McLean Community Center

McLean Community Center is a party rental and community events venue in McLean, Virginia. It provides family fun, events and educational programs for residents of McLean, hosting games for kids, family activities, online courses and performing arts. The Center is home to the Robert Ames Alden Theatre, a 383-seat performing arts venue that presents entertainment, lectures and theater plays for audiences of all ages, and to the Old Firehouse Center, a dedicated space for Fairfax County teens with game tables, a dance floor, after school care, summer programs and personal development opportunities. The Alden Theatre is fully ADA compliant, offers wheelchair seating and an infrared audio system for hearing-impaired patrons, and its box office is open Saturdays from 3 to 7 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m., plus one hour before every performance. The Old Firehouse Center is open to 5th through 9th graders living in Fairfax County, with membership including free after school activities and discounted admission to Friday night activities. McLean Community Center holds a rating of 4.70 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The Center runs a full calendar of public programming, including the free Summer Concert Series at the McLean Central Park amphitheater, McLean Community Players productions, McLean Artfest artist exhibitions, and the McLean 5K, a certified course through McLean for runners of all abilities. The Old Firehouse Center partners with community groups including the Safe Community Coalition, the Traveling Players Ensemble, Georgetown Learning Center, Specially Adapted Resource Clubs and the Lewinsville Senior Center. The Alden Theatre is named for former Washington Post editor and community organizer Robert Ames Alden, and was part of the original concept for the Center approved through a bond referendum in 1970. Performers who have appeared on The Alden stage include John Lithgow, Lesley Gore and Sandra Day O'Connor. The Center is marking its 50th anniversary with events and activities throughout the year.

The Center sits on Ingleside Ave, about a tenth of a mile from the Ingleside neighborhood and the Alden Theatre, and roughly two tenths of a mile from the FCPL Dolley Madison Branch library, Dead Run, Dolley Madison Boulevard and Dead Run Stream Valley Park.

With a 4.70 rating from its reviewers, McLean Community Center pairs its party and event space with five decades of community programming in McLean.