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9 pm EDT TONIGHT, Monday 6-30-2025
Kick up the AC, slip on your sweats or PJs, pop some popcorn into the microwave, and join us from home tonight, as we close out June 2025 and ACT's observances of both Pride and Men's Mental Health Month online, with the FREE pop-up digital debut of "Lifeline" -- the newest short drama in our ongoing virtual digital drama series.
FREE, with Eventbrite reservation/registration::
35 talented actors performed new, short, LGBTQ+ themed plays "Reader's Theater" style -- during a fun, informal showcase in celebration of this year's 2025 DC Black Pride Weekend.
For one low admission price: comic, dramatic, and romantic shorts are featured, in a casual, flexible, late afternoon/early evening, festival format -- during which audience members may arrive when they can, come & go as they need, and still sample an array of original, short theater works --according to their busy holiday schedules.
Check out the eight short plays featured in this year's festival showcase...
Darnell Morris, Tristan Phillip Hewitt, Reginald Richard, Jivon Lee Jackson, Zukeh Freeman, Antwain Cook-Coleman & Maurice T. Olden
Maggie Denise Lewis, Jayne Turner, Morgan Duncan, Ronald King, Larry Hull, J'Nandi Lee, & Beverly "Miss Chocolate" White.
Jeffery Haskins, Gregory Ford, Wilma Lynn Horton, Mlonte J. Wolfe,
Donald Burch III, Michael Sainte-Andress, & Curtis Pree.
Steve Lang Lee, Darrell Evans, Taryn Murphy, Marty Pree, Edwin Brown III, Rocheny Princien, & Christopher Pree.
Raquis Da'Juan Petree, Peniel Ouabo, Ty Velines, Reggie Covington,
Jordan Brown, Ashley Nicole Lyles, & Andreas DeQuan Smith.
"Prom Night P*ssy"
The Undercroft Theater Cast, included:
Davon Harris, Mericus Ryan Adams, and Erika Jones.
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