Arlington News

SEVENDUST has announced the second leg of their “An Evening With Sevendust” acoustic U.S. tour, which kicks off April 1 in Athens, GA at the Georgia Theatre.

The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts - the only accredited acting studio in the Greater Washington Area - announced today that the award-winning TV and film director (and Pennsylvania native) John Putch was returning to DC to offer a special seminar for East Coast filmmakers, screenwriters, producers and actors that reveals his unique strategies for making and marketing micro-budget movies the anti-hollywood way. The half-day seminar - called 'Making the Anti-Hollywood Movie' - will be held today, March 22, from 11 a.m. till 3 p.m., at the Hyatt Arlington, VA.

When it comes to saying "I do" in the City of Good Neighbors, the Courtyard Chicago Arlington Heights/South aims to dazzle couples with newly renovated spaces to marry, celebrate, socialize and sleep.

The American Century Theater is excited to present the Arthur Kopit farce, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, tonight, March 21 - April 12 at Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two, in Arlington.

A NEW CALLING: SPIRITUAL SECOND CAREERS, a CBS Interfaith Special that explores the phenomenon of mature adults moving from successful secular careers into the world of religion, will be broadcast Sunday, April 13

In Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 2, the latest installment in the award-winning Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series, Page Keeley offers teachers 39 new formative assessment probes, this time with a focus on electric charge, electric current, and magnets and electromagnetism.

Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre announces its 25th Anniversary season, illustrating its commitment to provide theater artists a home to create, explore and reinvent new works.

The overall decision to shift back to Synetic's roots for the occasion? I'd say it is a good one.

Language Stars, the national leader in early childhood foreign language education with locations throughout the Chicago, Washington DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas, will host a free interactive Storytime with Yue Chen, author of 'Meimei - A Beautiful Fish.' Featuring games, an online puppet show/audio resources and a take home activity, the former Language Stars teacher will use her new book to fully immerse children in the Chinese language.

The Barn Theatre of Montville, New Jersey will be presenting the British comedy 'Run For Your Wife'. Performances will be tonight, March 14 and March 21, 22, 28, 29 and April 4th and 5th 2014 at 8pm; and on March 15, 16, 23 and 30th at 2pm.

Fourteen exceptionally talented young singer-actors have been selected as finalists in the 2014 Lotte Lenya Competition. They will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000 and $7,500 on Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Rochester, New York. Broadway conductor and Encores! music director Rob Berman, 2-time Tony Award winner Judy Kaye, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Artistic Director James Robinson will judge.

Broadway luminaries and Riverdale's most talented performers will join forces for a 30th Anniversary concert production of the rarely performed musical, BABY, featuring a 17-piece orchestra, to be performed at the Riverdale YM-YWHA on Sunday, March 23, 2014, at 7:30pm.

The New York Philharmonic will present its 11th season of Summertime Classics, July 2-6, 2014, featuring five themed concerts with Bramwell Tovey, who has been the host and conductor of the series since its founding in 2004. On the first program, July 2-3, 2014, titled "Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Friends," the New York Philharmonic will perform Shostakovich's Festive Overture; Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, with pianist Joyce Yang as soloist; Musorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain; Rachmaninoff's arrangement of his own Vocalise; and Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker, and Marche slave. The second program, July 4-6, 2014, titled "Star-Spangled Celebration," will feature the New York Philharmonic and United States Marine Drum & Bugle Corps - "The Commandant's Own," which is celebrating its 80th-anniversary year - in a program that includes Copland's Clarinet Concerto, with Associate Principal Clarinet Mark Nuccio as soloist, and Fanfare for the Common Man; Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band" from Strike Up the Band; Sousa marches; and more. In these performances Major Brian Dix, director and commanding officer of "The Commandant's Own," will share conducting duties with Bramwell Tovey.

Language Stars, the national leader in early childhood foreign language education, announces a partnership with the Music Institute of Chicago, a world-renowned community music school, to show how music and foreign language can play a key role in a child's life.

Just in time for the 200th Anniversary of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” The Dallas Opera is thrilled to announce a brand-new competition designed to encourage the inner opera diva – or divo – in you! The “Oh, Say, Can You Sing?” National Anthem Competition offers men, women and children the opportunity to compete – via YouTube submissions – for the unique chance to bring down the house at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

Just in time for the 200th Anniversary of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' The Dallas Opera is thrilled to announce a brand-new competition designed to encourage the inner opera diva - or divo - in you! The 'Oh, Say, Can You Sing?' National Anthem Competition offers men, women and children the opportunity to compete - via YouTube submissions - for the unique chance to bring down the house at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

This lively book from NSTA contains the kind of guidance that could only come from middle school science teaching veterans. The authors of Doing Good Science in Middle School, Expanded 2nd Edition have made the book easy to use, whether you want to read it cover to cover or pick out sections to help you with lesson planning and classroom management. They have thoroughly revised this second edition to meet the needs of today's students. The book contains:

Below you can check out photos of the company in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In The Spotlight' by acclaimed photographer Walter McBride!

The Public Theater will begin previews for the New York premiere of A SECOND CHANCE on Tuesday, March 18. Directed by Jonathan Butterell with book, music, and lyrics by Ted Shen, this new musical will run through Sunday, April 13 in the Shiva Theater, with an official press opening on Sunday, March 30.

Today, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), the nation's oldest AIDS service organization, announces the sensational news that its annual dinner gala will be hosted by the award-winning actress, singer and dancer, Chita Rivera, and held at Cipriani 42nd Street, on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. A revered Broadway legend, Ms. Rivera is not a stranger to GMHC. In 2004, she starred in GMHC's benefit concert, 'Showstoppers,' featuring 20 Broadway stars performing their signature numbers at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.