Jazz Brunch at the Arts Club
Join the Double Nickels Theatre Company at the Arts Club of Washington and enjoy an intimate jazz concert while dining on the scrumptious buffet brunch offered for your dining pleasure! Entertainment will be provided by the notable Igwe Jazz Ensemble. Also, performers with the Double Nickels will dramatize true stories as part of the salon […]
Double Nickels featured in “The Beacon”
“The multigenerational, multiracial Double Nickels Theatre Company produces performances in a style called “reminiscence theatre.” The genre helps to connect ages and cultures through older adults’ tales of their pivotal life points.” Antoinette Ford, Double Nickels’ founder and president, based the concept for the theatre company on her own upbringing in a close-knit family of […]
Chestnut Hill College Honors Antoinette Ford
“[Ms. Ford] is an accomplished businesswoman who embodies the values of a liberal arts education, Ford has been an author, teacher, actor, musician, oceanographer, White House fellow and entrepreneur in her multi-faceted life.” Our Founder and President, Antoinette Ford, will receive an Honor Doctor of Laws degree from her Alma Mater, Chestnut Hill College. The […]
The Best is Yet to Come
Dynamic, creative, focused and fun—-all describe the path that Double Nickels Theatre Company has carved out for itself since its founding in 2006. Beginning with the active commitment of its first Chairman, Butch Hopkins, the organization has benefited from the support of an involved Board of Directors, talented volunteers, actively supportive partners and friends and, […]
Story Telling Event a Hit
By Christine Baldwin On Saturday, Nov. 10, the annual story telling event by the Double Nickels Speak Easy occurred. This year it featured true stories from childhood, wartime events and current times. Esker McConnell introduced each story. It began with a touching story told by Catharine Deitch, titled “Depression Days”, in which, as children, she […]
