IN Collection and 4EYE Movie Heart are becoming a member of Theater Alliance as the first companions at a brand new multidisciplinary arts hub opening in early Fall 2026 in Southwest DC, the management of the three organizations have introduced. Whereas the hub will function the everlasting dwelling of the three organizations, it can even be an area for the broader arts and nonprofit group to showcase their work and thrive.
Positioned at 340 Maple Drive SW, the brand new 9,096 sq. foot arts area will embrace a 140-seat versatile black field theater, a 60-seat cinema and proscenium efficiency area, in addition to a rehearsal corridor, reception area, scene store, artist co-working areas, and a civic engagement middle. The humanities hub will embrace programming from every anchor group, inclusive of academic, creative, and community-focused initiatives. Collectively, these three various arts organizations will share area, imaginative and prescient, and sources because the companions create a brand new mannequin of collaboration that strengthens sustainability, reduces obstacles, and expands affect.
“With an absence of everlasting, mid-sized cultural arts areas in DC, we’re stepping in and doing our half to contribute to DC’s already thriving arts scene,” mentioned Shanara Gabrielle, Government Inventive Director of Theater Alliance. “We see this mannequin as a blueprint for sustaining and rising the humanities in Washington, DC.”
Late final 12 months, Theater Alliance, the first leaseholder of the area, introduced plans to rework the unfinished vacant location right into a vibrant arts hub backed by a $4.5M capital marketing campaign, Alliance for the Future, increasing the location past theater to incorporate movie, music, and different artwork varieties.
Theater Alliance has for the final 12 months been remarkably profitable activating the vacant area as a short lived pop-up, producing its complete season, welcoming greater than 5,000 patrons, and using over 130 artists native to the DMV. For greater than twenty years, Theater Alliance has formed Washington, DC’s cultural life by means of daring, justice-centered theater and deep group engagement. The corporate is understood for producing socially aware work that invitations dialogue, reflection, and connection.
IN Collection is a performing arts firm that produces new and reimagined works of opera, theater, and music. The corporate’s work is shocking, progressive, intimate, immersive, and transformational. IN Collection blends sources and types from throughout historical past and the world to be each timeless and well timed. Collaborating with artists each regionally and globally, the IN Collection workforce is group based mostly and at dwelling each in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. Below the creative management of Timothy Nelson, the corporate has established itself as a hub for thought, debate and historic innovation. In the end, IN Collection strives to make the performing arts a necessary and built-in a part of the worldwide collective dialog.
“After greater than 45 years of offering one-of-a-kind music and community-based work that engages with the DC group and lifts up the ability of artwork to encourage dialog and transformation for native artists and viewers, the brand new hub supplies a everlasting homebase, a spot to dream additional, join deeper, and make higher,” mentioned Nelson, IN Collection Inventive Director. “We at IN Collection are thrilled by the probabilities opened for artistry, collaboration, neighboring, and development that this new (advert)enterprise affords; and we’re exceptionally proud that it’s a new mannequin for creative partnership that may inform the arts-ecosystem at massive.”
4EYE Movie Heart is a nonprofit arthouse cinema in Washington devoted to nurturing creativity, connection, and group by showcasing a variety of movies and adjoining contextualizing programming. It was based in 2025 by Emily Lenzner, an arts advocate and communications strategist, most just lately for the Movement Image Affiliation, the place she served as head of communications and public affairs. When it opens for the primary time subsequent fall as a part of the humanities hub, 4EYE shall be a gathering place for all generations to look at and talk about motion pictures, join throughout variations and increase views and understanding. 4EYE will even be the one publicly accessible movie show in Southwest DC.
“I strongly imagine within the energy of the humanities – on this case movie – as a method towards shared expertise, connection, and group,” mentioned Lenzner, 4EYE’s Founder and Government Director. “I’m wanting ahead to collaborating with Shanara and Timothy and the opposite arts leaders who be part of us on this collective effort to current consequential and impactful storytelling by means of our respective genres.”
“I’m excited that Ward 6 and the Southwest group shall be dwelling for this sensible partnership, timed at a second when federal politics have modified the native panorama for arts,” mentioned DC Councilmember Charles Allen, Ward 6. “On this second of nice upheaval, there’s alternative for our native arts and efficiency scene to develop and seize new audiences all of the sudden searching for the place to soak up their subsequent efficiency.”
The event of the SW arts hub is a collaborative effort with Hoffman & Associates, Grupo7 Structure, Pillar Improvement LLC, and Potomac Development. Development is about to start subsequent month with doorways anticipated to open this fall. Due to visionary assist from The Revada Basis and different lead philanthropic foundations and people, the capital marketing campaign is already greater than 85% full—positioning Alliance for the Future to ship critically wanted, mid-sized efficiency and group areas for artists and audiences in Southwest DC.
ABOUT THEATER ALLIANCE
For over twenty years, Theater Alliance has been a driving drive for innovation, activation, and creative excellence in Washington, DC’s cultural panorama. Famend for producing socially aware and thought-provoking work, the corporate creates theater that sparks dialogue, fosters group engagement. Theater Alliance retains justice on the core of its operations, prioritizes pleasure, amplifies under-told tales, and explores progressive creative endeavors. Via its strong civic engagement initiatives, the corporate underscores its perception that the humanities are important to constructing a thriving, equitable society. Theater Alliance’s affect is mirrored in its 111 Helen Hayes Award nominations and 31 wins, and in its proud standing as a Core Member of the Nationwide New Play Community. With a steadfast dedication to its mission, Theater Alliance continues to create transformative experiences the place all artists and audiences really feel seen, valued, and impressed.
ABOUT IN SERIES
IN Collection is the standard-bearer for progressive opera theater in Washington DC. The corporate makes theater from music: remodeling artists, audiences and group by disrupting expectations, nourishing empathy, stimulating perception and deepening the dialog. IN Collection envisions a thriving international group during which opera is a completely built-in and important a part of collective dialog. In picturing the journey to this finish, IN Collection is a change-maker – a drive that, with every groundbreaking manufacturing and outreach occasion, radically transforms perceptions of the “who”, “what”, “the place”, and “why” of opera: who will get to make opera and for whom is it made; what’s outlined as an operatic expertise; the place operas happen; why we make opera; and why opera issues.
Based by Carla Hübner in 1982 as a live performance collection of the previous Mount Vernon School, then named, “The In Collection,” turned an unbiased nonprofit arts group in 2000 and has been a resident firm at Supply Theater since 2008. Timothy Nelson assumed the creative directorship in 2018, shortly establishing the newly rebranded “IN Collection” as DC’s dwelling for “Thought, debate, historical past, and innovation” in opera. The corporate employed its first Government Director, David Mack, in 2025.
ABOUT 4EYE FILM CENTER
Based in 2025 in Washington, DC by Government Director Emily Lenzner, 4EYE Movie Heart is a nonprofit group that helps arthouse cinema for group engagement and connection by means of movie and humanities presentation, training, and inspiration. It will likely be a gathering place for all generations to look at and talk about motion pictures, join throughout variations, broaden views and understanding, and have fun creativity.
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