Grupo Frontera: El Comienzo Tour 2023

Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet

Arco Iris at Boro Park

World Premiere! Created and Directed by Elena Velasco
June 29- July 1, 2023

OUTDOORS AT BORO PARK!

Told through dance, movement and vibrant imagery, this production is drawn partly from the popular Zapoteca myth, as well as aspects of a Quechua legend about the rainbow (arco iris or iris). Iris, a young child, is about to go to el parque with Abuela. Iris has seven different colored shirts and must decide what to wear. Each “color” makes the case for itself, explaining their greater worth, and how each is seen and received by the world. For ages 3-6 and their families.

Reserve Free Tickets:: https://1ststage.org/arco-iris

Arco Iris at Boro Park

World Premiere! Created and Directed by Elena Velasco
June 29- July 1, 2023

OUTDOORS AT BORO PARK!

Told through dance, movement and vibrant imagery, this production is drawn partly from the popular Zapoteca myth, as well as aspects of a Quechua legend about the rainbow (arco iris or iris). Iris, a young child, is about to go to el parque with Abuela. Iris has seven different colored shirts and must decide what to wear. Each “color” makes the case for itself, explaining their greater worth, and how each is seen and received by the world. For ages 3-6 and their families.

Reserve Free Tickets:: https://1ststage.org/arco-iris

Fitting In

 

Fitting In

CO-CREATED BY

PATRICK LORD AND MEGAN THRIFT

DIRECTED BY PATRICK LORD

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For ages 2-5 and their families

There is absolutely, positively nothing worse- nothing more impossible and difficult than putting things in their proper place. At least, that is what these three Siblings believe. Faced with the task of sorting and organizing “the Attic,” it quickly becomes clear that where everything belongs is not simply a matter of where it might fit, what a thing does, or even what color it is (just to name a few methods), but is instead a question of what a thing could be. The Oldest, The Middlest, and The Littlest all may think that they know which way is best, but until they learn to really look and, more importantly, play with the objects and each other, they are going to discover that fitting in isn’t so straightforward. Is a blanket a blanket, meant for the long flat box on the shelf? Or is it the sail of a boat setting off on an epic journey, and so of course it belongs in the barrels that the sailors will load on the deck of the most magnificent ship you can imagine.

 

Fitting In – World Premiere

 

FITTING IN

World Premiere

CO-CREATED BY

PATRICK LORD AND MEGAN THRIFT

DIRECTED BY PATRICK LORD

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For ages 2-5 and their families

There is absolutely, positively nothing worse- nothing more impossible and difficult than putting things in their proper place. At least, that is what these three Siblings believe. Faced with the task of sorting and organizing “the Attic,” it quickly becomes clear that where everything belongs is not simply a matter of where it might fit, what a thing does, or even what color it is (just to name a few methods), but is instead a question of what a thing could be. The Oldest, The Middlest, and The Littlest all may think that they know which way is best, but until they learn to really look and, more importantly, play with the objects and each other, they are going to discover that fitting in isn’t so straightforward. Is a blanket a blanket, meant for the long flat box on the shelf? Or is it the sail of a boat setting off on an epic journey, and so of course it belongs in the barrels that the sailors will load on the deck of the most magnificent ship you can imagine.

 

Toad The Wet Sprocket: All You Want Tour With Marcy Playground

Toad the Wet Sprocket is still making new music and touring with the same spirit of unwavering independence that started it all over three decades ago.

The band is thankful for the continued help and enthusiastic support of their fans, which helped spur the release of All You Want and also serves as inspiration for the band to not only tour and play live, but to continue to make new original music together. They continue to support their most recent release, Starting Now (2021), as well as their previous album New Constellation (2013), and EP The Architect of Ruin (2015). Toad the Wet Sprocket share in the kind of musical chemistry that can only come from meeting in high school and writing, recording, and touring on albums over the course of time. After Bread & Circus, they followed with Pale in 1990, fear in ’91, Dulcinea in 1994, and Coil in 1997, as well as some compilations along the way. While most will still feel the comforting familiarity of the Billboard-charting hits, “Walk on the Ocean”, “All I Want”, “Something’s Always Wrong”, and “Fall Down”, fans will also be well familiar with tracks with lyrics that resonate for so many life milestones like “The Moment”, “I Will Not Take These Things for Granted”, “Transient Whales” and so many more.

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Toad the Wet Sprocket Meet & Greet Experience

  • One (1) Event Ticket
  • Meet & Greet and Photo Opportunity with Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Invitation to Exclusive Pre-Show Acoustic Performance
  • One (1) Limited Edition Event Poster
  • One (1) Commemorative Laminate
  • Buy tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15005E640CF65F0A

The Vienna Jammers Presents The Big Jam

The Vienna Jammers’ BIG JAM featuring DJ ENFERNO.

The Vienna Jammers are a group of 8-17 year olds from Vienna, VA area. The members of the ensemble use a combination of traditional and non-traditional instruments, including marimbas, hand drums, trash cans and any other object they can hit! The steel pans made their debut in 2014.

The group began in 2005-2006 when a high school junior  Dave Cohen!) approached David L. Reynolds, Jr. (“Mr. Reynolds”) with the idea of starting an after-school percussion ensemble. The idea stuck, and the ensemble began rehearsing and eventually was able to book a few performances in the community. The signature Red Brute Trash Cans were purchased partly because of financial necessity, and partly because the group tried to emulate another famous percussion ensemble (Stomp!), at least at the core of it’s “found sounds” concept.

https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15005E5AD07F4D3D

The 39 Steps — McLean Community Players

 A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale!

MCP (and its predecessors — CAST, GFP, and MTA) has been entertaining the community since 1964. MCP is a not-for-profit charitable and educational organization, administered under the provisions of section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code. All donations are fully tax deductible.

 

Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15005E68E9BB4915

Page & Stage: Book Cub

In partnership with Bards Alley, 1st Stage is excited to bring  a new book club for every audience!

Join us after the March 12th matinee performance of How The Light Gets In to discuss
The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa.

This discussion will be held in-person. Light refreshments will be provided.

Next Meeting: Sunday, March 12th at 3:45pm

About The Housekeeper and the Professor:

From one of Japan’s most beloved bestselling authors, Yoko Ogawa, comes an achingly beautiful story about family, memory, and math.

He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem—since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son who is hired care for him. And between them a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. Though the professor can hold new memories for only eighty minutes, his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever math riddles—based on the housekeeper’s shoe size or her birthday—and the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both her and her little boy.

The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist.

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