2023 Shows
Now playing!
In the Heights by Quiara Alegría Hudes y Lin-Manuel Miranda
Directed by Elena Velasco, choreographed by Stefan Sittig
NextStop Theatre, Herndon, VA
Opens May 12, 2023
www.nextstoptheatre.org/intheheights
"NextStop Theatre’s ‘In the Heights’ is sheer theatrical excellence...one of the most vibrant, engrossing, and well-produced smaller professional theater productions I’ve had the opportunity to see in a long time." - Alexandra Brown, DC Theatre Arts. https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/06/02/nextstop-theatres-in-the-heights-is-sheer-theatrical-excellence/
Up Next!
Arco Iris - Theatre for the Very Young
Devised and directed by Elena Velasco
Arts on the Horizon, Alexandria, VA
Opens June 9, 2023
https://www.artsonthehorizon.org/2022-23-season.html
Just missed - Helen Hayes Recommended production!
Mojada de Luis Alfaro
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
1st Stage, Tyson Corner, VA
Opens April 20, 2023
1ststage.org/season-20222023
Earlier this season:
Alma de Benjamin Benne
Dirección de Elena Velasco
Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Now playing through March 26, 2023
www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/alma/
Now playing!
In the Heights by Quiara Alegría Hudes y Lin-Manuel Miranda
Directed by Elena Velasco, choreographed by Stefan Sittig
NextStop Theatre, Herndon, VA
Opens May 12, 2023
www.nextstoptheatre.org/intheheights
"NextStop Theatre’s ‘In the Heights’ is sheer theatrical excellence...one of the most vibrant, engrossing, and well-produced smaller professional theater productions I’ve had the opportunity to see in a long time." - Alexandra Brown, DC Theatre Arts. https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/06/02/nextstop-theatres-in-the-heights-is-sheer-theatrical-excellence/
Up Next!
Arco Iris - Theatre for the Very Young
Devised and directed by Elena Velasco
Arts on the Horizon, Alexandria, VA
Opens June 9, 2023
https://www.artsonthehorizon.org/2022-23-season.html
Just missed - Helen Hayes Recommended production!
Mojada de Luis Alfaro
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
1st Stage, Tyson Corner, VA
Opens April 20, 2023
1ststage.org/season-20222023
Earlier this season:
Alma de Benjamin Benne
Dirección de Elena Velasco
Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Now playing through March 26, 2023
www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/alma/
Fall 2022 feature:
La Llamada de Sylvia Méndez: Separate is Never Equal
de Cornelia Cody
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20010
www.galatheatre.org/post/separate-is-never-equal-2?lang=es
La Llamada de Sylvia Méndez: Separate is Never Equal
de Cornelia Cody
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20010
www.galatheatre.org/post/separate-is-never-equal-2?lang=es
Synetic Digital Feature:
The Decameron
Produced by Synetic Theater
synetictheater.org/event_pages/the-decameron/
"Elena Velasco is a strong local director and performer in her own right and brings to this fellowship that is Synetic her most serious lens on theatre for social justice....The work is full of restrained sorrow and rage." - Susan Galbraith, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2020/07/12/review-synetic-theaters-the-decameron-day-three-from-somber-to-sexy/
The Decameron
Produced by Synetic Theater
synetictheater.org/event_pages/the-decameron/
"Elena Velasco is a strong local director and performer in her own right and brings to this fellowship that is Synetic her most serious lens on theatre for social justice....The work is full of restrained sorrow and rage." - Susan Galbraith, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2020/07/12/review-synetic-theaters-the-decameron-day-three-from-somber-to-sexy/
Óyeme, the Beautiful
A work by Miriam Gonzales, chronicling the lives of immigrant students seeking asylum.
Original direction and choreography by Elena Velasco