News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

OLNEY THEATRE CENTER

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832
Olney, MD 20832


RELATED STORIES

Krysta Rodriguez & More to Perform at Signature Theatre Gala Honoring Nathan Lane


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 27, 2024

On April 29, 2024, Signature Theatre will honor icon of stage and screen Nathan Lane with the company’s thirteenth Stephen Sondheim Award. Learn more!...

Review: AVAAZ at Olney Theatre Center


by Itai Yasur - March 11, 2024

Olney Theatre Center's AVAAZ charts one woman's journey from Tehran to 'Tehran-geles,' singing a bombastic song of freedom all the way....

Video: Watch The Cast of Signature Theatre's PRIVATE JONES Perform 'Now the Bastards Join the Fight'


by Joshua Wright - February 22, 2024

Get a first look at the company of Signature Theatre's Private Jones performing 'Now the Bastards Join the Fight' in an all-new video....

Judy Kuhn, Kerstin Anderson, Perry Sherman & More to Star in UNKNOWN SOLDIER D.C. Premiere


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 20, 2024

The cast and creative team has been revealed for Unknown Soldier at Arena Stage. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets....

Video: First Look At Gender-Swapped Ken Ludwig's LEND ME A SOPRANO at Olney Theatre Center


by Joshua Wright - February 19, 2024

Get a first look at Ken Ludwig's Lend Me A Soprano, a gender-swapped adaptation of his 1989 Broadway hit, Lend Me A Tenor, runs in the Roberts Mainstage at Olney Theatre Center February 7 - March 10, 2024. ...

Photos: First Look at PRIVATE JONES World Premiere at Signature Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 14, 2024

Get a first look at photos of the world premiere of Private Jones at Signature Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets! ...

Video: Get An Exclusive First Look At PRIVATE JONES At Signature Theatre


by Joshua Wright - February 14, 2024

BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look Signature Theatre's world premiere musical Private Jones. The musical is written and directed by Marshall Pailet (Who’s Your Baghdaddy, or how i started the iraq war and Triassic Parq)....

Interview: Theatre Life with Amelia Hensley


by Elliot Lanes - February 13, 2024

Today’s subject Amelia Hensley is currently living her theatre life at Signature Theatre as The Storyteller for the World Premiere musical Private Jones. The production runs through March 10th in Signature’s MAX space....

Review: LEND ME A SOPRANO at Olney Theatre Center


by Peter Rouleau - February 12, 2024

Olney Theatre Center's Roberts Mainstage is presenting Ken Ludwig's 'Lend Me a Soprano' through March 10. This is a reimagining (by the author) of Ludwig's Tony-winning farce 'Lend Me a Tenor,' a staple of professional, community, and school theatres nationwide...which I've somehow never seen.  As t...

Cast Announced for AT THE WEDDING at Studio Theatre


by Blair Ingenthron - February 11, 2024

The cast and crew has been announced for Bryna Turner's hilarious and meditative comedy At the Wedding, which will start performances on March 13. Learn more here!...

Past Shows

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas


It wouldn’t be Christmas without Paul Morella’s stunning solo rendition of Charles Dickens’s classic tale that represents everything great about the holiday. This is  A ...

Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
11/8 - 12/31/2023


Tradition! The word itself is synonymous with this most classic of American musicals, set in the tiny shtetl of Anatevka. People all over the world ...

The Brothers Paranormal
The Brothers Paranormal
9/27 - 10/29/2023


Prepare to be thrilled, chilled, and moved!  For Halloween, Olney Theatre is home to a modern horror story of family, migration, and the spirits that ...

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year


There isnt a venue in the country with more holiday spirit than Olney Theatre Center or should we say holiday spirits? Because were embracing the ...

Dance Nation
Dance Nation
9/28 - 10/30/2022


The pre-teen dance team from Liverpool, Ohio is primed for competition, but in Clare Barrons explosive script the stakes are much higher than just a ...

The Music Man
The Music Man
6/17 - 7/24/2022


Our revolutionary retelling of this Golden Age classic is sure to be the talk of the DMV - and beyond - in the coming season. ...

