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The Berlin Diaries
The Berlin Diaries
6/4 - 6/29/2025


Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great-grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy in  The Berlin Diaries . How ...

Dory Fantasmagory
Dory Fantasmagory
6/18 - 8/3/2025


Dory is a small kid with a BIG imagination.

Frankenstein
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 ...

 We Are Gathered
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
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 ...


IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE IN THE MORNING is a new play by Erica Smith, directed by Esteban Marmelejo-Suarez. The story follows Alastair and Sparrow, ...

The Sleeping Beauty, an Actors Theatre for Young Audiences Production


This lively musical take on the classic fairy tale puts a spotlight on humor, making it a perfect treat for young audiences. The story features ...

Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh


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.  ...

Lend Me A Soprano
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


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
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
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


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
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
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 ...

SISTAS The Musical!
SISTAS The Musical!
6/8 - 6/29/2025


Coming to the DMV from Off-Broadway in New York, SISTAS The Musical!  The story of African American women is told through popular music, from “God ...


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
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, ...

ARTfactory's Actors Theatre presents Cabaret


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 ...

Don't Let Your Boyfriend Keep You from Your Husband


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 ...

Apropos of Nothing
Apropos of Nothing
7/12 - 8/10/2025


Owen confesses, apropos of nothing, that he’s in love with his best friend’s wife. But it’s just “a passing phase,” he tells him. “Forget I ...

Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan


Every Brilliant Thing  centers on a narrator who, at the age of seven, begins making a list of “every brilliant thing” worth living for after ...

Morning's at Seven
Morning's at Seven
9/19 - 9/21/2025


Morning’s at Seven  is a heartwarming and gently comic look at family, love, and the quiet revelations that come with growing older. Set in a ...

Actor’s Theatre at the ARTfactory presents Little Shop of Horrors


Little Shop of Horrors  is a darkly comic, rock musical that blends horror, humor, and a catchy score in a unique and unforgettable way. The ...

ARTfactory's Actors Theatre Presents The Rocky Horror Show


Get ready to do the  Time Warp  again! Richard O’Brien’s  The Rocky Horror Show  is the wildly entertaining cult-classic musical that has thrilled audiences for ...

Merry Wives
9/9 - 10/5/2025


Merry Wives, adapted by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Taylor Reynolds, brings a contemporary twist to Shakespeare's classic farce. Set in a vibrant South Harlem ...

Factory of Fear, The Horror Hotel


Join us, if you dare for  FACTORY OF FEAR, THE HORROR HOTEL , a chilling haunted experience set in a twisted, reimagined world where history ...


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Latest Washington, DC Reviews


Review: THE BERLIN DIARIES at Theater J


by Mary Lincer - June 10, 2025

Andrea Stolowitz's 90-minute autobiographical play, The Berlin Diaries, challenges her two actors, and Dina Thomas and Lawrence Redmond meet the heck out of all the challenges; they play multiple roles readily and skillfully....

Review: BLACK SABBATH - THE BALLET at Kennedy Center


by Emily Berger - June 07, 2025

This is BRB’s Kennedy Center premiere and a testament to both BRB’s Director Carlos Acosta CBE and the Center for supporting risky endeavors like this that seek to stretch the boundaries of what ballet is and should be. ...

Review: KING JAMES at Round House Theatre


by David Friscic - June 09, 2025

The play King James –now at the Round House Theatre ---is like a pleasurable afternoon shooting hoops with a friend in the summer. This character-driven play by Rajiv Joseph (who gave us the play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo---which was presented at Round House in 2012) is entertaining and refres...

Review: FRANKENSTEIN at Shakespeare Theatre Company


by Rachael F. Goldberg - June 02, 2025

Emily Burns' adaptation of 'Frankenstein,' brings a new perspective, and perfectly captures the Gothic atmosphere, the struggle between creation and responsibility, and what family means – all the elements that keep bringing us back to this story....

Review: ANDY WARHOL IN IRAN at Mosaic Theater


by Mary Lincer - June 02, 2025

Andy Warhol really did go to Iran. In 1976, the Shah's wife, Farah Pahlavi, arranged to sit for Polaroid photos which Warhol would then use as a basecoat for a series of prints, and Andrew Cohen reproduces Warhol's image of her as a permanently present part of his set design. Warhol also could reall...

Review: CIRCUS OF THE SELF at Spooky Action Theater


by Jake Bridges - June 01, 2025

It’s hard to miss Lucy Eden when she bursts onto the intimate playing space at Spooky Action’s basement theatre for its production of CIRCUS OF THE SELF. ...

Review: CHICAGO at Capital One Hall


by Jackson Malmgren - May 31, 2025

Here at Capital One Hall, CHICAGO is painting the town. A spectacle to behold, the performance lights up Tysons in a hazy allure of Fosse high kicks and slow-rolling hips....

Review: New York Circus Project's LIQUID is an Early Summer Highlight !!


by Andrew White - May 31, 2025

“Liquid” is 60 minutes of nonstop punk, erotic, aerial fun—with whips and chains thrown in for good measure. The soundtrack accompanying the acts runs through a blistering mix of hit songs from Velvet Underground to My Chemical Romance, and beyond.  The variety and artistry on display are truly insp...

Review: PORGY AND BESS at Kennedy Center


by David Friscic - May 27, 2025

The pivotal and star-crossed main characters and the Catfish Row community come alive in the highly influential, thought-provoking, and engrossing opera Porgy and Bess. This much discussed opera has its partisans and detractors but there is a distinct need to ponder and consider a work of this quali...

Review: WE ARE GATHERED at Arena Stage


by Laurie Sara Oliver - May 26, 2025

Live theater is one of the oldest and best art forms for exploring inner conflict. When it follows in this tradition, Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s newest work, We Are Gathered, is interesting and effective. ...



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