NextStop Theatre
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NextStop Theatre slates five shows for winter/spring 2022
‘Every Brilliant Thing’ | ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’ | ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem’ | ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ | ‘Lucky Stiff’
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NextStop Theatre packs ‘Every Christmas Story’ into hysterical remix
Get a load of these fruitcakes — three wise-guy gals bearing timeless gifts of mirth
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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.
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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.
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Four safe, fun shows for fall from NextStop
Revised season programming and rigorous health protocols.
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NextStop’s racy ‘Act of God’ is theater done right-eously
Playing God, Jacob Yeh is a revelation.
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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.
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‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit’ hops next to NextStop
A different actor reads the script cold for the first time each performance. There’s no director, no set, and it’s 100 percent unrehearsed.
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NextStop’s ‘First Date’ is a show to fall in love with
This small show with a big heart is smart, funny, and moving.
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Virtual musical from NextStop Theatre to poke fun at dating game
A musical comedy about two young singles who have been set up on a blind date and are having dinner in a restaurant. What could possibly be more exciting after the past year? As its first full-scale...
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‘Ordinary Days’ at NextStop Theatre: Ah, to be young and tuneful in New York City
Adam Gwon’s 2009 show Ordinary Days could serve as the prototypical Off-Broadway chamber musical: four young characters navigate the Big City in search of their lives, in 19 songs over 80 minutes. The...
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MLK’s final evening is imagined in NextStop Theatre’s ‘The Mountaintop’
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall is a remarkably affecting play full of humanity, faith, unexpected humor, and the Almighty. Strikingly directed by two time Helen Hayes award recipient Kevin S....
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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, black box NextStop Theatre Company. The ARTSFAIRFAX...
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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. The game motif is evident early on, as the cast...
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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. Now with that thought, take yourself to the vibrant, energetic...
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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 Rain, the beloved movie musical about...
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Nu Sass To Perform ‘Marx in Soho’ at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
DC-based theater company Nu Sass Productions is taking Marx in Soho to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer. Marx in Soho, by American Historian Howard Zinn, will feature Mary Myers as Karl Marx...
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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. Emily Lotz’s delightfully realized period set,...
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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 country. The production at NextStop Theatre Company is,...
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Review: ‘[title of show]’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Like TV’s “Seinfeld,” [title of show] is a show, to a degree, about the mundane. [title of show] is a musical about four friends creating a musical – the one the audience sees. Along the way, they...
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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 is a follow-on to NextStop’s big summer...
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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 NextStop Theatre Company’s glorious new adaptation of John...
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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 love might be worth another try. Celebrating their 30th...
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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 1988 as the...
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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, now playing at Herndon’s NextStop Theater –...
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Review: ‘Godspell’ at NextStop Theatre Company
NextStop Theatre is reaching the end of their July 2017 to June 2018 “Point and Counterpoint” season. Their third and final show pairing explores the contrasting effects that religious teachings can...
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Review: ’45 Plays for 45 Presidents’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Throughout American history, the office of the president has served as the living embodiment of the American dream. The central tenet of our democracy, it demonstrates that any person can rise up and...
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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 and book by John Weidman, the musical...
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Review: ‘Disgraced’ at NextStop Theatre Company
What a combustible evening at NextStop’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Under Thembi Duncan’s adroit direction and with fascinating casting, this in-your-face drama...
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Review: ‘A Grand Night for Singing’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II have been called the greatest writing partnership of the 20th century. Their work spans from 1943 to 1959 and includes some of the most...
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Capital Fringe Preview: ‘ClickB@it’ at Naked Theatre Company by Rachael Murray
NTC goes viral. What happens next will Blow. Your. Mind. We’re baa-aack! Naked Theatre Company returns to the Capital Fringe Festival with a world premiere production, ClickB@it. Inspired by The...
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Review: ‘Urinetown: The Musical’ at Nextstop Theatre Company
Imagine a musical about a revolution, where a few scrappy rebels fight for the dignity of their fellow man against a tyrannical few. Now add a score that satirizes every musical under the sun, a...
