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"From Prison to the Stage" at Kennedy Center

by David Guard, July 09, 2008, 12:56pm
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[Courtesy of Prisons Foundation] The year's most exciting stage presentation is now being rehearsed and finalized. Please mark your calendar for an evening of great theater featuring the work of prisoner and ex-prisoner playwrights: Sat. Aug 30, 8 pm, Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center. Free admission. Presented as part of the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Festival. See below for a listing of the five plays that will be performed. Also, pick up the next (August) edition of Washingtonian Magazine for more preview information. From Prison to the Stage: Six Felons, Five Plays Road 2 Redempshun by Shelton Land Laws Of The STREET by Lamont Carey This is Serious by Ramone Ringo Fernandez Stitch in Time by Lee Amiralt and Dennis Sobin The Monkey Trap by 1 Wise African aka Joseph Briggs Producer: Lloyd S. Rubin Directors: Jahi Foster-Bey and Anita Winston Music Director: Kevin Horrocks Stage Manager: Christopher Bryant
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Washington, DC
United States
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Murder In DC

by Anonymous, September 02, 2008, 12:13pm

A group of at least 20 actors amazed us all at the Kennedy Center’s Page To The Stage Festival 08 with a brilliant performance of a play entitled “Laws Of The STREET”! The play was about a young African American Teenager who was had a rough life and tried to change but change was impossible. He ended up dying. This story and the elements that went along with this young man’s journey left me near tears. This was a powerful social performance. The entire cast was outstanding. I went to their website and saw that this is actually a TV show. This is brilliant. I advise that you visit these talented artists website: www.lawsofthestreet.com.

I don’t know if you all will ever see this but I am a fan! Congratulations and keep up the good deeds.

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