The Lake Braddock Theatre

08/14/2026

From your wonderful boosters:

🎭 Calling All Lake Braddock HIGH SCHOOL Theatre Students! 💜💛

Let's kick off an amazing new theatre season together!

Join us for the Lake Braddock High School Theatre Back-to-School Pool Party on Saturday, August 22 from 4:30–7:30 PM at Parliament Pool. It's a great opportunity to reconnect with friends, welcome new cast and crew members, and celebrate the start of another exciting year of theatre!

📍 Who: Lake Braddock HIGH SCHOOL Theatre students (grades 9–12)

Incoming freshmen that means you, too!

📅 When: Saturday, August 22, 2026
🕟 Time: 4:30–7:30 PM
📍 Where: Parliament Pool, 8510 Parliament Drive, Springfield, VA

Please use the SignUpGenius to RSVP: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4EAFAA22A2FACE9-64875379-back #/

🎭 Middle School Theatre Families: We haven't forgotten about you! We can't wait to see you at our SweetFrog Back-to-School Fundraiser on Saturday, August 29, from 4:00–10:00 PM. More details will be shared soon!



We can't wait to see our high school theatre family back together for an evening of fun in the sun! ☀️🏊‍♀️🎭💜💛

07/19/2026

Catch LBTers Lilly B, LJ, Maya, Bella, and Megan July 23-25 at Bishop Ireton High School in Summer Theatre Program’s The Little Mermaid!

Tickets: https://summertheatreprogram.org/

07/13/2026

A couple programs from our friends at AFYP that still have time left to register if you are seeking summer training:

Two week Devised Theatre Ensemble with Precipice Theatre: https://masonacademy.gmu.edu/summer/acting-camps/summer-devised-theater/

Intro to Technical Theatre: https://masonacademy.gmu.edu/summer/acting-camps/intro-to-technical-theater-camp/

The final week of weekly acting camps for their summer: https://masonacademy.gmu.edu/summer/acting-camps/camp-sessions/

Also if you are interested in participating in upcoming summer build days to gain skill and contribute to projects- email Mr. Tourtellotte!

07/07/2026

Workshop opportunity alert! Particularly geared at alumni currently in a college theatrical training program, those preparing to audition for programs like that, and those aiming at dance captaincy and features and challenging their skills.

LBT's resident choreographer Jessie Holder Tourtellotte is hosting a pre professional level dance call workshop at the Center for Ballet Arts on July 18th! Register and use the code LBT for 20% off this hugely valuable event.

A full day of dance calls swapping styles rapidly, surrounded by young professionals and pre professionals challenging one another. Take advantage of this one day opportunity!

Spend a day filled with intensity and variety designed to challenge pre professional musical theatre dance students dance call skills!

07/03/2026

Don’t miss LBTers Harrison and Meera in the Westfield Summer Stage production of Les Miserables!

Share your summer show posters with us so we can put out the word. Congratulations to the cast and crew of Les Mis and we can’t wait to see you shine!

06/17/2026

You know you’re a theatre kid when you’re congratulating the tiniest theatregoer at pre k graduation! Photos courtesy of Mrs. Gilmore as a few crazy LBTers surprised their director and their toughest critic this morning.

06/17/2026

Just a few of the memories that have been flowing in from the year- shared with permission from the submitting students. Keep them coming!

06/16/2026

Big thanks to Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid, Supervisor Rachna Sizemore Heizer, Braddock District, Tom Dannan, Fairfax County School Board Member, and Mr. Ilryong Moon, FCPS School Board Member for all sharing kind words about the Cappies of the National Capital Area Gala and helping us at the LBT celebrate the performers that took the stage with “I Don’t Care Much” and the students and arts educators who created the Best Musical awarded production of Kander & Ebb’s masterwork, Cabaret.

Artists change the world, and they do it by speaking up, by using their skills and forms- whether soaring vocals or highly technical stylized dance, costume or set construction, casting lights and shadows, or acting out the darkest moments of tragedy with truth and honesty.

