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Events for September 18, 2018
Fall into Entertaining – A Floral Design Symposium
The Leesburg Garden Club invites you to spend a very special day with award-winning Jane Godshalk, of the American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD), as she presents the secrets of professional floral design. Event designers, Grit & Grace, will create extraordinary tablescapes, and the husband-wife team of LynnVale Studios, LLC will present fine art interpretation […]
Find out more »Passion
Though less well known than the likes of Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park With George, this 1994 Stephen Sondheim musical—about a romance between a handsome army captain and his superior’s sickly cousin, Fosca—has its fans. This new staging is Signature’s 29th Sondheim show; expect the production to get the most out of highlights […]
Find out more »“Turn Me Loose”
Comedian, activist, and local hero Dick Gregory died last year, two months before an eagerly awaited appearance at the Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival. His much-missed voice returns to DC, in a fashion, with this staging of the off-Broadway hit Turn Me Loose, a play about his life. Gregory is portrayed by Edwin Lee Gibson, an […]
Find out more »“If I Forget”
If I Forget finds a Tenleytown family arguing over whether to sell a 14th Street property amid a rapidly changing city. Set in 2000, the play explores complex subjects such as family dynamics, Jewish-American identity, and gentrification.
Find out more »Macbeth
Rampant ambition and minds unhinged. Owls shrieking and prophesies foretold. Shakespeare’s Macbeth is seen anew, set in Bedlam, an historic London asylum for this groundbreaking production of William Davenant’s Restoration-era adaptation, featuring period music performed by Folger Consort. With Helen Hayes Award winners Ian Merrill Peakes and Kate Eastwood Norris as the tragically ambitious Macbeths.
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