Creative Voices + Cultural Happeningsin Montgomery County, MD
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An opportunity to shop from an array of unique handmade and art-inspired gifts well before the December holiday rush will take place once more at the Mansion at Strathmore during the Veterans Day Weekend, Nov. 9 to 12. The Museum Shop Holiday Market, an event known for 26 years as the annual Museum Shop Around, will feature shops from 17 area museums View more
The imagination is a magical place inhabited mostly by children and a few lucky adults. Playwright Miriam Gonzalez, a young writer from South Texas with several productions under her belt, celebrates the purity and magic of children’s dreams and storytelling in “The Smartest Girl in the World.”
When Alice falls through the rabbit hole at Imagination Stage this summer, she will find herself on a very different adventure from any Lewis Carroll created back in 19th-century England. The title, “Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure.” offers a glimpse of the exploits ahead:
The annual festival known as Imagination Bethesda celebrates children and the arts by featuring fun, food and entertainment that is provided by some of the businesses and arts organizations that give the community its gloss--from Strathmore to Imagination Stage to Montgomery Parks to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase YMCA.
Over her 23 years of directing award-winning children’s theater at Imagination Stage, artistic director Janet Stanford never shied away from the mundane tasks that kept the company afloat. From selling tickets to cleaning restroom sinks during the early years at White Flint Mall, she simply rolled up her sleeves and got on with it.
Justin Weaks has always liked to entertain audiences. Growing up, he started his performance career in gymnastics. "I feel like gymnastics has its performance elements. You step onto an event and you are doing the event. It is your show. I was drawn to that." He tried theater as an elective in sixth grade and the acting bug bit him--hard. During an View more
It’s a great time to be 1 to 5 years old in Montgomery County. Imagination Stage (IS) has created a show just for them. “Paper Dreams,” a new collaboration with Mons Dansa Dance Company from Barcelona, Spain, is on stage through April 9.
Think three minutes. Within those critical 180 seconds, filmmakers must entice viewers or they will disappear in one quick click of the mouse or TV remote. While reviewing the entries for the fifth annual Bethesda Film Fest, juror Sam Hampton always considered that unwritten rule of thumb.
After putting together a trilogy of musicals marking the past, present and future of hip-hop culture, local writer and director Psalmayene 24 was looking for a new challenge. He turned to the familiar childhood story of Snow White.
Ford is one of several child performers in Metro region professional who balance the demands of the theater alongside adolescence and schoolwork. The commitments sometimes require them to leave school early and do additional assignments outside of education hours. "I get everything done sooner or later," Ford said.
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