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Alliance for New Music-Theatre
2025 Winter/Spring Season of Live & About – 14th Season
A Journey in Musical Languages across the Spectrum of Music-Theatre
Through Performance & Conversation
Join our Live & About Subscription Series where we take you along to different theaters representing large and small companies approximately once a month, introducing you to different expressions across the spectrum of music-theater. 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
Winter/Spring Season Outings
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May - Washington National Opera presents a new work by composer Mason Bates and Librettist Mark Campbell (also advisor to our company ), The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. Come with us on this operatic journey through the interior workings and spiritual journey of an innovator.
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June - Signature Theatre offer us a return trip to Arlington’s anchor cultural destination and another biographically-inspired work , this month a musical in The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter Thompson Musical.
January
Andre Leonard in Concert
at Howard Theater
620 T St NW,, Washington DC
Saturday, January 11 @ 7:30 pm
Andre Leonard performs his original works and other music with local artists and orchestra
across different genres at The Howard Theater, an iconic setting in DC’s Historic Black Broadway (U Street) Corridor. (One night only.)
February
The Bedwetter
at Arena Stage
1101 6th St SW, Washington DC
February ? @ ???pm
or
Sunday, February ? @ 2:00pm
Mosaic Theater Company presents Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, an immersive nightclub experience about the legendary, Billie Holiday. Helen Hayes Award-winning actress Roz White stars as the legendary singer in the role she was born to play. after completing the national tour of TINA: The Tina Turner Musical. Featuring classics such as “God Bless the Child” and “Strange Fruit,” this acclaimed play with music transports you to a small bar in Philadelphia for one of the icon’s final concerts, transforming the theater into an immersive nightclub complete with a live band and cocktails.
Roz has performed with us in several productions, including Voices of Zion in 2022, and will join us for part 2 of the project in April 2025 - DC Emancipation and the Right to Vote.
March
The Immigrant
by Synetic Theatre
a at the Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre
125 S Old Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA
Sunday, March 16 @ 3:00 pm
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Thursday, March 20 @ 7:30 pm
Synetic Theatre has been a leader in silent adaptions of classical works since ??? and they are now presenting works in select venues around the DNV , Synetic premieres The Immigrant, a new project from Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili based on the classic 1918 silent comedy. It is a simple, comedic story about the arrival of a new immigrant in turn of the 20th-century New York, with all the trials, adventure, mishaps, and high hopes of the American immigrant journey. As a theater founded, led, and populated by immigrant artists, Synetic considers this the perfect time and opportunity to adapt, expand, and develop its own version of story, bringing its adept physical comedy, innovative style, and great heart to the legacy of this cinema classic.
April
DC Emancipation and the Right to Vote
by Alliance for New Music-Theatre
Sunday, December 8 @ 2:30 pm
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Sunday, December 15 @ 2:30pm
New Music-Theatre will share its tribute to the history of Back Georgetown and the leaders who made possible the early DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote (Venue TBA) in an original work of music-theatre by company member Ronald ‘Trey’ Walton
May
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
by Washington National Opera
May @ 2:30 pm
or
Sunday, December 15 @ 2:30pm
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We arranged the 2024 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.
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.