The Joy That Carries You
The Joy That Carries You
5/11 - 6/12/2022


A drama about an interracial couple in crisis by local playwriting team Awa Sal Secka and Dani Stoller (Signature's Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes) that ...

Imagination Stage's Mother Goose at Olney Theatre Center


The Olney Performance Series is a new, year-round program that provides a permanent home on our campus for jazz, cabaret, spoken word, and theatre for ...

Brigadoon
Brigadoon
4/8 - 4/10/2022


Part of the Applause Concert SeriesNew Yorker Tommy Albright unexpectedly arrives at mysterious Scottish Highland village of Brigadoon, which only appears for one day every ...

Pippin
Pippin
4/1 - 4/3/2022


Part of the Applause Concert SeriesWeve got magic to do over one special weekend in April! This classic musical about a young man in search ...

Disney's Beauty and the Beast


Be our guest for the holidays as the classic animated story comes to life on the Olney Theatre Mainstage. Its a tale as old as ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
11/26 - 1/2/2022


Starring Mason Alexander Park as Hedwig! The revolutionary punk-rock sensation comes to Olney Theatre Center. In the crossfire of cold wars and culture wars, Hedwig ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/26 - 12/26/2021


It wouldn't be the holidays without Olney's favorite Christmas tradition. Paul Morellas captivating solo performance of the Dickens classic keeps audiences coming back season after ...

The Thanksgiving Play
The Thanksgiving Play
9/29 - 10/31/2021


The countrys most-produced comedy of 2019 arrives in the DMV courtesy of Olney Theatre Center to open our 2021-22 season! This hilarious sendup of white ...

Ink
9/1 - 10/3/2021


Penobscot Theatre is thrilled to present the world premiere of Ink. This is the true story of Mary Rowlandson, a preacher’s wife taken by the ...

One Year Later: Revisiting The Amateurs with playwright Jordan Harrison and the cast


The loss of live theatre was made more poignant at OTC when our production of The Amateurs, a play about making theatre in the midst ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
11/4 - 12/27/2020


Olney Theatre Center text by John Cameron Mitchell, music and lyrics by Stephen Trask...

The Humans
1/29 - 3/1/2020


Winner of the 2016 Tony Award® for Best Play. Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s ...


Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman Olney Theatre Center...

The Crucible
9/25 - 5/19/2019


A dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. An ...


The show had its Broadway premiere in 1947, which ran for 725 performances and won three Tony Awards, including one for star David Wayne and ...

ON THE TOWN
6/23 - 7/22/2018


On the Town bursts onto the stage with infectious energy, celebrating the carefree spirit of three sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York ...

MY FAIR LADY
6/21 - 7/23/2017


Videos


Marjorie Prime in Washington, DC Marjorie Prime
Prologue Theatre (4/26 - 5/19) Tracker
Chicks in Heavem in Washington, DC Chicks in Heavem
Creative Cauldron (4/11 - 4/28) Tracker
Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return in Washington, DC Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return
GALA Hispanic Theatre (5/9 - 6/9) Tracker
Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now - The Three Leading Ladies of Hairspray in Washington, DC Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now - The Three Leading Ladies of Hairspray
The Alden Theatre (6/8 - 6/8)
The 35th Annual: Evening of Comedy in Washington, DC The 35th Annual: Evening of Comedy
The Barns at Wolf Trap (4/26 - 4/27)
Human Museum in Washington, DC Human Museum
Rorschach Theatre at 1020 Connecticut Avenue NW (4/18 - 5/5)
The Hatmaker's Wife in Washington, DC The Hatmaker's Wife
Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater (6/5 - 6/25)
Unknown Soldier in Washington, DC Unknown Soldier
Arena Stage (3/29 - 5/5)
Back to the Future: The Musical in Washington, DC Back to the Future: The Musical
Kennedy Center [Opera House] (7/23 - 8/11)
Shear Madness in Washington, DC Shear Madness
Theater Lab at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (10/3 - 9/29)
VIEW SHOWS  ADD A SHOW   FIND A JOB

Recommended For You