WAPAVA

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, passionate about preserving theatre...by recording it.

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

⁣#tbt (2024) @OlneyTheatre’s AVAAZ⁣ by Michael Shayan⁣
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel ⁣
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Photos by Teresa Castracane
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NEW TO THE ARCHIVE⁣
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#OlneyTheatreCenter #dmvtheatre #newtothearchive

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

Congratulations to WAPAVA board member, Felicia Curry, on her recent @obieawards Citation!

[Rick Hammerly @RickHammerly]

⁣When one of the best people you know receives an OBIE Citation for her most recent Off-Broadway performance! ⁣
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Felicia Curry, the work you continues to do is fearless, generous & full of heart. You’re an incredible talent, still rising, still surprising.⁣
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#DameCurry

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

⁣#tbt (2022) Monumental Theatre Company’s ⁣tick, tick…BOOM!⁣ by Jonathan Larson⁣
Directed by Michael Windsor
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Photos by @pickleydoo
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NEW TO THE ARCHIVE⁣
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#MonumentalTheatreCompany #dmvtheatre #WAPAVA #newtothearchive

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

#tbt (2024) @FolgerLibrary’s METAMORPHOSIS by Mary Zimmerman, directed by Psalmayene 24
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NEW TO THE ARCHIVE
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#FolgerShakespeareLibrary #dmvtheatre #WAPAVA #newtothearchive

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

⁣#tbt (2022) @OlneyTheatre’s THE MUSIC MAN, book, music and lyrics by ⁣Meredith Willson, co-directed by Michael Baron and Sandra Mae Frank ⁣
Performed in ASL and English with English Supertitles
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Photos by Teresa Castracane
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NEW TO THE ARCHIVE⁣

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

⁣#tbt (2024) @FolgerLibrary’s ROMEO AND JULIET, by William Shakespeare, adapted by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, directed by Raymond Caldwell
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Photos by Erika Nizborski.⁣
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NEW TO THE ARCHIVE⁣
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#FolgerShakespeareLibrary #WAPAVA #dmvtheatre #newtothearchive

[Rick Hammerly @RickHammerly]

Look who’s in rehearsal for Nazareth Hassan's BOWL EP Off-Broadway!

Dame Curry!

BOWL EP, a Vineyard Theatre & National Black Theatre co-production, in association with the New Group.

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

⁣#tbt (2024) 1st Stage’s THE WAVERLY GALLERY, by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Alex Levy⁣
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Photos by Teresa Castracane Photography⁣
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NEW TO THE ARCHIVE⁣
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#1stStage #dmvtheatre #WAPAVA #thewaverlygallery #newtothearchive

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⁣#tbt (2014) @RHT_roundhouse’s TWO TRAINS RUNNING, by August Wilson, directed by Timothy Douglas⁣
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Photos by Danisha Crosby⁣
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CURRENTLY IN THE ARCHIVE⁣
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#roundhousetheatre #WAPAVA #dmvtheatre #augustwilson

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⁣⁣#tbt (2022) @OlneyTheatre’s A.D. 16, ⁣book by Bekah Brunstetter, music & lyrics by Cinco Paul, story by Cinco Paul, directed by Stephen Brackett⁣⁣
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Photos by Teresa Castracane
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CURRENTLY IN THE ARCHIVE⁣⁣
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#olneytheatrecenter #OTCad16musical

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

#tbt (2024) @monumentalDC’s AMERICAN PSYCHO, music & lyrics by Duncan Sheik, book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel, directed by Michael Windsor.
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📸 by @pickleydoo

SOON TO BE ADDED TO ARCHIVE
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#monumentaltheatreco #dmvtheatre

[Americans for the Arts @Americans4Arts]

👏 Great news for the arts! Last week, The House voted to protect funding for the NEA and NEH, rejecting $96 million in cuts that threatened vital programs. This is a major win for #ArtsandHumanities in the U.S. and is possible with the hard work of arts advocates around the country. ⬇️

[Howard Sherman @HESherman]

There is theatre to be applauded everywhere: old & new; comedy, drama & musical; on stages large & small; commercial, not-for-profit, academic & community; in arts centers, schools, parks & auditoriums. Celebrate theatre, and the people who make it, every day.

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

#tbt (2023) @CONSTELLATIONDC’s ORLANDO, adapted by Sarah Ruhl from the book by Virginia Woolf, directed by Nick Martin

Photos by DJ Corey Photography

NEW TO THE ARCHIVE
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#constellationtheatrecompany #orlando #dctheatre #WAPAVA #newtothearchive

[Ben Brantley @BenjBrantley]

The best new American play I've seen in I-don't-know-how-long; the most miraculously transformative revival of a musical I've seen perhaps ever -- this a.m. both were gratifyingly heaped with Tony nominations. Oh, of course I mean "Stereophonic" and "Merrily We Roll Along."

[Ben Brantley @BenjBrantley]

A heartbroken farewell to Christopher Durang, one of the funniest of all American playwrights, who skewered sacred cows with absurdist rapiers and cleavers: marriage, Catholicism, gun craziness, our pathological addiction to being entertained. his most hallowed fellow dramatists.

[WAPAVA @WAPAVATheater]

⁣⁣⁣“Theatre is the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ⁣⁣
– Oscar Wilde ⁣⁣⁣
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HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY! ⁣
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#WorldTheatreDay #livetheatre #dmvtheatre #GoSeeAShow #WAPAVA

[The Library for Performing Arts @nypl_lpa]

We are sad to hear that Chita Rivera, dancer, singer, actress, and writer, passed away at age 91. She came to prominence through her role as Anita in West Side Story, and made use of her ability to dance and sing on stage in productions like Chicago and Kiss of the Spiderwoman.

[Rick Hammerly @RickHammerly]

Fabulous feting at @vareptheatre’s 2024 Anything Goes Gala, “A Night in New Orleans,” featuring the extraordinary talents of Felicia Curry & Anthony Smith. Such fun! Enormous thanks and gratitude to everyone who made this year’s event possible. ⁣⁣
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Photos by @SuttenPhoto