Setting the Stage Beyond D.C.

Ganymede will continue to call Source Theatre home, but when Source closes for extensive renovations later this summer, Ganymede will decamp to Church Street Theater for a while.

Everyone on the company's small staff (Lee Mikeska Gardner is managing director) is an unpaid volunteer. Johnson estimates he has "donated" about 15,000 hours to the theater over four years. He has a day job at Go Mama Go, a gift and art shop whose owner, Noi Chudnoff, is Ganymede's interim board chairman.

Johnson is proud of the ticket sales and notices the acting company has garnered, citing a much-praised and very adult all-male production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," and last year's hit run of David Mamet's "Boston Marriage," which enabled the company to pay off its debt.

On a yearly production budget of roughly $100,000, Johnson says, he has tried to please a tough crowd of mostly Kennedy Center and Arena Stage subscribers who are accustomed to seeing half-million-dollar sets.

"It's been a challenge to have our foot dipped into the pool of the big boys," he says, "but still trying to operate with a volunteer staff on a small-theater scale."

Follow Spots

· Last night's performance of "Mrs. Packard" was canceled after actor Dennis Parlato became ill during the second act. The new play by Emily Mann is scheduled to run through Sunday at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.

· A burst pipe in the National Theatre early this month damaged offices, lobby and lounge areas, but not the auditorium. Repairs will take three to four months but won't affect the next touring show, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" (Oct. 23-Nov. 4), e-mails General Manager Harry Teter Jr. However, the Monday night Summer Cinema series has moved to the Reagan Building, and the theater can't host any Capital Fringe events next month.

· A May 30 Backstage item about the nonprofit ArtStream organization, which offers theater training to adults with disabilities, should have noted that Emilia O'Connor, Nicolette Stearns, Patricia Krauss and Sally Kinka were co-founders with Patricia Woolsey.