Atlas Masterclass Series

The Atlas Masterclass Series connects the H Street NE community with nationally recognized Broadway artists through intimate performances and educational experiences. As a longtime anchor for arts and community, the Atlas Performing Arts Center brings high-caliber musical theatre to Capitol Hill in a way that feels personal, welcoming, and accessible while celebrating the talent and creativity of local artists alongside visiting professionals.

Building on the success of recent Broadway engagements, the Masterclass Series creates meaningful opportunities for connection between artists and audiences. Performances and workshops feature celebrated Broadway performers collaborating with DC-based musicians, singers, and ensembles, offering audiences a rare chance to experience world-class talent up close while highlighting the richness of the region’s creative community.

Designed to be affordable and inclusive, the Atlas Masterclass Series introduces new audiences to musical theatre while deepening engagement with longtime patrons. Participants consistently praise the intimacy of the experience and the opportunity to learn directly from working Broadway artists. Through this series, Atlas continues its commitment to artistic excellence, education, and community access, bringing Broadway to H Street NE at a neighborhood scale.

Family Fun Day

The Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Fall and Spring Family Fun Days are joyful, welcoming events designed for children and caregivers to create, explore, and experience the arts together. These free, all-ages celebrations fill the building with hands-on art activities, live performances, music, and opportunities to move, play, and imagine.

Each Family Fun Day features interactive workshops led by teaching artists, family-friendly performances, and creative stations throughout the Atlas. Whether it is a child’s first time on stage or a family’s first visit to the building, Family Fun Days offer an accessible entry point to the arts and a chance for neighbors to gather, connect, and celebrate creativity across generations.

No events of this type are scheduled at this time.  Check back soon or sign up for show announcements here!

CITY AT PEACE

City at Peace (CAP) is a youth development program, which provides a safe, collaborative and nurturing space for young people to examine systems of oppression that marginalize based on race, gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, and values. Rooted in social justice, City at Peace uses performing arts as a learning tool to develop skills in dance, theatre, voice, and stage production, as well as skills in conflict resolution, personal storytelling, empathy, understanding, and leadership. Based on their experiences, City at Peace participants will create an artistic production that shares their ideas for change in a performance.

 

This program is free for participants. Funding is provided by major institutional and individual donor support including the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, and The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

 

 

PARTICIPANTS: Ages 14-24
All genders, all races, all sexual orientations, all classes, artists and non-artists, activists, poets, dancers, actors builders, and dreamers. Expect to meet youth from different schools and neighborhoods in the DMV with questions, concerns, and ideas about race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and the role they play in society. Bring your concerns, creativity, and ideas for change.
The Program Director is an acclaimed facilitator, artist, and educator, Sandra Holloway, reachable for all questions at programming@atlasarts.org.

Sandra Holloway is the artistic director of City at Peace in Washington, DC, a youth development organization that uses the performing arts to teach and promote cross-cultural understanding and non-violent conflict resolution. Each year, she leads groups of diverse teenagers through intensive training in theater, dance, and music, as well as peace-building across race, class, gender, religion, and culture, culminating in a full-length musical based on their own lives, written and performed by the young people themselves (telling each others’ stories). Holloway was featured as one of six choreographic artists in Black Expressions at Washington, DC’s Lincoln Theatre, and has worked professionally at the Kennedy Center, the Theatre of the First Amendment, George Mason University, The Studio Theater, and Dance Place. She attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, winning awards for her choreography and receiving her BFA in Dance/Choreography.