Post by Brandon on Aug 19, 2013 11:36:08 GMT -5
In Anacostia, new playhouse opens in a community eager for more cultural assets
By Peter Marks, Published: August 16 E-mail the writer
Adele Robey took one look at the 5,000 square feet of possibility in Anacostia and decided it had to be hers. “They took me down here and I said: ‘This is it,’ ” she recounted, as the sounds of drills and saws whirred and wheezed in the former warehouse on Shannon Place SE. “I immediately fell in love with it. I just loved the feeling.”
And quick as you can say, “Where do I sign?” Robey was back in the business of defying expectations, of taking a grimy space in an unlikely part of town and turning it into a home for the making of plays. The last time she did this, with her husband, Bruce, at her side on a blighted block of H Street NE back in 2002, the space became the H Street Playhouse. Cafes, clubs and other theaters followed, and the neighborhood became resurgent.
Read more at: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/in-anacostia-new-playhouse-opens-in-a-community-eager-for-more-cultural-assets/2013/08/16/565acf4e-05bf-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html?wprss=rss_entertainment
By Peter Marks, Published: August 16 E-mail the writer
Adele Robey took one look at the 5,000 square feet of possibility in Anacostia and decided it had to be hers. “They took me down here and I said: ‘This is it,’ ” she recounted, as the sounds of drills and saws whirred and wheezed in the former warehouse on Shannon Place SE. “I immediately fell in love with it. I just loved the feeling.”
And quick as you can say, “Where do I sign?” Robey was back in the business of defying expectations, of taking a grimy space in an unlikely part of town and turning it into a home for the making of plays. The last time she did this, with her husband, Bruce, at her side on a blighted block of H Street NE back in 2002, the space became the H Street Playhouse. Cafes, clubs and other theaters followed, and the neighborhood became resurgent.
Read more at: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/in-anacostia-new-playhouse-opens-in-a-community-eager-for-more-cultural-assets/2013/08/16/565acf4e-05bf-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html?wprss=rss_entertainment