Rainbow Theatre Project Sets 2015-16 Season

The Rainbow Theatre Project, D.C.'s premier theatre for the LGBTQ community, is pleased to announce their third season. Comprised of a cabaret, three staged readings, a musical revue and two poignant special performances, this season's body of work will highlight, reflect and embrace the LGBTQ experience by addressing issues of struggle and survival.

"It has seemed to me that for every step forward we make as a community, someone is there trying to push us back," muses Producing Artistic Director H. Lee Gable. "These plays, for the most part, show that the arguments that were used to deny us basic human rights are the same arguments being used to try to take away those rights that we have achieved. The more things change the more things stay the same. These plays also highlight that under the most stressful of situation we, as a community, find strength in our friends, and the humor to survive with dignity and love in ourselves."

The season is book-ended by two musical celebrations of hope and love. Renowned drag artist Billy L'Amour kicks things off with An Evening of Burlesque and Jazz at Source on November 30; and Tom Wilson Weinberg's musical revue, Get Used To It!, overlaps with Pride Month when it closes the season next June at Flashpoint.

Rainbow Theatre Project will also be bringing back its popular "Generation Q" staged reading series,
which matches new voices with classic works from the LGBTQ cannon. These readings include presentations of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing and Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey. Each reading will be paired with a brand new short play, commissioned especially for the series. Six new works will be presented in total, with three being presented during the run of Get Used to It!. Gable shares that this season's commissions will "focus on our Transgender brothers and sisters," while next season, the company plans to highlight works by and about the Latino/a members of the LGBTQ community.

The company will also be presenting special solo performances in April 2016 of plays by two of the notorious "NEA Four" artists, Holly Hughes and Tim Miller, whose groundbreaking work became the subject of much political consternation in the 1990s.

A full listing of 2015-2016 presentations can be found below. Tickets are on sale now at the Rainbow Theatre Project's website. Regular ticket prices range from $15 - $35. Artist updates will be made to the company's website as new performers and directors are added to projects.

Media inquiries may be directed to Anna Russell at pressrtp@gmail.com or 716-982-6868. Visit www.rainbowtheatreproject.org for more information about the company.

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