Rainbow Theatre Project

in residence at
DCAC
(District of Columbia Arts Center)

Production

August 16–September 15, 2018

In the Closet (a metaphysical comedy) • by Siegmund Fuchs • Director: H. Lee Gable • World Premiere

Tickets: $35

Four men at the different ages of man look at their life in the place where all gay men begin, in the closet.

Performance

November 23–24, 2018

A Deafening Sound • a cabaret Directed & performed by Jeffrey Higgins

On November 8th, 2015 Jeffrey Higgins was fired from his singing job in the Archdiocese of Washington for being a gay, married man. After a short battle with the Church, Jeffrey left music behind, finding it too painful to relive his sacking with every note he sang. A Deafening Sound is his return to the musical world. Using music from several genres, Jeffrey will tell a deeply personal story of shame, depression, love, and the climb back to stable ground.

Production

January 17–February 10, 2019

Jeffrey • by Paul Rudnick • Director: Robert Mintz

When did we begin to remember to laugh and celebrate life? Jeffrey is a young New Yorker who says he wants love, but is afraid of making a commitment. He is surrounded by friends who, in their own unique, outrageous and stylish way, tell him to live for the present and let the future take care of itself.

Production

April 4–28, 2019

Clothes for a Summer Hotel • by Tennessee Williams • Director: Greg Stevens

The lives of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are viewed through the eyes of the master story teller. A ghost story, by the one and only Tennessee Williams.

Performance

May 31–June 2, 2019

Stonewall 50 • director: Stephanie Kelly

An eclectic celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall.

Quote for the 2018–2019 Season from the Artistic Director:

We are now entering our sixth season as a theatre company and part of me can’t believe we have made it this far.  I marvel at what we have accomplished. We have pursued new plays and reached deep into the classical canon to present older plays that are not often seen. We have presented individual performances by members of LGBTQ community, from cabarets to drag shows. We have told the stories from our community about the military, about women, about LatinX youth. We have told stories about being transgender, being a person of color, about being a Muslim. We have told stories about love and about being discriminated.

As we move into our next season, we continue our efforts with presenting In The Closet (a world premiere) which deals with gay men as they progress from the scary but exciting times of our youth to our senior years. We dig into our recent past with Jeffrey, an AIDS play that allows us to laugh and reminds us of the time when we started to learn to live with AIDS rather than die from it. We explore the Tennessee Williams catalogue with his last Broadway play, the little seen Clothes for a Summer Hotel, his ghost story about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.  Over the Thanksgiving weekend, we are presenting Jeffrey Higgins in his original cabaret A Deafening Sound. This will be Jeffrey Higgins' first public appearance in more than two years. We end the season with a three day celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Stonewall 50 is an original anthology of stories, poems, and songs all centered in the world of the Stonewall Inn.

Our continuing goal is to present as different and diverse collection of work that best entertains and represents the nature of the LGBTQ community, our community.

-H. Lee Gable

Venue

DCAC (District of Columbia Arts Center)

2438 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009

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