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1333 H St. NE, Washington, DC 20002

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Address:
1333 H St. NE, Washington, DC 20002
Website:
http://www.atlasarts.org/
Capacity:
85
Phone:
202-399-7993*
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Rating:
3.0 stars Events at this venue were rated 3.0 by 431 members who went.

Upcoming Events

The following events are available through Goldstar. For a complete list of events available at this venue, please visit their website.

Second Line: Drama of Love and Social Upheaval

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Oct. 8 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Oct. 9 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 10 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Spanning a 20-year period of tumultuous social change, Seret Scott's Second Line is the story of two black college students whose lives are shaped by the stormy events of the 1960s and '70s. Bennie and JoJo are in love, but their commitment is tested by the upheaval of the civil rights movement and Vietnam.  Learn More

Fall[en] Angels: German Cabaret, Art Songs, and Dance

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 3:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $36.00   Our Price: $18.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Some of Washington's best singers collaborate with the remarkable Washington Ballet Studio Company in Fall[en] Angels, a collection of German art songs from Brahms, Wagner, and the pre-World War II Berlin cabaret.  Learn More

Past Events

Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star: Two One-Act Plays

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Sep. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Sep. 13 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Zoon Vader Productions presents two one-act plays by James McLure. Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star are two comedy-dramas set in Texas, dealing with the aftermath of the Vietnam War, marital infidelity, and forgiveness.  Learn More

Zoon Vader Productions Presents a Series of One Acts

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Jun. 27 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Jun. 28 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Zoon Vader Productions presents a series of one-act plays at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Trish Johnson's The Art of Self Defense is a short play set in and around a health club. Madeleine George's The Most Massive Woman Wins is a frank but funny look at how the contemporary beauty myth affects women's perceptions of their bodies.  Learn More

Pianist Carlos Cesar Rodríguez and Friends Play Classical, Flamenco Music: Fin de Fiesta!

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Saturday, Jun. 14 2008 @ 4:00pm
Sunday, Jun. 15 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $29.00   Our Price: $14.50*
Rated: 3.8 stars
In his only DC recital of the season, pianist Carlos César Rodríguez plays legendary masterpieces, including Liszt's Murmurs of the Forest and Sonnet by Petrarch #104, and Robert Schumann's great Carnaval Op. 9. The program also includes works by Alfonso Leng, Albéniz, Ravel, and the flamenco Bulerías, on which he'll be accompanied by four flamenco dancers.  Learn More

Dance Place Presents Asian Dance Festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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In celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Month, Dance Place presents an Asian Dance Festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center. Tehreema Mitha Dance Company, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Co., Ling Tang, Golden Universe Dance, Ko-Ryo and Nilimma Devi Dance Theater perform a spectacular evening of dance.  Learn More

Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Atlas Performing Arts Center

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 2:00pm
and 12 more dates.
Full Price: $33.00 - $35.00   Our Price: $16.50 - $17.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
African Continuum Theatre presents Lynn Nottage's award-winning drama Intimate Apparel. A woman discovers her passion in the face of overwhelming racial, economic and social pressures to submit to spinsterhood. In 1905 New York City, Esther's life as a lingerie maker for the rich is severely limited until she gives flight to the dream of love. The unexpected consequences break her heart but not her spirit.  Learn More

Levine Presents Brahms Birthday Bash: An All-Brahms Chamber Concert

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE*
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Celebrate the 175th anniversary of the birth of the great Romantic composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. Concert highlights will include his Violin Sonata in A Major, Opus. 100; Cello Sonata in F Major, Opus 99; and the Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. With Mary Findley and Susan Fuller (violin); Pablo Saelzer (viola); Vasily Popov (cello); and Ralitza Patcheva (piano).  Learn More

The Man of La Mancha, the Award-Winning Broadway Classic

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Apr. 11 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 2:30pm
and 12 more dates.
Full Price: $40.00 - $45.00   Our Price: FREE - $22.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
The story of Don Quixote is one of hope over improbability. A romantic, Don Quixote tries to live in a heroic age when knights in shining armor rescue ladies in distress. Based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Man of La Mancha is a modern telling of this 17th-century classic of literature and is the winner of five Tony Awards.  Learn More

