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A dark comedy about grief, friendship, and what happens when one tragedy is eclipsed by another. Two best friends, Ava and Parker, struggle to process surviving a school shooting that becomes overshadowed by a far deadlier school shooting at a neighboring school on the same day...
When the power goes out, what stories survive? In Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, A Post‑Electric Play, a band of survivors huddles around a fire and retells The Simpsons episode, “Cape Feare.” As the years pass, commercial jingles become parables, pop songs turn into hymns and TV...
How does art survive when despots rule? Powerhouse Golden Globe-winning actor Brian Cox (HBO’s Succession) is directed by the legendary Trevor Nunn (Les Misérables, Cats) in The Score, which pits creativity against the whims of power. In spring 1747, Johann Sebastian Bach (Cox)...
This musical cabaret follows immigrants from Germany, India, Peru, and Senegal as they navigate the "obstacle race" of integration—confronting the systemic complexities and cultural contradictions of their new home. Through song and storytelling, and plenty of humor, wit, and...
Lies! Mayhem! And a possible ghost! Best Medicine Rep Theater Company presents a farce by Artistic Director John Morogiello. When a man lies about breaking a priceless statue in the private museum owned by his fiancee's mother, it sets off an ever escalating series of lies...
This electrifying musical by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith travels back to the famous rainy summer of 1816 on Lake Geneva. While a storm rages outside, host Lord Byron challenges his famous literary guests to produce the ultimate tale of terror before the night ends. The...
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they go on the run disguised as women in an all-girl band. Based on the classic film.
Woody Sez celebrates the extraordinary life and lasting legacy of Woody Guthrie, weaving his vibrant true story with timeless classics including Bound For Glory, Pastures of Plenty, Vigilante Man, The Ballad of Tom Joad, Deportees, and This Land Is Your Land. Helen Hayes...
Jaemi Theatre Company introduces itself to the public with an evening bringing together ten artists across poetry, clown, spoken word, song, monologue, and performance art. The lineup features Regie Cabico, Rohan Narayanan, Adri Tavares, Bri Houtman, Kira Judish, Tudor Rico...
A bilingual play for young audiences by Mexican playwright Antonio Zúñiga, directed by Venezuelan Mauricio Pita. An old man, a young man, and a child revisit the Mexican Revolution, resurrecting Pancho Villa through memory, corridos, and myth. As history blurs with folklore, a...
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi and directed by Sivan Battat, this play follows Salme and her four best friends as they prepare for her wedding in 1978 Karaj, on the eve of the Iranian Revolution. Over the next decade, everything changes for these tightknit...
A world premiere play by Helen Hayes Award winner Dani Stoller, based on the acclaimed children's book by April Genevieve Tucholke, directed by Patrick Flynn. The show follows Beatrice, a child for whom the daytime world feels overwhelming, but whose imagination comes alive in...
Mainstage Play - Dinner & Show Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night...
The Dracula Experience returns to George C. Marshall’s Dodona Manor... bigger, bloodier, and more immersive than ever before! Inspired by Bram Stoker’s legendary gothic novel, Dracula’s Midnight Masquerade is a site-specific, free-roaming theatrical experience staged throughout...
Go-Go 50 opens The Washington Ballet's 50th Anniversary Season, celebrating both 50 years of the company and 50 years of Go-Go music. The mixed repertory program combines works by choreographers connected to TWB's history, including Blue Until June choreographed by Trey McIntyre...
National Chamber Ensemble's annual holiday concert features the winners of the Nancy Peery Marriott Young Artist Competition alongside talented young musicians from the community. The concert is part of NCE's 20th Anniversary Season celebrating chamber music in Arlington.
David Catlin's theatrical adaptation brings Mary Shelley into the heart of her legendary tale, as she conjures a world in which Victor Frankenstein pursues the impossible and brings life to a creature assembled from the dead. Creator and creation soon become locked in a...
Shakespeare’s rarely staged comedy, where human nature collides with the letter of the law, comes to life under the direction of Psalmayene 24, Helen Hayes Award winner for Folger Theatre’s production of Metamorphoses . Newly enforced regulations penalize the everyday citizens...
Stephen Sondheim's masterwork about friendship, ambition and the compromises that shape a life, directed and choreographed by Matthew Gardiner. Told in reverse chronological order, the musical follows three longtime friends as they navigate idealism, loyalty and disappointment...
Olney audiences were blown away in 2025, when we invited Synetic Theater to perform their award-winning, wordless version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Now they’re back, but this time they’re tackling a story with classic American roots in the intimate confines of...
Before the paintings, poems, and fame, Bella and Marc Chagall were two young dreamers whose love transformed the world around them. Through music, movement, and theatrical magic, their journey unfolds from a small Jewish town to a vivid landscape of imagination, devotion, and...
The Fruits of Our Labor is a world-premiere production by Step Afrika!, directed by Jakari Sherman, with Conrad R. Kelly II and Vusi Mdoyi. Created in commemoration of America's 250th anniversary, the piece blends stepping, percussion, poetry, and striking visual imagery to...
In commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary, Step Afrika! premieres The Fruits of Our Labor —a powerful new production exploring rhythm, resilience, and the unfinished story of the American experience. Blending stepping, percussion, and striking visual imagery, this visceral...
The Fruits of Our Labor is a world premiere production from Step Afrika!, commemorating America's 250th anniversary. Directed by Jakari Sherman, with Conrad R. Kelly II and Vusi Mdoyi, the work blends stepping, percussion, poetry, and song into a rhythmic exploration of...
Kevin Fredericks, known as KevOnStage, channels personal loss into a comedy experience rooted in faith, family, and relatability. The show follows a sold-out four-show run at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and is promoted by Live Nation.
Brass Jar Productions presents the latest incarnation of the underground phenomenon Drunk Shakespeare, adapted from Bram Stoker's original story. Each performance features one actor downing five shots of liquor before leading the cast through a retelling of the vampire classic...
Kevin Fredericks, known as KevOnStage, channels personal loss into a comedy experience rooted in faith, family, and relatability. The show follows a sold-out four-show run at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and is promoted by Live Nation.
National Chamber Ensemble opens its 20th Anniversary Season with a program of Romantic-era chamber music by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Brahms. Special guest Diana Stelzer, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, will give opening remarks. The concert celebrates 20 years of...
“A visually lush , emotionally rich story.” – Chicago Sun-Times Severo “ brilliantly performs as Frida .” – BroadwayWorld “The most engrossing, finely-produced, well-acted theatre.” – On The Aisle “Severo is marvelous .” – CITY Magazine There is an arttobeing alone. On the eve...
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Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (10/09-10/18) |
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The Score Shakespeare Theatre Company (9/11-10/25) |
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The Second-Best School Shooting NextStop Theatre (9/17-10/11) |
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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Monsters of the Villa Diodati Creative Cauldron (10/08-11/01) |
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Some Like It Hot Bernard Family Theatre, Olney Theatre Center (9/18-11/08) |
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Stonewall's Bust The Writers Center (10/09-10/25) |
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Step Afrika!'s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (12/04-12/23) |
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"The Addams Family" The Alden Theatre (10/09-10/18) |
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Dracula's Midnight Masquerade George C. Marshall's Dodona Manor (10/16-11/01) PHOTOS VIDEOS |
