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Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime
4/26 - 5/19/2024


This captivating drama explores human, and digital, interpersonal relationships and challenges our perceptions of memory, identity, and loss.

Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return


Book & Lyrics by Gustavo Ott Original Musical & Lyrics by Mariano Vales Directed by Mariano Caligaris Music Direction by Walter "Bobby" McCoy Choreography by ...

Shear Madness
Shear Madness
10/4 - 6/30/2025


Figure out whodunit at this wildly popular record-breaking comedy. Audiences all over the world have spotted the clues and questioned the suspects amid much hilarity. ...

Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again


Composed of actual letters between renowned poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Dear Elizabeth intimately reimagines a correspondence between two of the greatest poets of ...

Cheat Trivia Night


Join friends and fans of The Keegan Theatre for a social evening of trivia… for cheaters! Bring a team and compete to be named the ...

Brian Ganz: A Chopin Recital


Pianist, scholar, internationally celebrated pianist, and devoted champion of Frédéric Chopin, Brian Ganz has illuminated the Polish Romantic era composer throughout his career. Since 2011, ...

Doreen Ketchens • Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!


Mon cher!  The MSO is excited to present the Clarinet Queen of New Orleans, Doreen Ketchens for an exclusive performance of Dixieland favorites in her ...

An Unbuilt Life
An Unbuilt Life
4/11 - 5/5/2024


World Premiere by Elizabeth DeSchryver, directed by Helen Hayes Award nominee Steven Carpenter. When Agatha Ganner discovers a mystery painting in her deceased husband’s art collection, she engages ...

An Unbuilt Life
An Unbuilt Life
4/11 - 5/5/2024


By Elizabeth DeSchryver When Agatha Ganner discovers a mystery painting in her deceased husband’s art collection, she engages an energetic graduate student to research it ...

Human Museum
Human Museum
4/18 - 5/5/2024


As robots on Earth finalize a museum exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of humanity’s extinction, an unexpected radio transmission disrupts everything they thought they knew. ...

Macbeth
Macbeth
4/9 - 5/5/2024


Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth ...

Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Macbeth
4/9 - 5/5/2024


Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth ...

Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldier
3/29 - 5/5/2024


Cleaning out her grandmother’s home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier tucked away in a box of keepsakes. And so begins Unknown ...

Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldier
3/29 - 5/5/2024


Cleaning out her grandmother’s home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier tucked away in a box of keepsakes. And so begins  Unknown ...

Webster's Bitch
Webster's Bitch
4/6 - 5/5/2024


When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster’s Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender ...

Amm(i)gone
Amm(i)gone
4/20 - 5/12/2024


Creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith. Should ...

Rockville Little Theatre presents Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express


 performances |  May 3, 4, 10 & 11 at 8pm |  May 5 & 12 at 2pm Adapted by Ken Ludwig Directed by Laura W. Andruski ...

The Last Drop
The Last Drop
4/12 - 5/12/2024


Society collapses during an economic upheaval. People flee cities amid pestilence and war. Mary & Joe survive until invaders arrive and secrets are revealed.

The Last Drop
The Last Drop
4/12 - 5/12/2024


World Premiere! The Last Drop by John Shand (Australia) Western civilization collapses during an economic upheaval and water becomes scarce. Pestilence, violence and war drive ...

Disney's Lion King Kids
4/15 - 5/15/2024


The Lion King JR. features classic songs from the Broadway musical and animated feature film, including “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King,” “He Lives ...


Learning Stage: book: David Simpatico; lyrics: Greg Cham, Ray Cham, Andy Dodd, Matthew Gerrard, Faye Greenberg, Jamie Houston, David N. Lawrence, Bryan Louiselle, Robbie Nevil, ...

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
3/15 - 5/18/2024


Little Shop of Horrors  is a nonstop blast, sci-fi horror comedy, love story and rock musical that has become one of the most treasured pieces ...

