by Judith Walsh White
Traveling Players Studio
Recommended for audiences ages 8+
45 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
Arachne is an extraordinary weaver. She takes great pride in her work, as her skill is hard-earned. She has sacrificed for this craft - her own blood, sweat, tears, and sleep - but not formally to the gods. Athena, goddess of Wisdom and patron of Weaving, is enraged by the mortal's pride and lack of deference to the gods, and challenges Arachne to a weaving competition. Arachne weaves into her tapestry stories of the gods and their vicious nature. So captivating is the tapestry, that the stories come to life right off the piece. Athena knows Arachne's work is better than her own. Embarrassed by the defeat and maddened by the stories Arachne has depicted, she turns Arachne into a spider, the first ever. Now, Arachne and her descendants will weave webs forever.
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by Judith Walsh White
Traveling Players Studio
Recommended for audiences ages 8+
45 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
Heracles, a demi-god hero, commits a terrible crime while under a spell cast by the goddess Hera. His penance requires the completion of 12 impossibly challenging labors, while under the command of vengeful Hera and her cowardly partner in crime, Eurystheus. Heracles shows us that with a little hard work, good can vanquish evil, and awkward kids can grow into the greatest heroes of all time!
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by Traveling Players' Improv Troupe - The Touchstones!
PenFed Plaza at Tysons Corner Center
Recommended for audiences ages 10+
45 min | Free (Rain Tickets* Available)
Join our Touchstones as they present a fully improvised performance inspired by prompts from you, the audience!
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by Carlo Goldoni
PenFed Plaza at Tysons Corner Center
Recommended for audiences ages 10+
60 min | Free (Rain Tickets* Available)
Chaos abounds in this sitcom-esque comedy of errors! Truffaldino, a wily (and hungry) servant, has the perfect plan for financial success. If one master equals one salary's worth of food and comfort, then two masters mean twice the comfort and a double serving at every meal! It's a foolproof business model... so long as his bosses never learn about one another. Too bad they're searching for others right now! One "master" is secretly a young woman disguised as her dead brother, and the other is ... wait for it... her fiancé... who killed her brother!?! Featuring the archetypes found in Commedia dell’Arte, Servant of Two Masters is an utterly joyful ensemble-driven comedy.
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PenFed Plaza at Tysons Corner Center
Recommended for audiences ages 10+
75 min | Free (Rain Tickets* Available)
In Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, Love’s Labor’s Lost, a quartet of four bachelors swear off women for three years in pursuit of knowledge and wisdom. Enter four young bachelorettes from France. Shakespeare, famous for his side plots, concocts a farcical love plot between a Spaniard, a clown, and a dairymaid. A little-known comedy that is thought of as Shakespeare’s richest in terms of textual wordplay and linguistic flavor— this would be a wonderful introduction to the bard and a treasure trove for those looking to find the poetic devices Shakespeare is best known for.
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Recommended for audiences ages 10+
2 hr 30 min (with a 15 min intermission)
Cymbeline follows Innogen, princess of ancient Britain, as she undergoes a series of adventures to rescue herself and her nation from a scheming stepmother, rediscover her long-lost family, and reunite with her fiancé - while navigating assassination attempts, war, and villains. We often affectionately describe it as “every Shakespeare play at once.”
One of Shakespeare’s four romances, sometimes classified as a tragicomedy, this play is a whirlwind of events — complete with slander, love, mistaken identity, a beheading, and a final “recognition scene to end all recognition scenes” that keeps audiences and actors alike gasping through to the final reunions. Cymbeline is a beloved play that is less frequently performed - so catch it when you can!
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Adapted by Todd Espeland from Robert Louis Stevenson
Traveling Players Studio
Recommended for audiences ages 8+
60 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
An adaptation of the classic novel Treasure Island, this production features Jim Hawkins, a courageous youth who dreams of adventure outside of the Benbow Inn. The closest adventures he gets are the seafaring tales from one of the Inn's guests, Billie Bones. One fateful evening, Bones is given the Black Spot, a pirate death sentence. Seizing his moment, Jim escapes with a treasure map that belonged to Bones amid a pirate brawl in the Inn. Then Jim gathers a crew and sets sail for Treasure Island! Only this crew of "honest sailors" seems to be less than trustworthy. Perhaps even a little... scurvy?
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Adapted by Sarah Ruhl from Virginia Woolf
Traveling Players Studio
Recommended for audiences ages 10+
90 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
In Sarah Ruhl's vibrant adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel, we witness a young nobleman of the 16th-century journey through time and go through the pangs of love and heartbreak, delve into his poetic imagination, and dream of adventures beyond the court of London. On a fateful night, two hundred years later, Orlando wakes up as a woman!
What begins as a story about a naive and ambitious young man transitions into an exploration of time, history, and the paths we navigate in this journey we call life. Every person we encounter informs the story of our lives; Woolf seemed intent on asking— what if that life lasted for four hundred years? Who would we be?
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Based on the Story by Charles Dickens
Traveling Players Studio
Ages 8+ | 90 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
Ebenezer Scrooge is an excellent man of business. He cares a lot about money – but very little for his fellow man. This miserly banker categorically shuns charity, compassion, and cheer. Enter a terrifying ghost on Christmas Eve! Jacob Marley (dead for 7 years) visits Scrooge, his old business partner with a warning: Mankind is your business! Change your ways or suffer forever! You will wear the chains of a life misspent, as I do!
At Marley’s behest, three spirits take Scrooge on an unforgettable journey into his Past, Present, and Future, laying out his life in front of him. Once Scrooge can see what adds up to a life well spent, can he alter his ways, and therefore his fate? Perhaps Tiny Tim, the son of his office clerk, can change his heart.
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by Moliere
Traveling Players Studio
Ages 8+ | 60 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
The illustrious poet Trissotan has come to stay with the lady Philamente and her family - and with him, he's brought all the good things in life: learning, knowledge, panache, and style. So what if he's also a treacherous, self-serving scoundrel? Will Philamente's long-suffering family unmask the fraud before it's too late? Or will Trissotan get away with Philamente's money, savings - and even her daughter's hand in marriage?
Traveling Players Studio
Tysons Corner Center – D1L
1961 Chain Bridge Road, Tysons, VA 22102
P.O. Box 1315
Great Falls, VA 22066
