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"I'm Looking For a Piano"
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"Arcadia" Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" will be performed at the Theatre on February 2 and 3. The brilliant playwright's witty, challenging masterpiece is set in a magnificent room overlooking the garden of an English country estate during the 19th and 20th centuries. While the location and setting remain constant, the action alternates back and forth among events occurring there during the two centuries. Issues of science, art, history and landscape gardening are interwoven in this clever and scintillating tale. "Arcadia" will be produced and performed here by the Georgetown University's Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society, which is now in its 150th season. Wendy Weinberg, manager of the Theatre at Washington, saw the opening production of the play at London's National Theatre in 1993 and says "I was so impressed by the first act that during the intermission I bought five copies of the play for family and friends from the National's bookshop in the lobby." Reviews agree that the play is complex, witty and erudite. It presents an intellectual and artistic challenge. Not Gone But Thriving
The Theatre's new season opened on January 12 and "the curtain will rise" every weekend through March 9, the date on which the Castle Trio will play music of Haydn and Beethoven in the fourth concert of the current "Smithsonian at Little Washington" series. Following a short break, three concerts are scheduled for April, and one for May. Other programs are in the planning stage for late May and early June. Contact the Theatre by phone, email, or check the Theatre's web site at www.Theatre-Washington-VA.com for information. |
The
popular English musical of the 1950s, "Salad Days," included the charming
song, "I'm Looking For A Piano." The piano in question was a honky-tonk,
magical piano. The Theatre is in need of something quite different.
Many of the fine pianists who have played at the Theatre remarked
on the exceptional quality, tone and condition of our upright Steinway.
But several of them, and members of the audience, have mentioned how
wonderful it would be if anyone were to give or lend the Theatre a
GRAND piano! A "Steinway B," knowledgeable people suggest, would be
just the thing. So if anyone out there is looking for a good home
for a an instrument of this caliber, either permanently or on long-term
loan, the Theatre would warmly welcome hearing about it.
The
Theatre recently received the gift of a beautifully photographed book
(available for perusal in the Theatre lobby). The book is titled 