Friday, March 8, 2013
Looking for something exciting to do this weekend? Check out some of the fun things going on around the county.
Dance Bethesda Concert James Hubert Blake High School Presents You Can't Take It With You Northwest High School Presents In the Heights Paint Branch Perspectives Present Willy Wonka Friends of the Library, Rockville Chapter Book Sale Quarter Auction at Bohrer Park Activity Center Staples #0912 FREE Bridal Expo
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Six original plays are set to be produced and performed in 24 hours.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Six original plays are set to be produced and performed in 24 hours.
Six professional theater troupes will race against the clock Feb. 9 as they write, produce and perform original plays in 24 hours. The ninth annual speedy theater event is known as Bethesda's Play in a Day, and it's produced by the Bethesda Urban Partnership and the Bethesda Ars & Entertainment District. Interested to see what the frenzied troupes will produce? Tickets are on sale now for the event, which costs $15 and is set for 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9 at Imagination Stage. Read the Bethesda Urban Partnership's event announcement or visit www.bethesda.org for more information.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Bill Goodman of Chevy Chase spent more than 30 years as an economist for the federal government—now he’s devoting his time to words rather than data by pursuing his passion: playwriting. His latest production, Atheist’s Paradise, runs through Nov. 25 at t
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Bethesda's Imagination Stage will open its doors to kids and families.
Parents, save the date: Imagination Stage’s ImagiFest 2012 is set for Sept. 8. The downtown Bethesda professional children’s theater will open its doors during the free event, dubbed “Suess on the Loose.” Kids and their families will be lead on an interactive journey through the building, featuring scenic installations of productions in the theater’s 2012-2013 season. The catch? The Cat in the Hat has tricked all the characters into thinking they’re in a Dr. Suess tale, and kids will be tasked with saving the stories. ImagiFest will also feature a dance party, a DIY chalk graffiti wall, show previews, backstage access and sample classes in theater, music and dance. Families can get a sneak peek of performances of Mouse on the Move, an …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Theater merger strengthens business, gives young performers more opportunities
Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo Park joined forces with the performance training expertise of Rockville's Musical Theater Center in March to form Adventure Theatre MTC. The new company has a stronger business model and can offer more opportunities for young actors, such as casting children rather than adults in the roles of Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh and Mary and Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie Christmas, said the producing artistic director for Adventure Theatre MTC, Michael Bobbitt. A professional theater will give young actors-in-training a reason to “step up their game” with the prospect of making it on the big stage, and the revenue from the Musical Theater Center’s training programs will help offset the low-cost…
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Professional acting troupes will write, rehearse and perform a ten-minute play -- all in 24 hours.
Talk about quick thinking. Six professional acting troupes from the Washington, D.C. region are set to write, rehearse, and perform an original play in 24 hours during the annual "Play in a Day" festival. And lucky for Bethesda residents, it's all happening right in our backyard. The eighth annual festival, produduced by the Bethesda Urban Partnership and Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, is set for 8 p.m. Saturday Feb. 11, at Imagination Stage in downtown Bethesda. That's when the curtain will rise, anyway -- the craziness starts the Friday before, when playwrights and directors are assigned themes for their ten-minute masterpieces. The acting troupes participating this year hail from Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Flying V in …
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Ellouise Schoettler will perform "Finding Gus"—a one-woman, one-hour performance bringing family genealogy to life—at the Friendship Heights Village Center on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m.
When Ellouise Schoettler started researching her family's history two decades ago, she had no idea her research would turn into a performance. “I was finding really interesting … things about my family,” said Schoettler, a Chevy Chase artist and storyteller originally from North Carolina. But when she tried to tell her children what she had found out about their great grandfather, they weren’t interested—they were polite, but bored. When Schoettler stumbled across a storytelling event in Washington, DC, though, something clicked. “You have to make [an audience] interested” in a story to make them stick around, she realized. “You have to bring those characters alive,” by acting out how they might have lived and how they might have looked …
