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Artistic Venues serving National Capital Region


  • Artistic Venues in Virginia: Click on Virginia Flag above.

  • Theaters in The District of Columbia: Click on DC Flag above.

  • Theaters in Maryland: Click on Maryland Flag above.

  • FORD'S THEATRE AND MUSEUM

  • JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

  • THE NATIONAL THEATRE

  • THE WARNER THEATRE

  • THE ARENA STAGE

  • THE STUDIO THEATRE

  • Avery Brooks in Othello at THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

  • DISCOVERY THEATER For Children sponsored by Smithsonian Associates

  • THE WASHINGTON BALLET

  • LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON THEATRES


  • Bargain and Discount Price Tickets for Live Theaters in the Greater DC Area

  • The DC Improv Comedy Club/Restaurant

  • The Comedy Spot in Ballston Common Mall Arlington, VA.

Click on photos to see CFR favorite scenes


  • Karl Malden, Marlon Brando, and Eva Marie-Saint in "On the Waterfront" (1954). The film won 8 Oscars including Best Director for Elia Kazan.

  • Only 7 percent of communication comes from words. The rest is gestures and facial expressions sometimes called nonverbal communications. In this commercial for Keebler Cookies, watch carefully as two sisters wonder who will get the last cookie. They speak no words but just communicate by facial expressions.

  • Tom Selleck in Lionel Chetwynd's movie "IKE: Countdown to D-Day." (2004) The film was nominated for six Emmy Awards.

  • Namrata Singh Gural in Americanizing Shelley (2007). Cheryl Felicia Rhoads made an appearance in this independent film produced by American Pride Films.

  • Cheryl Rhoads is a member of the entertainment advisory committee for the annual GI Film Festival in Washington, DC. In May, 2008, Cheryl is pictured above with her favorite actor, Academy-Award winner Robert Duvall at a Congressional reception. Click on the photo above to see Duvall talk about his acting career with drama students at his alma mater, Principia College near Grafton, Illinois.

  • Alan Richman and Juliet Stevenson with Jenny Howe in the 1990 BAFTA Award-winning movie directed by Anthony Minghella.

  • Jimmy Stewart and Claude Rains in the Senate filibuster scene from "Mr.Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)

  • Cheryl's personal favorite role from her own acting career was her starring role as Mother Goose in four half-hour videos for children that were part of "The Mother Goose Video Treasury" (1987 J-2 Communications). Sometimes, rare copies of the VHS tapes or DVDs can be found on Amazon or Ebay. Here is a short scene with Cheryl telling the children a story in a song about Mary and her little lamb.

  • On Aug. 12, 2009, President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Oscar-winng actor Sidney Poitier. Racial bias in the deep South of fifty years ago is the backdrop for this Oscar-winning film with Poitier in the role of a Philadelphia police homicide detective who is forced by unusual circumstances to help a local Mississippi police chief (played by Rod Steiger) to solve a murder. "In the Heat of the Night" (1967).

  • Chicago Cubs radio announcer Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) signed with Warner Brothers Studio as a contract player in 1937. He appeared in 50 films over the next 30 years. Reagan served two terms as Governor of California (1967-1975) and two terms as President of the United States (1981-1989), During his acting career, Reagan also served eight one-year terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild between 1941 and 1960 and was the host of "General Electric Theater" on CBS-TV. Under Reagan's leadership, SAG won the first residual payments for actors in filmed television programs; the first residuals for films sold to television; and created the SAG pension and health plan. Click on picture above to see Reagan, Ann Sheridan, and Robert Young in the final scene of "Kings Row." (1941).

  • Actor and director Gary Sinise is an example of someone who gives back to his community and country. He is shown above making a personal appearance at the annual GI Film Festival in DC. Cheryl Rhoads serves on the advisory board for the festival. Gary was nominated for an Oscar and won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and two Cable ACE Awards. Click on the photo above to see Gary talk about his gratitude for the service of Americans in uniform.

