Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi and directed by Sivan Battat, this play follows Salme and her four best friends as they prepare for her wedding in 1978 Karaj, on the eve of the Iranian Revolution. Over the next decade, everything changes for these tightknit...
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner James Ijames and directed by Taibi Magar, this family drama follows four cousins reuniting at their grandmother's house in Tidewater Virginia to pack up her belongings. Over a weekend of board games and in-jokes, the cousins crack each other up...
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...
New Pages, New Stages is the second annual new play reading festival hosted by Studio Theatre in cooperation with Olney Theatre Center, Spooky Action Theater, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Five new plays will be presented, one of which will be workshopped over two weeks...
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...
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...
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Woody Guthrie's classic songs have never sounded better than in this epic folk concert in an abandoned streetcar station. See what our critic had to say.…
A veritable whirlwind of events, contrivances, and literal storms brought Lord Byron, his physician John William Polidori, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Mary’s stepsister, Claire Clairmont to the Villa Diodati mansion at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.…
What would you do if you knew that your newly-found significant other had only a 100 days to live? Hundred Days, a heartfelt musical about living life to the fullest is having its Washington DC regional premiere at The Keegan Theatre though November 15.…
What did our critic think of WHERE DEAD WOMEN GO TO DANCE at Theatre Prometheus?…
Adventure Theatre MTC begins it’s 75th anniversary season in rare form with the World Premiere of Beatrice Likes The Dark. The show is based on the book of the same name by April Genevieve Tucholke and is adapted for the stage by the multi-talented Dani Stoller.…
Bittersweet poignancy permeates underneath and amidst the charismatic and subversive musical that is Maybe Happy Ending ---now playing at the National Theatre. This totally involving musical is suffused with numerous creative, surprising twists and subplots by insightful writers Will Aronson and Hu…
What did our critic think of CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM: THE MUSICAL at Imagination Stage?…
This inventive and stirring play by Hannah Khalil about the power of storytelling to change and save lives is playing at Spooky Action Theater’s residence at Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington DC through October 18.…
Anytime I attend a theatrical presentation there is a chance that I won’t know what to expect going in. When attending a concert there is usually more certainty. You know who the artists are and you at least have an idea of what you might hear.…
It may be the case that any theatrical work dealing with political or social themes gains an added level of immediacy and urgency by virtue of being staged in or near Washington, DC. That's certainly the case with ExPats Theatre's new production 'Coming to America: an Immigrant Cabaret.' Now sho…
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Written by Abe KooglerDirected by Les WatersAnne and Rob struggled through their artistic 20s, inherited wealth in their 30s, and are spending their affluent late-40s in a life of parties and philanthropy and ideas. Irresistible, paradigm-shaping ideas. So when they meet a...
Music by Jeanine TesoriBook and Lyrics by Lisa KronBased on the Graphic Memoir by Alison BechdelDirected by David MuseAlison is 9, begging her father to play with her. She is 19, overcome by the aching and joyous pain of first love. She is 43, an out lesbian hunting for the...
Written by Antoinette NwanduDirected by Psalmayene 24Kitch and Moses seem stuck on their street corner, but it dont matter. They joke, dream, and throw down about the promised land theyre heading to just as soon as they get up off the blockwhat theyll eat, who theyll see...
Written by Dominique MorisseauDirected by Awoye TimpoNya is a single mom and dedicated teacher at a high-poverty city school, determined to give her teenaged son Omari opportunities that her students will never have. When an altercation with a teacher at his private school...
Clearday is a cosmetics company on the rise: Based in Singapore, launching a global skincare line, and bringing a start-up mentality to the big leagues. But a draft ad for their latest skin whitening cream surfaces on YouTube, gathering views and outrage. As morning nears in the...
Written and Performed by Daniel KitsonA new show about postcards and hair pins and a certificate from Harry Ramsdens in Blackpool. About how long it takes to stop noticing where you are. About the compromise of a full life and the burden of a full heart and how its impossible to...
Join Studio Theatre at the Under 40 night for the US premiere of toxic corporate comedy White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King. Grab your specially-priced ticket and head to Studios baropen for adventurous, young theatre-goers to gather pre-show for drink specials and tastings in a...
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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (10/17-12/06) |
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Frida...A Self Portrait Shakespeare Theatre Company Klein Theatre (10/08-11/08) |
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Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (10/09-10/18) |
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The Score Shakespeare Theatre Company (9/11-10/25) |
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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Monsters of the Villa Diodati Creative Cauldron (10/08-11/01) |
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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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Th Royale by Marco Ramirez Flying V (10/12-10/31) |
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Les Misérables Olney Theatre Center (11/05-1/31) |
