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theatreWashington has announced that the 2014 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company will be presented to Pointless Theatre, an ensemble of young artists who work collaboratively to write, design, promote, and produce theatrical works that pair live performers with imaginative p

Olney Theatre Center, a Maryland destination for professional theater performance and education, will present the National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere of I And You by playwright Lauren Gunderson today, February 26 - March 23, 2014 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab.

The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new plays-has been granted $10,000 in general support by Venturous Theater Fund.

Given its long history of producing the plays of George Bernard Shaw, it was inevitable that the Washington Stage Guild would someday attempt to mount Shaw's monumental, impossible play cycle, Back to Methuselah.

Much like the ocean waters in which the show's title character resides, Washington National Opera's production of Moby-Dick is a bit choppy at times but is nevertheless an imaginative and soaring production.

Ford's Theatre Society 2013-2014 season continues with the quirky Tony-winning musical comedy 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,' directed by Peter Flynn, March 14 through May 17, 2014, at Ford's Theatre (511 Tenth Street NW, Washington, D.

The Washington Stage Guild continues its Season of Dreams with the start of a three-year dramatic extravaganza that will culminate in the company's 30th anniversary! BACK TO METHUSELAH, a cycle of plays by George Bernard Shawthat takes us from Adam and Eve meeting the Serpent in the Garden of Eden t

KAT gives the show a nice go, but it ultimately does not prove memorable.

Do not miss these theatrical icons who make an evening to remember.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company is proud to present Buyer & Cellar as a part of its STC Presentation Series.

Goethe-Institut will present a filmed performance and discussion of The Secret Race: A Play About the NSA tonight, February 20 at 6:30pm.

The Washington Stage Guild continues its Season of Dreams with the start of a three-year dramatic extravaganza that will culminate in the company's 30th anniversary! BACK TO METHUSELAH, a cycle of plays by George Bernard Shaw that takes us from Adam and Eve meeting the Serpent in the Garden of Eden

Forum Theatre's 10th Anniversary Season continues with the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Pluto by Steve Yockey and directed by Michael Dove, today, February 20 - March 16, 2014.

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'American Idiot,' in this touring production, is a definitive crowd pleaser and you can't ask for much more than that.

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The national tour of Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT, the explosive Broadway hit, makes its Washington premiere tonight, February 18, and continues through the 23rd at National Theatre as part of the Broadway at the National subscription series.

Valentine's Day didn't go exactly as you planned? Who needs chocolate, flowers or mortals when you can have tall, dark and sexy vampire stories? DC's official Naked Girls return to bring a new twist to the monotony of Valentine's Day with Love Bites, a Vampire Valentine.

This is a must-see of the DC theatre season!

'The Wedding Dress' provides audiences with a sexy, thought-provoking roller coaster through reality, memory, and descending dementia.

With temperatures dropping and a winter storm descending upon our nation's capital, audiences only had to look at the gaze in Chelsea Packard's eyes for warmth as she joined her husband Geoff in performing Our Funny Valentine in Signature's Ark Theatre.

Crash of Rhinos, the endangered little theater company, announced today that it would celebrate Commedia dell'Arte Day this year with a staged reading of a new comedy written by Mario Baldessari and Tyler Herman - to be held at 7:30 pm on Commedia dell'Arte Day Eve, Monday, February 24.

By a unanimous decision of the Board of Directors of Molotov Theatre Group, the positions of Co-Artistic Directors of DC's only Grand Guignol-based theatre company have been eliminated.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with theatre! Join South County High School senior thespians this weekend, February 14 and 15 as they present Dead Man's Cell Phone, an imaginative new comedy by MacArthur 'Genius' Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl.

Faction of Fools Theatre Company and NextStop Theatre Company are proud to announce their upcoming co-production of PINOCCHIO!, a new adaptation of Carlo Collodi's beloved tale about a marionette's journey to become a real boy, running March 8-30, 2014 at the Industrial Strength Theatre in Herndon.