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How does art survive when despots rule? Powerhouse Golden Globe-winning actor Brian Cox (HBO’s Succession) is directed by the legendary Trevor Nunn (Les Misérables, Cats) in The Score, which pits creativity against the whims of power. In spring 1747, Johann Sebastian Bach (Cox)...
“A visually lush , emotionally rich story.” – Chicago Sun-Times Severo “ brilliantly performs as Frida .” – BroadwayWorld “The most engrossing, finely-produced, well-acted theatre.” – On The Aisle “Severo is marvelous .” – CITY Magazine There is an arttobeing alone. On the eve...
Straight from Off-Broadway comes a timely and important play — Eric Bentley's Are You Now or Have Your Ever Been? , directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro. This electrifying docudrama drops you into the tense world of the 1940s House Committee on Un-American Activities...
Lies! Mayhem! And a possible ghost! Best Medicine Rep Theater Company presents a farce by Artistic Director John Morogiello. When a man lies about breaking a priceless statue in the private museum owned by his fiancee's mother, it sets off an ever escalating series of lies...
This electrifying musical by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith travels back to the famous rainy summer of 1816 on Lake Geneva. While a storm rages outside, host Lord Byron challenges his famous literary guests to produce the ultimate tale of terror before the night ends. The...
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they go on the run disguised as women in an all-girl band. Based on the classic film.
Kevin Fredericks, known as KevOnStage, channels personal loss into a comedy experience rooted in faith, family, and relatability. The show follows a sold-out four-show run at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and is promoted by Live Nation.
One night. Countless hits. Memories that last forever. | Friday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Silver Springs brings Fleetwood Mac’s magic roaring back to life with a night that feels like stepping straight into the band’s golden era. From the first note, you’ll be swept up in the iconic...
Haydn's Armida, an opera seria set during the era of the Crusades, focuses on the psychological conflict between love and duty in a time of war. It retells the story of Torquato Tasso's Renaissance poem Jerusalem Delivered, in which the knight Rinaldo is lured into temptation by...
A deadly outbreak has consumed the once-thriving ARTfactory, transforming its four floors into a nightmare of infection, chaos, and survival. As emergency systems fail and the virus spreads unchecked, visitors must navigate dark corridors, abandoned laboratories, and quarantined...
Sports, sass, and showtunes! Join us for Heated Revelry – this season's unapologetically fun edition in our cabaret series. We’re back – sportier and more stylish than ever. This year we are celebrating “sportsball” and all the other “games” people play. From double entendres to...
Joe Hisaishi brings his Concerto for Orchestra to the San Francisco Symphony for three performances in October 2026, with Hisaishi conducting. Written in five movements and running approximately 45 minutes, the work follows a form associated with composers such as Béla Bartók...
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 crime while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The criminal is lurking somewhere in the room...
Betrayal by Harold Pinter, directed by Artistic Director Alex Levy, follows Emma, Robert, and Jerry as their intertwined histories are revealed. As Emma's marriage to Robert ends, she reconnects with Jerry, her former lover and her husband's best friend, with the action...
Borisevich Duo Sunday, Oct. 25, 2 p.m. $20/$15/$10 All Ages Real-life couple pianist Margarita Loukachkina and violinist Nikita Borisevich and their piano prodigy son return to the Alden stage for an afternoon of breathtaking chamber music! Longtime audience-favorites, the group...
Handle with Care is a unique interactive production from Belgian theatrical performance collective Ontroerend Goed, described by its creators as a theatre production in a box. The show features no performers, sets, or script in the traditional sense; instead, audiences find a...
Woody Sez celebrates the extraordinary life and lasting legacy of Woody Guthrie, weaving his vibrant true story with timeless classics including Bound For Glory, Pastures of Plenty, Vigilante Man, The Ballad of Tom Joad, Deportees, and This Land Is Your Land. Helen Hayes...
A bilingual play for young audiences by Mexican playwright Antonio Zúñiga, directed by Venezuelan Mauricio Pita. An old man, a young man, and a child revisit the Mexican Revolution, resurrecting Pancho Villa through memory, corridos, and myth. As history blurs with folklore, a...
The Royale by Marco Ramirez Directed by Raven Lorraine Jay “The Sport” Jackson dreams of being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. But it’s 1905, and in the racially segregated world of boxing, his chances are as good as knocked out. When a crooked boxing promoter...
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...
A world premiere play by Helen Hayes Award winner Dani Stoller, based on the acclaimed children's book by April Genevieve Tucholke, directed by Patrick Flynn. The show follows Beatrice, a child for whom the daytime world feels overwhelming, but whose imagination comes alive in...
Mainstage Play - Dinner & Show Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night...
The Dracula Experience returns to George C. Marshall’s Dodona Manor... bigger, bloodier, and more immersive than ever before! Inspired by Bram Stoker’s legendary gothic novel, Dracula’s Midnight Masquerade is a site-specific, free-roaming theatrical experience staged throughout...
Go-Go 50 opens The Washington Ballet's 50th Anniversary Season, celebrating both 50 years of the company and 50 years of Go-Go music. The mixed repertory program combines works by choreographers connected to TWB's history, including Blue Until June choreographed by Trey McIntyre...
National Chamber Ensemble's annual holiday concert features the winners of the Nancy Peery Marriott Young Artist Competition alongside talented young musicians from the community. The concert is part of NCE's 20th Anniversary Season celebrating chamber music in Arlington.
David Catlin's theatrical adaptation brings Mary Shelley into the heart of her legendary tale, as she conjures a world in which Victor Frankenstein pursues the impossible and brings life to a creature assembled from the dead. Creator and creation soon become locked in a...
Shakespeare’s rarely staged comedy, where human nature collides with the letter of the law, comes to life under the direction of Psalmayene 24, Helen Hayes Award winner for Folger Theatre’s production of Metamorphoses . Newly enforced regulations penalize the everyday citizens...
Stephen Sondheim's masterwork about friendship, ambition and the compromises that shape a life, directed and choreographed by Matthew Gardiner. Told in reverse chronological order, the musical follows three longtime friends as they navigate idealism, loyalty and disappointment...
Olney audiences were blown away in 2025, when we invited Synetic Theater to perform their award-winning, wordless version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Now they’re back, but this time they’re tackling a story with classic American roots in the intimate confines of...
Before the paintings, poems, and fame, Bella and Marc Chagall were two young dreamers whose love transformed the world around them. Through music, movement, and theatrical magic, their journey unfolds from a small Jewish town to a vivid landscape of imagination, devotion, and...
The Fruits of Our Labor is a world premiere production from Step Afrika!, commemorating America's 250th anniversary. Directed by Jakari Sherman, with Conrad R. Kelly II and Vusi Mdoyi, the work blends stepping, percussion, poetry, and song into a rhythmic exploration of...
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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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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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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Factory of Fear - Outbreak ARTfactory (10/15-10/24) |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Adventure Theatre MTC (4/09-5/23) |
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Jitta's Atonement Washington Stage Guild (4/08-5/02) |
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Measure for Measure Folger Shakespeare Library (9/22-11/01) |
