Member Anthony Gallo’s drama Paul at Kennedy Center on Sept. 5

The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts hosts as part of the 2015 Page-to-Stage Festival a Seventh Street Playhouse staged reading of Paul by Anthony E. Gallo on Saturday, Sept. 5, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Israeli Lounge (adjacent to the Concert Hall.)

All NPC members are invited.

The play examines the complex and contradictory life of Christianity’s second leading theological architect. Paul’s impact not only on the now two billion Christians around the world but tangentially on non-Christians as well is not disputed.

The play follows him from being a deeply religious Jewish leader, successful businessman, civic leader, and persecutor of fringe cults to becoming an apostle of the Nazarean following his epiphany on the road to Damascus.

The narrative traces his conflicts with members of the new cult, then with his fellow disciples, the Romans, Greeks, Jewish leaders, his own family and friends, and the people he tries to convince. It asks if Paul’s spiritual conversion also resulted in personal character conversion.

For questions, contact Anthony E. Gallo at (202) 544-6973 or [email protected] No charge free shuttle from GW Metro stop or park at The Kennedy Center