2011
LATIN AMERICA...
PASSION FOR THEATER!
2012

21st

Season


Calendar of Activities


Previous Activities


Summer Bilingual

Theater Workshops

for children 6 – 11 years old

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth

Metro Station -Green Line)

Would you like to make puppets? Write plays, poems and songs? Would you like to learn mime-clown techniques? Then come have fun this summer at Teatro de la Luna!

Weekly Series (Choose the Sessions)
July 11 - 15     July 18 - 22      July 25 - 29
August 1 - 5      August 8 - 12      August 15 - 19, 2011
Each session will end with a performance for parents & friends
Morning session  ● 9am - 12 noon
Afternoon session ● 1pm - 4pm
All Day ● 9am - 4pm
Cost: $150 per session (morning or afternoon)
$200 per session (all day)

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227


AUDITIONS

2011-2012

               Season

LATIN AMERICA...

PASSION FOR THEATER!”

TEATRO DE LA LUNA invites Spanish-speaking actors over 18 to audition for its 21st season. The season will include its two mainstage productions, playreading performances and daytime children’s shows.

WHEN: Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 11am to 4pm

Monday, August 29, 2011 - 5pm to 9pm

WHERE: Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Ave., NW Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth Metro Station -Green Line)

Interested actors should prepare a monologue or poem in Spanish, no longer than two minutes.

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227 / 703-548-3092


Arpas de América

Latin American Harp Festival

Harp Concerts

Artistic direction Berta Rojas

September, Friday 16 and

Saturday 17, 2011 - 7:30pm

at Gunston Arts Center  -  Theatre 1

2700 South Lang St., Arlington, VA 22206

Two unforgettable nights! An incomparable musical gift! Not only heavenly music, but devilishly complex, unique sounds by three superb harpists.

All funds raised benefit the 14th International Festival of Hispanic Theater


World Poetry

Movement

& International Network

of Poetry Festivals

Saturday, September 24, 2011 (3pm-5pm)

at Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth Metro Station - Green Line)

Teatro de la Luna's Poetry Marathon answering the call of The World Poetry Movement and the International Network of Poetry Festivals invites all poets and poetry lovers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to come together for a poetry reading in defense of life and the earth.

That same day we will be in tune with 100,000 poets and readers in 350 cities all over the world.

Signing up upon arriving

(No more than a page per poem in English or Spanish)


Creole Peruvian Music

DAYAN ALDANA

in

HOMAGE

TO PERU

Saturday, September 24, 2011 (8pm)

at Gunston Arts Center  -  Theatre 1

2700 South Lang St., Arlington, VA 22206

More than 40 artists: Matices - Ritmos del Perú - Mamauca - Raíces y Expresiones - Garbo y Salero - Marinera Live: Alfredo Dinatale y Giancarlo Bozzo and many more! Master of Ceremonies Alfonso Reyes.


PLAYREADING
Nuestro Fin de Semana

Our Weekend

by Roberto Cossa

 directed by Mario Marcel

In Spanish Only
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 6:30pm

at the Embassy of Argentina - Oval Hall

1600 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009
(Dupont Circle Metro Station - ‘Red’ Line )

A permanent struggle for growth, to get somewhere, without letting go, to be real. A life between friends – between those who fight to arrive and those who fight to survive. The weariness and boredom of those who inherit promises and opportunities.

A discussion will follow the playreading between the audience, actors and director. The evening will culminate with a Vin d’honneur.

FREE ADMISSION  -  Space is Limited

Reservations Strongly Encouraged: 202-882-6227
This program is organized jointly with the Embassy of Argentina
and receives the support of DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

at Gunston Arts Center  -  Theatre 2

2700 South Lang St., Arlington, VA 22206

In Spanish with live English dubbing

A one-of-a-kind spectacle as only you deserve! Enjoy the most evocative theater from our countries; the best of the Americas in this great festival of Hispanic Theater, with something for everyone’s theatrical passion, every public, all ages and all tastes!


Bilingual Theater

Workshops

for children 6 – 11 years old

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth

Metro Station -Green Line)

Do you like theater?... Do you like puppets?... Would you like to write your own play?

So... come have fun with Teatro de la Luna’s world of theater!

Saturdays 9:30am - 11:30am
September 24 - October 29, 2011
November 5 - December 17, 2011
March 17 - April 28, 2012

Cost: $150 per series

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227


CHILDREN'S

THEATER FESTIVAL

Saturday, January 21, 2012

11am - 5pm

All activities are bilingual

at Rosslyn Spectrum

1611 North Kent St. "LL" Level, Arlington, VA 22209

(Rosslyn Metro Station – ‘Orange’ and ‘Blue’ Lines)

A full day of theater and much more!

