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Critics are loving FAITHLESS!

Come to Washington Stage Guild for the DC-area premiere of a comedy drama critics are calling 'first-rate'.

FAITHLESS runs until October 20th.

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📸: Teresa Castracane

Happy Opening to the cast and crew of FAITHLESS.

There's still time to reserve a ticket to the AREA PREMIERE of Jon Klein's compelling comedy-drama!

Family differences become amplified when faith is the main point of conversation AND contention in Jon Klein’s latest comic drama. Aging atheist Gus and his two adult stepchildren – a minister suffering from a crisis of faith, and his hardened, non-believer sister who’s had a glimpse of the afterlife following a head injury – come together when Gus’ teenage adopted daughter stuns them with her decision that she’d like to become a nun. From the author and director of Stage Guild’s 2019 hit Resolving Hedda.

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FAITHLESS has its first pay-what-you-can preview tonight!

📸: Teresa Castracane

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Show info at https://stageguild.org/performances-2024-2025/

FAITHLESS by Jon Klein opens this Thursday, 9/26, and the first FOUR performances are pay-what-you-can.

No reservation needed!

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MEET THE CAST OF FAITHLESS:

Ben Blackman (Calvin) is an actor/voice actor new to DC. His recent credits include Gravid Water (The
Kennedy Center) and “The Story Pirates” Podcast, as well as providing audio description for Harry
Potter And The Cursed Child (Broadway), and The Phantom Of The Opera (London’s West End). Ben’s
voice can be heard in animation, podcasts, commercials, and video games. He is a proud graduate of
the University of Michigan where he studied acting.

FAITHLESS opens 9/26.

Buy tickets at https://stageguild.org/

Meet the Cast of FAITHLESS - Ron Littman as 'Gus'

Ron is a true DC Homey, born & raised here. After becoming a member of the Living Stage, at the Arena Stage, he left for theater adventures in New York for fifteen years, the highlight of which was eight years with the Obie Award winning New York Street Theater Caravan with whom he travelled the US, Europe and Latin America. Then came thirteen years in LA with roles on TV (“The Marshall,” “Married With Children”) and film (“Wayne’s World II,” “Maximum Breakout”). Since 1986 Ron has also created several solo-performance shows with performances in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and throughout Europe. He has continued with his unique vaudevillian, political satire with music here in DC with sold-out performances at the Fringe Festival (“DC Trash,” “Waiting for Armageddon,” “Crazy in America” and “Fish Out of Water” ) He performed his critically acclaimed “DC Trash” at the Kennedy Center’s Millenium Stage in 2019 which can be viewed on the Kennedy Center Youtube channel. Ron has his own Youtube Channel where his solo-videos, “Gunsmoke & Bullsh*t,” “The Brain” and “Guns” can be viewed. Ron has also been a featured performer with SCENA Theater for the past twelve years and has had roles in “Julius Ceasar,” [?] “Shining City” & “The Night Alive” (Connor McPhearson), “Becket Pieces,” “Three by Yeates,” The Last Drop” and “Submission,” to name a few.

FAITHLESS opens 9/26.

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MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT

Jon Klein is the author of over 35 produced plays, performed Off-Broadway and at many prestigious regional theatres, including premieres at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage and many others.

His most produced works include T Bone N Weasel, Dimly Perceived Threats to the System, Betty the Yeti, and the only authorized stage version of the classic children’s book, Bunnicula. His most recent plays is the award-winning Faithless, produced in Los Angeles and DC. In 2019, Washington Stage Guild premiered his new play, Resolving Hedda. He also adapted T Bone N Weasel for a Turner Network film, starring Gregory Hines and Christopher Lloyd.

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Rehearsals for FAITHLESS by Jon Klein started Tuesday and our talented team has been hard at work digging into this brand new play!

FAITHLESS opens 9/26

Tickets: https://stageguild.org/buy-tickets/

The Washington Stage Guild’s 2024-2025 Season of Determination opens with the area premiere of a provocative and funny play looking at faith from all angles through the lens of one family –Faithless by Jon Klein. Directed by WSG Associate Artistic Director Steven Carpenter (An Unbuilt Life, Major Barbara, Sam & Dede), the cast includes first-timers with WSG, Ben Blackman, Patricia Hurley, Ron Litman, and Hannah Taylor. Performances run September 26 to October 20, 2024, with four Pay-What-You-Can previews September 26-28 at the Washington Stage Guild's home, The Undercroft Theatre in the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 900 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.

Family differences become amplified when faith is the main point of conversation AND contention in Jon Klein’s latest comic drama. Aging atheist Gus and his two adult stepchildren – a minister suffering from a crisis of faith, and his hardened, non-believer sister who’s had a glimpse of the afterlife following a head injury – come together when Gus’ teenage, adopted daughter stuns them with her decision that she’d like to become a nun. From the author and director of Stage Guild’s 2019 hit Resolving Hedda. Area Premiere!

