NextStop Theatre Company was founded in 1988, as the Elden Street Players, an all-volunteer, community theatre company created predominantly by and for the residents of Herndon, Virginia.
After little more than a year, the Town of Herndon quickly recognized the exciting potential for cultivating the arts in the community, authorized and funded the creation of a 114-seat, blackbox theatre in a local industrial warehouse complex, and helped secure a home for the emerging company.From their earliest days, the Elden Street Players (ESP) stretched and challenged themselves to be bold and unique.
After little more than a year, the Town of Herndon quickly recognized the exciting potential for cultivating the arts in the community, authorized and funded the creation of a 114-seat, blackbox theatre in a local industrial warehouse complex, and helped secure a home for the emerging company.From their earliest days, the Elden Street Players (ESP) stretched and challenged themselves to be bold and unique.
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Note: There is a processing fee for all tickets purchased. Since popularity of most performances determines ticket pricing, we STRONGLY encourage purchasing tickets well in advance. Your email order confirmation is all you need. As long as you received an email confirmation that your order was successfully processed, simply check in by name when you arrive at the theatre.
Education
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Each session is three hours per day for five days and occurs in our theater. Students are given opportunities to participate in socially-distant activities and exercises on the stage, which provides over 800 square feet of open floor space. When not on stage, students are spaced out in our 100-seat capacity audience.
By-Kids-For-Kids Program
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NextStop Theatre's By-Kids-For-Kids productions are a unique and innovative program that places local student performers under the guidance of our celebrated professional directors and designers, as well as on stage alongside our award-winning professional actors.
Though not usually a part of our traditional main stage season, we are proud to create these special opportunities to give aspiring young artists the chance to shine on our stage and welcome them into the NextStop artist community.Besides being a valuable experience for the students in the cast, it is eye-opening for kids in the audience to see their peers in fully realized theatrical productions.
Though not usually a part of our traditional main stage season, we are proud to create these special opportunities to give aspiring young artists the chance to shine on our stage and welcome them into the NextStop artist community.Besides being a valuable experience for the students in the cast, it is eye-opening for kids in the audience to see their peers in fully realized theatrical productions.
Values
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NextStop Theatre Company is a professional, not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to producing theatrical performances and educational programs that are uniquely ambitious, intimate, and accessible both to and in the Northern Virginia/Dulles Corridor community. NextStop Theatre Company has become the premier professional theatre company of the Dulles Region and a respected member of the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area theatre community.
Antiracism
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While we have much work to do (and the work will never be done), NextStop plans to publish regular updates on the learning, planning, and concrete actions that we are taking to be an antiracist organization.
NextStop's Producing Artistic Director and a board representative are currently actively participating in a series of monthly, collaborative anti-oppression and anti-racism workshops, facilitated by TheatreWashington and run by Abolishing Racism and Oppression in the Workplace (AROW).
NextStop's Producing Artistic Director and a board representative are currently actively participating in a series of monthly, collaborative anti-oppression and anti-racism workshops, facilitated by TheatreWashington and run by Abolishing Racism and Oppression in the Workplace (AROW).
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