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Mosaic bills Leila Buck's solo show as "a probing portrait of a cosmopolitan Lebanese matriarch as remembered by her Lebanese-American granddaughter who attempts to piece together her beloved Teta's story.

LOOKING FOR ROBERTO CLEMENTE is back again for a second production at Bethesda's Imagination Stage, one of premiere locations for theatre for young audiences in the DMV.

Concluding its highly successful 2015/16 season, Folger Theatre stages the world premiere of District Merchants, a variation of Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice.

Six licensed productions of the musical, LIZZIE, are slated for 2016-17.

The public is invited to a free talk called 'The Science of Interstellar' with Dr.

The Capital City Showcase is the variety show that features the DMV's best comedians, musicians, and performing artists.

The world premiere of I AM ANNE HUTCHINSON / I AM HARVEY MILK came to the Strathmore featuring Kristin Chenoweth and Andrew Lippa.

I am enormously thrilled that Strathmore took this one on.

Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? has long been considered an American masterpiece, with some of the best dialogue in the history of drama.

In all my years of watching (and sometimes reviewing) a variety of artistic presentations at the Kennedy Center, I can hardly think of any other event that so perfectly offers a nicely packaged look at what the performing art center is all about.

It was 100 years ago this year when Hugo Ball chose a nonsense word to label the anti-art movement of World War I - dada.

Keegan Theatre continues its spring season with the opening of Wendy Wasserstein's AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER on May 7, 2016.

The wonderfully inventive and wildly hilarious Reduced Shakespeare Company® (RSC) returns to Folger Theatre for the eagerly anticipated world premiere of William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged).

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Artistic Director Molly Smith announces Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar as Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater's next resident playwright as part of the American Voices New Play Institute, effective July 2016 through June 2017.

The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work-has added two members to their Board of Directors.

To close their 49th season, Reston Community Players presents the classic drama, OUR TOWN, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, by Thornton Wilder.

Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC), recipient of the Ann Flagg Multicultural Award, brings to the stage the powerful song of a nightingale in THE EMPEROR'S NIGHTINGALE, a world premiere play directed by Natsu Onoda Power.

The tour of 'Remarkably Normal' by Jessi Blue Gormezano, Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign' directed by Marie Byrd Sproul includes performances in eight cities, including some of the states with the most restrictive laws or active fights to place greater restrictions on access to abortion ca

Producing Artistic Director Carolyn Griffin is pleased to announce that MetroStage will present the award-winning play BLACK PEARL SINGS! by Frank Higgins April 21-May 29, 2016.

Due to the Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, Shakespeare Theatre Company's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW will celebrate Opening Night and Press Night on Tuesday, May 24.

Theatre Prometheus's haunting, intimate production of one of Shakespeare's enduring classics -- [all lady] Macbeth -- will run at the beautiful Anacostia Arts Center now through May 1st.

In 2011, while he was still in high school, Houston playwright Alric Davis stumbled upon the Gary Plauche case.

Imagination Stage's Musical Theatre Conservatory will perform You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a musical based on the classic "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles Schulz, May 20-22, 2016 in the Christopher and Dana Reeve Theatre.

Two world-renowned television programs produced for PBS, A CAPITOL FOURTH and the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAYCONCERT won Silver and Bronze World Medals respectively at this year's New York Festivals® International TV & Film Awards.