  • Mary Tyler Moore also co-starred on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" on CBS from 1961 to 1966. To read more about this funny show now offered on Hulu.com, click on the photo above to see the show's profile from the Museum of Broadcast Commuications.

  • Long before HBO and premium cable channels existed, the early years of network TV in the 1950s were a Golden Age of live dramas. High-quality shows included Playhouse 90, Philco Television Playhouse, The United States Steel Hour, The Armstrong Circle Theatre, The Kraft Music Hall, Lux Video Theatre, Four Star Playhouse The Alcoa Hour, and Ford Theater. The most enduring anthology with 79 Emmy Awards over 58 years that still remains today is "The Hallmark Hall of Fame" sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Click on Hallmark logo above for more information on that series.

  • Playhouse 90 was one of the most popular dramatic anthology series programs of the 1950s.

  • Kenneth Branagh as Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt on St. Crispin's Day, Oct. 25, 1415

  • Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge in HBO Special

  • Spencer Tracy in "Judgment at Nuremburg" (1961)

  • Author and actress Janine Turner won an Emmy Award for her part as a bush pilot on the CBS-TV comedy series about life in Alaska called "Northern Exposure" (1990-1995). Click on photo above to read the rules for Janine's essay contet for schools.

  • Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2010 for her starring role in "The Blind Side." Scene at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agidYAqGOl8 She has also won an American Comedy Award and four Golden Globe Awards for different films. Bullock graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va. in 1982. She is pictured above in a scene with Bill Pullman from the 1995 romantic comedy "While You Were Sleeping."

  • Bonnie Hunt, Producer, Actress, Writer, Director, TV Host, in "Return to Me." (2000)

  • Ian Charleson plays Olympics Bronze Medal runner and Scottish Christian missionary Eric Liddell in "Chariots of Fire" (1982).

  • Judy Garland in "Meet Me In St. Louis." (1948)

  • Danny DeVito and cast in Renaissance Man (1994). Mr. Bill teaches Shakespeare on an Army base.

  • Jean Marsh in the Emmy Award-winning series "Upstairs Downstairs" (1971-1975).

  • Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane" (1941)

  • Katherine Hepburn in "Philadelphia Story" (1940)

  • Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh in "Gone With The Wind" (1939). The film won ten Oscars.

  • Nina Foch and William Holden in "Executive Suite" (1954)

  • Movie, TV, and stage legend Angela Lansbury has won an Oscar and 18 Emmy Awards. In 2009 she won her 5th Tony Award for her role as Madame Arkati in the Broadway revival of "Blithe Spirit" first written by Noel Coward in 1941.

  • The late Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) as a young man was a drama student before he decided to study to be a priest. Josef Karol Wojtyla once wanted to be an actor. At the age of 18 in 1938, he enrolled at Jagiellonian University in Crackow, Poland where he studied drama until the Nazis occupied Poland and closed all university classes in 1939. Wojtyla worked at a hard labor job to survive and he also later joined Rhapsodic Theatre Company, which was an underground theatre group that secretly performed Polish patriotic plays. Click on the picture to hear the late Pope refer to his student days and his lifelong interest in the theater.

  • Penelope Ann Miller Final Scene from The Lincoln Center Production of "Our Town" Act 3, Part 1

  • Jennifer Jones won the Oscar for her performance in "The Song of Bernadette" (1943)

  • Charlton Heston as Judah Ben Hur suffers as a Roman slave (1959).
  • JOHN ADAMS MEETS KING GEORGE, III
    From the John Adams series on HBO, John Adams is the first American ambassador to meet King George, III.
  • Cheryl and Robert Duvall
    Cheryl Rhoads had a chance to pose with her favorite Academy Award winner Robert Duvall at the annual GI Film Festival in Washington, DC. Both Cheryl and Duvall serve on the advisory committee for the festival.

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Biography

Cheryl Rhoads is an acting coach who has taught several thousand students during her years in Hollywood, California and in Falls Church, Virginia since 2006. She also teached public speaking a prepares businessmen and women for more effective verbal presentations.

Interests

acting on stage, in movies, and on tv.