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Cabaret Series

​We Thank you all for a great 2025- 2026 Cabaret Season.

On Tuesday, June 2, we presented our last cabaret of our second season at The Arts Club of Washington on a beautiful mild summer evening and a packed house for artist Alan Naylor.

This is our lineup for our 2026-2027 Cabaret Season

October 6, 2026. CARMEN MEETS LOLA

Crossover Artist, Company Member, and Dominican Republic songstress Melisa Bonetti blends different music genres, pairing operatic arias with jazzy standards to express wild and deep emotions.​

 

December 1, 2026. CURTAIN CALLS: HOWARD EDITION

Company Member Daniel ‘Deacon’ Smith takes the lead, helps us embark on a partnership with Howard University, leading award-winning student performers from a cabaret competition.​

 

February 2, 2027. A GATSBY FOR OUR TIME

This cabaret will feature songs from Company Member Josh Cleveland's adaptation of Fitzgerald's novel with original music and lyrics inspired by 20’s jazz.​

 

April 6, 2027. SUZY PLAYS THE SAXOPHONE

Prominent silent film musician Andrew Earle Simpson screens an exuberant 1928 French/German silent film, Saxophone Suzy, accompanied by a new live score plus new arrangements of Weimar-inspired cabaret.​

 

May 4, 2027. SING THE UNSUNG

Company Member Cara Schaefer shares her wit, expressive voice, and enormously generous heart, especially for all creatures great & small whose stories are overlooked in the mainstream narrative.​

 

June 1, 2027. MEPHISTO AS A WEIMAR CABARET

Join us when our whole cabaret ensemble reassembles in a season finale and a preview of a new work based on Klaus Mann’s novel, Mephisto, about making art in a growing Fascist society.

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Djob Lyons

Djob joined us in 2022 for our initial run of "Voices of Zion," and this proud DC native is back for our new work "DC Emancipation and The Right to Vote."

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We have launched the next phase of this project and will share musical numbers from our work-in-progress. No Story is more important than that of DC Emancipation 

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We would love to have you join us for our current Winter/Spring season. Read more to find out how.

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As a small not-for-profit 501(c)3 public charity organization, Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s mission is to:

  1. Nurture the creation, development and production of new works of music-theatre

  2. Foster the growth of professional and aspiring artists and their collaborations across cultures and musical languages; 

  3. Engage community by bringing audiences and other partners into the creative process to promote a deeper understanding and critical appreciation of the transformative power of music-theatre.

We need your support to continue to fulfill our mission. There are many opportunities to provide support at various levels by supporting an artist, a production, or general support.

 

The Donate page on our website has information about ways to contribute. Donate | New Music-Theatre (newmusictheatre.org)

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