1101 6th St. SW
Washington, DC 20024
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is a theatre in Washington, DC.
Straight from Off-Broadway comes a timely and important play — Eric Bentley's Are You Now or Have Your Ever Been? , directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro. This electrifying docudrama drops you into the tense world of the 1940s House Committee on Un-American Activities...
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...
An interactive theater class for ages 3-5 blending imaginative movement with interactive theater games. Young creators explore silent storytelling as they act out picture books and dream up original adventures. The class boosts body awareness, sparks early literacy, and burns...
Step into the holiday spirit with the joyful return of Step Afrika!'s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show , where the rich tradition of African American stepping blends with the magic of the season. Enjoy laughter, songs, and dance with the award-winning Step Afrika! performers...
Woody Guthrie's classic songs have never sounded better than in this epic folk concert in an abandoned streetcar station. See what our critic had to say.…
A veritable whirlwind of events, contrivances, and literal storms brought Lord Byron, his physician John William Polidori, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Mary’s stepsister, Claire Clairmont to the Villa Diodati mansion at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.…
What would you do if you knew that your newly-found significant other had only a 100 days to live? Hundred Days, a heartfelt musical about living life to the fullest is having its Washington DC regional premiere at The Keegan Theatre though November 15.…
What did our critic think of WHERE DEAD WOMEN GO TO DANCE at Theatre Prometheus?…
Adventure Theatre MTC begins it’s 75th anniversary season in rare form with the World Premiere of Beatrice Likes The Dark. The show is based on the book of the same name by April Genevieve Tucholke and is adapted for the stage by the multi-talented Dani Stoller.…
Bittersweet poignancy permeates underneath and amidst the charismatic and subversive musical that is Maybe Happy Ending ---now playing at the National Theatre. This totally involving musical is suffused with numerous creative, surprising twists and subplots by insightful writers Will Aronson and Hu…
What did our critic think of CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM: THE MUSICAL at Imagination Stage?…
This inventive and stirring play by Hannah Khalil about the power of storytelling to change and save lives is playing at Spooky Action Theater’s residence at Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington DC through October 18.…
Anytime I attend a theatrical presentation there is a chance that I won’t know what to expect going in. When attending a concert there is usually more certainty. You know who the artists are and you at least have an idea of what you might hear.…
It may be the case that any theatrical work dealing with political or social themes gains an added level of immediacy and urgency by virtue of being staged in or near Washington, DC. That's certainly the case with ExPats Theatre's new production 'Coming to America: an Immigrant Cabaret.' Now sho…
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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions and film screenings, January 25-February 5, 2017 to celebrate the iconic playwright, author...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions and film screenings, January 25-February 5, 2017 to celebrate the iconic playwright, author...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions and film screenings, January 25-February 5, 2017 to celebrate the iconic playwright, author...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions and film screenings, January 25-February 5, 2017 to celebrate the iconic playwright, author...
Welcome to the Jernigan Gals’ Quilting Corner. Gathering at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia, four disconnected sisters meet to create a family quilt to honor their recently deceased mother. When their reunion turns into a reading of their mother's will...
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play (and the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama League and the Drama Desk), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a “sunny new play about gloomy people” (New York Times). Siblings Vanya and Sonia live out their days in an endless, bleak...
Four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Edward Gero (Red) returns to Arena Stage as one of America's most brilliant and polarizing figures: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. When a bright, liberal, Harvard Law School graduate embarks on a nerve-wracking clerkship with Justice...
King Hedley has returned, but to reign for how long? With an angry scar down the length of his face and seven years of prison haunting him, King has a chance to lock away his past and achieve an entrepreneurial dream. But Pittsburgh’s Hill District is an unforgiving place, and...
Get your deerstalker cap on— the play’s afoot! From the Tony Award-winning mastermind of mayhem, Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), comes a fast-paced comedy about everyone’s favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery of...
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of an American classic! More than just a poor milkman, Tevye is a humble Jewish father who finds his devotion to God severely tested by his headstrong daughters who want to be their own matchmakers and the increasingly ruthless government forcing...
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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (10/17-12/06) |
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Frida...A Self Portrait Shakespeare Theatre Company Klein Theatre (10/08-11/08) |
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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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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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Les Misérables Olney Theatre Center (11/05-1/31) |
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Peter and the Starcatcher Olney Theatre Center (4/29-6/06) |
