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Imagination Stage's Speak Out On Stage Ensemble will perform Collide-O-Scope, a musical conceived by members of the Speak Out On Stage (SOOS) Ensemble, June 3-5, 2016 in the Christopher and Dana Reeve Theatre.

In 2006, then Washington National Opera Artistic Director Placido Domingo announced that the Opera would take on their first complete cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

What a thrill it was to hear George Gershwin's opera with the BSO under Maestra Marin Alsop.

Two shows in Repertory: DEATH OF A SALESMAN and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

The North American tour of the new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ will play the National Theatre for two weeks only, tonight, May 3, through May 15, 2016.

The play The JOURNEY TO THE WEST, adapted by Tony-Award winning Mary Zimmerman, is receiving its Washington, DC area premiere.

Man of the District is excited to announce the featured performer, judges and contestants that will appear at the May 16 event.

Signature Theatre has announced the cast of La Cage aux Folles directed and choreographed by Signature Associate Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner.

A little bit of this and that, a little bit zany and off-kilter, there was something for everyone to enjoy.

Arena Stage presents the final production of its 2015/16 season, Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama DISGRACED.

Akhtar's script is so beautifully complex yet simple, and asks some hard questions.

JOURNEY TO THE WEST is visually stunning and highly inventive production that features an expert ensemble of actors bringing both humor and humanity to an epic story.

History Matters/Back To The Future, committed to promoting the study and production of women's plays of the past, has announced the winner of the second annual Judith Barlow Prize.

Imagination Stage's Acting Conservatory will perform LORD OF THE FLIES, an adaptation of the book by William Golding, April 29-May 1, 2016 in the Christopher and Dana Reeve Theatre.

The McLean Community Players (MCP) present Paul Slade Smith's Unnecessary Farce, opening April 29, 2016, in McLean's Alden Theatre.

It would be quite the coup to talk to the guys who found the long lost first play of a 17-year-old Will Shakespeare.

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?Theater J announces its partnership with the Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism on Pennsylvania Avenue, to present Pulitzer Prize-Winning photojournalist Paul Watson in conversation with Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down.

Mosaic Theater Company of DC's Inaugural Season arrives at a climactic finale with the lively and comedic Off-Broadway hit, When January Feels Like Summer, written by Cori Thomas and directed by Mosaic Theater Managing Director & Producer Serge Seiden (Bad Jews, Apple Family Plays).

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces its final production of Season 36, the D.

The National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH by Karen Zacarias as its 57th Rolling World Premiere.

Playwright Dominque Morisseau demonstrates why she has such a bright future.

Lest you might think careers are well-planned, organized endeavors, take a lesson from director Timothy Douglas, who is gracing Washington in a return visit to Arena Stage (last season's King Hedley II was his Arena Stage debut) with his work with Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, a play about being Muslim o

There is but poor substitute for a trio of fools on a romp to entertain; nay, but it is futility at its finest to resist the siren call of slapstick's song.