Memories of New Playwrights' Theatre

SEASONS 4 & 5

This page is under construction, obviously.  EVentually it will include production information and photos of the plays we produced from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1977.

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Below among the prose you will find photo galleries as soon as I can create them

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1975 - 1976

We moved out of the ASTA Theatre on 12th Street, were nomads relying on the kindness of our friends in the Washington arts community for performance spaces.  These included Arena Stage (what is now The Fichandler), The Folger Theatre, The Phillips Collection Music Room and my apartment to produce staged readings of new plays.  Then on January 1, 1976, Paul Hildebrand, Jr. lent us enough money for the first month's rent and we took over the old Holton Arms Girl's School gymnasium at 1742 Church STreet, NW, Washington, DC and began turning it into t theatre. The process took many years, but we accomplished it ... and even thought NPT no longer exists, The Church Street Theatre is still operational which is a testament to a lot of people's determination and hard work in the 1970's.

DRAMATHON '76

26 plays in 53 hours

BERTIE

by Bernard Meyers

MIDNIGHT THEATRE

MAMA OF THE YEAR

by Edward H. Adams

production details to come

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1976 - 1977

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to be continued

SIROCCO by Tim Grundmann & Ken Bloom (click on Tim Grundmann for details)

GYMNASIUM by H. Jones Bakjer, III (see NOPT photo galleries for pix fo now)

HAGAR'S CHILDREN By Ernest Joselovitz

BRIDE OF SIROCCO by Tim Grundmann (click on the Tim Grundmann tab)

FOX AGAINST THE FENCE (2 one-acts) by John Sedlak

CANTICLE by Michael Champagne & William Penn