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By Gustavo Ott Original Music by Koki Lortkipanidze Directed by Carlos Celdrán WORLD PREMIERE In Spanish with English surtitles GARBO: The Actor Who Saved the World brings to the stage one of World War II’s most extraordinary and true little told stories: Juan Pujol, a...
a world premiere of the newest play by company member Kelsey Mesa Directed by Lise Bruneau During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Oversteegen sisters joined the Dutch Resistance at 17 and 15 years old. Truus and Freddie Oversteegen became spies, saboteurs, and...
Dark, unsettling, and endlessly thought-provoking, No Exit is one of the most famous works of existential drama ever written. First performed in 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre’s groundbreaking play confronts audiences with urgent questions about identity, responsibility, and the ways we...
6 performances | Sep. 25 & 26 and Oct. 2 & 3 at 8 p.m. | Sep. 27 and Oct. 4 at 2 p.m. By Ken Ludwig Directed by Laura W. Andruski A hilarious whodunit from the master of farce, Ken Ludwig, The Games Afoot follows a Broadway star known for playing Sherlock Holmes. When a murder...
A world premiere by Stephen Spotswood! When Kim finds her best friend Ellen dead, she uses an old family recipe to bring her back to life. Sort of. Ellen doesn’t have a heartbeat, doesn’t need to breathe, and can’t leave Kim’s house without dying again. The question of whether...
Selah Theatre Project, the Winchester-based, socially conscious theatre company known for its commitment to "Unapologetic Art," will christen its new permanent home, The Vivienne L. Jackson Sanctuary for the Arts (VLJ), with a production of the fan-favorite comedic mystery Clue...
Enter an abandoned (and possibly haunted) tavern in Sleepy Hollow for this haunting and humorous autumn treat. Rediscover the timeless legend of the headless horseman in author Washington Irving ’s ghoulishly funny cautionary tale of overconfident schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and...
Betrayal by Harold Pinter, directed by Artistic Director Alex Levy, follows Emma, Robert, and Jerry as their intertwined histories are revealed. As Emma's marriage to Robert ends, she reconnects with Jerry, her former lover and her husband's best friend, with the action...
Handle with Care is a unique interactive production from Belgian theatrical performance collective Ontroerend Goed, described by its creators as a theatre production in a box. The show features no performers, sets, or script in the traditional sense; instead, audiences find a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Marc Langston, marc@nocturnehall.com NOCTURNE HALL ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF DUPONT INVESTIGATIONS SEASON 2: FLIGHT OF THE FALLEN A Washington Noir Audio Drama · Premieres Tuesday, September 1 WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22, 2026: Nocturne Hall...
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...
US PREMIERE | FROM EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL By HANNAH KHALIL FROM A STORY BY ATOOSA SEPEHR DIRECTED BY CHRIS WHITE A Solas Nua Production In association with Mosaic Theater Company Generously supported by Culture Ireland Hailed as a “thoroughly flavorful feast of a play” by The...
Two failed British antique dealers, partners in both business and in life, unbelievably inherit the world's oldest person – AND try to monetize her. Soon questions surface regarding the woman’s true provenance (and age), and the dealers turn on each other. But then the tables...
Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future as they lead the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey of transformation and redemption. Originally conceived by Michael Baron , this music-infused production captures the magic and joy of Dickens’s Yuletide classic, with...
Back by popular demand! Frosty The Snow Man November 21, 2026– January 3, 2027 by William Francis Directed by Danny Tippett Do you want to build a snow man? How about watching him spring to life in front of you for one day of adventures before he melts away? In this merry...
Prima Facie, written by Suzie Miller, is a Tony-nominated one-woman drama receiving its first-ever U.S. regional staging at Arena Stage. The play follows Tessa, a criminal defense attorney at the height of her career, who has built her success defending men accused of sexual...
Prima Facie, written by Suzie Miller, is a Tony-nominated one-woman drama receiving its first-ever U.S. regional staging. The play follows Tessa, a brilliant criminal defense attorney who has built her career defending men accused of sexual assault, only to find herself sitting...
The year is 2169. As wildfires rage across the West, environmental activists and partners-in-crime Jane and Clyde embark on a daring caper to steal a taxidermied bison from the American Museum of Natural History. Only problem? It’s already gone. This darkly comedic reckoning...
6 performances | Jan. 29 & 30 and Feb. 5 & 6 at 8 p.m. | Jan. 31 and Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. By Peter Shaffer Directed by Kathryn Stirling Lettice Duffet is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at one of the least stately of London’s stately...
Cabarets are always a bit of a crap shoot depending on the performer’s theme and choice of material. Signature Theatre’s current cabaret offering is a prime example of what happens when the performer and the material are in perfect sync. Take the immeasurable talents of Tracy Lynn Olivera, add a…
What did our critic think of THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR at Arena Stage?…
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.…
What did our critic think of PHILADELPHIA BALLET at Wolf Trap?…
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…
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 …
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…
Diana Gitelman brings her one-person show to the Logan Festival of Solo Performance. See what our critic had to say.…
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.…
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…
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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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Special Event: ARTS By George!: Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra Center for the Arts (10/03-10/03) |
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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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Disney Frozen the Broadway Musical Disney Frozen the Broadway Musical (11/20-11/29) |
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Round House Theatre (9/09-10/11) |
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Caroline, or Change" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/31-11/15) |
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Grand Kyiv Ballet presents "The Swan Lake: Symphony of Lights F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (11/18-11/18) |