The Pirates of Penzance: Washington Savoyards Present Gilbert and Sullivan's Classic Operetta

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Saturday, Feb. 23 2008 @ 2:30pm
Saturday, Feb. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm (Opening Night)
and 12 more dates.
Full Price: $40.00 - $45.00   Our Price: FREE - $22.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Washington Savoyards presents Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Featuring well-known songs "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" and "Poor Wand'ring One," the operetta tells the story of Frederic, who is mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates as a boy. Director Carrie Klewin presents a fun, frolicking, very physical production of the show.  Learn More

Rock Musical Godspell from the Composer-Lyricist of Wicked

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Feb. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Feb. 8 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 7 more dates.
Full Price: $19.00 - $23.00   Our Price: $9.50 - $11.50*
Rated: 2.2 stars
One of the biggest off-Broadway and Broadway successes of all time, Godspell is based primarily on the Gospel According to St. Matthew. Featuring a sparkling, seminal score by Stephen Schwartz, Godspell boasts a string of recognizable songs, led by the international hit, "Day By Day."  Learn More

GI Jive: The SingCo Rhythm Orchestra's Musical Tribute to World War II

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Jan. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Jan. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm (Out at IN Series)
Full Price: $33.00   Our Price: $16.50*
Rated: 3.8 stars
The SingCo Rhythm Orchestra, conductor/lead singer Doug Bowles, and vocal soloists bring back the swinging 1940s in GI Jive, a loving tribute to the American soldiers overseas in WWII. Unforgettable music in that unique big band sound frames timeless stories based on letters from the troops who fought in that famous conflict.  Learn More

Levine Presents: Mostly Beethoven and Brahms

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Jan. 24 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Levine presents pianist Christine Pulliam, violinist Sarah Wise and cellist Marie D'Andrea performing at the beautiful historic Atlas Performing Arts Center. The concert will include Brahms's Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, Opus 100; Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Violin, No. 1 in D Major, Opus 12, No. 1; and Boyle's Sonata-Fantasy for Violin and Piano.  Learn More

Opera Triptych - Three Short Operas from Mozart, Holst and Monteverdi

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Saturday, Jan. 19 2008 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Jan. 20 2008 @ 3:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $39.00   Our Price: $19.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Three short masterpieces delve into the human heart's capacity for love and for confrontation. Prepare yourself to be moved to tears and cry with laughter. Allison Stockman and Joel Lazar direct the cast of singers, orchestra and dancers, with choreographer/dancers Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp as Monteverdi's doomed lovers.  Learn More

Washington Savoyards Presents Babes in Toyland, a New Holiday Tradition

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Nov. 30 2007 @ 7:30pm
Wednesday, Dec. 5 2007 @ 7:30pm
and 5 more dates.
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: FREE - $20.00*
The evil Uncle Barnaby seeks to rid himself of his nephew and niece, Alan and Jane, and marry Mary (as in Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary), who is in love with Alan. He fails. Toys play important roles. The Washington Savoyards' new version of Victor Herbert's beloved operetta includes the songs "Toyland," "I Can't Do the Sum" and "The March of the Wooden Soldiers."  Learn More

Exploring Science Through the Vitality of Dance: Ferocious Beauty: Genome

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 26 2007 @ 7:00pm
Sunday, Apr. 29 2007 @ 4:00pm
Full Price: $37.00   Our Price: $18.50*
Rated: 4.0 stars
World-renowned choreographer Liz Lerman has collaborated for two years with dancers, scientists, and genetic researchers to create her new work, Ferocious Beauty: Genome. With grace and humor, this engaging multimedia event explores tough questions about how our lives will change as we learn more about the genetic blueprint of human life.  Learn More

Love! Money! Can-Cans! Comic Operetta The Merry Widow

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 12 2007 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Apr. 13 2007 @ 8:00pm
and 6 more dates.
Full Price: $35.00 - $40.00   Our Price: FREE - $20.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Rich young window Hannah has it all—except, of course, a husband to love. This hilarious operetta, written during the Art Nouveau period in 1907, is remarkably current. Political intrigue and witty banter against a beautiful backdrop of lush costumes, ribald can-can dances, and Art Nouveau sets make for an experience at the opera that even non-classical lovers will enjoy!  Learn More

