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The year is 1940-something, and Chicago’s night scene is sizzling. Enter Joey Evans. A slick-talking, velvet-voiced songster with dreams bigger than the bandstand. But in...
Tony Award-winning actor and master clown Bill Irwin (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sesame Street) has spent a lifetime captivated by Samuel Beckett. With little more than a funny...
Based on the real-life Scopes “Monkey” Trial, this electrifying courtroom drama pits two towering legal minds against each other in a small-town battle over science,...
Bad Medicine presents Wish World: a topsy-turvy, ensemble sketch comedy about wishes coming true and going wrong. Laugh hard, but beware what you wish for.
Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone celebrates the 25th anniversary of Matters of the Heart in a one-night-only concert exploring love’s crimes, passions, and mysteries.
“You thought you was gonna sing a song about racism and change the world” – Bones Tambo and Bones find themselves in a fix: they’re trapped in...
Join us for a workshop presentation of Zachary Leo Harris's new contemporary musical about the season of becoming: when you are not who you were,...
Prince John must find a princess to marry so that he can claim the throne. A masked ball could be the solution. But his stepmother–the...
Between Riverside and CrazyWritten by Stephen Adly Guirgis Directed by José Carrasquillo February 19 - March 8, 2026Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Ex-cop...
Joriah Kwamé became a viral TikTok star with his song “Little Miss Perfect,” which garnered millions of views and launched this new musical with Broadway aspirations....
Midiculous Middle School. A laughably lopsided social “order” in which students are designated either Queen Bee, Jock, Geek, or Goth – and woe betide any...
Bill Irwin will present his one-man show, On Beckett, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, offering an insightful and humorous tribute to the works of Samuel...
Compass Rose Theater and Anne Arundel Community College join forces to present the award-winning musical Rent from February 6 to March 8, 2026. This collaborative...
David Adjmi’s Stereophonic zooms in on a music studio in the mid-1970s, where an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on...
Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents "The Elixir of Love"6 performances | February 27 & 28 and March 6 & 7 at 8 p.m. | March...
Visiting Mr. Green is a touching and humorous stage play by Jeff Baron that explores the power of human connection across generations and cultures. When young...
America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Washington DC! At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a challenging...
Bach: The Early Masses II features The Thirteen as they explore two of Bach's early masterpieces: the Mass in A Major and the Mass in...
Chez Joey is a vibrant reimagining of the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey, directed by Savion Glover and Tony Goldwyn. The production features a...
In The Burning Darkness by Antonio Buero-Vallejo is a powerful and moving drama set in a school for the blind, where optimism and despair collide. When...
3 performances | March 14 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. | March 15 at 2 p.m. Join our intrepid adventurer on a journey through pranks,...
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... Samantha Brown balances on the edge of her future, car keys in hand. As she...
The Winds Beyond Chang’An is a sweeping Chinese Dance drama set in the Tang Dynasty that tells the story of a young noblewoman who rejects an...
*Due to inclement weather this show has been postponed to March 17th*Bad Medicine has answered your wish. You know the one where you wished for...
Grand Kyiv Ballet presents "Swan Lake" ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY | Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m.Swan Lake is a...
Desi Comedy Fest is the Biggest South Asian Comedy Festival in America. Our mission is to showcase the funniest South Asian comedians from around the...
Flying V slams into 2026 with another Night of Flying V Fights for the ages!The newly crowned FLYING V FIGHTING CHAMPION - ABBY JANE is...
America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Washington DC! At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a challenging...
What would you do if you had all eternity?Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure, but when she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the...
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by Aidan O'Connor - March 01, 2026
How far would you go to keep your loved ones happy? To ensure the very thing that binds you when all else fails, has a satisfactory ending? In the Kennedy Center’s World Premiere Commission, The Sea Beyond the Ocean, 9-year-old Scooter (Ty’Ree Hope Davis) tests those limits to help his sick fath...
by Mary Lincer - February 26, 2026
Yes, Rent opened on Broadway thirty years ago. Having seen its final preview with a rapt and frequently weeping audience, it was fun to share it with an audience that knows the score (and when to moo)....
by Itai Yasur - February 19, 2026
Master illusionist Dendy gives you the gift of a stone in your shoe. See what our critic had to say....
by Laurie Sara Oliver - February 18, 2026
“So I’ve got a story to tell you. It’s a good one.” Marcus Kyd paces the small stage of the black box theater at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop where the house has been arranged like a comedy club. ...
by Audrey Cahak - February 22, 2026
As part of their self-ascribed “year of world premieres,” Olney Theatre Center is debuting the profoundly peppy, wonderfully messy, coming-of-age celebration Little Miss Perfect, written by Joriah Kwamé. The musical has been in development for more than five years, originally based on the catch...
by Andrew White - February 17, 2026
Krapp’s Last Tape is Scena Theatre’s contribution to a mini-Beckett festival that has popped up in our midst this past week, and it’s a poignant reminder of how Beckett foresaw demise—his, ours, everyone’s—with a combination of wry humor, and a resignation that sometimes borders on relie...
by David Friscic - February 17, 2026
An embarrassment of theatrical riches, bordering on sensory, stimulating overload, is on display in an exceptionally bold and satisfying reimagining of the very influential musical Pal Joey—now reconceived as Chez Joey. The show still takes place in the 1940’s Chicago music/nightclub scene, but ...
by Doug Poms - February 16, 2026
What did our critic think of SNAPSHOTS: A MUSICAL SCRAPBOOK at Creative Caudron Stage?...
by Jake Bridges - February 16, 2026
With TAMBO & BONES, Spooky Action Theatre takes on a satirical and biting piece that refuses to play by the rules, whether it be of narrative, of genre, or of comfort. What starts as a minstrel show quickly mutates into a centuries-spanning interrogation of race, capitalism, and the hunger for auton...
by Jackson Malmgren - February 15, 2026
What did our critic think of THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA at Gala Hispanic Theatre?...
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