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Studio Theatre

1501 14th Street NW
Washington, DC, DC

Studio Theatre is a theatre in Washington, DC.

Upcoming Shows

Wish You Were Here

Sep 1 – Oct 31, 2026

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...

Wilderness Generation

Nov 1 – Dec 31, 2026

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...

We Had a World

Jan 1 – Feb 28, 2027

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

Feb 5 – Feb 7, 2027

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...

Liberation

Mar 1 – Apr 30, 2027

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...

Wine in the Wilderness

May 1 – Jun 30, 2027

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...

Punch

Jul 1 – Aug 31, 2027

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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Articles

Review: HUNDRED DAYS at The Keegan Theatre

Review: HUNDRED DAYS at The Keegan Theatre

by Doug Poms · October 12, 2026

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.…

Review: BEATRICE LIKES THE DARK at Adventure Theatre MTC

Review: BEATRICE LIKES THE DARK at Adventure Theatre MTC

by Elliot Lanes · October 9, 2026

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.…

Review: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING at National Theatre

Review: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING at National Theatre

by David Friscic · October 9, 2026

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…

Review: COMING TO AMERICA: AN IMMIGRANT CABARET at Atlas Performing Arts Center

Review: COMING TO AMERICA: AN IMMIGRANT CABARET at Atlas Performing Arts Center

by Peter Rouleau · October 2, 2026

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…

Review: DIRTY DANCING at The National Theatre

Review: DIRTY DANCING at The National Theatre

by Peter Rouleau · September 30, 2026

In August of 1963, sheltered Jewish teenager Frances 'Baby' Houseman (Annalese Starzec) arrives at the Catskills resort Kellerman's with her father Jake (Bryan Fenkart), a successful doctor, mother Marjorie (Gina Lamparella) and her more worldly older sister Lisa (Lily Kren).…

Past Shows

27 total · showing 1–10

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Jun 4 – Jul 12, 2026

After years of swiping, a permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up finally meets Mr. Right – and then does everything wrong. Strap in for a delightfully dark journey through self-awareness and self-sabotage as he decides whether love is worth the price of a killer...

Purlie Victorious

Purlie Victorious

May 6 – Jun 14, 2026

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 runs their plantation. Purlie Victorious features a madcap plot, survival techniques forged in the Jim Crow South, and satiric...

Jonah

Jonah

Mar 11 – Apr 19, 2026

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 and joyful desire shifts into more complex negotiations of intimacy and survival, covering decades in one woman’s life. Critically lauded in...

Octet

Octet

Jan 14 – Feb 22, 2026

Eight people meet in a church basement and lock their phones in a box. This a capella chamber musical from Dave Malloy ( Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 ) follows an octet of people struggling with digital dependency, charting their compulsions using only the analog...

The Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions

The Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions

Nov 12 – Dec 21, 2025

The latest semiautobiographical work from Pulitzer Prize-winner and DMV native Paula Vogel ( How I Learned to Drive ) traces 40 years and five evictions in a very funny play about a very unhappy family. Siblings Martha and Carl are barely teens for their first eviction in 1962...

The Heart Sellers

The Heart Sellers

Sep 24 – Nov 2, 2025

Luna, an outgoing immigrant from the Philippines, and the more cautious Jane, recently arrived from South Korea, meet in a near-empty grocery store on Thanksgiving Day, 1973. Their husbands are working. Alone in a country they don’t know, they join forces to celebrate...

Summer, 1976

Summer, 1976

Nov 13 – Dec 22, 2024

It’s midsummer in the mid-seventies—the second wave of feminism is cresting somewhere while two very different women are thrown into one another’s orbit in college-town Ohio. Iconoclast artist Diana looks down on faculty wife Alice, but their young daughters’ friendship forces...

Exception to the Rule

FeaturedException to the Rule

Sep 18 – Oct 27, 2024

Six Black students at the city’s worst high school wait out Friday detention, but no one can figure out how “College Bound Erika” ended up stuck here too. The rules are simple: a teacher has to sign their form before anyone can leave the room. But no adults have made it yet, so...

Exception to the Rule

Sep 22 – Sep 18, 2024

Exception to the Rule, directed by Miranda Haymon, opens Studio Theatre's 2024-2025 season with a fresh cast of young talent exploring the trials of high school life. This comedic drama, written by Dave Harris, is set in a purgatorial detention where six teens grapple with the...

Panti Bliss: If These Wigs Could Talk

FeaturedPanti Bliss: If These Wigs Could Talk

Jun 26 – Jul 7, 2024

After a lifetime of accidental activism, far-fetched shenanigans and making a full time show of herself, notorious drag queen Panti Bliss—the “Queen of Ireland”—is now taking a moment to question her purpose and place in this changing world. Expect salacious stories, impassioned...

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