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Washington, DC 20001
Washington Stage Guild is a theatre in Washington, DC.
Two failed British antique dealers, partners in both business and in life, unbelievably inherit the world's oldest person – AND try to monetize her. Soon questions surface regarding the woman’s true provenance (and age), and the dealers turn on each other. But then the tables...
This taut, award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky's literary masterpiece delves into the mind of troubled student Raskolnikov – emboldened to commit a horrible crime, believing himself superior and above the law. Campbell and Columbus force us to have a "conversation on the...
A rarity from the pen of George Bernard Shaw, his very free adaptation of a juicy German potboiler. As a mea culpa for having an affair with his wife, Jitta’s lover (her husband’s colleague) asks that her husband take possession of his final book and publish it under his own...
Washington Stage Guild will present the world premiere of JB Miller's dark comedy about two failed British antique dealers who inherit the world's oldest person and attempt to monetize her.…
An air of merriment and unabashed mayhem pervades the hilarious and totally chaotic, hilarious, satiric comedy Stonewall’s Bust (presented at The Writer’s Center by the Best Medicine Rep). The acting ensemble works comedic wonders under the direction of Evan Morogiello.…
A modest set--a piano in the foreground, and a backup band positioned along the edges, above which was suspended an array of hanging lights. …
THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK knits together theatre, music and aerial performance in a production that is memorable, meaningful and gorgeous to behold. Music, movement, color, words and images conjure the real-life union of Marc and Bella Chagall and the tempestuous times they lived through. …
If Frida Kahlo was still alive today, I imagine conversations with her would be pretty close to how Vanessa Severo portrays it in her brilliant one-woman play Frida… A Self Portrait, now onstage at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Klein Theatre.…
What did our critic think of HANDLE WITH CARE at Studio Theatre?…
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 did our critic think of PAN AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S TODO TANGO at The Music Center At Strathmore?…
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.…
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The arms trade and The Salvation Army collide in Shaw’s great play about faith, morality, and family battles.Last seen at WSG in our 2001 Helen Hayes-nominated production, our 2022 production will take a fresh look at this always-timely dissection of power and compassion.
A 2018 hit at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Gregorys play portrays the determination of a totalitarian regime to erase history, and the tragic effect that has on a man who can forget nothing. Based on a true story, a man with a photographic memory finds himself and...
A 2018 hit at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Gregorys play portrays the determination of a totalitarian regime to erase history, and the tragic effect that has on a man who can forget nothing. Based on a true story, a man with a photographic memory finds himself and...
Two of Shaws greatest women clash as Mrs. Warren and her daughter Vivie struggle to connect in light of their very different views on women, morality, and business. Shaws play was considered explosive when it premiered in 1905, drawing ire from the Lord Chamberlains office for...
an eye-opening account of two very unexpected friends and their influence on each other through the decades. Their unlikely friendship began when aspiring writer Samuel Beckett, an Irish expatriate in France, gave young Andre Roussimoff (whose remarkable size made him the object...
The great South African playwrights meditation on education and its role in the struggle for justice, along with its sad limits in a culture of oppression and bigotry. In an Eastern Cape Karoo town in South Africa in 1984, devoted teacher Mr. M seeks to provide a future for his...
A glimpse into the private life of George Bernard Shaw! At the turn of the 20th century, G. B. Shaw was establishing his place among the world's greatest playwrights. One of the actresses in the London theatre at the time was a woman whose career woud last for decades and would...
How He Lied to Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw, set in a London drawing room, is a witty look at the love triangle, as only Shaw could envision it and is said to have been written by GBS in a matter of a few days. The play has often been interpreted as a kind of satirical...
“I am Prime Minister for the same reason that all Prime Ministers have been Prime Ministers: because I am good for nothing else.” Government in gridlock! Parties refusing to compromise! A charismatic leader ruling as much by personal appeal as by principles! No, not the present...
“What J. Edgar doesn’t know won’t hurt him.” “Hoover knows everything. He’s like Santa.” A madcap, irreverent farce of spy versus counter-spy, set in the cold war and involving everything from the H-Bomb to the FBI to Joseph McCarthy’s daughter! Irreverent and hilarious, and by...
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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 (10/08-11/08) |
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The Score Shakespeare Theatre Company (9/11-10/25) |
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XXII FUEGO FLAMENCO FESTIVAL GALA Hispanic Theatre (11/05-11/22) |
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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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Peter and the Starcatcher Olney Theatre Center (4/29-6/06) |
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"The Joyfully Jolly Jamboree" - 4 p.m. The Alden Theatre (12/12-12/12) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) National Theatre (12/15-2/07) |
