Arena Stage News

Arena Stage has announced Felicia Curry and Kennedy Holmes will join CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical. The production, featuring the music of TLC, will run in Washington, DC.

Watch a first look video of INHERIT THE WIND at Arena Stage, running February 27–April 5, 2026. Based on the real-life Scopes Monkey Trial, the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee explores a legal battle over science, religion, and intellectual freedom as a small-town case becomes a national debate.

Arena Stage's production of Chez Joey played its final performance on March 22, 2026. Watch the cast, which features Myles Frost (Broadway: MJ the Musical) as Joey Evans, take their final bows! Watch the video from the reworked version of Pal Joey.

Next month, two-time Obie Award winner Phillip James Brannon, Grammy and Emmy Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson, and original Off-Broadway and Broadway cast member Bianca Leigh will return to the Lyceum Theatre to reprise their roles in Oh, Mary!

What does it take to build a career on Broadway? In partnership with Arena Stage, the Canady Foundation for the Arts is launching the first installment of Broadway Studio: Insider’s Circle.

This spring, Theatre Three will present local playwright Blake Hackler's adaptation of Agatha Christie's “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” running April 16-May 10 on the Norma Young Arena Stage. 

The Broadway Women's Fund revealed its 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway list, the seventh list from the fund spotlighting women in leadership in theater.

Arena Stage will present ACLU Panel: Scopes Trial. The event is a pre-show panel discussion that connects the historic ACLU Scopes Trial to today’s ongoing First Amendment debates.

Today’s subject Myles Frost in currently living his theatre life as the lead character in Chez Joey at Arena Stage. The show is a modern reimagining of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey. The production runs through March 22nd in Arena’s Kreeger Theatre.

DATA will be recorded on Friday, March 13, 2026 for inclusion in the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, an honor granted to select Off-Broadway productions.

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust announced the names of the two outstanding early-to-mid-career playwrights who will be celebrated with 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards.

Zach Theater alum Nicholas Rodriguez will return to the stage in Nicholas Rodriguez Live: Sincerely, Sondheim for one night only at The Topfer at Zach Theater.

Arena Stage has revealed the cast and creative team for A Good Day to Me Not to You. The production is written by Drama Desk Award-winning actor Lameece Issaq.

The sign of a good play is that it can ring out its truth through different eras and still seem utterly relevant to the moment. 

Arena Stage has named Tonia Wellons, President & CEO of the Greater Washington Community Foundation, as the 2026 recipient of its Beth Newburger Schwartz Award.

A spring-break taste of Arena Stage’s celebrated summer camp! Join in for an exciting week of multi-arts fun. Campers will enjoy theater classes and additional classes in visual art, singing, or theater.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is March 5, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The National Tour of FDR's Very Happy Hour will kick off at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. These premiere performances are presented in partnership with Denver Arts & Venues.

Arena Stage will present a one-week extension for its world-premiere production of Chez Joey. The musical features fresh arrangements from the legendary catalog of Great American Songbook duo Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Arena Stage has released a new trailer for their production of Chez Joey. Watch the new video, which features Myles Frost (Broadway: MJ the Musical) as Joey Evans!