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Kimberly Akimbo
5/20 - 6/1/2025
WINNER BEST MUSICAL THE MOST TONY AWARD-WINNING SHOW OF THE SEASON A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY ...
Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS
2/6 - 6/1/2025
Season 18 from Constellation Theatre Company brings you A24 screenwriter Nick Payne's Constellations and Broadway favorite Head Over Heels , a musical featuring music from iconic ...
Footloose
5/8 - 6/8/2025
Get ready to cut loose and kick off your Sunday shoes with the electrifying stage adaptation of Footloose ! This high-energy production brings the iconic ...
Into the Sun
6/6 - 6/7/2025
A powerful new musical by Dr, Michael Gubser featuring an extraordinary cast and crew.
New Musical
WORLD PREMIERE: LIQUID
5/29 - 6/7/2025
From the creators of last year’s critically acclaimed HAMLET , New York Circus Project returns to Washington, DC with the world premiere of LIQUID . ...
An exceptional gathering of choruses, beginning May 24 and 25 with seven concerts in the nation’s capital, will be part of WorldPride , which organizers ...
JUXTAPOSE | A Theatrical Shadow Box
5/15 - 5/25/2025
In JUXTAPOSE , the lives of eccentrics co-existing in a tenement building are interrupted and illuminated by a human shooting star who arrives through their ...
The Fight for the FighterVerse Burns Bright in an All-New, Epic Night of Flying V Fights this May 31! Live Twice the Action with the ...
Chicago
5/30 - 6/1/2025
CHICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all ...
Head Over Heels
5/1 - 6/1/2025
This joyous and jaunty jukebox musical features the music of iconic 80’s rock band The Go-Go's. Inspired by the epic story of Arcadia, Head Over ...
Kimberly Akimbo
5/20 - 6/1/2025
Kim is a bright and funny Jersey teen, who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging condition may be the least ...
Footloose
6/5 - 6/7/2025
Theatre 202 is bringing the heat this season with a bold, high-octane limited run of Footloose, packed with energy and heart. Featuring talent with credits ...
We Are Gathered
5/16 - 6/15/2025
A new play about queer love and forest magic from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonlight Wilson and Free met in a dark park searching for fun not ...
We Are Gathered
5/16 - 6/15/2025
A new play about queer love and forest magic from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonlight Wilson and Free met in a dark park searching for fun not ...
Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
6/6 - 6/21/2025
Another DC Area Premiere! Co-artistic director Lizzi Albert will direct Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh , by Joel Gross, which will run June 6-21, 2025. ...
Ain't Too Proud
6/17 - 6/22/2025
It was a sound that would change music history. Ain't Too Proud is the electrifying new musical that tells the story of The Temptations from ...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
4/15 - 6/22/2025
Lend Me A Soprano
6/13 - 6/22/2025
Directed by Vince Worthington This farce follows Lucille Wylie, the manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, as she prepares to welcome world-famous soprano Elena ...
The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful
5/18 - 6/22/2025
The Importance of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Joseph W. Ritsch A laugh-out-loud farce Gothic melodrama gets a high-camp celebration ...
To Kill a Mockingbird
5/7 - 6/22/2025
Experience the timeless story of justice, morality, and courage as Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents To Kill a Mockingbird on stage from May ...
Twelfth Night
5/13 - 6/22/2025
Viola washes up on the shore after losing her twin brother in a shipwreck. In disguise as her twin brother, she lands in the world ...
Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents "The Bravado: A More Humane Mikado" 3 performances | June 20 & 21 at 8 p.m. | June 22 at ...
Into the Woods
5/30 - 6/28/2025
Book by James Lapine Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for ...
Andy Warhol in Tehran
5/29 - 6/29/2025
In 1976, pop artist Andy Warhol travels to Tehran to paint a portrait of the Shah of Iran’s wife. Amidst taking in the Crown Jewels ...
Frankenstein
5/27 - 6/29/2025
Emily Burns (adaptor of STC’s Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing ), reimagines Mary Shelley ’s gothic science fiction masterpiece as a chilling exploration of ...
The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical
6/3 - 7/13/2025
Anarchy. Ambition. Peacocks. Who was Hunter S. Thompson? He changed journalism. He defined counterculture. Equal parts philosopher, clown and genius, he was armed and dangerous ...
