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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...
Blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as bomba, currulao, and cumbia, and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, Aguardiente is a bold new musical about the messy, urgent act...
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...
A Mirror by Sam Holcroft begins with Joel and Leyla's wedding, but where it ends will take your breath away. Gradually, fact and fiction begin to...
2 performances | Saturday, May 2 at 11 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.Mrs. Pig grows exasperated with her three sons—Little Yellow the musician, Little Blue the...
An Asian American Dance Journey - Program B is presented by Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company as part of...
Censored Voices: Silent No More is a chamber concert presented by EGC Productions Inc. in partnership with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, spotlighting works by Russian...
Night falls on Big Cherry, USA — a seemingly ordinary town with secrets festering beneath its folksy charm. As the city council meeting unfolds in...
Arena Stage participates in the National Day of Theater Readings for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives on May 5, 2026, as part of...
America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Washington DC! At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a challenging...
Ronald Reagan is a demon. Ronald Reagan is a drag queen. Ronald Reagan is here, queer, and ready to eat you alive.In a world already...
SHOWTIMES ON 5/9 AT 2PM AND 7PM, AND 5/10 AT 2PMIn honor of their 100th production, Piped Piper Theatre presents the beloved musical Oliver!Discover the heartwarming...
6 performances | May 1, 2, 8 & 9 at 8 p.m. | May 3 & 10 at 2 p.m. Based on the NOVEL by Mark...
Washington National Opera presents Bernstein's West Side Story, a company premiere directed by Francesca Zambello, from May 8 to May 15, 2026. This iconic musical...
This popular American musical is an insightful, vibrant and humorous take on our founding fathers’ determination to do the right thing for their fledgling nation....
This popular American musical is an insightful, vibrant and humorous take on our founding fathers’ determination to do the right thing for their fledgling nation....
The Heritage Signature Chorale presents its 26th Annual Concert, A Home in-a Dat Rock, on Saturday, May 16 at 6:00 PM at First Congregational United...
Joe Hisaishi conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra, running May 14–16 at the Kennedy Center in Washington,...
Little Women: The Musical closes out Creative Cauldron Stage's 2025-2026 theatrical season, bringing Louisa May Alcott's cherished novel to life with a powerful score and...
Join us for this electrifying production of Cabaret, the iconic Tony Award–winning Broadway musical by Joe Masteroff, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred...
Medusa & Circe: An Odyssey, the Myth that Born Them All is a devised theatrical work created through ARTfactory’s Pied Piper Theatre Intensives, where ensemble...
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...
Washington National Opera presents three world premiere one-act operas through its American Opera Initiative, performed by the company's Cafritz Young Artists at the WNO Rehearsal...
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! | Friday, May 22 at 8 p.m.An enchanting musical evening to celebrate Spring with a French accent!Expect a unique eclectic program starring...
Avant Bard presents Ghost Limb, written by Marisela Treviño Orta and directed by Elena Velasco, running at Gunston Arts Center Theatre Two May 3–23, 2026....
The National Memorial Day Choral Festival brings together 200 singers from across the nation, joining with the Capital Wind Symphony in a moving musical tribute...
Somersal Productions presents RAISIN. The Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s American classic play, A Raisin in the Sun, runs May 16–24, 2026.
The party's roaring on Broadway! THE GREAT GATSBY is a “great, big Broadway extravaganza that explodes with life and energy” (Entertainment Weekly). Directed by Marc...
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Latest Washington, DC Reviews
by Pamela Roberts - April 29, 2026
I & You: The Musical, premiering at Olney Theatre Center, is ambitious. It’s full of tremendous verve, emotion and promise. But it’s not without flaws....
by Laurie Sara Oliver - April 27, 2026
What did our critic think of 44 THE MUSICAL at KLEIN THEATRE?...
by Itai Yasur - April 27, 2026
Tennessee William's iconic work crackles to life at site of DC's long abadoned streetcar. See what our critic had to say....
by Rachael F. Goldberg - April 27, 2026
Prologue Theatre’s evocative production of Sam Holcroft's 'A Mirror' is a wonderful examination of storytelling in an age where our sense of truth and reality feels constantly under attack....
by Roger Catlin - April 24, 2026
Dragons are fire-breathing their way back into the culture, from the animated series “How to Train Your Dragon” to the fierce special effect triumphs in “Game of Thrones.” Their images date back thousands of years to ancient Mesopotamia....
by Aidan O'Connor - April 19, 2026
Picture former United States President Ronald Reagan as a demon drag queen summoned to the Chicago apartment of a group of twenty somethings. A bit bizarre to think about. On paper, the far-fetched, extraordinarily unique pitch shouldn’t work. Yet, in the world premiere production of Everything, D...
by David Friscic - April 17, 2026
Sixteen characters are portrayed by the character of the narrator ----Constance Zaytoun---who carries the one-person play entitled A Good Day To Me Not To You now playing at the Arena Stage. The intimacy of the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle is perfectly geared towards the inward psychological thrus...
by Aidan O'Connor - April 15, 2026
Faction of Fools’ production of the beloved piece chaperones fresh connotation to the prose via masked physical comedy....
by Doug Poms - April 14, 2026
Young Americans, the thought-provoking and entertaining play by Lauren Yee about the American immigrant experience is currently in performances at 1st Stage through April 26....
by Mary Lincer - April 13, 2026
What did our critic think of CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA at Washington Stage Guild?...
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