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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.
The Washington Chorus presents a concert juxtaposing Nkeiru Okoye's When the Caged Bird Sings and Poulenc's Gloria, two major works that treat sacred themes with a blend of reverence and theatricality. The centerpiece is the East Coast premiere of Okoye's dramatic work, a...
Avaaz is a solo performance written and performed by Michael Shayan, structured around a Nowruz (Persian New Year) dinner party. As he portrays his mother Roya, Shayan explores his Iranian heritage, his family's complicated history, and the journey that brought them from Iran to...
Ten Grand is a world premiere play by Princess Grace Award winner Kate Cortesi, directed by Reggie D. White. Set in a Boston-area Goodwill store, employees and customers form quiet alliances, rituals, and rivalries amid donated goods, while one detail-oriented worker navigates a...
ll 37 plays in 97 minutes! Three madcap actors in tights weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays...
The Travelers by Luis Alfaro, directed by José Carrasquillo, takes place in a monastery alongside Highway 99 in Grangeville, California, home to migrant workers. When a stranger stumbles in with a gunshot wound, he is nursed by the brothers of a 936-year-old Carthusian Order...
Written by Joshua Harmon and directed by Studio Associate Artistic Director Jess Chayes in her Studio directorial debut, this sharp-tongued play follows a playwright whose dying grandmother tasks him with writing about the family, requesting he make it as bitter and vitriolic as...
A musical masquerade set in 17th-century England featuring songs of longing, satire, devotion, and melancholy by Dowland, Campion, Purcell, and early Handel. Stage direction is provided by Bill Barclay, Artistic Director of Concert Theatre Works and former Director of Music at...
In Tom Stoppard's Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth is a two-part play that places Shakespeare in two wildly different contexts. In Dogg’s Hamlet, English theater students whose native language is Dogg also rehearse and perform Hamlet, creating a playful and absurd exploration of...
Crowns is a production by ArtsCentric presented at Olney Theatre Center. Generations of Black women in the American South, through good times and bad, at weddings and funerals, on regular Sunday mornings and at festive holiday services, have adorned themselves with a hat for...
Joe Hisaishi's Concerto for Orchestra receives performances by The Philadelphia Orchestra on March 5–7, 2027, as part of an international series following the work's world premiere with the National Symphony Orchestra. Written in five movements and running approximately 45...
6 performances | Feb. 26 & 27 and Mar. 5 & 6 at 8 p.m. | Feb. 28 and Mar. 7 at 2 p.m. **Part of the VLOC 2026-2027 Subscription Series Set in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, the plot centers on a young woman of great wealth who has recently been widowed. Her...
James and The Giant Peach February 5– March 13, 2027 Book by Timothy Allen McDonald Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Based on the book by Roald Dahl Directed by Kurt Boehm When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a...
Massenet's Don Quichotte, based loosely on Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, blends themes of heroism, humility, comedy, and tragedy. Bass-baritone Christian Van Horn makes his WCO debut in the title role, joined by mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as La Belle Dulcinée and...
A one-woman play written by Rupert Holmes and directed by Laley Lippard, starring Michelle Azar, who originated the role of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Over ninety fascinating and often funny minutes, RBG welcomes a friend of the family into her chambers to...
In the spirit of Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground , we’re thrilled to present another dramatic encounter with a titan of 20th-century leadership. It is 1963, and Winston Churchill has just been awarded honorary American citizenship by President John F. Kennedy. In this one-man...
Purpose, written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a family drama about faith, inheritance, and long-held secrets. The play centers on the Jaspers, a Black political dynasty of civil rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen who have long anchored...
Purpose, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning family drama about faith, inheritance, and long-held secrets. The play centers on the Jaspers, a Black political dynasty of civil rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen, whose carefully...
This world-premiere musical, directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer, features book and lyrics by Psalmayene 24 and music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. When 10-year-old Pandora can't resist opening an oversized, mysterious gift from her grandfather Zeus, she accidentally unleashes a rowdy...
“To be or not to be?” Shakespeare’s most celebrated play returns to the playwright’s American home. Helmed by acclaimed Broadway director Kate Whoriskey, winner of the Drama League Award for Clyde’s , this bold and deeply considered production reexamines Shakespeare’s “poem...
Candela is determined to make music her life’s work and pick up where her father’s drumsticks left off. Her mother, however, has different plans for her future. As Candela studies by day and gigs by night in pursuit of her dream, family secrets are unearthed, loyalties are...
Written and originally directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer and Natasha Holmes, with music composed by Tim Guillot, this interactive and highly visual production follows two children who use their imaginations to turn their room inside out at bedtime. While playing dress-up, a glove...
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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 |