Faithless by Jon Klein runs September 26 to October 20, 2024, with performances Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2:30pm & 8pm, and Sunday at 2:30pm. The run begins with four Pay-What-You-Can performances Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7:30pm, Friday, Sept. 27 at 8pm, and Saturday, Sept. 28 at 2:30pm & 8pm (Pay What You Can tickets can be purchased for any cash price at the door beginning one hour prior to curtain). Opening/Press performance is Sunday, Sept. 29 at 2:30pm.

Purchase tickets at www.stageguild.org/buy-tickets.

Stage Guild's first show of the season is set to begin rehearsals soon! First preview is Thursday, September 26th! Read all about it...

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Washington Stage Guild Season Opens with Area Premiere of FAITHLESS by Jon Klein in September The Washington Stage Guild's 2024-2025 Season of Determination opens with the area premiere of a provocative and funny play looking at faith from all angles through the lens of one family –Faithless by Jon Klein.

We will close out our 2024-2025 season with
SOFONISBA by Callie Kimball
Directed by Deidre LaWan Starnes
April 10-May 4, 2025

She was one of the first known female artists. And one of the first women artists to establish an international reputation. A student of Michelangelo, 27-year-old noblewoman and renowned portrait artist Sofonisba Anguissola travels from Italy to Spain to paint for King Philip II. In her 20 years at the Royal Court, she must play to and against the expectations of the king, friendship with, and service to, a 14-year-old Queen Isabel, and navigate the tricky waters of court politics as an unmarried woman. A play about the hunger for creation—of birth and of art—and what it costs. Area Premiere.

“FUNNY, WITTY AND INTELLIGENT. This artist’s story is inspiring and enlightening” – Bangor Daily News

For tickets and additional information, visit our website at www.stageguild.org!!

We will continue our 2024-2025 season with ESCAPE FROM THE ASYLUM: A MADCAP MYSTERY by Patricia Milton
Directed by Morgan Duncan
(Director of The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective)
January 30-February 23, 2025

*DC AREA PREMIERE*

Will the women outsmart the men AGAIN?! Dual adventures ensue in this sequel to last season’s sell-out, The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective. Three intrepid lady detectives hatch a plan to free a perfectly sane woman explorer shut away in an asylum by her husband. If that weren’t enough, they also try to identify who is stealing the explorer’s inheritance. Follow the clues to solve two mysteries amidst a Victorian seance, a pre-Freudian alienist, some cross-dressing, and barriers to gender equality at every turn. Welcoming back Stage Guild’s Victorian Ladies cast and director!

“WHIP-SMART DIALOGUE” – San Francisco Chronicle
“[A] BLEND OF PUNS, POLITICAL SATIRE, AND SCHOLARLY FEMINIST INSIGHT, all played for laughs and maximum damage to patriarchal pomposity.” - Theatrestorm

For tickets and more info, visit www.stageguild.org!!

We will be continuing our 2024-2025 season with SHAW’S SHORTS by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Laura Giannarelli, WSG Founding Company Member
November 21-December 15, 2024

A fresh look at two of GB Shaw’s most delicious one-act plays, first produced by Stage Guild in 2007. In O’Flaherty VC, the winner of the Victoria Cross for outstanding bravery, is confronted by his Irish-to-the-core Catholic mother, incensed to discover he’s being fighting for the British. In the imaginative The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Will Shakespeare goes to the palace to meet his Dark Lady to whom he addressed sonnets of love, only to find Her Majesty the Queen instead – followed by the Dark Lady herself who lambasts them both! Plus, The Interlude at the Playhouse, a comic curtain-raiser in which a nervous theatre owner must give a big speech at a gala opening, but his wife may have to save the day.

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – GB Shaw

For tickets and more information, visit www.stageguild.org!

We are kicking off our 2024-2025 season with
FAITHLESS by Jon Klein
Directed by Helen Hayes Award nominee Steven Carpenter, WSG Associate Artistic Director
September 26-October 20, 2024

*DC AREA PREMIERE*

Family differences become amplified when faith is the main point of conversation AND contention in Jon Klein’s latest comic drama. Aging atheist Gus and his two adult stepchildren - a minister suffering from a crisis of faith, and his hardened, non-believer sister who’s had a glimpse of the afterlife following a head injury – come together when Gus’ teenage, adopted daughter stuns them with her decision that she’d like to become a nun. From the author and director of Stage Guild’s 2019 hit Resolving Hedda.

“ACHINGLY FUNNY, AND ULTIMATELY QUITE TOUCHING” – Ticketholders L.A.
“LAUGHTER-AND-DISCUSSION-PROVOKING…tackles serious matters with both nuance and depth” – Stage Scene L.A.

Get your tickets at www.stageguild.org!!

CALLING ALL ACTORS!

We are thrilled to share the audition information for our upcoming 2024-2025 season!

For more information, check out our audition notice on Playbill! Link below!

https://playbill.com/job/washington-stage-guild-2024-25-season-washington-d-c-epa-07-23-24-07-24-24/2a34fb4a-2e8b-4a97-be29-ad0fb011da11

We’ll see you there! 😎

📸: Deidra Lawan Starnes in “Dorothy’s Dictionary” by

We are so excited to share our exciting 2024-2025 season in the coming days! 😎

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