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The year is 1940-something, and Chicago’s night scene is sizzling. Enter Joey Evans. A slick-talking, velvet-voiced songster with dreams bigger than the bandstand. But in...
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,...
IN Series, the Washington, D.C. based opera company known for bold, artist-driven opera theater will present PASSION PLAYS, a three-week festival of new musical theater...
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...
Bad Medicine presents Wish World: a topsy-turvy, ensemble sketch comedy about wishes coming true and going wrong. Laugh hard, but beware what you wish for.
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...
Bach: The Early Masses II features The Thirteen as they explore two of Bach's early masterpieces: the Mass in A Major and the Mass in...
Chez Joey is a vibrant reimagining of the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey, directed by Savion Glover and Tony Goldwyn. The production features a...
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...
3 performances | March 14 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. | March 15 at 2 p.m. Join our intrepid adventurer on a journey through pranks,...
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... Samantha Brown balances on the edge of her future, car keys in hand. As she...
The Winds Beyond Chang’An is a sweeping Chinese Dance drama set in the Tang Dynasty that tells the story of a young noblewoman who rejects an...
*Due to inclement weather this show has been postponed to March 17th*Bad Medicine has answered your wish. You know the one where you wished for...
Grand Kyiv Ballet presents "Swan Lake" ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY | Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m.Swan Lake is a...
Desi Comedy Fest is the Biggest South Asian Comedy Festival in America. Our mission is to showcase the funniest South Asian comedians from around the...
Flying V slams into 2026 with another Night of Flying V Fights for the ages!The newly crowned FLYING V FIGHTING CHAMPION - ABBY JANE is...
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...
What would you do if you had all eternity?Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure, but when she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the...
Traveling Players presents a Dionysian Play Festival featuring three adaptations of Greek myths, running from March 14-22. Among the performances is Atalanta, a tale of...
Atalanta was born to run — but she barely had a chance to live! Cursed and left to die, she is adopted by protective bears...
Dust off your leg warmers and break out the Aqua Net! Prince William Little Theatre is proud to present the Northern Virginia community theatre premiere...
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 showcasing three adaptations of Greek mythology, running from March 14-22, 2026, at their studio in Tysons Corner Center....
Grammy Award-winning duo The Okee Dokee Brothers bring their adventurous love of the outdoors to the stage, crafting heartfelt Americana folk music that resonates with...
Triune Entertainment will mount the premiere staging of the highly anticipated The Prince of Egypt in March 2026 in the Metro Washington D.C. area. This epic musical...
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...
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...
The District's Sketch Comedy Festival. Four nights of comedy fun featuring 30+ sketch comedy acts from DC, NYC, Chicago, and beyond.
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...
26 - 29 Mar. 2026 OUR TOWNOur TownThursday, March 26 – Sunday, March 29Glaize Studio Theatre$18 Get TicketsThursday, March 26 at 7:30PMFriday, March 27 at 7:30PMSaturday, March 28...
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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....
by Laurie Sara Oliver - February 18, 2026
“So I’ve got a story to tell you. It’s a good one.” Marcus Kyd paces the small stage of the black box theater at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop where the house has been arranged like a comedy club. ...
by Audrey Cahak - February 22, 2026
As part of their self-ascribed “year of world premieres,” Olney Theatre Center is debuting the profoundly peppy, wonderfully messy, coming-of-age celebration Little Miss Perfect, written by Joriah Kwamé. The musical has been in development for more than five years, originally based on the catch...
by Andrew White - February 17, 2026
Krapp’s Last Tape is Scena Theatre’s contribution to a mini-Beckett festival that has popped up in our midst this past week, and it’s a poignant reminder of how Beckett foresaw demise—his, ours, everyone’s—with a combination of wry humor, and a resignation that sometimes borders on relie...
by David Friscic - February 17, 2026
An embarrassment of theatrical riches, bordering on sensory, stimulating overload, is on display in an exceptionally bold and satisfying reimagining of the very influential musical Pal Joey—now reconceived as Chez Joey. The show still takes place in the 1940’s Chicago music/nightclub scene, but ...
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