Join those in-the-know. Studio Special Events and Studio 2ndstage bring to Washington to one-of-a-kind performances that run from irreverent to touching, not seen anywhere else outside of New York!
 
Studio Theatre Special Events!

TYNAN
by Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers
based on the Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
by Arrangement with Tracy Tynan and Carol Baum
directed by Paul Mullins
starring Philip Goodwin
January 19, 2011 – February 6, 2011
In the Metheny Theatre

Feed your secret voyeur with an inside look at the twisted and incisive mind of Kenneth Tynan, arguably the twentieth century’s greatest theatre critic. This Englishman unapologetically divulges all—from his own scandalous love affairs to celebrity dirt.

PENELOPE
by Enda Walsh
a Druid, Ireland production
directed by Mikel Murfi
opening March 15, 2011

“This is extraordinary theatre!”
—The Sunday Independent

At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four jealous suitors dressed in Speedos and terrycloth robes woo a beautiful young woman. In Enda Walsh’s extraordinary riff on Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope’s surviving admirers tangle with prophecy and mortality as they contemplate the return of her husband…and the end of their lives.

THE HISTORY OF KISSES
Written and performed by David Cale
World Premiere
June 15, 2011 – July 3, 2011
In the Metheny Theatre

“David Cale...is a spellbinder. Fascinating as he is to watch, and exquisite as his verbal imagery can be, it is Cale’s gifts as a storyteller that hold an audience rapt.”
– San Francisco Chronicle

A writer sequesters himself in a seaside motel to finish his collection of erotic stories, only to get drawn into the romantic and sexual goings-on in the motel. His distractions range from the Australian surfer who works the check-in desk to an English folk singer rehearsing a concert of sea shanties in the room next door in this lyrical meditation on the nature of fate and desire.