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Mobile Art Gallery Community Kick-Off: Ward 8!

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We have partnered with CulturalDC to help promote the Mobile Art Gallery for Anacostia Community Museum! It’s a great opportunity to meet new people and artists in the community. It’s also a great way to enjoy your relaxing  Saturday with friends and family with free food and performances!

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Amanda Burnham has transformed the Mobile Art Gallery for Anacostia Community Museum! Composed of gestural acrylic paintings, “Block Watch” weaves together imagery culled from archival photographs as well as the present physical landscape of Anacostia to create a playful, abstracted representation of the community, its history, and its future. Visitors will be invited to embed their own words and images related to their personal experiences of the community into the work’s three dimensional, collaged layers of drawings, creating a tapestry of voices in vignettes throughout the bold, broad structural lines of the piece.

Pop-Up Books

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Anacostia Playhouse and the high-energy youth acting company the Laugh ‘n’ Learn Players present Pop-Up Books! A wonderful play bringing to life four fabulous tale by the young authors of Reach, Incorporated and Shout Mouse Press. We’re partnering with Reach, whose missions is to develop grade-level readers and capable leaders by preparing teens to serve as tutors and role models for younger students, resulting in improving literacy outcomes for both. Reach’s teen authors contribute to creation of more diverse children’s literature by writing stories that are engaging and relevant to the young readers they serve. This fun filled show is directed by the DMV’s own Thembi Duncan!

Don’t Miss it!

Running from Thursday, April 19th at 7:30 pm to Sunday, April 22nd at 2 pm!

Adults:$10  Kids:$5

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Auditions for Young Actors!

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Anacostia Playhouse announces auditions for young actors for our spring youth production!

 

 

We are excited to announce this year we will be partnering with REACH Incorporated, a program of professionally-led teen tutors who have published 21 books through their own publishing arm, Shout Mouse Press. Our young actors will be bringing their young authors’ works to life adapting 4-5 of these short stories for the stage. Our director this year is Thembi Duncan, a long-time friend of the Playhouse who directed Yellowman for us in our 2016 summer season. She was also lead teaching artist at Ford’s Theatre, and Creative Programs Director at Young Playwrights’ Theater, with tons of experience bringing young people and their stories to the stage. Thembi is an actor, writer, performing artist and teaching artist and we are super excited to have her on board.

 

Audition info:

 

Saturday, February 24

 

Noon-4pm

 

Anacostia Playhouse

2020 Shannon Place, SE

Washington, DC 20020

 

Ages 6-14

 

No special preparation necessary

 

Five performances April 19-22

 

 

If interested, please email Adele Robey at arobey@fusemail.com. We are seeing actors on first-come first-served basis. No appointment necessary.

Encore!: The Very Last Days Of The First Colored Circus

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Kay Kendall and Jack Davies present a final opportunity for you to see Restoration Stage’s Helen Hayes Awards Recommended new musical, “The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus.” Steven A. Butler, Jr.’s redemptive story of love, loss, and family set against the backdrop of the 1927 Charles County Fair features Miles Folley and Ayana Reed. With new songs by director Courtney Baker-Oliver and Christopher Burnett and musical directed by Broadway veteran Wilkie Ferguson, it’s a story you’ll never forget.

Featuring Miles Folley, Ayana Reed, Corisa Myers, and Charles W. Harris, Jr. with Abiola Yetunde, MarQuis Fair, Brittany Timmons, Pat Martin, Sara Hernandez, Nikki Summons, Katy Chmura, Robert Hamilton, Mandrill Solomon and Andrea Gerald
“A hugely satisfying saga bursting with heart, humor, and song.” ~DC Metro Theatre Arts
“Musical sequence in the second act makes you sit up straight.” ~The Washington Post
“Butler has the grit and talent to go far.” ~DC Theatre Scene
“The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus” runs January 18–28, 2018! Visit www.restorationstage.com for tickets.
Directed and Produced by Courtney Baker-Oliver
Music and lyrics by Courtney Baker-Oliver and Christopher John
Production Designer Trystin Kier
Associate Producers Suli Myrie Rikki Lacewell and Dr. Will Cobbs
Musical Director Wilkie Ferguson III
Assistant Director Desire’ DuBose
Choreographer Raquis Da’Juan Petree
January 18–28, 2018
Tickets $45-$55

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For additional information on The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus and Restoration Stage, Inc. please contact 202-714-0646 or visit www.restorationstage.org

Thank You

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Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Words cannot express how truly grateful and humbled we are by the sheer volume of support and care we have received over the past few days. When we returned to the Playhouse the day after Christmas to discover we had been burgled, it was a blow. Not only did we have to process the physical shock of being victims of a crime, we were faced with the harsh realities that come with a break-in. As with all nonprofits, resources are limited, and the financial and tangible losses were significant. 