It’s deeply appreciated that these community and education leaders took the time to celebrate with the LBT and to then applaud their recognition for producing this timely and impactful piece in their newsletters and posts.

Thank you for spending part of your gala night cheering on the company of the Lake Braddock Theatre and of Cabaret!

06/15/2026

The final award presented at the gala was the Director's Point Award. Intended to honor an artistic achievement of singular significance and excellence over the course of the season, the award is given in honor of a specific production's design, performance, leadership, or other accomplishment. However, generally, the students achieving so highly on any given show to be considered for this artistic merit award do so often, because they are doing the work correctly: seeking and taking feedback, practicing consistently, improving their individual craft, and dedicating themselves to artistry.

This year's recipient was Murphy Finnegan, awarded primarily for her stunning performance as Sally Bowles in this spring's Cabaret, which required intensive vocal, dance, and acting work, incredible discipline, endurance, dialect study, emotional truth, humor, pathos, physical fitness, musicianship, and power- all of which she delivered beautifully.

This season Murphy also performed as Brooke in Legally Blonde and served as understudy to Elle and a Dance Captain. She was also Dance and Fight Captain for Cabaret and played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was recognized as the Top Actor in the District at VHSL for her performance as Julie D'Aubigny in the world premeire of The Notorious La Maupin this winter, as well as receiving the highest possible acting distinction at the Virginia Thespian Festival for the same role. She was also the LBSS chapter winner for the ESU Shakespeare Monologue Competition this year. The role for which she was awarded the Director's point, Sally in Cabaret, was also nominated for and subsequently received the Cappies NCA Award for Leading Actor in a Female Role in a Musical this spring.

Notably, Murphy is coming off of winning the Leading Actor in a Female Role in a Play award at the Cappies NCA gala last spring, in the role of Andromache in last season's premiere, The Trojan women. She was also nominated for the same award the year prior, for her work as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Both of those roles had placed her in final contention for the director's point in years past.

Murphy's professionalism, diligence, preparedness, ferocity, hard work, and artistic acumen came together to produce numerous wonderful performances during her time in the LBT. And this spring, they synthesized into a revelatory, unforgettable performance as Sally Bowles that deserves to be held up as an example. She will study Musical Theatre in the BFA Program at the Performing Arts Conservatory of Viterbo University this fall and she will be missed very much.

Congratulations, Murphy!

06/15/2026

One of the final two awards presented at the LBT Awards is the departmental MVP Award- offered to a student who has excelled across multiple disciplines in the department and leaves its leadership wondering "what would we do without that one?"

The award is intended to honor contribution and service, consistent excellence, leadership and mentorship.

This year's recipient was Lila Halleran. Lila has served for the past two seasons on the LBT Student Board as Mistress of the Wardrobes, overseeing the costume and makeup departments of the program alongside adult staff. This season, she crewheaded for A Midsummer Night's dream as part of supporting new designers, designed hair and makeup for Legally Blonde and for Breaking News, and designed costumes for Cabaret while also serving as that production's student Assistant Director. Lila is a mentor to many who went out of her way to teach this season, and a welcoming face in the department that ensures her peers have someone safe to seek out for assistance or advice.

Lila also competed a Thespy in Hair and Makeup with her Trojan Women makeup design (for which she was nominated for an award at last year's Cappies NCA gala) and received a superior rating. She voluntarily became the sole on and offstage dresser for this year's The Notorious La Maupin at VTF and VHSL. And this spring, Lila was nominated for and subsequently received this year's Cappies NCA Award for Costumes for her work on Cabaret.

She is a consummate student leader who has learned so much in the program through her willingness to take feedback and seek advice, and her sense of humor and this year's mantra she shared of operating on a "new plane of gratitude" make her unstoppable. She will major in Costume Design and Technical Construction in the BFA program at VCU Arts this Fall, and will be deeply missed.

Congratulations on this well deserved recognition, Lila!