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Photo Credit: Sarah Straub

Every summer when Sarah Corey was a child, her family would go to Alger Farm in Massachusetts to pick blueberries. She, along with her two brothers, would create little pails out of empty two-liter soda bottles by cutting off their tops, punching holes and adding rope to make handles. Wearing the pails around their necks, the three would fill them with View more

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It’s not 1904 anymore. If Sir J. M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” were written today, one playwright wondered, would Tinker Bell be more liberated, expressive and opinionated? Then he wrote a play. Glen Echo Park’s Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) premiered “Tinker Bell,” penned by Washington, D.C. playwright Patrick Flynn, on June 22. This adaptation View more

Photo Credit: Michael Horan

Everyone has a bad day now and then, but 12-year-old Alexander is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day from the moment he wakes up. Adventure Theatre MTC (AT-MTC) will bring his story, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” from page to stage in a new musical version through March 31.

Photo Credit: Michael Horan

What started as a mock holiday in 1995 has become kind of, almost, sort of a real thing. International Talk Like a Pirate Day, while not a Hallmark holiday (yet), is widely recognized by kids, as well as history and maritime geeks as a day to talk like a pirate for no good reason.

Photo Credit: DJ Corey Photography

The child or teen who wants to take a tap or acting class can pretty much go anywhere in the Washington metro area. Yet, if they want a comprehensive education focusing on technique in multiple disciplines, they were out of luck--until now. Adventure Theatre MTC Academy recently announced a new Conservatory Training Program for fourth- through 12th-graders View more

Photo Credit: Sarah Straub

Alive with love, magic and intrigue, “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” at Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) at Glen Echo Park offers a delightful look into Middle Eastern culture through retelling one of the traditional stories from the “One Thousand and One Nights.”

Photo Credit: Sarah Straub

Song, dance and a bit of poetry bring to life a fairytale world of magic spells, good and evil, and love and betrayal in the world premiere musical, “Ella Enchanted,” on stage at Adventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo Park.

Photo credit: Michael Wang

Adventure Theatre MTC’s Producing Artistic Director is “busy, busy, busy”

Photo credit: Sarah Straub

A simple roll of the dice sets the stage for “Jumanji” to spring to life for its world premiere from June 17 to Aug. 28 at Adventure Theatre-MTC (ATMTC) in Glen Echo Park. Adapted for the stage by a pair of playwrights--ATMTC ‘s Artistic Director Michael J. Bobbitt and Sandra B. Eskin, the play is based on the 1981 book of the same name by two-time View more

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