: A Dead Mouse On Your Doorstep by Malcolm Pelles. What happens when a relic from the Civil Rights Movement tries to buy cat food?

12/14/2012

The next Beltway Drama Series show will be an Evening of Shorts:

Catherine O'Connor, Joan and Jihad
Jack Novak, Ultimate Success Story
Robert Montenegro, The Laundryman
John Feffer, Live from Abu Ghraib

Join us on January 16 at 7 pm at the Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville!

06/14/2012

Another great turnout for four great plays last night -- thanks to everyone who has made the debut of the Beltway Drama Series a grand success! We'll keep you updated over the summer about the next season, which will begin in September. Spread the word to your playwright friends about the next submission deadline: July 16.

06/14/2012

The playwrights from An Evening of Shorts talk back...

06/14/2012

The audience last night for An Evening of Shorts

05/21/2012

The Beltway Drama Series is accepting submissions for our second season showcasing the work of DC Metro-area playwrights. The productions will take place at the Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, MD (on Route 1 just south of College Park) beginning in September 2012.

We are looking for local playwrights who want to stage readings, put on 10-minute or one-act plays, do monologues/performances, or mount full-length plays. All playwrights are responsible for assembling everything they need for the event: readers, actors, props, tech people, promotion. Busboys will provide the stage, lighting, and sound. We will help with promotion and organizing a post-show talk-back.

We are accepting all types of drama, but they have to meet the following criteria:

1) They must be by a DC-area playwright;
2) They must address social justice, political, or international issues;
3) They must fit on the rather small stage in the Zinn Room at the Hyattsville Busboys and Poets.
4) They should also be “shovel-ready.” In other words, we’re looking for works that can be staged (or read) with a relatively short turn-around time.
5) Finally, we are putting an emphasis on diversity – a variety of different forms, of issues tackled, and of the playwrights themselves.

The deadline for submission is July 16, 2012. Decisions will be made by August 13.

To qualify as a submission, we need

• The full script, in Word or PDF by email
• A 50-word biography
• Short explanation of how the submission meets the five series criteria listed above
• Contact information on a title page

Please send your script to [email protected] by July 16, 2012.

04/16/2012

It was a great reading last night of A Patch of Earth! Next up is Patricia Davis's Alternative Methods on May 29 at 7 pm. Our fourth production will An Evening of Shorts on June 13, also at 7 pm

03/14/2012

And here's the piece in The Washington Post!

A play starring Newt Gingrich’s le***an activist sister explores her relationship with her conservative politician brother.

03/12/2012

A great write-up in the City Paper!

Arts Desk is Washington City Paper's blog about D.C. music, film, theater, books, and performance.

02/24/2012

First article on the Beltway Drama Series

In the new play, Accidental Activist, Newt Gingrich is certainly a central character. But he is upstaged by his le***an half-sister Candace. The two have had a sometimes combative, sometimes affectionate , and sometimes public sibling rivalry ever since Candace came out in 1988 and became a leading ...

02/10/2012

The Beltway Drama Series is excited to announce the selections for its first four programs at the Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville:

Wednesday, March 14 (7 pm): Accidental Activist by Rebecca Gingrich-Jones

Saturday, April 14 (5 pm): A Patch of Earth by Kitty Felde

May (date and time TBA): An Evening of Shorts (Reeducating Roses by Amanda Andrei, Ceasefire Chowmein by Patrick Bussink, Choreography of Cyn and Marta by Rich Espey, Si, Se Puede by Mary Watters, Dancing with Bob by Sybil Williams)

June (date and time TBA): Alternative Methods by Patricia Davis

Stay tuned for more details.

01/19/2012

Deadline for submissions extended to Sunday, January 22!