Olney Theatre Center
2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832Olney, MD 20832
Upcoming Shows
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow is a production by Synetic Theater Company presented at Olney Theatre Center.
Sleepy Hollow
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...
Crowns
Crowns is a production by ArtsCentric presented at Olney Theatre Center.
Les Misérables
Modern classics don’t come any bigger than Les Misérables, and Olney Theatre celebrates it for the first time in honor of the show’s 40th anniversary. Based on Victor Hugo’s sweeping 19th-century novel of redemption, revolution, and love, the songs of Les Miz conquered Broadway...
Crowns
Crowns is a production by ArtsCentric presented at Olney Theatre Center. Generations of Black women in the American South, through good times and bad, at weddings and funerals, on regular Sunday mornings and at festive holiday services, have adorned themselves with a hat for...
Churchill
In the spirit of Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground , we’re thrilled to present another dramatic encounter with a titan of 20th-century leadership. It is 1963, and Winston Churchill has just been awarded honorary American citizenship by President John F. Kennedy. In this one-man...
Kimberly Akimbo
With power ballads, sharp lyrics, and a book that’s full of laughs, this 2023 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score (by Fun Home ’s Jeanine Tesori) sheds light on our universal desire for a meaningful life. It’s Saturday night at a skating rink in Bergen...
Peter and the Starcatcher
In this enchanting, immersive production, discover how Peter became Pan. Audiences of all ages will be whisked across the seas aboard the HMS Neverland with the brave and clever Molly, daughter of the mysterious Lord Aster, while on a secret mission for the Queen. When things go...
Million Dollar Quartet
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...
Review: A BEAUTIFUL BLUE MORNING SKY at The Keegan Theatre
Besides the massive geopolitics of it all, the terror attacks also jolted individual emotions , almost to a person. We dealt as a nation with loss, felt empathy, a degree of hopelessness and a welling of national pride and determination as a way to endure and persevere.…
Review: PHILADELPHIA BALLET at Wolf Trap
What did our critic think of PHILADELPHIA BALLET at Wolf Trap?…
Review: GARBO: THE ACTOR WHO SAVED THE WORLD at GALA Hispanic Theatre
The world premiere production kicking off the 51st season at GALA Hispanic Theatre, “GARBO: The Actor Who Saved the World,” is not, it turns out, about Greta at all. Rather, it’s about somebody else far fewer people have heard of, who was working roughly the same time — World War II to be sp…
Review: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Signature Theatre
Merrily We Roll Along tackles these behemoth existentialisms at a granular level in the lives of three old friends. It’s one of those shows that leaves you with something to ponder for days after the lights come up. In Signature Theatre’s hands, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s masterpiece …
Review: FREDDIE: A GIRL at Taffety Punk Theatre Company
Freddie: A Girl (now being presented by the Taffety Punk Theatre Company) is a triumph of theatrical form over content. The subject of resistance fighters against the Nazis in World War II is obviously a fraught and very serious business especially in these polarized times-- but Director Lise Brunea…
BWW Reviews: IT ENDS WITH GUINEA PIGS at 1st Stage
Diana Gitelman brings her one-person show to the Logan Festival of Solo Performance. See what our critic had to say.…
Review: BRONTË SISTER HOUSE PARTY at Nu Sass Productions
If you’ve ever wondered what it may be like to party with the Brontё sisters, get ready to sip on a lot of cordials, margaritas, and rosè and experience an evening like no other at Nu Sass Productions’ Brontё Sister House Party.…
Review: STAGE, SCREEN, AND SYMPHONY with Josh Groban and the NSO, Sean O’Loughlin Conductor at Wolf Trap
It is not often that a singer can enter a stage with a full symphony orchestra playing behind him and hold a sold out crowd of 7,028 people spellbound. This past Saturday evening at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, Grammy nominated singer/actor Josh Groban did just that while being backed by YOUR Nation…
Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Monumental Theatre
What did our critic think of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Monumental Theatre?…
Review: LET IT BE ART! HAROLD CLURMAN'S LIFE OF PASSION at 1st Stage
Theater fans should run and catch Ronald Rand’s fascinating solo show about Harold Clurman's life and career, which is part of the Logan Festival of Solo Performance at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, Virginia through August 30.…
Past Shows
23 total · showing 11–20
The Brothers Paranormal
Prepare to be thrilled, chilled, and moved! For Halloween, Olney Theatre is home to a modern horror story of family, migration, and the spirits that haunt us. It’s 2007, and Thai-American brothers Max and Visarut haven’t had a single case for their paranormal investigation...
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
There isnt a venue in the country with more holiday spirit than Olney Theatre Center or should we say holiday spirits? Because were embracing the diversity of celebrations that bring families together this time of year: from the many holidays we celebrate to the spirit of...
Dance Nation
The pre-teen dance team from Liverpool, Ohio is primed for competition, but in Clare Barrons explosive script the stakes are much higher than just a first place trophy. Lives are at stake, future happiness lays in the balance, emerging sexuality strikes with the power of a...
The Music Man
Our revolutionary retelling of this Golden Age classic is sure to be the talk of the DMV - and beyond - in the coming season. With a half Deaf and half Hearing cast, you'll experience beloved songs like "76 Trombones". "Til There Was You", and "Rock Island" like never before...
The Joy That Carries You
A drama about an interracial couple in crisis by local playwriting team Awa Sal Secka and Dani Stoller (Signature's Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes) that melds sharp comic dialogue and moving spoken-word poetry. This new play about love and family, privilege and...
Imagination Stage's Mother Goose at Olney Theatre Center
The Olney Performance Series is a new, year-round program that provides a permanent home on our campus for jazz, cabaret, spoken word, and theatre for young audiences. From drag shows to Disney Singalongs, Olney Performance Series is about diversity in styles, disciplines...
Brigadoon
Part of the Applause Concert SeriesNew Yorker Tommy Albright unexpectedly arrives at mysterious Scottish Highland village of Brigadoon, which only appears for one day every 100 years. When Tommy meets and falls in love with Fiona, a beautiful villager in this magical hamlet, he...
Pippin
Part of the Applause Concert SeriesWeve got magic to do over one special weekend in April! This classic musical about a young man in search of his purpose features some of music-theaters best-loved songs and most theatrical moments. From the battlefield to the bedroom, from...
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Be our guest for the holidays as the classic animated story comes to life on the Olney Theatre Mainstage. Its a tale as old as time, but it gets a new look from Tony-nominated director Marcia Milgrom Dodge (one of the featured professional directors on the Disney+ show Encore)...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Starring Mason Alexander Park as Hedwig! The revolutionary punk-rock sensation comes to Olney Theatre Center. In the crossfire of cold wars and culture wars, Hedwig is a survivor, and not just of a botched sex change operation that left her with the aformentioned "Angry Inch"...
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Brian Henson's Puppet Up! Lincoln Theatre (9/30-9/30) |
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GARBO: EL ACTOR QUE SAVÓ AL MUNDO (Garbo: The Actor Who Saved The World) GALA Hispanic Theatre (9/03-9/27) |
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A Monument To Comedy DC Improv (9/15-9/15) |
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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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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Measure for Measure Folger Shakespeare Library (9/22-11/01) |
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Kimberly Akimbo Olney Theatre Center (3/18-4/25) |
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Bonnie and Clyde The Arlington Players (9/05-9/20) |
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7th Street Echo Mosaic Theater Company (3/25-4/18) |
