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 Join us for a reading of Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls directed by noted playwright, director, dramaturge and actor Thembi Duncan.

Imagination Stage celebrates the continued success of Learning through Theatre DC, a partnership designed specifically for third grade DC Public and DC Public Charter schools.

Faction of Fools Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, pairing heightened text with heightened physical comedy in the style of Commedia dell'Arte.

This October, DC's Naked Girls Reading celebrates its fifth-year anniversary with Naked Girls ReadingPresents Something Wicked! Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with Cherie Sweetbottom, GiGi Holliday, Alice Darling and returning Special Guest, Lyra Valkyrie, on October

Two masked figures stand over a man lying on the floor.

Rameau's Nephew by Shelly Berc and Andrei Belgrader, adapted from Le Neveu de Rameaby Denis Diderot, will be directed by Richard Henirch at Spooky Action Theatre, running October 20 - November 13, 2016.

Anna Clyne has recently composed Pocket Book LXV, a new piece written for the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth that sets Shakespeare's 65th sonnet to music, which will receive its world premiere at the Folger Shakespeare Library on November 20.

National Theatre Group (NTG) announced today that Angela Rowles will join the company as the theater's new managing director beginning October 31, 2016.

On Saturday October 29, 2016 at 5pm in the Great Hall, The Atlas Performing Arts Center will host a presentation of The Every28Hours Plays.

Hot on the heels of the record-breaking, critically hailed Satchmo at the Waldorf, Mosaic Theater Company of DC's Season Two continues with Kirsten Greenidge's riotous, Obie Award-winning MILK LIKE SUGAR (November 2 - 27, 2016), under the direction of Mosaic Theater's Jennifer L.

It is the age-old question, what is Art? For many, seeking the answer to this question is a life long journey that's founded in the need for truth in one's life.

Hot on the heels of the record-breaking, critically hailed Satchmo at the Waldorf, Mosaic Theater Company of DC's Season Two continues with Kirsten Greenidge's riotous, Obie Award-winning MILK LIKE SUGAR (November 2 - 27, 2016), under the direction of Mosaic Theater's Jennifer L.

Today's subjects are living their theatre lives overseeing the nightly operations for one of the most ambitious productions the area has ever seen.

On Oct.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the third production of its 37th Season, The Second City's Black Side of the Moon, which will run from November 12, 2016 through January 1, 2017.

One of the failings of human beings is the hesitance to visit those who have lost loved ones.

I wish you could see 'Kiss' at Woolly Mammoth Theatre the way I did: Without a lot of advance insight, no prior research and only the vague knowledge it was an adaptation of a foreign play.

Put your hands in the air and wave them up high; it's time to talk about (say it with me!) All the Way Live! The Kennedy Center and B-Fly Entertainment co-commissioned this high-energy and well-crafted show and I can truly say it is a match made in hip-hop heaven.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents Carousel, directed by Artistic Director Molly Smith, with music by Richard Rodgers and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

There are people who eat and there are those who get eaten.

Joan Didion's one-woman drama THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, adapted from her 2005 bestselling memoir of the same title, just opened at Arena Stage.

Joan Didion's one-woman drama THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, adapted from her 2005 bestselling memoir of the same title, just opened at Arena Stage.

The second generation of The Welders -- Washington's only playwrights' collective dedicated solely to developing and producing new work -- has launched its first production.

One of the most talked about new plays in American theater makes its DC premiere this Fall.

Melding all forms of the arts into a cohesive program is never an easy task.