A Wrinkle in Time
6/12 - 7/20/2025
A world-premiere musical of the classic young adult novel Meg Murry's father was experimenting with time travel and the fifth dimension when he mysteriously disappeared. Now, Meg, ...
Ain't Too Proud (Non-Equity)
7/18 - 7/20/2025
AIN'T TOO PROUD is the electrifying new musical that follows The Temptations' extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall ...
ARTfactory's Actors Theatre presents Cabaret
7/11 - 7/27/2025
Cabaret is a bold, evocative musical that takes audiences into the heart of 1930s Berlin, at the height of the Weimar Republic. The story unfolds ...
This fun play follows the story of Mel, a young woman whose been waiting years for her boyfriend to pop the question. Its not until ...
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Latest Washington, DC Reviews
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at National Theatre
by Elliot Lanes - May 22, 2025
DC theatre audiences are blessed because besides there being a huge wealth of local theatres, there are also places like the historic National Theatre that bring us national tours direct from Broadway. It’s current attraction is one of the best tours I’ve seen in a very long time....
Review: FOOTLOOSE at NextStop Theatre Company
by Rachael F. Goldberg - May 21, 2025
NextStop’s production of 'Footloose' felt haphazard and emotionless, and what should have been a fun evening of theater and nostalgia was instead entirely lackluster....
Review: TWELFTH NIGHT at Folger Shakespeare Theater
by Roger Catlin - May 20, 2025
When it came to gender fluid plays, William Shakespeare was way ahead of the curve even 400 years ago. At the time, young males routinely played the female roles anyway. He had already made cross-dressing hidden identity a part of “The Merchant of Venice” and would do so again in “As You Like It.” ...
Review: AKIRA KUROSAWA EXPLAINS HIS MOVIES AND YOGURT (WITH LIVE AND ACTIVE CULTURES!) at Woolly Mammoth
by Mary Lincer - May 15, 2025
Late in Julia Izumi's play, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!), one of the characters asks, 'Is that what the whole yogurt thing is about because I'm not getting it?' It's one of several goofball/meta moments in this very theatrical play and marks the spot...
Review: FALSETTOS at Keegan Theatre
by Pamela Roberts - May 15, 2025
“Falsettos” at Keegan Theatre bursts with humor and heart as the musical’s talented cast explores the hope and chaos, and frustrations and forgiveness that are woven through the bonds of family and friendship....
Review: THE STORY OF A ROSE: A MUSICAL REVERIE ON THE GREAT WAR at NVCC'S Schlesinger Center
by Elliot Lanes - May 13, 2025
If you were to ask a modern day student what they know about WW1, they probably would give you a short answer seeing as it is rarely taught nowadays.
Powerhouse Broadway performer Melissa Errico wants to change that and has done so brilliantly with her own creation entitled The Story of A Rose: A M...
Review: CONSTELLATION THEATRE COMPANY'S HEAD OVER HEELS at Source Theatre
by Hannah R. Wing - May 11, 2025
Constellation Theatre Company’s production of Head Over Heels, directed by Allison Arkell Stockman with musical direction by Walter “Bobby” McCoy, is a delightful musical filled with superb acting and energetic musical numbers. ...
Review: WOMAN ON FIRE at Creative Cauldron
by Laurie Sara Oliver - May 09, 2025
In WOMAN ON FIRE, currently performing at the Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, Virginia, playwright Marisela Treviño Orta tells a haunting story that blends elements of Greek tragedy with a contemporary setting to delve into themes of border politics, cultural identity, and the enduring power of e...
Review: HAMLET at Avant Bard Theatre
by Audrey Cahak - May 12, 2025
The Avant Bard Theatre’s niche lies in reinventing the classics, and to close out its 35th season, Avant Bard Theatre is taking on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This rendition, directed by artistic associate Kathleen Akerley, uses an abridged original script (with no sign of the Danes) while bending the ton...
Review: MAROONED! A SPACE COMEDY at The Kennedy Center
by Laurie Sara Oliver - May 09, 2025
MAROONED! A SPACE COMEDY, played at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater over the weekend. In its simplicity, the performance shows the universality of human emotions and experience which transcend age, background, and even language....
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