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...
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...
What did our critic think of HANDLE WITH CARE at Studio Theatre?…
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.…
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Exclusive Pre-Broadway Engagement September 6–October 20, 2013 in the Kreeger Theater In a simple Brooklyn brownstone, 79-year-old Alexandra lives a solitary existence with her fleeting memories and enough explosives to take down most of the block. At an impasse with her family...
With a voice like whiskey and a laugh like pure joy, Janis Joplin took the music scene by storm. Simultaneously rough and vulnerable, Joplin was dubbed the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll, proving music wasn’t just a man’s world anymore. Packed with classic songs (“Piece of My Heart,”...
April 25–June 8, 2014 in the Fichandler Stage Staged by Randy Johnson, the visionary behind One Night with Janis Joplin, Smokey Joe’s Café—The Songs of Leiber and Stoller transports us to the Golden Age of Rock, Rhythm and Blues showcasing nearly 40 popular hits from Rock ‘n’...
After a six-year absence, Brooke Wyeth returns to her Reaganite parents’ Palm Springs enclave for the holidays. But the warm desert air turns chilly when news of her upcoming memoir threatens to revive the most painful chapter of the family’s history. Perception and reality...
Hailed as “daring, rousing and provocative” by Entertainment Weekly, The Mountaintop is Katori Hall’s bold reimagining of the last night of the historic life of Dr. Martin Luther King. Exhausted from delivering a significant speech, Dr. King rests in his room at the Lorraine...
Writer-director Tazewell Thompson (dir. M. Butterfly, Yellowman) stitches together an insider's look at the unlikely friendship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her talented seamstress, the successful freed slave Elizabeth Keckly. As one woman’s skilled hands work...
“THE SOUL WANDERS IN THE DARK, UNTIL IT FINDS LOVE. AND SO, WHEREVER OUR LOVE GOES, THERE WE FIND OUR SOUL.” Back in D.C. for the first time since her smash hit productions of The Arabian Nights and Candide, and ten years after this exquisite production stormed Broadway and...
Good People By David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Jackie Maxwell In the Kreeger Theater February 1 – March 10, 2013 Enter South Boston’s Lower End, where minimum wage is the maximum wage and hard work and sacrifice don’t ensure success. Facing eviction, single mother and mouthy...
Immerse yourself in the “unpredictable and imaginative” (American Theatre) world of acclaimed theater troupe Double Edge Theatre. Inspired by the multi-layered paintings of Marc Chagall, The Grand Parade is an original world premiere event that fuses physically daring spectacle...
Just as Molly Smith’s record-breaking production of Oklahoma! was enthralling audiences at Arena Stage, her fresh reinterpretation of My Fair Lady set the all-time box office record at the prestigious Shaw Festival in Canada. Now Smith is reassembling her creative team to bring...
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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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"The Addams Family" The Alden Theatre (10/09-10/18) |
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Rockville Little Theatre presents "Fences" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (4/30-5/09) |
