Tag: NextStop Theatre Company
DCTA 2023 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Performances
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Jason Tamborini and Aria Velz on what takes the cake in...
As Prologue's resplendent production transfers to NextStop, the designer and director share their winning recipe for authenticity and astonishment.
’46 Plays for America’s First Ladies’ sketches a wild herstory at...
An evening of song, dance, and creative energy about the power of women.
Without reservation, ‘Fully Committed’ at NextStop is a delight
The script gives an actor the opportunity for a sparkling display of comic virtuosity, and Jaclyn Young takes full advantage.
A grand night of singing in ‘A Familiar Melody’ at NextStop
A revue of beloved showtunes makes for a giddy reunion of artists and audience.
COVID resurgence prompts major changes at NextStop
'An Act of God' opening postponed one week; 'Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood' and 'Disaster (the Musical)' postponed to 2022.
A Juneteenth benchmark of local #WeSeeYouWAT action
A measure of antiracist work underway and a reminder of work yet to be done.
ARTSFAIRFAX presents 2019 Emerging Arts Award to NextStop Theatre Company
ARTSFAIRFAX presented its 2019 Emerging Arts Award at its eighth Arts Awards event on October 18, 2019. The award was given to the professional,...
Review: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Love is a game—or deadly serious—or both at once, depending on which character you ask in NextStop Theatre Company’s production of Pride and Prejudice....
Review: ‘Beehive’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Let yourself drift back and be carried away to another time--the time when music with its rhythms was the center of a young life....
Review: ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ by NextStop Theatre Company
How do you replicate perfection—especially when it involves dumping gallons of water onstage? Any theater company that undertakes a production of Singin’ in the...
Review: ‘Fallen Angels’ at NextStop Theatre Company
If there could be a single word to describe NextStop Theatre Company’s production of Noel Coward’s 1925 comedy, Fallen Angels, it would be symmetry....
Review: ‘The Wolves’ at NextStop Theatre
Sarah DeLappe’s first play, The Wolves, was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and has subsequently been produced all over the...
Review: ‘[title of show]’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Like TV's "Seinfeld," is a show, to a degree, about the mundane. is a musical about four friends creating a musical - the...
Interview: Jordan Friend Previews NextStop’s ‘A Kosher Christmas Cabaret’
Northern Virginia’s NextStop Theater has announced a very special cabaret event for the Holiday season. It is called A Kosher Christmas Cabaret. The performance...
Review: ‘East of Eden’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Can one escape the sins of their ancestors? Can one choose their own course and overcome an evil background? These questions are explored in...
Review: ‘The Wedding Singer’ at NextStop Theatre Company
A wedding singer spurned by love becomes unlikely friends with the waitress at the local banquet hall and, from dumping to dumpsters, finds that...
Can a Community Theater Go Professional?
With NextStop Theatre Company celebrating its 30th anniversary, I chatted with Evan Hoffmann, NextStop’s producing artistic director, to learn about the company’s journey.
Founded in...
Review: ‘Bad Jews’ at NextStop Theatre
What must their mothers have been like? Certainly, cousins Daphna and Liam (Sophie Schulman and Noah Schaefer), the antagonists in Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews,...
Review: ‘Assassins’ at NextStop Theatre Company
NextStop opened their production of Assassins over the weekend and (all the cheesy pun intended) absolutely killed it. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim...