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Olney Theatre Center's National Players, America's longest-running touring company, opens their 67th Tour with Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM on the Root Family Stage, Olney Theatre Center's outdoor stage tonight, July 15, through July 26.

Olney Theatre Center will host the first ever OTC Fest on July 25, 2015. OTC Fest is a free, all-day community event with over 50 local artists presenting free performances, workshops, kids' activities, movies, discussions, food trucks, and more!

Olney Theatre Center's National Players, America's longest-running touring company, opens their 67th Tour with Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM on the Root Family Stage, Olney Theatre Center's outdoor stage July 15 - 26.

The Hypocrites are pleased to announce their 2015-16 Season, featuring an unprecedented seven productions for Chicago audiences! The season kicks off this summer with the triumphant return engagement of the critically acclaimed ALL OUR TRAGIC, an unparalleled twelve-hour theatrical adaptation that combines all 32 surviving Greek tragedies into a single epic narrative, adapted and directed by Artistic Director Sean Graney and featuring most of the original cast.

 Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, brings Mel Brooks' The Producers to the Washington DC region for the first time in a professional production since the 2004 National Tour. Broadway veterans Michael Kostroff(Max Bialystock) and Jason Graae (Roger de Bris) headline the cast, running June 24 - July 26, 2015 on the Mainstage.

Due to popular demand, CAROUSEL has been extended to May 17, 2015.

Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, celebrates the 70thAnniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel with a reimagined production of the classic musical, running tonight, April 15 - May 10, 2015 on the Mainstage.

Tonight before a crowd of 1,200 theatre-makers and theatre-lovers at the historic Lincoln Theatre, theatreWashington celebrated excellence on Washington stages at the 2015 Helen Hayes Awards. The awards celebration was a night of excitement and surprise as 57 Washington theatre artists, theatres, and ensembles received honors in 47 categories for their outstanding accomplishments during the 2014 theatre season. Scroll down for the full list of winners!

One of the country's most prestigious cultural honors, The Helen Hayes Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in professional theatre throughout the Washington metropolitan area. theatreWashington will host The 2015 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony tonight, April 6, 2015 at the historic Lincoln Theatre.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. 'Anything Goes,' 'A Funny Thing...' and 'Billy Elliot' prepare to open, 'Les Mis' racks up the raves, season announcements from the Paramount, Kokandy, The Hypocrites and Chicago Shakes, plus another Austen adaptation, and legs for Ethel Merman. Enjoy the warmth!

The Hypocrites are pleased to announce their 2015-16 Season, featuring an unprecedented seven productions for Chicago audiences! The season kicks off this summer with the triumphant return engagement of the critically acclaimed ALL OUR TRAGIC, an unparalleled twelve-hour theatrical adaptation that combines all 32 surviving Greek tragedies into a single epic narrative, adapted and directed by Artistic Director Sean Graney and featuring most of the original cast.

In partnership with The Washington Post, ?theatreWashington announced today that National New Play Network (NNPN), a nation-wide alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays, will receive The Washington Post 2015 Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community during the Helen Hayes Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 6 at the Lincoln Theatre.

Olney Theatre Center, a mid-Atlantic destination for professional theater performance and education, proudly announces two world premieres, two legendary musicals, a classic thriller, and a rotating rep of Gilbert & Sullivan as part of its 10-play 78th season, the company's largest. Headlining the season is Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical, set in the waning days of Batista's regime in Cuba, written and directed by Tony® Award-nominee Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project Cycle) with music from two-time Grammy Award-winner Arturo O'Farrill. Previously on an annual calendar, the 78thseason standardizes the schedule, running September 2015 through August 2016.

Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, celebrates the 70thAnniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel with a reimagined production of the classic musical, running April 15 - May 10, 2015 on the Mainstage.

Rock out with First Stage this March when BIG NATE: THE MUSICAL blasts through the Todd Wehr Theater. A dynamic young performer cast recreates Lincoln Peirce's popular cartoon characters set in Kristen Ellhert's magical stage design where lights flash, videos display Nate's drawings and sets swing from classroom to home in mere seconds.

Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, continues its 77th Anniversary season with George Brant's Grounded, directed by Derek Goldman, running tonight, February 25-March 22 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab.

Oh, the glories of being 11 and going to middle school! An age and time between childhood and young adulthood where the classroom represents an entire, eternal lifetime in one day. Cartoonist Lincoln Peirce invented a comic strip in 1991 around the adventures of 11-year-old Nate Wright, his father, family and friends that soared to popularity over the last 20 years. First Stage brings these comic book characters to Milwaukee's Todd Wehr Theatre when BIG NATE: THE MUSICAL opens on February 27.

Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, launches its 77th Anniversary season with Steven Schwartz's Tony-nominated classic Godspell running February 4 - March 1, 2015 on the Mainstage. Check out a first look below!

Energetic and talented cast shines in new version of Stephen Schwartz hit musical.

Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, launches its 77th Anniversary season with Steven Schwartz's Tony-nominated classic Godspell running tonight, February 4 - March 1, 2015 on the Mainstage.