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This electrifying drama about the gritty lives of two street-savvy hustlers resonated through the theatre world. The New York Times led the way, calling it ...

Topdog/Underdog
5/29 - 6/30/2024


This electrifying drama about the gritty lives of two street-savvy hustlers resonated through the theatre world. The New York Times led the way, calling it ...


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World Premiere Musical & More Set for Round House Theatre's 2024-2025 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 02, 2024

The full five-show lineup has bee revealed for Round House Theatre’s 2024-2025 Season. Learn about the shows and see how to purchase tickets....

Photos: First Look At Pulitzer Prize-Winning NEXT TO NORMAL At Round House Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - January 29, 2024

See first look photos! The highly-anticipated groundbreaking, Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Next to Normal (book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, and music by Tom Kitt), opens tonight, January 29, 2024, at Round House Theatre, co-produced with Barrington Stage Company....

Round House Theatre & Olney Theatre Center Begin 2023-2024 Seasons With INK


by A.A. Cristi - July 25, 2023

Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center continue their longstanding partnership and kick off the 2023-2024 Season with a co-production of Ink, written by James Graham. This Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End hit is an electrifying new drama, directed by Jason Loewith. Please see below for...

Video: Watch the Trailer for FELA! at Olney Theater Center


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 18, 2023

Watch the trailer and get ready to dance to the rhythms of FELA! at Olney Theater Center. Experience the vibrant sounds and powerful story of this energetic and captivating musical that brings the world of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti to life. Don't miss out on this must-see theatrical performance....

Melody A. Betts Joins the Cast of FELA! at the Olney Theatre


by Stephi Wild - June 14, 2023

Chicago-based actor, Melody A. Betts has joined the cast of Olney Theatre Center and Round House Theatre's co-production of Fela!, which, begins previews on Olney Theatre's Roberts Mainstage, July 7....

FELA! Revived For First Time in a Decade By Round Hound and Olney Theatres


by Stephi Wild - June 05, 2023

Fela!, Olney Theatre Center and Round House Theatre's first co-production since their Helen Hayes Award-winning collaboration on In The Heights, begins previews on Olney Theatre's Roberts Mainstage July 7. ...

Adventure Theatre MTC Announces All New Leadership May 2023


by A.A. Cristi - May 17, 2023

Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC), educating and inspiring new generations of theater artists and audiences with exceptional theatrical experiences, announces its return from a strategic pause with an all new leadership staff led by Executive Director and former Education Director, Melynda Burdette Wint...

LONG WAY DOWN, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and More Set For Olney Theatre's 23-24 Season


by Stephi Wild - April 24, 2023

Olney Theatre Center announced its 85th season. The season includes past Tony Award-winners and nominees (Ink, Fiddler on the Roof, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), a World Premiere based on an acclaimed young adult novel (Long Way Down), plays that push genre boundaries like horror (The Brother...

Past Shows

Next To Normal
1/10 - 2/4/2024


Next to Normal delves into the raw and complex world of mental illness, specifically focusing on bipolar disorder. The story centers around Diana, a wife ...


The night before his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering a speech ...

Nollywood Dreams
6/8 - 7/3/2022


It’s the 1990s and in Lagos, Nigeria, the NOLLYWOOD film industry is exploding and taking the world by storm. Ayamma dreams of stardom while working ...

Sleep Deprivation Chamber
11/21 - 11/21/2021


Round House Theatre Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy...

We're Gonna Die
We're Gonna Die
6/14 - 7/11/2021


Bad things will happen to all of us. Thats a certainty in life, but it also means that none of us are alone. And while ...

God of Carnage
6/2 - 6/27/2021


Round House Theatre Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton...

Throw Me On The Burnpile and light Me Up


A small farmhouse on a watermelon field may not seem like much, but for one little girl, its where magic happens. Its where her father ...

Boy and His Soul
3/22 - 4/18/2021


By Colman Domingo Directed by Craig Wallace MARCH 22 - APRIL 18, 2021 "Keep a song in your heart, and you will always find your ...


By Colman Domingo Directed by Craig Wallace MARCH 22 - APRIL 18, 2021 "Keep a song in your heart, and you will always find your ...

SPRING AWAKENING
1/22 - 2/23/2020


Spring Awakening explodes onto the stage with a raw and powerful exploration of teenage angst and sexual awakening in a repressed society. Set in late ...


Gem of the Ocean takes place in 1904 in Pittsburgh's Hill District. The Hill is home to the city’s Black community, many of whom were ...

How I Learned to Drive
10/10 - 11/4/2018


A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older ...


He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make ...

Handbagged
1/31 - 2/25/2018


Moira Buffini; dir: Indhu Rubasingham. Round House Theatre:...

I'll Get You Back Again
10/4 - 10/29/2017


Sarah Gancher; dir: Rachel Chavkin. World Premiere...

In The Heights
9/6 - 10/8/2017


book: Quiara Alegría Hudes; lyrics: Lin–Manuel Miranda; music: Lin-Manuel Miranda; dir: Marcos Santana....


August Wilson; dir: Todd Kreidler....

Or,
4/12 - 5/7/2017


The free love of the '60s...the 1660s...is riotously explored in this recent Off-Broadway farce based on real-life playwright Aphra Behn's undercover spy and romantic romps ...

CAROLINE OR CHANGE
1/25 - 2/26/2017


Playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and composer Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie) have elegantly crafted this bold and uniquely poignant new theatrical work. Tesori's ...

Caroline, Or Change
1/25 - 2/26/2017


Caroline, or Change takes place in Louisiana in 1963, just before President Kennedy's assassination and during the Civil Rights movement. Caroline is the black maid ...


Lauren Gunderson, Margot Melcon; dir: Eleanor Holdridge. World Premiere...


Lauren Gunderson, Margot Melcon; dir: Eleanor Holdridge. World Premiere...


Tony Kushner; dir: Jason Loewith, Ryan Rilette....


Tony Kushner; dir: Jason Loewith, Ryan Rilette....

Ordinary Days
Ordinary Days
5/28 - 6/22/2014


From one of musical theatre's most exciting new composers comes ORDINARY DAYS, a refreshingly honest and funny musical about making real connections in the city ...

Two Trains Running
4/2 - 4/27/2014


August Wilson; dir: Timothy Douglas....

Seminar
2/5 - 3/2/2014


Round House Theatre Bethesda: Theresa Rebeck; dir: Jerry Whiddon....

The Lyons
11/27 - 12/22/2013


Ben Lyons is dying. When his wife, Rita, and grown children gather to say goodbye, they learn that, despite being a family, each of them ...

This
10/9 - 11/3/2013


A new American comedy every bit as poetic as it is honest and revelatory. This captures forty-something life at its most vulnerable in a narrative ...

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
8/21 - 9/15/2013


Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely ...

Double Indemnity
5/30 - 6/24/2012


Virginia Jackson Browning Mainstage: - adapt: David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright from James M. Cain; dir: Michael Evan Haney....

Next Fall
2/1 - 2/26/2012

Pride and Prejudice
11/23 - 12/31/2011

ReEntry
10/18 - 10/30/2011

Fahrenheit 451
9/7 - 10/9/2011


Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury which was first published in a shorter form as "The Fireman" (Galaxy Science Fiction, Vol. 1 ...

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