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Laura Eason's sexy, funny grown-up fling SEX WITH STRANGERS heats up the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2015-16 season with both sexual and intellectual tensions. The provocative new play runs tonight, Sept. 26 through Oct. 25 on the Playhouse's intimate Thompson Shelterhouse stage.

Dana Yeaton's sweeping, compelling MAD RIVER RISING brings a flood of forces - natural, generational and emotional - to the Cincinnati Playhouse's Robert S. Marx Theatre Oct. 17 through Nov. 14. Family patriarch and farmer Angus Stewart, the anchor of Yeaton's captivating drama, escapes from his nursing home determined to save the land he loves from the rising tide of urbanization.

Laura Eason's sexy, funny grown-up fling SEX WITH STRANGERS heats up the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2015-16 season with both sexual and intellectual tensions. The provocative new play runs Sept. 26 through Oct. 25 on the Playhouse's intimate Thompson Shelterhouse stage.

Tonight before a crowd of 1,200 theatre-makers and theatre-lovers at the historic Lincoln Theatre, theatreWashington celebrated excellence on Washington stages at the 2015 Helen Hayes Awards. The awards celebration was a night of excitement and surprise as 57 Washington theatre artists, theatres, and ensembles received honors in 47 categories for their outstanding accomplishments during the 2014 theatre season. Scroll down for the full list of winners!

One of the country's most prestigious cultural honors, The Helen Hayes Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in professional theatre throughout the Washington metropolitan area. theatreWashington will host The 2015 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony tonight, April 6, 2015 at the historic Lincoln Theatre.

Tracey Scott Wilson's provocative new play BUZZER, set in a gentrifying neighborhood, takes up residence in the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre tonight, March 21 through April 19. By turns darkly funny and heartbreaking, BUZZER pushes many timely hot buttons of race, class, sex and real estate.

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER continues the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Marx Theatre season with an inspired, hilarious and epic Peter Pan prequel that mixes grown-up fun for adults, ample silliness for children and storytelling magic for the kid in us all. The captivating winner of five Tony Awards, adapted for the stage by Rick Elice from the Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson novel, will bring Neverland to new life tonight, March 7 through April 4.

Tracey Scott Wilson's provocative new play BUZZER, set in a gentrifying neighborhood, takes up residence in the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre March 21 through April 19. By turns darkly funny and heartbreaking, BUZZER pushes many timely hot buttons of race, class, sex and real estate.

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER continues the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Marx Theatre season with an inspired, hilarious and epic Peter Pan prequel that mixes grown-up fun for adults, ample silliness for children and storytelling magic for the kid in us all. The captivating winner of five Tony Awards, adapted for the stage by Rick Elice from the Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson novel, will bring Neverland to new life March 7 through April 4.

Tonight before a crowd of 150 theatre makers and theatre lovers, theatreWashington announced the nominees for the 2015 Helen Hayes Awards. One of the country's most prestigious cultural honors, The Helen Hayes Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in professional theatre throughout the Washington metropolitan area. Watch the full announcement below, and scroll down for the list of nominees!

The world's most famous fictional sleuth adds a novel chapter to his repertoire with playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's electrifying new whodunit SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUICIDE CLUB, which opens the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 55th season. The play is an inventive mash-up of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic characters and the Robert Louis Stevenson short story 'The Suicide Club,' providing a clever, intricately woven new mystery for Holmes to deduce. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUICIDE CLUB runs today, Sept. 6 through Oct. 4 in the Robert S. Marx Theatre.

The world's most famous fictional sleuth adds a novel chapter to his repertoire with playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's electrifying new whodunit SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUICIDE CLUB, which opens the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 55th season. The play is an inventive mash-up of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic characters and the Robert Louis Stevenson short story "The Suicide Club," providing a clever, intricately woven new mystery for Holmes to deduce. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUICIDE CLUB runs Sept. 6 through Oct. 4 in the Robert S. Marx Theatre.

The Wonderful World of Dissocia, which is wonderful indeed, is lovingly crafted by Theater Alliance, who have bounced back in a big way in their new space.

These individuals are so outlandish, they make the Mad Hatter look like Miss Manners and the March Hare look like the Easter bunny. There's the watch-repair specialist who drinks urine; the bumbling, ritual-addicted bureaucrat known as the Oathtaker; and the talking goat who hungers for blame (he's a scapegoat, you see) and who turns out to have a shocking propensity for violence.

Washington theatre celebrated its highest honors for achievement at the 30th Annual Helen Hayes Awards tonight, April 21, 2014 at the National Building Museum. Scroll down for the full list of winners!

Due to popular demand, August Wilson play extends to May 4, 2014

Provocative. Intense. Engrossing. These are all words that have been used to describe Rajiv Joseph's exciting new play THE NORTH POOL, which closes the Playhouse's 2013-14 season May 3 to June 1. The two-person thriller is a riveting psychological drama that promises to keep audiences guessing until its final moments.

Vera Joseph and her grandson Leo discover connections both humorous and touching in Amy Herzog's acclaimed play 4000 MILES, an intimate comedy-drama which runs in The Playhouse's Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre from today, Feb. 8 through March 9.

Vera Joseph and her grandson Leo discover connections both humorous and touching in Amy Herzog's acclaimed play 4000 MILES, an intimate comedy-drama which runs in the Playhouse's Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre from Feb. 8 through March 9.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Broadway's Tony Award for Best Play. London's Olivier Award for Best New Play. There's only one show in history that can claim all three honors. The Playhouse is proud to kick off the second half of its Marx Theatre season with Bruce Norris' CLYBOURNE PARK, running today, Jan. 18 through Feb. 16.