Love's Labour's Lost
5/3 - 5/18/2024


In Love’s Labor’s Lost, the comedy centers on four young men who fall in love against their wills. The men, one of them the king ...

Frontieres sans Frontieres
Frontieres sans Frontieres
4/25 - 5/19/2024


Frontieres sans Frontieres by Phillip Howze, directed by Elizabeth Dinkova. Featuring Frank Britton, Surasree Das, Lauren Davis, Jamil Joseph, Camilo Linares, Victor Salinas, Anna Takayo ...

Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
5/17 - 5/19/2024


Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, a new mesmerizing production of the iconic musical phenomenon returns to the stage. Originally staged by London’s Regent’s Park Open Air ...

Into The Woods Jr
5/23 - 5/23/2024


The Brothers Grimm "go Broadway" as Sondheim and Lapine offer up a cockeyed fairy tale where all of your favorite characters-Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, ...

Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldier
3/29 - 5/24/2024


Book by Daniel Goldstein Music by Michael Friedman Lyrics by Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein Directed by Trip Cullman By Special Arrangement with TBD Theatricals ...

THE RETURN OF ULYSSES - Song of My Father


IN Series’ lauded Monteverdi Trilogy continues with the second installation in the cycle.  2024 is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Gulf of ...


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Review: HERE IT IS: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN at Kennedy Center


by Roger Catlin - April 29, 2024

The producer Larry Klein honored the memory of Leonard Cohen with a 2022 tribute album that had a hushed sensibility and taste, as well as an impressive array of vocalists. Hoping to continue that feel, he began work on an equally fine performance version with the same title, “This is Now: A Tribute...

Review: FRONTIERS SANS FRONTIERS at Spooky Action Theater


by Tavish Young - April 29, 2024

Frontiers Sans Frontiers is good. It's refreshing, biting, funny, and relevant. From April 25th to May 19th, under a few trashbags and discarded cups of tea, DC theatre goers may be able to find Spooky Action Theater's production of Frontiers Sans Frontiers....

Review: MARJORIE PRIME at Prologue Theatre At The Atlas


by Mary Lincer - April 28, 2024

What did our critic think of MARJORIE PRIME at Prologue Theatre At The Atlas?...

Review: SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY: IMPERMANENCE at The Kennedy Center


by Tavish Young - April 28, 2024

A beautifully asynchronous and turbulent super-organism, Impermanence opened its weekend at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater on April 16th....

Review: AMM(I)GONE at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company


by David Friscic - April 28, 2024

The semantics and silence that delineate love and disclosure are operating at full throttle in the probing personal story of playwright and performer Adil Mansoor in the theatrical experience that is entitled Amm(i)gone. As the uber-talented Mansoor invites his very traditional Pakistani mother to t...

Review: HAIR at Signature Theatre


by Pamela Roberts - April 27, 2024

Signature Theatre’s revival of the groovy Vietnam-era musical HAIR is wildly energetic, colorful, and full of spirit. The cast’s gorgeous voices and exuberance uplift songs that we know as the soundtrack of the times, from the opening “Aquarius” to the final “Let the Sunshine In.”...

Review: THE ILLUSIONISTS at Opera House/Kennedy Center


by Mary Lincer - April 25, 2024

Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, The Illusionists brings the fun of magic and the magic of fun at a time when a little voluntary, recreational misdirection sounds like a great idea. Indeed, through the magic of a big screen and a little camera, The Illusionists have solved the problem ...

Review: VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company


by Jackson Malmgren - April 23, 2024

What did our critic think of TAFFETY PUNK THEATRE COMPANY'S VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company?...

Review: PAN AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S TODO TANGO at Kennedy Center


by Hannah R. Wing - April 22, 2024

On Saturday, April 20, 2024, PASO brought their program, Todo Tango, an intimate and fiery evening of tango to the Kennedy Center. ...

Review: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center's Family Theater


by Emily Berger - April 21, 2024

This new work featured three episodes in Asian American history....



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