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Staged within the historic stone cellar of Aldie Mill Historic Park, this site-specific production places audiences just feet away from Stephen King's classic thriller.
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FeaturedComing to America: An Immigrant Cabaret
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...
Jack Absolute Flies Again
Jack Absolute Flies Again by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris, directed by Artistic Director Alex Levy, is presented in co-production with Prologue Theatre. Set in 1940s Britain, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home after an aerial dogfight to win the heart of his old flame...
Kimberly Akimbo
Kimberly Akimbo is the 2023 Tony Award-winning musical with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, directed by Ethan Heard. Set on a Saturday night at a skating rink in Bergen County, NJ, the story follows 16-year-old Kimberly Levaco, who has a rare...
TheaterWorksUSA's Rosie Revere, Ada Twist, and Iggy Peck: The Questioneers
Based on the books by Andrea Beaty, with book by Lauren Gunderson, music by Bree Lowdermilk, and lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, this production follows three inquisitive STEM heroes in Ms. Greer's classroom. Rosie Revere has big dreams, Iggy Peck has a relentless passion for...
American Girls
American Girls is the world premiere of a play written by Emily Feldman, commissioned by Theater J. This coming-of-age story follows two friends navigating the cultural touchstones of Millennial girlhood as their decades-long friendship evolves. Feldman's play asks a timeless...
Liberation
Written by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White, this 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner is a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Geffen Playhouse. Set in 1970 Ohio, the play follows journalist Lizzie as she joins a women's consciousness-raising group, while...
Metastasio's La Clemenza di Tito
GRAMMY Award-winning American tenor Nicholas Phan brings Metastasio's great hero to life in arias by Mozart and composers who shaped him, including Mysliveček, Gluck, Hasse, Haydn, and Marianna Martines. The production explores themes of betrayal and forgiveness among the...
Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter returns to National Chamber Ensemble to narrate Vivaldi's Four Seasons in a multimedia presentation combining music, storytelling, and humor. This spectacular season finale caps NCE's 20th Anniversary Season.
Metastasio's La Clemenza di Tito
GRAMMY Award-winning American tenor Nicholas Phan brings Metastasio's great hero to life in arias by Mozart and composers who shaped him, including Mysliveček, Gluck, Hasse, Haydn, and Marianna Martines. The production explores themes of betrayal and forgiveness among the...
Requiem and Renewal
The Washington Chorus partners with the National Philharmonic to present a program featuring the East Coast premiere of Jocelyn Hagen's large-scale symphonic work What the Soul Already Knows alongside Mozart's Requiem. What the Soul Already Knows was jointly commissioned by...
Jersey Boys
The show explores how four blue-collar guys — Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi — grew to become the singing sensation The Four Seasons.
Rockville Little Theatre presents "Fences"
6 performances | Apr. 30 and May 1, 7 & 8 at 8 p.m. | May 2 & 9 at 2 p.m. By August Wilson Directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell Set in the 1950s, Fences evokes the early rumblings of the civil rights movement. The central character is Troy Maxson, a middle-aged resident of...
Romeo & Juliet
Created by Artistic Director Edwaard Liang to music by Sergei Prokofiev, this production of Romeo & Juliet combines classical storytelling with a contemporary choreographic approach. The ballet features detailed characterizations, expansive ensemble scenes, and realistically...
Made in Washington: 50th Season Finale
Closing The Washington Ballet's 50th Anniversary Season, this finale celebrates the company's history of creating and championing original work in the nation's capital. The program brings together three ballets developed for the company: Blue Until June choreographed by Trey...
BAD KREYÒL
Determined to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish, first-generation Haitian American Simone returns to the island eager to reunite with her entrepreneur cousin, the Haitian-born and raised Gigi, and reconnect with her roots. When misconceptions and misunderstandings lead to...
Verdi's Requiem
The Washington Chorus joins the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a theatrical staged performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, conducted by BSO Artistic Director Jonathon Heyward. Performances take place at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore and Music Center at...
Bulrusher
Bulrusher by Eisa Davis, directed by Associate Artistic Director Deidra LaWan Starnes, follows an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance who was found floating in a basket on the river as an infant. She navigates a world of eccentric characters including a taciturn schoolteacher, a...
Operation Mincemeat
The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Coward meets Noel Fielding, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the...
Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents "Pirates of Penzance"
6 performances | June 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 8 p.m. | June 13 & 20 at 2 p.m. **Part of VLOC's 2026-2027 Subscription Series Gilbert & Sullivan's delightfully chaotic comic opera brimming with lovesick pirates, bumbling officers of the law, wild escapades, and wonderfully absurd...
Love I Awethu Further
Love I Awethu Further is a world premiere poetic adaptation of Julius Caesar written by Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner a.k. payne and directed by Tamilla Woodard, produced in association with Jamila Ponton Bragg. Set on a plantation that Mistress Catherine insists is a...
The Comedy of Errors
Two pairs of identical twins—separated at birth—spend the day travelling through the same city and only just missing each other. An uproarious farce filled with mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and pratfalls, this comedy shows how all roads lead to home. Folger...
Becoming Eve
Becoming Eve, adapted by Emil Weinstein from Abby Chava Stein's memoir, tells the story of Stein's journey growing up in a prominent Hasidic rabbinical dynasty and her decision to live openly as a transgender woman. As three rabbis debate how to reconcile tradition with...
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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Misery Aldie Mill Historic Park (8/20-8/30) |
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Stonewall's Bust The Writers Center (10/09-10/25) |
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The Jersey Four A Tribute to Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons, featuring original member Gerry Polci F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/13-9/13) |
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Hamlet Folger Shakespeare Library (3/02-4/11) |
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Measure for Measure Folger Shakespeare Library (9/22-11/01) |
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Doja Cat at Capital One Arena Capital One Arena (11/11-12/11) |
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Rockville Little Theatre presents "Lettice & Lovage" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (1/29-2/07) |
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Body Language The Allan Lefcowitz Theater at The Writer's Center (9/25-9/27) PHOTOS |
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Little Shop of Horrors 40th Anniversary Tour with Ellen Greene (the Original Audrey) Lincoln Theatre (9/25-9/25) |