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THEATER J

1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
East Rockaway, DC 20036

Chanukah in the Dark
Chanukah in the Dark
12/6 - 12/21/2025


When the lights go out during Chanukah, Max and family begin sharing songs, stories, and traditions – only to discover the lights they needed and ...



DC-Area Performing Arts Camps Gather at Arena Stage for Free Family Fair


by A.A. Cristi - December 11, 2025

SEO Blurb: Families across the region can explore dozens of performing arts summer camps at a free, interactive fair hosted by Arena Stage. The event brings leading DC-area theater, music, and performance programs together under one roof....

GUYS & DOLLS & More Lead Washington, DC's Top Holiday Theatre Shows


by Team BWW - December 02, 2025

Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. See what the experts recommend! Check out our editorial team's top picks for the best shows to see in Washington, DC for the Holiday Season 2025....

CHANUKAH IN THE DARK is Coming to Theater J This Holiday Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 12, 2025

Theater J will bring a production for the whole family, Chanukah in the Dark, to the stage, part of their Theater Jr. series for families. When the lights go out during Chanukah, young Max and her family begin sharing songs, stories, and traditions....

Mitch Greenberg and More to Star in NOVEMBER 4 Musical at Voices Festival Productions


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 04, 2025

Voices Festival Productions has revealed the full cast for its World Premiere production of November 4, an urgent, timely musical play about a political assassination that changed the course of history....

THE WILD DUCK & More Lead Washington, DC's November 2025 Top Theatre Shows


by Team BWW - October 30, 2025

Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for November 2025 include The Wild Duck and more....

Stage Guild Continues 40th Season With ACCUSED!


by Stephi Wild - October 28, 2025

Accused! – the third play in Patricia Milton's The Victorian Ladies Detective trilogy (which also included The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective and Escape from the Asylum) - will continue The Washington Stage Guild's 40th Season of Determination. ...

Feature: Remembering one of DC Theatre's Visionaries Jerry Whiddon


by Elliot Lanes - October 23, 2025

This past week the DC theatre community lost one of its visionaries with the passing of Artistic Director/Director/Performer/Mentor Jerry B. Whiddon at age 77. For twenty years Jerry served as the Producing Artistic Director Of Round House Theatre. The company was born out of Street 70 which Jerry ...

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Comes to Theater J


by Stephi Wild - September 30, 2025

Theater J will bring Amy Herzog's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to the stage. Learn more about the upcoming production and how to get tickets here!...

Roundabout Theatre Company Reveals 2025-2026 Underground Playwright Residencies


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 26, 2025

Roundabout Theatre Company has revealed the two playwright selections for the Roundabout Underground Residencies – Iraisa Ann Reilly and Liba Vaynberg. Learn more! ...

World Premiere of PAUL AND EMILE Opens at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater


by Stephi Wild - September 10, 2025

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present the World Premiere of Paul and Émile, by Kai Maristed. Paul and Émile is directed by Sasha Brätt. Learn more here!...

Past Shows

An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People
10/29 - 11/23/2025


Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Adaptation and recent Broadway sensation, Amy Herzog’s work unearths the relevance of Ibsen’s tale for our time, weighing the ...

The Berlin Diaries
The Berlin Diaries
6/4 - 6/29/2025


Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great-grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy in  The Berlin Diaries . How ...

Your Name Means Dream
Your Name Means Dream
3/12 - 4/6/2025


Internationally acclaimed playwright José Rivera directs his profoundly intimate tragicomedy that asks what it means to be human as we embrace the technology of our future – and it embraces us. ...

Out of Character
Out of Character
1/8 - 1/26/2025


A Berkeley Rep Production co-presented by Theater J and Mosaic Theater Company of DC. Tony Award-winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show brings to life a full ...

Out of Character
Out of Character
1/8 - 1/26/2025


Tony Award-winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show Out of Character brings to life a full ensemble of characters from his past, illuminating what it means to ...

One Jewish Boy
6/7 - 7/2/2023


In this bittersweet, sophisticated and quick-fire new British comedy about antisemitism, Jesse, a nice Jewish boy, falls in love with Alex, a nice mixed-race girl. ...

