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The Theatre at Washington recently announced its program for the new season, featuring drama, jazz, Celtic, and chamber music, and films. '
These days it’s a toss-up whether the performers or members of the audience travel farther from their home base to reach the well-known Theatre in (the town of Washington. With reservations for jazz concerts already phoned in from New Jersey, North Carolina, and Richmond, even before the Theatre had announced its final fall lineup, the audience might seem to be ahead.
But with the Edinburgh String Quartet coming from Scotland, the performers are probably going to be impossible to top in miles traveled this season. The opening performance features an actor from North Carolina; jazz guitarists will be coming to perform from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and several of the musicians who will be coming to the Theatre from their home base in the D.C. metropolitan area do so in between their own foreign tours.
The Theatre’s new season begins on Sept. 18, with a dramatic stage portrayal of Mark Twain’s light and dark sides. Its opening performances in Boone, N.C., last month were exceptionally well received.
Jazz guitarists Jimmy Bruno and Jack Wilkins return to the Theatre the following week, Sept. 25. (When told in response to a phone inquiry from North Carolina that it would take some hours to drive to the Theatre, the caller replied, “No problem. I’d travel six or seven hours to hear Jimmy Bruno.”)
New to the Theatre’s growing number of celebrated jazz guitarists this fall are Frank Vignola and Gene Bertoncini, who will perform on Dec. 4. Between these two performances, on Oct. 9, jazz enthusiasts will be able to hear the Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet, backed by a four-piece instrumental group.
Celtic musicians, Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton, return to the Theatre on Oct. 23 in what has become an annual tradition. They have recently come back from a tour in Ireland.
The two chamber music programs at the Theatre this fall are both on Sunday afternoons in November, a popular time once the weather turns cold' and the days shorten. The Edinburgh Quartet, coming on Nov. 21, will play music of Dvorak, Mozart, and Schumann.
The following week, Nov. 28, the Smithsonian Chamber Players bring another program in their “Brilliance of the Baroque” series. Since this latter concert occurs during the holiday weekend it has been titled “Thanksgiving with the Bach Family.” It will feature works of Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers in the Bach family.
Not to be outdone in drawing on artists from overseas, as well as the United States, the high quality twice-monthly, Friday film series presented at the Theatre by the Rappahannock Association for Arts and the Community has scheduled films this fall from Cuba and England, as well as American films set in Tuscany and Vietnam. Ticket prices for films are $5 (no reservations).
Reservations are recommended for the live performances at the Theatre. Ticket prices are $14 with reservation, $15 at the door; students 18 and under pay half price. Phone 675-1253 or send email to TheatjreVA@aol.com.
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