Upcoming Shows
Little Miss Perfect is a world premiere musical by Joriah Kwamé, exploring the intense pressures facing high school students. Centered on Noelle, the daughter of...
Appropriate is a searing satire by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that delves into family dynamics as siblings confront their late father's troubling legacy while sorting through his...
I And You - The Musical is a world premiere adaptation of Lauren Gunderson's acclaimed play, featuring a new book by Gunderson and music and...
I And You - The Musical makes its world premiere at the Olney Theatre Center, following the success of Lauren Gunderson's original play. The story...
Avaaz features Roya, a dynamic hostess preparing for the celebration of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. Through her humorous storytelling, she recounts her life journey...
Carla Hall - Please Underestimate Me is a one-woman show featuring the award-winning chef and beloved TV personality Carla Hall. Co-written by Hall, Lori Kaye,...
Carla Hall Please Underestimate Me, a one-woman show by Carla Hall, Lori Kaye, and Leslie Thomas, will have its world premiere at Olney Theatre Center....
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a regional premiere at Olney Theatre Center, set to run from July 2 to August 23, 2026....
by Timoth David Copney - February 26, 2026
The Act II energy, the dazzling effects, and the powerhouse leads make for a wildly entertaining night at the theatre....
by Lisa A. Crayton - February 20, 2026
Strike one! Troy Maxson is at bat ready to hit a homerun in the game of life. What could possibly go wrong for the former Negro League baseball player in 1950’s Pittsburgh? Lots!...
by Tina Collins - February 13, 2026
In DAWN, the luminous world premiere by Tuyết Thị Phạm, now on stage at the Everyman Theatre , the ordinary becomes sacred. A kitchen table transforms into an altar. A cup of tea becomes an invocation. Silence stretches into something holy. What unfolds is not simply a story, but a ritual of...
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 11, 2026
History will record that in 1976, a rock group named Fleetwood Mac, three men and two women, three Brits and two Americans, congregated with an engineer and staff at a recording studio in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, to begin recording a new album....
by Timoth David Copney - February 06, 2026
When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby danced its way off the page and into the American consciousness, it became one of the defining portraits of the hedonistic, halcyon Roaring Twenties. ...
by Tina Collins - January 14, 2026
This gem of a production is a perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the blockbuster that started it all....
by Timoth David Copney - December 22, 2025
For the last couple of years or so, theatre nerds everywhere have been besotted with the film version of the hit musical Wicked. After the debut of the first installment, anticipation only grew for Part Two, which dropped this past November. But amid all the brouhaha and ballyhoo over the cinematic ...
by Tina Collins - December 17, 2025
Christmas is the season for goodwill, warm hearths, and ghosts, real and imagined. Dark days and chill nights conjure tales of things tapping at the window or lingering in the shadows. ...
Past Shows
Nova Y. Payton stars as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the beloved musical Hello, Dolly!, coming to Olney Theatre Center from November 6, 2025, to January...
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas returns to the Olney Theatre Center for its 16th year, featuring Michael Russotto in a masterful solo...
Bilal, Joey, and Omz have been boys their whole lives, growing up together playing soccer on their small pitch outside their south London apartments. But...
For over twenty years, in-the-know DC audiences have thrilled to the magic of wordless Shakespeare from Synetic Theatre, called by the Washington Post “the region’s...
The inspiration for the hit Netflix series of the same name, Ins Choi’s award-winning comedy, introduces us to the Kims, a Korean immigrant family whose...
Senior Class introduces us to two Broadway-obsessed high school seniors in New York City searching for the perfect Eliza Doolittle for their brand-new, musicalized Pygmalion....
This fringe hit from London makes its U.S. Premiere in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab! Whether or not sleepover parties with friends were part of your...
The beloved musical by Grammy Award-winner Sara Bareilles (“Brave” “Lovesong”) is yet another Olney Theatre Center Regional Premiere. Tony-nominated director Marcia Milgrom Dodge returns to...
Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground is a compelling one-man play featuring Tony Award-winner John Rubinstein in the role of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Set in...
Co-produced with Round House TheatreRound House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center combine forces for an epic co-production of the award-winning musical Fela!, the first professional...
A co-production of ArtsCentric, Everyman Theatre, and Olney Theatre CenterIn musical theatre, the team of John Kander & Fred Ebb produced iconic songs for unforgettable...
A meet-cute at the local temple brings Naveen face-to-face with the man of his dreams: a fellow Marathi-speaking Hindu who loves the same Bollywood films...
The uplifting Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit by superstar Cyndi Lauper lands on the Olney Theatre Mainstage in spike heels and ready to strut....
Last winter our internationally acclaimed production of Disneys Beauty and the Beast inspired thousands of theatergoers: as People Magazine said, its a tale as old...
What if your first crush really was perfect? From the comic genius of Cinco Paul (Despicable Me and the musical hit of the summer Schmigadoon)...
Part of the Applause Concert SeriesIn this new musical set in March, 1899, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, passes out in a gutter and is...
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