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
Alliance for New Music-Theatre
2025 Fall Season of Live & About – 15th Season
A Journey in Musical Languages across the Spectrum of Music-Theatre
Through Performance & Conversation
It is more important now than ever to support the local theater community and to celebrate our city’s talented artists.
We hope you will join us for this season.
“Live & About” is curated subscription series with monthly Outings to various theatres representing large and small companies around the DMV introducing you to different live music-theatre experiences across the spectrum. Enjoy seeing shows with friends, followed by conversation delving into the artists’ intentions, learning from others in the group about different perspectives, and sharpening our critical appreciation of different of this most hybrid of performance forms.
By joining in this series, you support companies across the DMV, save money by getting in on a group discount, and make new friends to expand your minds and appetite for new and different voices and genres in our culturally rich and diverse community.
Weeknight and weekend matinees are, in most months, options.
For this upcoming season, we are focusing on different venues, and some may surprise you. How does the space affect the experience? And how does the space expand and enhance what we may call music-theater?
Learn more about the subscription aeries and rates for this season. Email us at info@newmusictheatre.org
2025 Fall Season Outings
SEPTEMBER
PLAY ON!
at Signature Theatre
4200 Campbell Ave, Shirlington, VA
Sunday, September 21 at 2:00 pm
Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30 -pm
Based on Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, this delightful musical is set to the syncopated soundtrack of Duke Ellington’s greatest hits.
The cast includes our own Greg Watkins in the starring role of Duke. If you remember Greg from his Cabaret performance at the Arts Club last February in his Valentine’s Day tribute to Nat King Cole, you will not want to miss his latest venture into the music of Duke Ellington.
If music be the food of love, then PLAY ON!’s timeless classics "Take the 'A' Train," "Mood Indigo," "I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good" and "It Don’t Mean a Thing," combine with stunning dance to make for a joyous feast in a fun and fresh take on a beloved comedy.
OCTOBER
One True Sentence:
A Cabaret Evening with Singer-Songwriter and Composer
Josh Cleveland
by Alliance for New Music-Theatre
at the Arts Club of Washington
2017 I St. NW, Washington DC
Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00 pm
We welcome back DC’s own Josh Cleveland, fresh from completing the prestigious Broadcast Music Inc. program in NYC for professional creatives. With a hat tip to writer Ernest Hemingway, he’s titling the evening “One True Sentence." Join Josh for an evening of classic cabaret selections that illuminate versions of his own story as a young songwriter and educator, as well as original songs drawn from his works, including musical adaptations of The Great Gatsby and Despicable Me. We can't promise he will heal our nation's fractious discourse in one night of musical storytelling, but, while enjoying a specialty cocktail designed for the occasion, we can open our ears, share laughs, and find at least one or two true sentences along the way.
The Arts Club of Washington venue is intimate, perfect for an optimal cabaret experience. Also thrown into the price of a ticket, the Arts Club will provide a small bites buffet and a signature cocktail created for this performance. Following the show you will meet the artist and enjoy other fine company. The bar opens at 6:30 pm, the show starts at 7:00 pm.
NOVEMBER
Furlough's Paradise
at Theater Alliance
340 Maple Dr. SW, Washington DC
Thursday, November 6 at 7:30 pm
or
Sunday, November 9 at 3:00 pm
We are pleased to introduce Theater Alliance in our Live & About Fall season. as we work to expand our offerings to smaller, and lesser known venues in the DMV. Theater Alliance produces thought-provoking and socially pertinent work, successfully uniting audiences of all backgrounds through the power of creative presentation and participation. Theater Alliance’s impact is reflected in its 111 Helen Hayes Award nominations and 31 wins.
Furlough’s Paradise, a DC regional premiere by playwright a.k. payne, offers is a lyrical homecoming about what we carry, who carries us, and the freedom we dare to imagine. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, it is a tender, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest new play about memory, connection, and the pursuit of freedom—personal, political, and ancestral. With heartache, humor, and a deep longing for something like home, playwright a.k. payne offers a powerful portrait of Black kinship and the strength it takes to choose one another again and again. A poetic meditation on survival, reconnection, and the everyday work of imagining a more liberated future.
DECEMBER
THE OTHER SIDE STORY
at GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street, NW
Friday, December 12 at 8:00 pm
or
Sunday, December 14 at 2:00 pm
The Other Side Story” is Ángel Vázquez’ one-man comedy with music, about the brilliance and reliance of the Puerto Rican Diaspora in New York City. A hilarious one-man musical that traces Puerto Rican history in the U.S. since 1862. One apartment changes his life—and yours!
After playing “Hecho en Puelto Rico” to a sold-out Hostos Center in 2018, Vázquez is back. “The Other Side Story” (not West Side Story) is the story of an island Puerto Rican who finds himself on the streets of El Barrio, East Harlem, where he learns about the struggles and the triumphs of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. This is comedy based on true stories of the Diaspora.
This is GALA Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Season. Hugo and Rebecca Medrano had a vision rooted in excellence, community, and cultural leadership. Wont’ you celebrate their achievements with us?
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We arranged the 2025 Fall Season on a subscription basis with our group discounts at each theater. When you subscribe to this series, Alliance for New Music-Theatre will contact you to record which performance you plan to attend for each Outing.
If you are interested in subscribing for this season, please contact us at: info@newmusictheatre.org
You can also sponsor a young person with limited resources to join us this season and be introduced to the transformative power of music-theatre.
I hope you will join us for this new season.