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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,...
When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, Agnes and William, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the...
Drama Desk Award-winning actor Lameece Issaq teams up with two-time Obie-winning director Lee Sunday Evans on her wildly candid new play, which centers on the...
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...
Atalanta was born to run — but she barely had a chance to live! Cursed and left to die, she is adopted by protective bears...
After 10 long years of battle, Troy has fallen, and the Greeks are finally returning home. Penelope waits for her husband Odysseus to return home,...
Traveling Players presents a Dionysian Play Festival in Tysons Corner, featuring three adaptations of Greek mythology, including Women of Troy, directed by Jeanne Harrison. This...
Ten years of battle at the walls of Troy end with the disappearance of the Greek armies and the appearance of a gift, a wooden...
After its successful run at 2025 District Fringe, The H Twins, a new play by Hope Campbell Gundlah, returns to DC for its professional premiere,...
Written by Tony Award Winning playwright RUPERT HOLMESStarring Michelle Azar as Ruth Bader GinsburgDirected by Laley LippardSupreme Court Justice “RBG” welcomes a friend of the...
After one shady deal too many, Hassan and Shirin's brother is waiting in his cell for his trial. For Shirin, successful and with a university...
As You Like It, envisioned by Artistic Director Karen Ann Daniels—in her Folger Theatre directorial debut, is one of the most beloved Shakespearean comedies.The “love-shaked” Rosalind...
Murder at the Mansion presents "A Wedding to Die For" 4 performances | April 10 & 11 at 8 p.m. |...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ searing satire of a family digging through their recently deceased patriarch’s crumbling estate is both gut-splittingly funny and shocking in its confrontation of...
In this brand-new show, very young children will discover the beauty of the world during daytime and nighttime. They will watch–and help–Winnie and August work...
Ana is on her own, a scholarship student at a boarding school, until she meets day-student Jonah. But what begins as an exploration of new...
23 - 26 April 2026 OUR LADY OF 121ST STREETOur Lady of 121st StreetThursday, April 23 – Sunday, April 26Glaize Studio Theatre$18 Get TicketsThursday, April 23 at 7:30PMFriday,...
An exploration of power, politics, vengeance, and mercy - Shaw's historical epic set in ancient Egypt is refocused on the title characters and their fates.
This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this P&P for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect...
Aesop’s FablesApril 24- May 24, 2026By Mike Kenny Directed by Ray Ficca Aesop’s Fables is a vibrant, theatrical adventure that brings timeless tales to life with wit, warmth,...
Purlie is home on a mission—to buy back his father’s church and liberate the sharecroppers he grew up with from the brutal segregationist who still...
What begins as a razor-sharp debate spirals into a world-altering unraveling as four scholars are thrust into a kaleidoscopic odyssey through memory, identity, and the...
PrecariousBy Steph Del RossoDIRECTED BY Jaki BradleyJune 4-28, 2026 A fresh new comedy about starting out, starting over and the enduring love of family. Recently retired...
How Shakespeare Saved My Life is an autobiographical-inspired theatrical work by playwright and Broadway performer Jacob Ming-Trent (Folger Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and directed by Tony Taccone (The Harder They...
How Shakespeare Saved My Life is an autobiographical-inspired theatrical work by playwright and Broadway performer Jacob Ming-Trent (Folger Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and directed by Tony Taccone (The Harder They...
Award-winning chef, best-selling author, and beloved TV personality, Carla Hall, is at the top of her game. But getting there was no picnic. In this...
King Lear, Shakespeare's towering tragedy of family intrigue, devotion, and unspeakable treachery. When old King Lear banishes his daughter Cordelia for disloyalty, he soon finds that...
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by Aidan O'Connor - March 12, 2026
Nostalgia is a funny thing. It catapults the ordinarily rational into webs of what-ifs and immobilizes presence in the now. But what if you could turn back time to fix that one regret or evaluate outcomes of disparate decisions. Would you do it, or would you choose to accept your past as part of you...
by Jackson Malmgren - March 12, 2026
Séamus Miller’s THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF KILLARNEY at Avant Bard Theatre threads staying true to “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” source material while creatively expounding upon it. A musical testament to resilience, Shakespeare himself would stand in line for a ticket....
by Andrew White - March 12, 2026
One of the most eagerly-awaited debuts will be Beth Kander's 'Best Line Wins,' a show dedicated to the lives and careers of two of America’s great comic treasures, Elaine May and Mike Nichols. Whether you grew up with their subversive acts back in the day, or whether you’re a newcomer, or a fan ...
by Doug Poms - March 09, 2026
What did our critic think of TREEMONISHA at Washington National Opera At Lisner Auditorium?...
by Roger Catlin - March 08, 2026
The sign of a good play is that it can ring out its truth through different eras and still seem utterly relevant to the moment. ...
by Elliot Lanes - March 06, 2026
The third production of Adventure Theatre MTC’s 25/26 season Freckleface Strawberry The Musical keeps up the company’s winning streak with a show that features a stellar cast, a good message, superb direction, and more....
by Audrey Cahak - March 04, 2026
The Washington Ballet’s Artistic Director, Edwaard Liang, has added another ballet to his repertoire of re-imagined classics. Giselle through Liang’s eyes is a dramatic, whimsical rework which raises the stakes and strips back the stage to show the heart of the hauntingly stunning piece....
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....
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