Contemporary Gospel Play A Change Is Coming

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Mar. 30 2007 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 31 2007 @ 2:00pm
and 12 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
In this contemporary gospel play, Pearl reunites with her family only to discover how estranged they've all become from one another. Can she convince the family to find ways to connect, despite the different directions in which their lives are going? A heartwarming story of a grandmother's faith and belief in the power of prayer.  Learn More

Cherry Blossoms, Mistaken Identity & Unrequited Love In Condensed Mikado

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Mar. 28 2007 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, Mar. 29 2007 @ 7:30pm
and 19 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Kimonos, cherry blossoms, mistaken identity, unrequited love, and a lot of silliness make this show a great crowd-pleaser. The Condensed Mikado is a delightful production, created by the Washington Savoyards especially for the National Cherry Blossom Festival — the entire story of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular opera in a little over an hour.  Learn More

Expressions Dance Company's "Virtually Richard 3" Interprets Shakespeare's Tale

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Mar. 23 2007 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 24 2007 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $37.00   Our Price: $18.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
"Virtually Richard 3" from Australia's acclaimed Expressions Dance Company is an audaciously original version of Shakespeare's Richard III that seamlessly blends theater and dance to tell the story of the Bard's most complex and entertaining scoundrel. It's a classic story of deception, seduction and revenge, told in an entirely new way.  Learn More

Classic Romantic Comedy Kiss Me, Kate at Atlas Performing Arts Center

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Feb. 28 2007 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Mar. 1 2007 @ 8:00pm
and 11 more dates.
Full Price: $40.00 - $125.00   Our Price: FREE - $100.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
This tale of divorcees whose hearts are melted by love—and by the matching of wits—is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. With music and lyrics by the beloved Cole Porter and Broadway hits like "I Hate Men" and "So In Love," this timeless classic is sure to entertain. Kiss Me, Kate is part of Shakespeare in Washington.  Learn More

Like Father, Like Son at Atlas Performing Arts Center

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Jul. 21 2006 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Jul. 21 2006 @ 8:00pm
and 16 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
The Washington family is a picture of dysfunction from the second the curtains rise. Gloria is trying to juggle her job, family, and the abuse she receives from her husband, Warren Senior. He becomes increasingly violent as his father and son business edges toward bankruptcy. Warren Senior hopes that the soon-to-graduate Warren Junior will turn things around. But when young Warren falls in love, the son must choose between his family and the love of his life. Either way, the Washington family will never be the same.  Learn More

Venue Description

The Atlas Performing Arts Center ("the Atlas"), the only community-based performing arts center in Washington, was created as a not-for-profit Washington D.C. corporation in November 2001. Located in a historic movie theatre complex on H Street in Near Northeast D.C., a once-vibrant corridor of the city that was devastated by riots in 1968, the Atlas formally opened its doors formally in November 2006 after four years of renovation.

The mission of the Atlas Performing Arts Center is to foster the artistic growth of professional and aspiring performing artists throughout the region; to energize the revitalization of H Street Northeast; to provide a unique community-centered venue for training and education in the performing arts and stagecraft; and to create a new model for collaborative theatre management.

Map/Directions

The Atlas Performing Arts Center is located five minutes from Union Station and the heart of Capitol Hill.

BY METRO:
Red Line to Union Station

BY METROBUS:
X2 Bus- Runs along H Street from Lafayette Square (16th Street) to Minnesota Avenue. Connects with Metrorail at Gallery Place/ Chinatown Station

X8 Bus-Runs along Maryland Avenue from Union Station. Exit at 13th Street; Walk two blocks to H Street.

SHUTTLE SERVICE:
The Atlas, along with their partner establishments in the Atlas District, provides a complimentary shuttle to and from Union Station on Friday and Saturday evenings. When there is a performance at the Atlas on a Friday or a Saturday the shuttle service will begin at 7pm.

Call 1.301.751.1802 to request a pick up.

Handicap Info

Accessibility
The Atlas is accessible to patrons with impaired mobility and offers wheelchair locations for each performance.

Assisted Listening Devices
The Atlas offers assisted listening devices to our hearing impaired patrons. Please ask the house manager to assist you with selecting the device that best suits you needs.

Handicap seating is regularly available.

Please contact us after buying tickets by replying to your confirmation email to make arrangements.