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Review: HOMELESS GARDEN at Avant Bard


by Roger Catlin - May 07, 2024

What did our critic think of HOMELESS GARDEN at Avant Bard?...

GALA Hispanic Theatre Presents NOCHE DE ESTRELLAS 2024


by A.A. Cristi - May 06, 2024

GALA Hispanic Theatre will host its annual Noche de Estrellas benefit event honoring two extraordinary leaders at the National Museum of Women in the Arts....

HUMAN MUSEUM Begins Performances At Rorschach Theatre In April


by A.A. Cristi - March 15, 2024

Rorschach Theatre has announced the world-premiere of HUMAN MUSEUM by Miyoko Conley and directed by Randy Baker, April 12 – May 5, 2024. ...

Shakespeare & Company's Center For Actor Training to Hold Washington, D.C. Weekend Intensive


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 12, 2024

Join the SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY's Center for Actor Training for a Weekend Intensive in Washington, D.C. this month. See dates and learn how to apply! ...

Review: CORIOLANUS at Avant Bard


by Roger Catlin - March 06, 2024

The historical Coriolanus, if he existed at all, was Rome’s most fearsome fighter, trained as a child, excelling as a warrior-leader and able to conquer whole other cities sometimes single-handedly. Even so, James Finley, who portrays the title character in Shakespeare’s tragedy in an eye-opening co...

Perisphere Theater Appoints New Artistic Leadership


by Stephi Wild - February 15, 2024

Montgomery County-based Perisphere Theater has appointed Gerrad Alex Taylor and Lizzi Albert as co-artistic directors, effective April 1, 2024....

Cast and Creative Team Set for TEMPESTUOUS ELEMENTS World Premiere at Arena Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 16, 2024

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Tempestuous Elements, playwright Kia Corthron’s new work exploring the trailblazing career of visionary Black feminist and educational luminary Anna Julia Cooper....

DC-Area Premiere of HAZARDOUS MATERIALS to Open in Bethesda in November


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 26, 2023

Perisphere Theater, a Helen Hayes Award-winning, nonprofit theater company based in Montgomery County, Md., will open the DC-area premiere of Hazardous Materials....

Full Cast and Creative Team Set for THE DRAGON KING'S DAUGHTER at the Kennedy Center


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 16, 2023

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has revealed the full cast and creative team for the world premiere Kennedy Center -commissioned musical The Dragon King’s Daughter. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!...

Regional Premiere Of Dominique Morisseau's CONFEDERATES Comes to Mosaic Theater Company


by Stephi Wild - October 04, 2023

Mosaic Theater Company presents the regional premiere of Confederates, a breathtakingly fierce examination of history, race, and the women who stand on the frontlines of freedom, no matter the cost. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!...

Past Shows

A MISANTHROPE
A MISANTHROPE
5/30 - 6/30/2019


A MISANTHROPE is a brisk, biting comedy about a cynic named Alceste who thinks insincerity is a sin. But the jokes on him when he ...

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
3/14 - 4/14/2019


TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, Directed by DeMone Seraphin. Starring Louis E. Davis and Jeremy Keith Hunter. A tensely funny and dead serious tragicomedy, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is ...

A Two Woman Hamlet
A Two Woman Hamlet
2/22 - 2/24/2019


A Two Woman Hamlet By William Shakespeare Directed by Mara Sherman Starring Hannah Sweet & Nicola Collett No matter how many Hamlets you've seen, you ...

Illyria, or What You Will
Illyria, or What You Will
10/18 - 11/18/2018


A freewheeling queering of Twelfth Night, Illyria reimagines Shakespeare's comedy of mixed-signal love as a bohemian cabaret in an underground queer club in early ’80s ...

The Tempest
The Tempest
5/31 - 7/1/2018


By William Shakespeare Directed by Tom Prewitt Starring Christopher Henley as Prospero Swept away by love and magic. Shakespeare’s classic comedy—the only play he set ...

Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight


By Lauren Gunderson Directed by Rick Hammerly Brilliant. Passionate. Defiant. Tonight the 18th-century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the ...

Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight


By Lauren Gunderson Directed by Rick Hammerly Brilliant. Passionate. Defiant. Tonight the 18th-century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the ...

King Lear
King Lear
5/25 - 6/25/2017


An epic parent-child drama and then some. Shakespeare's greatest tragedy begins as fairy tale (“Once upon a time there was an old king who had ...

The Gospel at Colonus
The Gospel at Colonus
2/23 - 3/26/2017


AVANT BARD PRESENTS the legendary African American musical The Gospel at Colonus, a soaring celebration of transcendence and the fragility of life. It transforms Sophocles’ ...

TAME.
TAME.
11/3 - 12/11/2016


AVANT BARD PRESENTS AN EXPLOSIVE DRAMA set in 1960s Texas about a wildly creative and spirited young poet named Cat. Grieving the suicide of her ...

Videos


Marjorie Prime in Washington, DC Marjorie Prime
Prologue Theatre (4/26 - 5/19) Tracker
Pasión y Fuego: The Music of Spain in Washington, DC Pasión y Fuego: The Music of Spain
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (6/15 - 6/15)

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Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return in Washington, DC Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return
GALA Hispanic Theatre (5/9 - 6/9) Tracker
MJ in Washington, DC MJ
National Theatre (8/13 - 9/8)
The Matchbox Magic Flute in Washington, DC The Matchbox Magic Flute
Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/21 - 6/16)
Ain't Too Proud in Washington, DC Ain't Too Proud
National Theatre (6/17 - 6/22)
Miss Nelson is Missing! in Washington, DC Miss Nelson is Missing!
Imagination Stage (6/20 - 8/10)
Little Shop of Horrors in Washington, DC Little Shop of Horrors
Ford's Theatre (3/15 - 5/18)
Rockville Little Theatre presents Murder on the Orient Express in Washington, DC Rockville Little Theatre presents Murder on the Orient Express
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (5/3 - 5/12)
Mexodus in Washington, DC Mexodus
Atlas Performing Arts Center (5/16 - 6/9)
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