CapitalQ Theatre Festival

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Zak Stowe

The CapitalQ Theatre Festival is a follow-up to StageQ's long-running Queer Shorts productions.

Queer Shorts, a long-running rite of summer in Madison, is morphing this year into the new CapitalQ Theatre Festival, which will feature a baker's dozen new and original short plays from local and national playwrights celebrating queer voices. Short play performances or staged readings take place on both stages of the Bartell (with programs alternating to allow the chance to see them all) at 7:30 p.m., June 24; 2 and 7:30 p.m., June 25; and 2 p.m., June 26; free master classes take place at noon, June 25-26. Find a schedule and updates at stageq.org.

media release: Festival passes are now on sale for the inaugural CapitalQ Theatre Festival! 

A fresh, new spin on the perennial favorite, “Queer Shorts,” this festival runs a single weekend and is filled with new and original short plays and 1-Act Plays submitted from local and national playwrights. Along with FREE theatre workshops and masterclasses open to the public, this weekend will celebrate original queer stories told by up-and-coming queer writers and allow you to learn more about how theatre is made. Be a part of a new Pride Month tradition!

All performances will last about 60 minutes.

ALL MASTERCLASSES & WORKSHOPS ARE FREE! – NO TICKET NEEDED. Festival Passes required for ticked performances. Festival passes start at $15 and go up depending on how many performances you want to see. 

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Friday, June 24:

7:30pm – EVJUE STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE A: "Wedlocked (and Loaded)" by William Lynch; "Yours/Mine" by Tony Foster; "Theresa's Breasts" by Amber Palmer

7:30pm - DRURY STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE C: "Falling Skies" by Brayden Frasconel "Dash Climbs a Rope" by James Stilll "The Agency" by Mark Evan Chimsky

Saturday, June 25:

12pm - FREE ACTING MASTERCLASS led by Stephen Montagna

12pm - FREE STAGE MANAGEMENT MASTERCLASS led by Chris Diorio

​2pm – EVJUE STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE B: "Walt Whitman and the Great Comet of the Apocalypse" by Garrett Bell; "Molinda Falls" by Ken Preuss; "The Test" by Richard Slusarczyk

2pm - DRURY STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE D: "Before the Holy Temple" by David Hopes; "Condors" by LZ Zephyr; "Three is Not a Crowd" by Dawn Richberg; "Three Scorpions Walk Into a Bar" by River von Waldron

​7:30pm – EVJUE STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE B: "Walt Whitman and the Great Comet of the Apocalypse" by Garrett Bell; "Molinda Falls" by Ken Preuss; "The Test" by Richard Slusarczyk

7:30pm - DRURY STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE D: "Before the Holy Temple" by David Hopes; "Condors" by LZ Zephyr; "Three is Not a Crowd" by Dawn Richberg; "Three Scorpions Walk Into a Bar" by River von Waldron

Sunday, June 26:

12pm - FREE DIRECTING MASTERCLASS led by Stephen Montagna

12pm - FREE PLAYWRITING MASTERCLASS led by Danielle Dresden

​2pm – EVJUE STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE A: "Wedlocked (and Loaded)" by William Lynch; "Yours/Mine" by Tony Foster; "Theresa's Breasts" by Amber Palmer

2pm - DRURY STAGE - FESTIVAL SHOWCASE C: "Falling Skies" by Brayden Frascone; "Dash Climbs a Rope" by James Still; "The Agency" by Mark Evan Chimsky

*CapitalQ Theatre Festival is made possible by contributions from Jim Hartman’s State Farm Agency and the New Harvest Foundation.

Festival Passes: Single Show Pass: $15; Two Show Pass: $20; Three Show Pass: $25; Four Show Pass: $30