We have spent over five amazing years Anacostia. It is both our work and home. And it has been an overwhelmingly positive experience and the best community we could wish for with our Ward 8 neighbors being partners and friends. In no way will this incident will disrupt our ability to bring quality arts programming to the community. We will continue to be a home for performers, theater companies and all artists to showcase their craft. 

We are so honored that so many amazing people thought enough of us to give so generously of their time and money. Please know that every cent of the funds raised will be used thoughtfully and responsibly. Your gift will not only replace everything was stolen but will allow us to make security improvements, install new doors and come back better than ever.  

So from the entire Anacostia Playhouse family—everyone who performs, designs, works, and volunteers—thank you. Thanks to you, the show will go on! 

Adele Robey

When Words Aren’t Enough

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There are moments in life too great to be expressed by mere prose: the start of a new romance, losing a loved one, beginning a new adventure…for these moments, we have the international language of song; the language every heart speaks. ‘When words aren’t enough, there’s music.’

Monday January 15th, 2018

Tickets:$20

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Forever Soulful

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Treat your loved ones to an evening of holiday cheer by joining some the most talented performers in the DMV!
Forever Soulful is a show filled with songs of Holidays past, present, and everyone sings from the bottom of their souls!
Starring: Tom Flatt as your Master of Ceremonies!
Musical direction by Daniel Flores and performances by:
Steve Cairns
Sean Scriber
Matthew Raiz
Rachel Harvey
Dean Reichard
Meredith Richard
Kenneth L Waters, Jr.
Jon Hamilton and students from the Metropolitan School of the Arts
with Special Guest Headliner: GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS !
Genevieve Williams is a Washington, DC native who has performed internationally. Her most recent theatrical performance as “Deloris Van Cartier” in the musical adaptation of the movie “ Sister Act” garnered a nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Revue (Non-Equity) 2017  from Broadway World – Baltimore. Other roles have included: “Mama Morton” in CHICAGO, “Ouiser” in STEEL MAGNOLIAS, “Motormouth Maybelle” in HAIRSPRAY, “Evillene” in THE WIZ, “Spider” in JEKYLL AND HYDE and “The Voice of Audrey II” in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. When not performing, Ms. Williams is a fourth grade classroom teacher in the Prince George’s County Public Schools. She would like to thank Anya and the Anacostia Playhouse for this opportunity. Happy Holidays!
Monday, December 18, 8 pm
Tickets are only $20!

The Cool Yule Fundraiser!

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Support our youth and family programming at the Cool Yule Fundraiser!
 
A time for family fun, great holiday music, and bringing a community together. So get your ticket today!
What it includes:
A ticket to  the matinee performance of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
A reception with the cast with yummy holiday goodies to eat and drink
A reading of The Night Before Christmas 
A visit from Santa!
 
A drawing for two ginormous Christmas stockings full of cool stuff will be held!
 
The Details:
Sunday, December 10, 2:30 matinee with party immediately following.
Tickets are $40 adults and $20 14 and under
 

Unsaid by Jared Shamberger

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Unsaid is a brand new solo act written and performed by DC actor/director/playwright Jared Shamberger. Through a dozen different characters, he explores the nature of secrets and the messy, unpredictable, and sometimes comical effects of confession. Join Jared as he discovers if salvation can be found in the things we don’t say.

Dates:
August 25th, 8 pm
August 26th, 8 pm

Box Office- 7 pm
Doors Open- 7:30 pm

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Word Becomes Flesh

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With brutal honesty and raw physicality, Word Becomes Flesh is a series of letters from a young black man to his unborn son. The award-winning performing ensemble, director, and design team will return to Theater Alliance for this encore production that uses hip-hop, dance, and music to explore what it means to be a black man in the 21st century.

Word Becomes Flesh is being presented as part of the Words Becomes Action Festival, a series of new works from local artists, workshops, and conversations that articulate the diversity of the African-Diaspora, asks important questions, invite action, and incite change! Theater Alliance will partner with a number of nonprofits to provide our audience the resources to put words into tangible action and bring real change to our community!

Website:
https://theateralliance.com/portfolio/word-becomes-flesh/

Ticket:
https://theateralliance.secure.force.com/ticket#details_a0S0P000004KMOSUA4

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