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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Is God Is
Is God Is
6/13 - 7/14/2024


In this fierce and funny drama, follow impassioned twin sisters as they go on an epic adventure across America to exact righteous revenge on the ...

The Art of Care
The Art of Care
10/31 - 11/24/2024


One of the most profound experiences we all share is how we care for, and are cared for by, others. Created from interviews and interactions ...

cullud wattah
cullud wattah
4/3 - 4/27/2025


It is 2016, and it has been 936 days and counting since Flint, Michigan has had clean water. Third-generation General Motors employee Marion finds herself ...

Andy Warhol in Tehran
Andy Warhol in Tehran
5/29 - 6/29/2025


In 1976, pop artist Andy Warhol travels to Tehran to paint a portrait of the Shah of Iran’s wife. Amidst taking in the Crown Jewels ...



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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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