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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...
This taut, award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky's literary masterpiece delves into the mind of troubled student Raskolnikov – emboldened to commit a horrible crime, believing himself superior and above the law. Campbell and Columbus force us to have a "conversation on the...
Written by Joshua Harmon and directed by Studio Associate Artistic Director Jess Chayes in her Studio directorial debut, this sharp-tongued play follows a playwright whose dying grandmother tasks him with writing about the family, requesting he make it as bitter and vitriolic as...
In Tom Stoppard's Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth is a two-part play that places Shakespeare in two wildly different contexts. In Dogg’s Hamlet, English theater students whose native language is Dogg also rehearse and perform Hamlet, creating a playful and absurd exploration of...
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...
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...
Purpose, written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a family drama about faith, inheritance, and long-held secrets. The play centers on the Jaspers, a Black political dynasty of civil rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen who have long anchored...
Purpose, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning family drama about faith, inheritance, and long-held secrets. The play centers on the Jaspers, a Black political dynasty of civil rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen, whose carefully...
“To be or not to be?” Shakespeare’s most celebrated play returns to the playwright’s American home. Helmed by acclaimed Broadway director Kate Whoriskey, winner of the Drama League Award for Clyde’s , this bold and deeply considered production reexamines Shakespeare’s “poem...
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...
Kimberly Akimbo is the 2023 Tony Award-winning musical with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, directed by Ethan Heard. Set on a Saturday night at a skating rink in Bergen County, NJ, the story follows 16-year-old Kimberly Levaco, who has a rare...
Written by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White, this 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner is a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Geffen Playhouse. Set in 1970 Ohio, the play follows journalist Lizzie as she joins a women's consciousness-raising group, while...
A rarity from the pen of George Bernard Shaw, his very free adaptation of a juicy German potboiler. As a mea culpa for having an affair with his wife, Jitta’s lover (her husband’s colleague) asks that her husband take possession of his final book and publish it under his own...
6 performances | Apr. 30 and May 1, 7 & 8 at 8 p.m. | May 2 & 9 at 2 p.m. By August Wilson Directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell Set in the 1950s, Fences evokes the early rumblings of the civil rights movement. The central character is Troy Maxson, a middle-aged resident of...
Created by Artistic Director Edwaard Liang to music by Sergei Prokofiev, this production of Romeo & Juliet combines classical storytelling with a contemporary choreographic approach. The ballet features detailed characterizations, expansive ensemble scenes, and realistically...
IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE April 9 – May 23, 2027 Based on the Book by Laura Joffe Numeroff Adapted for the stage by Jody Davidson Directed by Erin Weaver With a bag of cookies and a good spot in the yard to read his comic book, Boy was ready for a perfectly peaceful day. But...
Determined to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish, first-generation Haitian American Simone returns to the island eager to reunite with her entrepreneur cousin, the Haitian-born and raised Gigi, and reconnect with her roots. When misconceptions and misunderstandings lead to...
Two pairs of identical twins—separated at birth—spend the day travelling through the same city and only just missing each other. An uproarious farce filled with mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and pratfalls, this comedy shows how all roads lead to home. Folger...
Becoming Eve, adapted by Emil Weinstein from Abby Chava Stein's memoir, tells the story of Stein's journey growing up in a prominent Hasidic rabbinical dynasty and her decision to live openly as a transgender woman. As three rabbis debate how to reconcile tradition with...
Written by Alice Childress and directed by Psalmayene 24, this 1969 classic follows Bill, a painter sheltering during the Harlem riots of July 1964, who is introduced to a woman his friends think could model for his series on Black womanhood. As their borough burns, Tommy and...
Written by James Graham, winner of the 2026 Olivier Award for Best New Play, and directed by David Muse in his final production as Studio's Artistic Director, this play follows Jacob, whose impulsive punch during a pub fight has fatal consequences. When Jacob returns from...
From the comfort of your own home, re-experience the magic of Traveling Players' Commedia Christmas Car ol (2024)! About the Production: Commedia Christmas Carol is Traveling Players' adaptation of Dickens' classic novel. What began in 2021 as a 15-minute play with just five...
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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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Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Game's Afoot" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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Doja Cat at Capital One Arena Capital One Arena (11/11-12/11) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Washington DC (10/10-10/10) |
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The Last Victorian Washington Stage Guild (11/19-12/13) |
