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Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for September 2026 include The Score & more.

Countertenor John Holiday has announced season highlights including a world premiere with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, a Wigmore Hall recital, and productions with Dutch National Opera and Komische Oper Berlin.

PBS will mark Hispanic Heritage Month with new episodes of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS, VOCES, AMERICAN MASTERS and THE HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARDS, plus fresh PBS KIDS content from ALMA'S WAY and ROSIE'S RULES.

This Hispanic Heritage Month, Bilingual Broadway will partner with Lincoln Center to bring you some of Broadway’s greatest hits EN ESPAÑOL with a live band!  

Eureka Entertainment will release a five-film Swedish noir collection spanning the 1930s to 1950s, featuring Ingrid Bergman, restored by the Swedish Film Institute for Masters of Cinema.

Iceland Airwaves has added 25 artists to its 2026 lineup, including COBRAH, ALIEN CHICKS, LEITH ROSS and WORLDPEACE DMT, alongside newly announced venues and day splits for the Reykjavík festival.

Steven Sater also exclusively tells BroadwayWorld he hopes a 29-hour workshop and potential visual album are next for his new musical 'Murder at the Gates.'

Battersea Arts Centre has announced the cast for the world premiere of NINA, a new play by Caroline Williams inspired by Chekhov's THE SEAGULL, co-directed with Deborah Pearson.

Dutch National Ballet's Anna Ol and Jan Špunda will perform at the Legacy of Dance Gala at Artscape Opera House, joining South African dance companies with live accompaniment from the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.

I first worked with Mike Bartlett’s writing nearly ten years ago, when Deafinitely Theatre adapted Contractions into British Sign Language in 2017. I was fascinated by the power games in the play – who has status, who doesn’t and how quickly that power can be abused.

What did our critic think of THE OUTSIDERS MUSICAL at Walton Arts Center?

Jonathan Bailey will take on the title role in Audible's new global adaptation of Dracula, joining Ella Purnell, Aimee Lou Wood, Maggie Gyllenhaal and more in the full-cast audio production. Watch the video.

HERE'S TO US! Celebrating thirty years of presenting not oft-enough produced musicals from Broadway to Los Angeles! Featuring memorable songs from critically acclaimed productions including Titanic, Fanny, The Pajama Game, Sunday in the Park with George, and many more, the concert offers audiences a rare behind-the-scenes look at the artistry that has defined more than 125 Musical Theatre Guild concert readings. Inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s celebrated lyric, “Here’s to us! Who’s like us? Damn few!,” the evening celebrates the performers, directors, musicians, volunteers, patrons, and supporters who have shaped Musical Theatre Guild over the past three decades while raising funds to support the Guild’s youth education initiatives. https://www.musicaltheatreguild.com/show/heres-to-us/

Nashville Repertory Theatre will open its season with the Broadway drama, following high school girls whose study of THE CRUCIBLE collides with real-life reckonings in a small Georgia town.

Brick Church in New York will present its fifth Worship & Arts season, featuring free concerts and services with works by Brahms, Bach, Messiaen, and Caroline Shaw alongside its Chancel Choir and guest artists.

Michael Chioldi will star in the title role of Verdi's RIGOLETTO as San Diego Opera continues its season with a production directed by Christopher Mattaliano at the San Diego Civic Theatre.

BroadwayWorld spoke with adapter and director Carey Perloff ahead of the world premiere of Oedipus: King/Colonus - revisiting Sophocles, balancing the roles of writer and director, and creating an immersive theatrical experience for modern audiences.

Before Vitoria de Oliveira had New York credits, a feature film lead, or a conservatory certificate from The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, she had rehearsal. A lot of it. Rooms in Madrid. Lines repeated until they stopped sounding like lines. Bodies moving through scenes that had to be made alive again, even when everyone was tired.

PlayMakers Repertory Company will open submissions for the North Carolina Folk Play Project from September 1 to November 15, 2026, with selected works read in Chapel Hill in February 2027 and touring during the 2027-28 season.

Director Alison Reid's documentary THE ART OF ADVENTURE, following the 1957 Land Rover expedition of Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster, will open in theaters across the US this fall.

Sharon Kleinberg's directorial debut I AM MARIO, starring Oustin de León as a transgender taxi driver navigating pregnancy, will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Latino Film Festival.

The live stage adaptation of the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away will screen in US cinemas this October as part of Ghibli Fest. Learn more about the show here.

English Touring Opera will present a new production of Gluck's ORPHEUS & EURYDICE, directed by Jenny Ogilvie with a new orchestration by Leo Grant, opening in Sheffield alongside a double bill of ARIADNE and DIDO & AENEAS.

Repertorio Español has announced the cast and creative team for TOC TOC, Laurent Baffie's comedy following six patients awaiting a delayed psychiatrist in a waiting room.

Michael Ball will star as Willy Wonka in a new production of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY at the London Coliseum, directed by Nikolai Foster for a limited engagement.