Have fun, enjoy & share in the excitement!

See Program of Events

Six hours of theater and other activities
to delight the entire family.
Adults $15; children under 13 $10 & under 4 FREE!

Noche de Boleros

A Night of Romance 

for Valentine’s Day

Saturday, January 28, 2012

7:00pm - 10:30pm

at NRECA Conference Center

4301 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22203

(Free underground parking)

(Ballston Metro Station - ‘Orange’ Line)

Join the magical voices of Fabiola Echazabal, Katy Leon, Alex Alburqueque, Pablo Henrich and Luis Wanderlinder as they sing well-known Spanish-language love songs, with Jeffery Watson (piano) and Pedrito Gaona (harp).

Teatro de la Luna invites all music lovers – and in particular those who love romance with their music – to join us in a bacchanalia of traditional and unforgettable Boleros. This might even warm your special person up for Valentine’s Day as you sip a glass of wine and dance the evening away to the passion and romance that is the Bolero.

Seating is cabaret style. A cash bar and concession of typical foods will be available.

TICKETS: $30; $25 Students and Senior Citizens (over 60)

El Abrazo Lunar
The Moon's Embrace

Feb. 23 - Mar. 17, 2012

at Gunston Arts Center  -  Theatre 2

2700 South Lang St., Arlington, VA 22206

In Spanish with live English dubbing

Costa Rica’s Teatro La Polea returns with its sensational hit, The Immigrant by César Meléndez. Direct from Spain, Factoría Teatro presents Family Under Construction by Gonzala Martin Sherman. From Argentina, comedian Perla Laske brings I Can’t Live Without a Maid. And our last "embrace" marks the return of Uruguay’s No. 1 comedian, Petru Valenski, in Petru: All By Himself, a U.S. premiere by Omar Varela.


Las Quiero a las Dos

I Want Them Both

by Ricardo Talesnik (Argentina)

directed by Mario Marcel (Argentina)

May 10 - June 2, 2012

at Gunston Arts Center  -  Theatre 2

2700 South Lang St., Arlington, VA 22206

In Spanish with English Surtitles

In times of crisis…in marriages there is also crisis…In a delightful comedy, the classic situation of the love triangle unfolds in a theatrical game. VERY CLEVER!

Comedy   -   Area Première   -   Ages: 13+


20th Poetry

Marathon

"La Pluma y la Palabra"

THE PEN AND THE WORD

In Spanish only

Friday, June 8, 2012 (1:30pm-3:30pm)

at the Library of Congress

Mary Pickford Theater  -  3rd Floor, James Madison Building

Independence Ave. & 1st Street, SE, Washington, DC 20540

(Capitol South Metro Station – ‘Orange’ and ‘Blue’ Lines)

Saturday, June 9, 2012 (2pm-8pm)

at the Embassy of Uruguay

1913 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20006

(Metro Stations: Farragut North  - ‘Red’ Line

Farragut West - ‘Orange’ and ‘Blue’ Lines)

The visiting poets who are bringing us and other faithful devotees of poetry the freshest in Hispanic poetry: Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Gladys Ilarregui (Argentina), Consuelo Hernández (Colombia), Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Orlando Rossardi (Cuba), José Mármol (Dominican Republic), Ernesto Lumbreras (Mexico), Naomi Ayala (Puerto Rico), Fernando Beltrán, Eduardo Moga, José Carlos Rosales (Spain) and Saúl Ibargoyen (Uruguay).

If you would like to share your own poetry in Spanish with the audience, or read your favorite poem, please send it by fax at 202-291-2357 or email: info@teatrodelaluna.org by June 1 (space is limited.)

(Program of Events)

This project is supported in part by DC Commission

 on the Arts and Humanities and the Embassy of Uruguay.


PLAYREADING
Made in Lanús
by Nelly Fernández Tiscornia

 directed by Mario Marcel

In Spanish Only
Friday, June 15, 2012 - 6:30pm

at the Embassy of Argentina - Oval Hall

1600 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009
(Dupont Circle Metro Station - ‘Red’ Line)

A timeliness and a relevance to the classics are found in this text, which speaks to us of the intimate turbulence of banishment, of exile. The uprooting, the feeling and pride for the land that saw our birth, unforgettable and indelible topics... and with humor that touches us to the core.

A discussion will follow the playreading between the audience, actors and director. The evening will culminate with a Vin d’honneur.

FREE ADMISSION  -  Space is Limited

Reservations Strongly Encouraged: 202-882-6227
This program is organized jointly with the Embassy of Argentina.