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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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
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, 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...
Written by Alice Childress and directed by Psalmayene 24, this 1969 classic follows Bill, a painter sheltering during the Harlem riots of July 1964, who is introduced to a woman his friends think could model for his series on Black womanhood. As their borough burns, Tommy and...
Doubt: A Parable is John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, directed by Hallie Gordon, who also serves as Olney Theatre's Senior Associate Artistic Director. Set at a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, Sister Aloysius harbors suspicions about the...
This musical centers on real-life hero and baseball legend Roberto Clemente, written by the internationally celebrated musical theatre writing team of Karen Zacarías and Deborah Wicks La Puma. The production highlights a creative partnership for Imagination Stage and serves as...
Developed and directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers (Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice), Just in Time brings to life the story of Bobby Darin, the legendary singer whose short but remarkable journey took him from teen idol to global sensation, inspiring generations of performers...
Back by popular demand — and louder, sharper, and more urgent than ever — Green Day’s AMERICAN IDIOT returns after its sold-out 2016 run to speak directly to a new generation. This electrifying two-time Tony Award-winning musical channels the raw energy of punk rock into a story...
On December 4, 1956, one man brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley to play together for the first and only time. His name was Sam Phillips... The place was Sun Records... That night they made Rock ‘n’ Roll history – history you get to relive in...
Written by James Graham, winner of the 2026 Olivier Award for Best New Play, and directed by David Muse in his final production as Studio's Artistic Director, this play follows Jacob, whose impulsive punch during a pub fight has fatal consequences. When Jacob returns from...
Imagination Stage, a leading theatre dedicated to youth development through the arts, is set to launch a national Educational Theatre Program in partnership with Kaiser Permanente. Starting October 2025, the program will deliver live theatre and workshops focusing on children's...
From the comfort of your own home, re-experience the magic of Traveling Players' Commedia Christmas Car ol (2024)! About the Production: Commedia Christmas Carol is Traveling Players' adaptation of Dickens' classic novel. What began in 2021 as a 15-minute play with just five...
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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 |
