A joyful, high-energy musical comedy packed with unforgettable songs, humor, and heart. It’s a celebration of youth, fame, and the delightful chaos that happens when pop culture collides with small-town life.
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake.
Set in late 1940s Brooklyn and told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist traveling salesman Willy Loman who is despondent with his life and appears to be slipping into senility. Several tragic, soul-searching revelations – concerning his wife, his sons and his business associates – underscore how his quest for the “American Dream” kept him blind to the people who truly loved him.
At the MacGregor Plantation, the antebellum South collides with the present in a provocative fever dream where race, desire, gender, and power intertwine. Nothing is quite as it seems—and yet everything is.
Harmonica player, singer, songwriter and bandleader Joel Astley has collected 18 Washington Blues Society's "Best of the Blues" Awards since he started his career in 2014.