Two Jews Walk Into a War…
Two Jews Walk Into a War…
1/11 - 2/5/2023


Ishaq and Zeblyan are the last remaining Jews in Afghanistan. They share the only remaining synagogue that has not been destroyed by the Taliban. They ...

The Pianist of Willesden Lane
The Pianist of Willesden Lane
12/6 - 12/18/2022


After a sold-out run at the Kennedy Center, Grammy®-nominated pianist Mona Golabek makes her triumphant return in one of the most powerful performances in Theater ...

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story


Sex, religion, and refugeesOld Stock: A Refugee Love Story has it all! A funny and edgy love story interwoven with a high-energy klezmer concert, this ...

Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities


FIRES IN THE MIRROR: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities JUNE 9-JULY 3, 2022 Conceived, Written, and Originally Performed by Anna Deavere Smith Co-Directed by ...

Nathan the Wise
Nathan the Wise
3/16 - 4/10/2022


NATHAN THE WISEMARCH 16-APRIL 10, 2022Written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Adapted by Michael Bloom Directed by Adam ImmerwahrProduced in Association with Folger TheatreAN 18TH-CENTURY SHAKESPEAREAN ...

Compulsion or the House Behind


COMPULSION OR THE HOUSE BEHIND JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 20, 2022 Written by Rinne B. Groff Directed by Johanna Gruenhut Starring Kimberly Gilbert, Marcus Kyd, and Paul ...

The Kinsey Sicks' Oy Vey in a Manger


The Kinsey Sicks OY VEY IN A MANGERDECEMBER 17-DECEMBER 25, 2021The Kinsey Sicks are back! Full of their signature panache and perfect harmonies, these chicks ...

Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie
11/10 - 12/5/2021


TUESDAYS WITH MORRIENOVEMBER 10-DECEMBER 5, 2021Written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch AlbomBased on the book by Mitch AlbomDirected by Jenna PlaceStarring Michael Russotto and Cody ...

Becoming Dr. Ruth
Becoming Dr. Ruth
9/30 - 10/24/2021


Becoming Dr. RuthBy Mark St. GermainDirected by Holly TwyfordStarring Naomi JacobsonAMERICAS FAVORITE SEX THERAPIST RETURNS!Dont miss the return of this triumphant and life-affirming story of ...

ABOMINATION
ABOMINATION
12/17


In the early 2000s, Naftali, Dov, and Yitzithree queer, closeted, ultra-Orthodox Jewsfind one another in an internet chat room. As their friendships deepen, their mutual ...

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs
4/5 - 5/14/2017

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs
4/9 - 5/7/2017


Coming of age may not be easy—but it sure can be hilarious. Eugene Morris Jerome is 15, lives in 1930’s Brooklyn and thinks of little ...

The Hampton Years
5/29 - 6/30/2013


Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater: - Jacqueline E. Lawton; dir: Shirley Serotsky....

Andy and the Shadows
4/3 - 4/28/2013


Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater: - Ari Roth; dir: Daniella Topol....

Race
2/6 - 3/17/2013


Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater: - David Mamet; dir: John Vreeke....


- Nir Erez, Boaz Gaon; dir: Joseph Megel....

Apples from The Desert
12/15 - 1/6/2013


Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater: - Savyon Liebrecht; dir: Johanna Gruenhut....


Superman—the man of steel—is invulnerable. Jerry Siegel, the creator of Superman, was exceedingly vulnerable. Siegel was one of many Jews who created the cartoon superheroes ...

The Whipping Man
4/18 - 5/20/2012

The Religion Thing
1/4 - 1/29/2012

After The Fall
10/26 - 11/27/2011

Imagining Madoff
8/31 - 9/25/2011

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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (11/13 - 12/21) Tracker
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Shenandoah Conservatory (2/26 - 3/1) Tracker
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Imagination Stage (3/21 - 4/19)
Accused! The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective Returns! by Patricia Milton in Washington, DC Accused! The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective Returns! by Patricia Milton
Washington Stage Guild (11/20 - 12/14)
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Washington Stage Guild (4/9 - 5/3)
White Christmas in Washington, DC White Christmas
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts (11/5 - 12/28)
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Capital One Arena (11/11 - 12/11)
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