by Sam Maul | Jan 22, 2020 | Performances, Site Visits
On Sunday, January 19, we had the pleasure of visiting Dance Place in the Brookland/Edgewood community of Washington D.C. Dance Place is a non-profit organization, founded in 1978, that aims to enrich the lives of community members through high quality performances,...
by Hannah Summers | Jan 18, 2020 | Performances, Site Visits
“There is not anything of human trial That ever love deplored or sorrow knew No glad fulfillment and no sad denial Beyond the pictured truth that Shakespeare drew.” -William Winter, inscription on wall of the Great Hall at the Folger Library As the...
by Holly Beck | Jan 17, 2020 | Performances, Site Visits
January 9th was a long day. Our morning started bright and early at 8:00 am, when part of our group journeyed to the Dirksen Senate Building to meet United States Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota at her “Minnesota Morning” program, a time in which Senator...
by Sam Maul | Jan 16, 2020 | Performances
As a self-proclaimed Musical Theatre nerd, it may come as no surprise that one of the activities I was most excited for was the performance of My Fair Lady at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Kennedy Center, a National Center for Cultural...
by Emmie Head | Jan 12, 2020 | Performances
An estimated 2.2% of the population of US adults consider themselves culturally or religiously Jewish.[1] Of those 5.3 million people, around 250,000 adults live in the greater Washington, DC area.[2] Theater J, one of the nation’s most well-known Jewish theaters,...
by Abigail Hansen | Jan 11, 2020 | Performances
On Thursday night, our group attended the premiere performance of Sheltered at Theater J. I not only attended an excellent performance, but I received an unexpected gift. I got to spontaneously converse with a DC local. Her comments about her life and her experiences...
