A DC-BASED COMPANY, and at our core:
DEVELOPING AND PRODUCING ORIGINAL WORKS OF MUSIC-THEATRE,
FOSTERING THE GROWTH OF ARTISTS,
AND ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP
Changing the Conversation Through the Arts
Join us for our 2026 - 2027 Cabaret Season
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The George Fulginiti Series: Cabaret, Cocktails, & Conversation
This curated series with sessions every other month gives outstanding local performers and Company artists opportunity to devise and deliver their own unique take on Cabaret.
On Tuesday October 6, 2026 we lead off with
Suzy Plays the Saxophone
Opening our 2026-2027 Cabaret Season, local composer, company member, and film buff, Andrew Earle Simpson, is recognized nationally as one of the most prominent and gifted silent film scholars and accompanist-musicians. He will host and accompany a screening of an exuberant Weimar-era French/German silent film from 1928, SAXOPHON SUZY, in a new live score by his truly.
Joining him to set the context for our year will be our much-beloved colleague Carolyn Braus and – you guessed it – her saxophone! Also, chanteuse Erin Granfield – featured live in a selection of songs from the Weimar cabaret.
This is the lineup for the rest of our 2026 - 2027 Cabaret Season
December 1, 2026 - CURTAIN CALLS: HOWARD EDITION
Company Member Daniel ‘Deacon’ Smith takes the lead, helps us embark on a partnership with Howard University, leading award-winning student performers from a cabaret competition.
February 2, 2027 - A GATSBY FOR OUR TIME
This cabaret will feature songs from Company Member Josh Cleveland's adaptation of Fitzgerald's novel with original music and lyrics inspired by 20’s jazz.
April 6, 2027 - CARMEN MEETS LOLA
Crossover Artist, Company Member, and Dominican Republic songstress Melisa Bonetti blends different music genres, pairing operatic arias with jazzy standards to express wild and deep emotions.
May 4, 2027 - SING THE UNSUNG
Company Member Cara Schaefer shares her wit, expressive voice, and enormously generous heart, especially for all creatures great & small whose stories are overlooked in the mainstream narrative.
June 1, 2027 - MEPHISTO AS A WEIMAR CABARET
Join us when our whole cabaret ensemble reassembles in a season finale and a preview of a new work based on Klaus Mann’s novel, Mephisto, about making art in a growing Fascist society.
Photos by Alan Naylor
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The Trumpeter Returns to Dupont Underground in November
Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s production of
The Trumpeter this past January was a categorical success, garnering critical acclaim, and was Helen Hayes Recommended by Theatre Washington.
The performances quickly grew to SRO, so now we are bringing it back to Dupont Underground
with 13 performances from November 4 -22.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
This will be a total immersive experience!
The play by Inna Goncharova, translated by John Farndon follows a trumpeter, the last surviving member of a military band, as he tries to take shelter from Russian bombardment in 2022 below the steelworks of Mariupol and becomes trapped as the Russian siege unfolds.
Directed again by Hungarian Director János Szász , the show will be remounted with its original actors, two of the areas finest, Michael Kevin Darnell and Lise Bruneau, and will again be enriched greatly by the talents of trumpeter Kevin McKee and our male chorus of Ukrainian singers led by Ruslan Bondar.
And what could be a more perfect setting than the echo-ey subterranean bunker of Dupont Underground, DC’s edgiest and most exciting new cultural center, for an immersive experience as we delve into the nightmare horrors of the ongoing war of Russian aggression.
The remounting of this important work will serve to engage DMV audiences and remind that the war in Ukraine is still ongoing and hold us all to consider the human cost of the ongoing assault by Russia on the Ukrainian people.
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Featured Artists - Andrew Earle Simpson
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Thanks to all our Friends and Supporters of Alliance for New Music-Theatre:
We are looking ahead to 2026 and are celebrating over 30-Years as a Not-for-Profit 501 (c) (3) designated Public Charity serving the greater DMV.
These are precarious times for the arts, but we are determined to continue our important work in our community to fulfill our mission to:
· Develop new works of music-theatre
· Foster the growth of professional and aspiring artists
· Engage the community into the creative process to promote a deeper understanding and critical appreciation of the
transformative power of music-theatre.
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