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“A visually lush , emotionally rich story.” – Chicago Sun-Times Severo “ brilliantly performs as Frida .” – BroadwayWorld “The most engrossing, finely-produced, well-acted theatre.” – On The Aisle “Severo is marvelous .” – CITY Magazine There is an arttobeing alone. On the eve...
Washington, D.C. – GALA continues its 51st season with the 22nd edition of its annual international Fuego Flamenco Festival from November 5 through November 22. Renowned for presenting stellar artists in an intimate tablao setting, the festival celebrates flamenco as a universal...
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...
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.
A spooktacular 2-hour Halloween dance bash for babies, toddlers, and little monsters up to 6 years old, along with their grown-ups. The event features a high-energy mix of silly monster beats, bubble-filled magic, and non-stop giggly fun for the whole family. Attendees are...
A bilingual play for young audiences by Mexican playwright Antonio Zúñiga, directed by Venezuelan Mauricio Pita. An old man, a young man, and a child revisit the Mexican Revolution, resurrecting Pancho Villa through memory, corridos, and myth. As history blurs with folklore, a...
The Royale by Marco Ramirez Directed by Raven Lorraine Jay “The Sport” Jackson dreams of being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. But it’s 1905, and in the racially segregated world of boxing, his chances are as good as knocked out. When a crooked boxing promoter...
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi and directed by Sivan Battat, this play follows Salme and her four best friends as they prepare for her wedding in 1978 Karaj, on the eve of the Iranian Revolution. Over the next decade, everything changes for these tightknit...
A world premiere play by Helen Hayes Award winner Dani Stoller, based on the acclaimed children's book by April Genevieve Tucholke, directed by Patrick Flynn. The show follows Beatrice, a child for whom the daytime world feels overwhelming, but whose imagination comes alive in...
Mainstage Play - Dinner & Show Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night...
The Dracula Experience returns to George C. Marshall’s Dodona Manor... bigger, bloodier, and more immersive than ever before! Inspired by Bram Stoker’s legendary gothic novel, Dracula’s Midnight Masquerade is a site-specific, free-roaming theatrical experience staged throughout...
Go-Go 50 opens The Washington Ballet's 50th Anniversary Season, celebrating both 50 years of the company and 50 years of Go-Go music. The mixed repertory program combines works by choreographers connected to TWB's history, including Blue Until June choreographed by Trey McIntyre...
National Chamber Ensemble's annual holiday concert features the winners of the Nancy Peery Marriott Young Artist Competition alongside talented young musicians from the community. The concert is part of NCE's 20th Anniversary Season celebrating chamber music in Arlington.
David Catlin's theatrical adaptation brings Mary Shelley into the heart of her legendary tale, as she conjures a world in which Victor Frankenstein pursues the impossible and brings life to a creature assembled from the dead. Creator and creation soon become locked in a...
Shakespeare’s rarely staged comedy, where human nature collides with the letter of the law, comes to life under the direction of Psalmayene 24, Helen Hayes Award winner for Folger Theatre’s production of Metamorphoses . Newly enforced regulations penalize the everyday citizens...
Stephen Sondheim's masterwork about friendship, ambition and the compromises that shape a life, directed and choreographed by Matthew Gardiner. Told in reverse chronological order, the musical follows three longtime friends as they navigate idealism, loyalty and disappointment...
Olney audiences were blown away in 2025, when we invited Synetic Theater to perform their award-winning, wordless version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Now they’re back, but this time they’re tackling a story with classic American roots in the intimate confines of...
Before the paintings, poems, and fame, Bella and Marc Chagall were two young dreamers whose love transformed the world around them. Through music, movement, and theatrical magic, their journey unfolds from a small Jewish town to a vivid landscape of imagination, devotion, and...
The Fruits of Our Labor is a world premiere production from Step Afrika!, commemorating America's 250th anniversary. Directed by Jakari Sherman, with Conrad R. Kelly II and Vusi Mdoyi, the work blends stepping, percussion, poetry, and song into a rhythmic exploration of...
Kevin Fredericks, known as KevOnStage, channels personal loss into a comedy experience rooted in faith, family, and relatability. The show follows a sold-out four-show run at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and is promoted by Live Nation.
Brass Jar Productions presents the latest incarnation of the underground phenomenon Drunk Shakespeare, adapted from Bram Stoker's original story. Each performance features one actor downing five shots of liquor before leading the cast through a retelling of the vampire classic...
Kevin Fredericks, known as KevOnStage, channels personal loss into a comedy experience rooted in faith, family, and relatability. The show follows a sold-out four-show run at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and is promoted by Live Nation.
National Chamber Ensemble opens its 20th Anniversary Season with a program of Romantic-era chamber music by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Brahms. Special guest Diana Stelzer, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, will give opening remarks. The concert celebrates 20 years of...
HUNDRED DAYS is an uncensored, exhilarating, and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap, and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. With anthemic folk-punk music, HUNDRED DAYS “celebrates and laments the elusive radiance of a shared life” (New...
A production by Marta Gálvez, presented in collaboration with Spain Flamenco Arts, as part of GALA's XXII Fuego Flamenco Festival.
4 performances | November 6 & 7 at 8 p.m. | November 7 & 8 at 2 p.m. Presented in partnership with A Taste For Murder Productions By Eileen Moushey Step into 1926 and join the secret sendoff for mob boss Vito “The Gut” Marzetti at Ruby’s Place, the city’s hottest speakeasy. The...
The Judy Carmichael Trio Sunday, Nov. 8, 2 p.m. $35/$30/$25 All Ages A stride pianist so accomplished that Count Basie gave her the nickname “Stride,” Judy Carmichael is more than just a great jazz musician in the style of Fats Waller. She’s an enchanting performer and sharp as...
a new, immersive reimagining of the horror classic, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD!
An ill-fated relationship leads to inexplicable, perhaps even supernatural disappearance amongst a generational tempest in Sparked: The Vanishing at Buzzard Point from the minds at Rorschach Theatre. And it’s up to the audience to uncover the truth, or so they’re made to think.…
A generally riveting account of an important historical episode.…
Washington Stage Guild will present the world premiere of JB Miller's dark comedy about two failed British antique dealers who inherit the world's oldest person and attempt to monetize her.…
An air of merriment and unabashed mayhem pervades the hilarious and totally chaotic, hilarious, satiric comedy Stonewall’s Bust (presented at The Writer’s Center by the Best Medicine Rep). The acting ensemble works comedic wonders under the direction of Evan Morogiello.…
A modest set--a piano in the foreground, and a backup band positioned along the edges, above which was suspended an array of hanging lights. …
THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK knits together theatre, music and aerial performance in a production that is memorable, meaningful and gorgeous to behold. Music, movement, color, words and images conjure the real-life union of Marc and Bella Chagall and the tempestuous times they lived through. …
If Frida Kahlo was still alive today, I imagine conversations with her would be pretty close to how Vanessa Severo portrays it in her brilliant one-woman play Frida… A Self Portrait, now onstage at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Klein Theatre.…
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.…
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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 (10/08-11/08) |
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XXII FUEGO FLAMENCO FESTIVAL GALA Hispanic Theatre (11/05-11/22) |
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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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Dupont Investigations: Flight of the Fallen Nocturne Hall (9/01-11/11) |
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Measure for Measure Folger Shakespeare Library (9/22-11/01) |
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The Comedy of Errors Folger Shakespeare Library (5/18-6/27) |
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Caroline, or Change" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/31-11/15) |
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Churchill Olney Theatre Center (1/28-3/21) |
