Falls Church, VA – The 2017-18 Season will mark Creative Cauldron’s ninth year producing and presenting live theater and music at ArtSpace Falls Church. The season includes a diverse range of programming for adults and families alike. Highlighting the season will be a world premiere musical, Witch written by internationally produced duo Stephen Gregory Smith and Matt Conner. Witch is the fourth installment of Creative Cauldron’s five-year “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” initiative. The season’s theatrical offerings are complemented by live music throughout the year by two concert series: the “Passport to the World Festival” and the “Summer Cabaret Series.” Tickets are on-sale now, and can be purchased by visiting www.creativecauldron.org or calling 703-436-9948. Creative Cauldron offers two flexible season pass options for performances throughout the season.
 
“The resilience and resistance of the feminine spirit burns through our 2017-18 season” says Producing Director Laura Connors Hull. “We follow the journeys of women who have made difficult bargains, plucky girls who have followed their own voices, and wise elders who have been demonized for exerting their power and influence.  We are excited about sharing these vivid and moving stories with our audience in our intimate venue.  This is a season that will be remembered.”
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Creative Cauldron Receives 2017 Best of Falls Church Award

Falls Church Award Program Honors the Achievement
FALLS CHURCH June 1, 2017 -- Creative Cauldron has been selected for the 2017 Best of Falls Church Award in the Performing Arts Group category by the Falls Church Award Program.
Each year, the Falls Church Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Falls Church area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2017 Falls Church Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Falls Church Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About Falls Church Award Program
The Falls Church Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Falls Church area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Falls Church Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
SOURCE: Falls Church Award Program

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Falls Church Award Program
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Iyona and Tiara took the stage together in one previous production, Once on This Island, and will be together again in our upcoming The Wizard of Oz, June 8 - 25.

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Creative Cauldron Presents American Classic The Wizard of Oz
Featuring Professional Cast of Helen Hayes Awards © Nominees
June 8 – 25, 2017 at ArtSpace Falls Church
 
Falls Church, VA – Creative Cauldron announces American classic musical The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, directed by Creative Cauldron Artistic Associate, Matt Conner. The story is the whirlwind journey of a Kansas farm girl, Dorothy, swept away to the magical Land of Oz where she meets a cast of iconic characters, like the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, on her journey home. Creative Cauldron will reimagine what the Library of Congress called “America’s greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale” within their intimate black box theatre, featuring a virtuosic cast of local talent and an ensemble cast drawn from Creative Cauldron’s new Professional Musical Theatre Workshop.

Creative Cauldron’s professional cast for The Wizard of Oz will feature three Creative Cauldron Helen Hayes Awards © nominees in leading and featured roles. The role of Dorothy Gale will be played by Tiara Whaley, who was nominated in the 2017 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical – HELEN Production category for her role as Emmie Thibodeaux in Creative Cauldron’s Caroline, or Change (2016). The role of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, will be played by Iyona Blake, who was nominated for the 2017 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical – HELEN Production category for her role as Caroline Thibodeaux in Creative Cauldron’s Caroline, or Change (2016). The role of The Scarecrow will be played by Alan Naylor, who is the winner of the 2015 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical – HELEN Production for his role in Creative Cauldron’s Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (2014).

Press Night is June 10th at 7:30pm

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Creative Cauldron Presents World Premiere Musical Kaleidoscope
Starring Broadway’s Florence Lacey
May 4 – 28, 2017 at ArtSpace Falls Church
 
Falls Church, VA – Creative Cauldron announces the world premiere of Kaleidoscope, a new musical written by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith, starring Broadway’s Florence Lacey. The production is Conner and Smith’s third installment in Creative Cauldron’s “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” five-year commissioning project, following Helen Hayes Awards © Recommended productions of The Turn of the Screw (2015) and Monsters of the Villa Diodati (2016). Kaleidoscope is the poignant story of a legendary Broadway performer’s comeback tour of her one-woman show revealing her star-studded life in the theatre. As the tour moves on, her memory of these stories starts to elude her. As her stage manager and director come to her aid, the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease become clear. Press night is Saturday, May 13 at 8 PM.

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Congratulations to the all of the Helen Hayes Awards Nominees! We were honored to see FOUR of our own talented actors nominated.

On January 19th, 2017 at 5:30pm in each time zone across the country communities gathered outside of theaters to create a "light" for dark times ahead, and to make, or renew, a pledge to stand for and protect the values of inclusion, participation, and compassion for everyone regardless of race, class, religion, country of origin, immigration status, (dis)ability, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Citizens came together outside of their local theaters with their own lights and lit them together to shine bright in the darkness. Then each theater lit their own ghostlight, that will remain lit, to symbolize their pledge to be a safe space for all.

Creative Cauldron then hosted a community forum around their ghostlight to discuss the issues those in the community are facing and concerns over whats to come. Many people made their own pledges that were posted just outside the theater entrance.

Other participating theaters in the DC area included Folger Theatre, Mosaic Theater Company of DC, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theater J, and Convergence Theatre in Bethesda.

Find more photos from all area theaters on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: #DCGhostlightProject
Or check out all of the photos from the nearly 1,000 participating theaters across the nation use #GhostlightProject

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Creative Cauldron Presents Scorching Musical Blues in the Night
February 9 – March 5, 2017 at ArtSpace Falls Church
 
Falls Church, VA – Creative Cauldron presents the Tony-Award Nominated Musical Blues in the Night, directed by Creative Cauldron’s Artistic Associate, Matt Conner. Set in a rundown hotel in Chicago 1938, Blues in the Night was conceived and originally directed by Sheldon Epps. It weaves a breadth of stories defined through twenty-six classic songs that cover the range of the quintessential American art form. The show takes its title from the Academy Award-Nominated blues standard by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. The first act features lush big band numbers like “Am I Blue?”, made famous by Eddie Cochran and Ray Charles, and “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues”, a Billie Holiday standard. It also features raunchy tunes like “Rough and Ready Man” and “Reckless Blues”, favorites of Alberta Hunter and Bessie Smith. The soulful voices of Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Nina Simone can be heard in the second act’s heartfelt torch songs like “These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)” and “Willow Weep for Me”.

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Broadway World's 2016 DC Awards nominees are out and voting has begun! The awards are completely readership based and Creative Cauldron was named among 5 awards.

Best Actor in a Musical - Small Professional Theater: Sam Ludwig, Monsters of the Villa Diodati
Best Actress in a Musical - Small Professional Theater: Iyona Blake, Caroline, or Change
Best Direction - Small Professional Theater: Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith, Monsters of the Villa Diodati
Best Musical - Small Professional Theater: Monsters of the Villa Diodati
Most Creative Technical Design - Small Professional Theater: Margie Jervis, Monsters of the Villa Diodati

Voting is open to the public until December 31.
Click HERE to cast your vote and check out the live stats of who is winning!