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Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime
4/26 - 5/19/2024


This captivating drama explores human, and digital, interpersonal relationships and challenges our perceptions of memory, identity, and loss.

Chicks in Heavem
Chicks in Heavem
4/11 - 4/28/2024


When four friends come together in a rural southwest Virginia town for a reunion, it's a happy gathering filled with remembrance and ritual.  But when ...

Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return


Book & Lyrics by Gustavo Ott Original Musical & Lyrics by Mariano Vales Directed by Mariano Caligaris Music Direction by Walter "Bobby" McCoy Choreography by ...

Shear Madness
Shear Madness
10/4 - 6/30/2025


Figure out whodunit at this wildly popular record-breaking comedy. Audiences all over the world have spotted the clues and questioned the suspects amid much hilarity. ...

Bridging the Gap


Hailed by The Washington Post for “superior arrangements and uncommon musicianship,” string duo Bridging the Gap features the talents of violinist and American Festival Pops ...

The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute


Join Emmy Award-winning Beatles tribute band The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute for an unforgettable night of classic Beatles music! You'll enjoy note-perfect renditions of ...

Bamberg Symphony with Hélène Grimaud


The Bamberg Symphony—one of Germany’s premier orchestras—debuts at the Center for the Arts in a program inspired by New Yorker music critic and Pulitzer Prize ...


In a magical kingdom fathoms below, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first, ...

The 35th Annual: Evening of Comedy


The Barns transforms into a comedy club for three shows full of laughs and unrelenting fun featuring top stand-up comedians....

Chicks in Heaven
Chicks in Heaven
4/11 - 4/28/2024


A "Bold New Voices" Premiere When four friends come together in a rural southwest Virginia town for a reunion, it's a happy gathering filled with ...

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee


Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book,  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee  has charmed audiences across the country ...

Brian Ganz: A Chopin Recital


Pianist, scholar, internationally celebrated pianist, and devoted champion of Frédéric Chopin, Brian Ganz has illuminated the Polish Romantic era composer throughout his career. Since 2011, ...

Doreen Ketchens • Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!


Mon cher!  The MSO is excited to present the Clarinet Queen of New Orleans, Doreen Ketchens for an exclusive performance of Dixieland favorites in her ...

An Unbuilt Life
An Unbuilt Life
4/11 - 5/5/2024


World Premiere by Elizabeth DeSchryver, directed by Helen Hayes Award nominee Steven Carpenter. When Agatha Ganner discovers a mystery painting in her deceased husband’s art collection, she engages ...

An Unbuilt Life
An Unbuilt Life
4/11 - 5/5/2024


By Elizabeth DeSchryver When Agatha Ganner discovers a mystery painting in her deceased husband’s art collection, she engages an energetic graduate student to research it ...

Human Museum
Human Museum
4/18 - 5/5/2024


As robots on Earth finalize a museum exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of humanity’s extinction, an unexpected radio transmission disrupts everything they thought they knew. ...

Macbeth
Macbeth
4/9 - 5/5/2024


Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth ...

Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Macbeth
4/9 - 5/5/2024


Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth ...

Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldier
3/29 - 5/5/2024


Cleaning out her grandmother’s home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier tucked away in a box of keepsakes. And so begins Unknown ...

Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldier
3/29 - 5/5/2024


Cleaning out her grandmother’s home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier tucked away in a box of keepsakes. And so begins  Unknown ...

Webster's Bitch
Webster's Bitch
4/6 - 5/5/2024


When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster’s Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender ...

Amm(i)gone
Amm(i)gone
4/20 - 5/12/2024


Creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith. Should ...

Rockville Little Theatre presents Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express


 performances |  May 3, 4, 10 & 11 at 8pm |  May 5 & 12 at 2pm Adapted by Ken Ludwig Directed by Laura W. Andruski ...

The Last Drop
The Last Drop
4/12 - 5/12/2024


World Premiere! The Last Drop by John Shand (Australia) Western civilization collapses during an economic upheaval and water becomes scarce. Pestilence, violence and war drive ...

The Last Drop
The Last Drop
4/12 - 5/12/2024


Society collapses during an economic upheaval. People flee cities amid pestilence and war. Mary & Joe survive until invaders arrive and secrets are revealed.

They're Playing Our Song
They're Playing Our Song
4/3 - 5/12/2024


Riverside is thrilled to announce that "They're Playing Our Song" will be opening on April 3, 2024 running though April 12, 2024. This is one ...

They're Playing Our Song
They're Playing Our Song
4/3 - 5/12/2024


Just in time to celebrate spring, Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents They’re Playing Our Song from Wednesday, April 3 through Sunday, May 12, ...

Disney's Lion King Kids
4/15 - 5/15/2024


The Lion King JR. features classic songs from the Broadway musical and animated feature film, including “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King,” “He Lives ...


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Review: PAN AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S TODO TANGO at Kennedy Center


by Hannah R. Wing - April 22, 2024

On Saturday, April 20, 2024, PASO brought their program, Todo Tango, an intimate and fiery evening of tango to the Kennedy Center. ...

Review: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center's Family Theater


by Emily Berger - April 21, 2024

This new work featured three episodes in Asian American history....

Review: A JUMPING-OFF POINT at Round House Theatre


by David Friscic - April 17, 2024

An exploration of what constitutes the writer’s role and ownership of material, issues of representation in the arts, racial politics and the messiness of friendship and caring are all threshed out in Inda Craig -Galván’s play A Jumping-Off Point. Now being presented at the Round House Theatre, this...

Review: AN UNBUILT LIFE at Washington Stage Guild


by Roger Catlin - April 18, 2024

It’s the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to Vermeer, that adorns the program cover of the Washington Stage Guild’s world premiere production of “An Unbuilt Life.” ...

Review: DISTILLATION at Solas Nua


by Roger Catlin - April 17, 2024

You meet in the hotel lobby and go up the elevator in two groups of 10 to the fourth floor. Once assembled there, you’re led to a community room where you take your seat around a table covered in clumps of black earth that we’ll soon come to learn is peat. Irish peat, from the bogs. Three hundred po...

Review: CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron


by Jake Bridges - April 15, 2024

What did our critic think of CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron?...

Review: UNKNOWN SOLDIER at Arena Stage


by Rachael F. Goldberg - April 15, 2024

'Unknown Soldier' is a beautifully performed show with a fascinating exploration of memory, love, and loss, but its main flaw is that it is a show seeking out answers to a mystery it not only fails to resolve, but further convolutes at every turn. While there’s truth in that, it’s also a little diss...

Review: ISLANDER at Olney Theatre Center


by Itai Yasur - April 14, 2024

Now on tour, a new musical makes landfall at Olney Theatre Center with a fantastical song worthy of our attention...

Review: MACBETH at Shakespeare Theatre Company


by Dara Homer - April 15, 2024

STC’s Macbeth highlights brutal pairs: war and domestic life, grief and humor, brief words and permanent consequences. While the setting could feel unassuming—indeed, audiences must make their way through the parking lot of a Home Depot when arriving via metro—it also shows how extravagant it is to ...

Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE at Kennedy Center Opera House


by Emily Berger - April 13, 2024

Message in a Bottle, a narrative dance work set to music by Sting, with choreography by Kate Prince ranging from hip hop to break dancing to contemporary, is sometimes maddening but often exhilarating....



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