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Review: ‘Boeing Boeing’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Oh, what fine comic talent and an attuned director can do to bring pleasure. Under the sure hands of NextStop’s Evan Hoffmann and a talented six-member ensemble, there is enjoyable life to an old...
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Review: ‘The Giver’ at NextStop Theatre Company
I loved the book and hated the movie, so I was really curious to see how The Giver, Lois Lowry’s Newbery award-winning story about a dystopian society where everything has gone to “sameness”, would...
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Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Zestful. Savvy. Crafty. Satisfying Director Abigail Isaac Fine’s feisty NextStop production of Shakespeare’s battle-of-wits, romantic-comedy Much Ado About Nothing is a stimulating, adult-depth...
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Review: ‘Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka’ at NextStop Theatre
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka opened at NextStop Theatre in Herndon to a sold-out house this past weekend. The cast included professional actors, alongside local students, which made for a very personal...
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In the Moment: Kenny Neal on his Sound Design for NextStop’s ‘Eurydice’
This is another of my columns that delves deeper into the technical design aspects of an area live theater production. In this case, it was the intriguing sound design of NextStop’s Eurydice that led...
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Review: ‘Eurydice’ at NextStop Theatre Company
The hypnotic new production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice at NextStop Theatre Company is more like a painting or a poem than a movie or a book. It’s a fantastical canvas of broad brushstrokes and bright...
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In the Moment: NextStop Theatre Company’s ‘Paper-Free Programs’
Seeking out budget efficiencies with the often limited resources of a non-profit is a constant. Many of us known this from our own experiences as non-profit board members or on staff. In these current...
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Review: ‘Balloonacy’ at NextStopTheatre Company
NextStop Theatre Company has been producing theatre for young audiences for almost 30 years. Their most recent show is a sweet and enjoyable story called Balloonacy from Playwright Barry Kornhauser....
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Meet The Cast of Castaway’s Repertory Theatre’s ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’: Part 3: Catherine Lyon
In Part 3 of our series of interviews with the cast of Castaways Repertory Theatre’s production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, meet Catherine Lyon (Big Mama). Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our...
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Meet The Cast of The Castaways Repertory Theatre’s ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’: Part 2: Lisa Arnold and Zell Murphy
In Part Two of a series of interviews with the cast of Castaways Repertory Theatre’s production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, meet Lisa Arnold (Dixie) and Zell Murphy (Reverend Tooker). Joel: Please...
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Review: ‘Catch Me If You Can’ at NextStop Theatre Company
The story of Frank Abegnale, Jr., was first brought to America’s attention in Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. It gained a new lease on life in 2011 with the Broadway musical version...
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Meet The Cast of The Castaways Repertory Theatre’s ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’: Part 1: Jay Tilley and Matthew Scarborough
In part 1 in a series of interviews with the cast of Castaways Repertory Theatre’s production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, meet Matthew Scarborough and Jay Tilley. Please introduce yourself and tell our...
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‘Come to Their Cabaret’: Meet the Cast of PWLT’s ‘Cabaret’: Part 3: Catherine Lyon and Larry Keeling
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Prince William Little Theatre’s production of Cabaret, meet Catherine Lyon and Larry Keeling. Joel: Where have local theatergoers seen you perform...
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Review: ‘City of Angels’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Los Angeles may be named after those who pride themselves in virtue and goodness, but NextStop Theatre Company’s production of City of Angels is a reminder that the citizens of Hollywood are anything...
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Review: ‘Snow White’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Adapted from the Brothers Grimm classic, originally published in 1812, NextStop Theatre’s current family-friendly production of Snow White is by no means an untold story. Yet, this version by Kyle...
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Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
Shakespeare presents a language barrier for actors and audience alike. Typically, companies affect British accents (“received pronunciation” – not everyone is a fan), though many companies choose not...
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In the Moment: ‘Voices From the High School’ at NextStop Theatre Company-Cast Members Chime In
“Dark Nights” You remember that theatre term for when a venue has no shows playing to an audience. Well, NextStop Theatre, located in Herndon is having its April Theatre for Young Audiences production...
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Review: ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at NextStop Theatre Company
Before there was Desperate Housewives, before there was Sex in the City, before there was Thelma and Louise, there was the play, Crimes of the Heart. Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize winning play opened...
