Upcoming Shows
A raucous adaptation of Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s 1611 play about real-life gender rebel Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl mischievously explores counterculture across eras, gender and class rebellion, and how...
by Mary Lincer - May 24, 2026
What did our critic think of THE MANNEQUIN at We Happy Few?...
by Aidan O'Connor - May 21, 2026
Certain facets of the human condition are foundational to our very existence – change, connection, desire. One such particularly toxic universal truth is a constant need to be something more than we currently are. To search for happiness in external achievement rather than within ourselves, in our...
by Laurie Sara Oliver - May 21, 2026
Writers have a somewhat embarrassing tendency to glorify the act of writing. There are too many author protagonists to count. Liz Duffy Adams leans into this trend with a tasteful sense of irony in her 2009 play, OR. She picked an interesting subject for the task with Aphra Behn. ...
by David Friscic - May 19, 2026
It was good to be back at the Washington National Opera for their thrilling performance of West Side Story after a year of extreme change for this vital world-renowned artistic organization/institution. As many people already know, the Washington National Opera has had to relocate to other venues to...
by David Friscic - May 19, 2026
The current touring production of the Broadway musical The Great Gatsby tries to wrap its hand around the elusive and enigmatic novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald but can only succeed on the most basic level. It is a daunting task to try and adapt extremely poetic and enigmatic works like...
by Itai Yasur - May 17, 2026
An utterly convincing rollercoaster of life, death, and the world around us. See what our critic had to say....
by Jackson Malmgren - May 15, 2026
What did our critic think of GHOST LIMB at Avant Bard Theatre?...
by Jake Bridges - May 11, 2026
What did our critic think of PURLIE VICTORIOUS at Studio Theatre?...
by Aidan O'Connor - May 09, 2026
The story of Cinderella is a classic known and beloved across the world for its rags-to-riches plot. Over the years, Charles Perrault’s 17th-century tale has taken many forms – films, various literary iterations, stage plays – but none more exquisite than Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella, Op. 8...
by Roger Catlin - May 09, 2026
The current production ,“Get Down Tonight: Classic Funk,” is a engaging array of familiar songs from the 60s and 70s that didn’t have any trouble getting people to clap along, and a few to eventually get up and groove....
Past Shows
After its successful run at 2025 District Fringe, The H Twins, a new play by Hope Campbell Gundlah, returns to DC for its professional premiere,...
“You thought you was gonna sing a song about racism and change the world” – Bones Tambo and Bones find themselves in a fix: they’re trapped in...
Join us for a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY concert by composer, rock musician, and playwright STEW STEWART, as we transform our space into an intimate underground cabaret. Stew will perform an...
An exciting new adaptation of The Dragon, a banned 1940s Russian political fairytale by Evgeny Shvarts newly translated and adapted by Jesse Rasmussen (Professor Woland’s Black Magic Rock Show) and Yura Kordonsky (Yale...
How do you juggle your past, present, and future selves without dropping the ball? In her one-woman autobiographical busking show, trans performer Lucy Eden interweaves circus,...
Music & Lyrics: Michael Pemberton, Lyrics: Andrea Pemberton, Book: Jesse Rasmussen & Elizabeth Dinkova.Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, and banned for decades,...
2025 CABARET SERIES: Showcasing talented performers who'll appear in Spooky Action's upcoming rock musical Professor Woland's Black Magic Rock Show starting March 20, 2025.Spooky Action Theater has...
2025 CABARET SERIES: Showcasing talented performers who'll appear in Spooky Action's upcoming rock musical Professor Woland's Black Magic Rock Show starting March 20, 2025.Spooky Action Theater has...
Have you ever considered what crack cocaine might do to the powers of a Greek god? And what would happen if Zeus’ newest offspring was...
Frontieres sans Frontieres by Phillip Howze, directed by Elizabeth Dinkova. Featuring Frank Britton, Surasree Das, Lauren Davis, Jamil Joseph, Camilo Linares, Victor Salinas, Anna TakayoAt...
“By turns lyrical, funny, surprising, tragic, Agreste (Drylands) achieves folkloric power.” - New Haven ReviewIn the drylands of northeast Brazil, a kingdom of sand and...
An American mother and a Tibetan father must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage and their hearts. Two Tibetan monks...
Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea. Mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. Three...
A high-stakes confrontation between a troubled Brazilian immigration official and a WWII European refugee....
In The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to a mysterious and forbidden room. She has everything -...
A live video game performance (where the audience controls the action) created by German theater company machina eX. Presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Washington....
Videos
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OR Atlas Performing Arts Center (5/15-6/07) |
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Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
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A Festival of Favorites and Firsts Theater J (5/30-6/06) |
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Once NextStop Theatre (5/21-6/21) |
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The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
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The Outsiders Kennedy Center Opera House (8/01-8/01) |
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Shrek the Musical The Bowie Playhouse (5/30-6/27) |
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Nickelodeon's The SpongeBob Musical Three Notch Theatre (7/10-8/02) |
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The Roaring Girl Spooky Action Theater (6/05-6/27) |
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The Magic Duel The National Union Building (3/21-5/30) VIDEOS |
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