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Changing the Conversation Through the Arts
Our Cabaret performances continue in June!
The George Fulginiti Series: Cabaret, Cocktails, & Conversation
We are partnering with The Arts Club of Washington, DC’s oldest continuing cultural club and not-for profit organization
for an exploration into what makes for an optimal cabaret experience. This curated series started in December 2024, giving outstanding local performers and Company artists opportunity to devise and deliver their own unique take on Cabaret.
Deacon presents Unmasked: Freedom in Full Color
Laws to Living an Unmasked Life
Tuesday, June 3 at the Arts Club of Washington
The Cabaret starts at 7:00 pm
Bar with Signature Cocktail & lite-bites Buffet opens at 6:00 p.m.
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and encore performances Friday, June 6 at 7:30 pm
& Saturday, June 7 at 8:00 pm
Deacon will bring the next installment of the company’s George Fulginiti Series: Cabaret, Cocktails and Conversation. At this empowering and uplifting Pride Month event, vocal artist and composer Deacon with collaborator Aran, presents his own rules for fully-realized living through poetry and song.
Read more about Deacon and this event on our Cabaret Series page HERE.
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The Ukrainian Project: The Trumpeter - "More than Theater"
You were invited to a WAR ZONE!
On April 28 and 29 we returned to Dupont Underground , standing in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, to bring a new play, The Trumpeter, by Inna Goncharova, to Washinton audiences in the area premiere.
The work, we are told, is set in a basement of a steel works and takes place during the siege of Mariupol. No site could have been more perfectly spooky or acoustically rich than this our “found” underground labyrinthian tunnel. The graffitied walls and variety of urban debris only added to an authentic ambiance.
We presented The Trumpeter as ‘only’ a reading for a limited audience, but, directed by extraordinary Hungarian émigré director János Szász and with the talents of two superb actors - Michael Kevin Darnall and Lise Bruneau -- both of whom had appeared with our company in a previous series of short Ukrainian plays, it was nonetheless a full-throttle emotional experience.
Woven throughout, musician Kevin McKee shared his beautiful trumpet playing, including the moving Ukrainian national anthem and other plaintive melodies, as well as improvised sounds of battle explosions. Everything added up to a unique exploration of the echoey tunnel of Dupont Underground.
Here is what John Stoltenberg, who attended the first night, wrote up as an “evocative report” for DC Theater Arts.
We are pleased to announce that we will return to Dupont Underground in November for a full run of The Trumpeter.
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DC’s most Dashingly-Dressed Duo Receive the 2025 Gary Maker Audience Award
Washington Theater Lovers Celebrate the 2025 winners of the, hosted by GALA HISPANIC THEATRE
On Saturday night, May 3, 2025, several representatives from local theater companies, DC Theatre Scene publisher Lorraine Treanor, the DC Theater Arts leadership team of Julian Oquendo and John Stoltenberg, Greg Williams (Gary Maker 2024 Audience Awardee,) and loyal DMV audience members gathered at GALA Theatre in a special ceremony to celebrate the re-establishment of the Gary Maker Audience Award and cheer longtime Washington theater patrons José Alberto Uclés and husband Tom Noll, recipients of the 2025 Award. The winning couple was nominated by two local companies: Rebecca Medrano, Executive Director of GALA Theatre, and Shanara Gabrielle, Artistic Director of Theater Alliance.
It couldn’t have been a happier and more important occasion on the eve of the current much contested but also much beloved World Pride celebration in DC to give standing ovations to these two gents, partners in life and sparkling haberdashery, for their enthusiastic support of and ubiquitous, vital, and colorful presence at so many Washington area theater openings and galas.
On hand to present the award was Tim Treanor, who championed wife Lorraine’s vision of establishing the original award in 2011 through DC Theatre Scene, and helped steward the administering of it for over a decade. He spoke briefly but eloquently, recognizing how The Gary Maker Audience Award is the only recognition given by any theater community in the nation to an audience member. Its purpose is to identify exceptional audience members and to bestow the award not for large financial contributions but in recognition of a loyal and creative presence in showing support, or, as Lorraine has written, to recognize patrons “who are passionate, involved, informed, and grounded in their love for theater and who lend their time and personal support to encourage other audience members and who see that theater in the Washington area not only survives, but thrives.”
Susan Galbraith, Artistic Director of Alliance for New Music-Theatre, who initiated the re-establishment of the award in 2024, also spoke at the event and paid homage to its founder Lorraine, the editorial savvy with which she mentored writers for DC Theatre Scene, and her legacy as a leader of the DC community. Everyone agreed at the end of the evening, our community must and will stick together through good and perilous times – bringing to the stage and supporting the stories that need to be told.
Susan Galbraith, Tim Treanor, Tom Noll, José Alberto Uclés , Rebecca Medrano, and Shanara Gabrielle
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Our Artists and Partners on View
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Friday May 9 at Mr. Henry’s on Capitol Hill
As a special tribute to Roberta Flack, whose passing in February was a great loss and whose voice as a singer, activist, teacher and humanitarian, will be much missed, our very own Roz White will reprise her own “First Take: Roberta Flack at Mr. Henry’s.”
Roz first performed this Cabaret at the Arts Club in December as part of our Cabaret Series. DC native and Howard University Alumna, Roz White takes on the mantle of breathing life into this first glimpse of the magic that has made Roberta Flack a staple of American popular music for over sixty years. Limited Tickets available HERE.
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Featured Artist Deacon
Deacon is a one-of-a-kind artist. More than a cross-over artist, he’s his own genre. He takes his well-earned place as a core company member of New Music-Theatre.
He was brought to the attention of New Music-Theatre two summers ago, selected to be one of the five singers for the Composer Librettist Studio. He was subsequently cast in the work-in-development DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote as Jacob Ross, the historical itinerant Preacher, who arrived in DC in the mid-nineteenth century and brought his special charisma and devotional evangelism to Mount Zion Church and Dumbarton UMC.
Deacon is a busy man. In addition to launching our Cabaret Series last June, he has performed with multiple local theaters, including IN Series and Washington National Opera, soloed with Cantate and other choral groups, and has also served as a
Music Director for several children’s theaters in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Deacon is also a professor at Howard University in the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts. He received his Bachelor of Science in Music Business from Winston-Salem State University. Deacon is also a proud alumnus of George Mason University, with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance.
Expansive and enthusiastic in his approach, he makes himself emotionally available to whatever role and musical composition asks of him. He is generous to fellow artists and students alike. Deacon has a passion and love for sharing his gifts and helping others to discover and cultivate their own.
Read our interview with him on his artist page HERE.
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As a small not-for-profit 501(c)3 public charity organization, Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s mission is to:
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Nurture the creation, development and production of new works of music-theatre
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Foster the growth of professional and aspiring artists and their collaborations across cultures and musical languages;
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Engage community by bringing audiences and other partners into the creative process to promote a deeper understanding and critical appreciation of the transformative power of music-theatre.
We need your support to continue to fulfill our mission. There are many opportunities to provide support at various levels by supporting an artist, a production, or general support.
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