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SPOOKY ACTION THEATER

Spooky Action Theater, 1810 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20009

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 ...


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Washington Stage Guild Closes Season with World Premiere of AN UNBUILT LIFE


by A.A. Cristi - April 12, 2024

Get the latest cast updates for the Washington Stage Guild's production of AN UNBUILT LIFE....

SPAMALOT, SWEPT AWAY And More Nominated for 2024 Helen Hayes Awards


by A.A. Cristi - January 22, 2024

Tonight, at a celebration honoring outstanding theatre on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered at the ATLAS Performing Arts Center for Theatre Washington's announcement of nominees for the 40th Helen Hayes Awards. ...

Cast and Creative Team Set for TEMPESTUOUS ELEMENTS World Premiere at Arena Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 16, 2024

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Tempestuous Elements, playwright Kia Corthron’s new work exploring the trailblazing career of visionary Black feminist and educational luminary Anna Julia Cooper....

Review: AGRESTE (DRYLANDS) at Spooky Action


by Roger Catlin - October 31, 2023

Out in an arid, underpopulated northeastern Brazil, an unusual but not entirely inconceivable love story plays out, presented as a kind of morality lesson or at least a cautionary tale. ...

Washington Stage Guild Season Continues With ARMS AND THE MAN


by Stephi Wild - October 26, 2023

The Washington Stage Guild's 2023-2024 season continues with the playwright the company has most frequently produced (30 productions of 27 plays), G.B. Shaw and his play Arms and the Man. ...

THE CARETAKER Comes to The Edge of the Universe Theater


by Stephi Wild - September 01, 2023

The Edge of the Universe Theater follows up its 2022 Capital Fringe production of Caryl Churchill’s A Number with the work of another British playwright, Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter’s THE CARETAKER. ...

Mosaic Theater Company Presents World Premiere of MONUMENTAL TRAVESTIES


by A.A. Cristi - July 25, 2023

Mosaic Theater Company presents the world premiere of Monumental Travesties, a searing new comedy written by Mosaic's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Psalmayene 24 and directed by Mosaic Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas. Inspired by the Emancipation Memorial in DC's Capitol ...

Cast Announced For ANGELS IN AMERICA at Arena Stage


by Stephi Wild - February 15, 2023

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announced the cast and creative team of its upcoming production of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, which will run March 24 – April 23, 2023, in the iconic in-the-round Fichandler Stage....

Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME to Open at Washington Stage Guild This Month


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 05, 2023

The Washington Stage Guild will continue its 2022-2023 season, a “Season of Transitions,” with Endgame by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Wade. Performances begin January 26 - 28 with four Pay-What-You-Can previews and run until February 19, 2023....

Review: MAPLE AND VINE at Spooky Action


by Roger Catlin - October 04, 2022

What did our critic think of MAPLE AND VINE at Spooky Action?...

Past Shows

Agreste (Drylands)
Agreste (Drylands)
10/26 - 11/19/2023


“By turns lyrical, funny, surprising, tragic, Agreste (Drylands) achieves folkloric power.” - New Haven Review In the drylands of northeast Brazil, a kingdom of sand ...

Sonnets for an Old Century
Sonnets for an Old Century
6/15 - 6/25/2023


José Rivera ’s  Sonnets for an Old Century  captures the psychic residue of ten lives in ten intimate, searing encounters in the afterlife. In this ...

The Oldest Boy
The Oldest Boy
6/6 - 6/30/2019


An American mother and a Tibetan father must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage and their hearts. Two Tibetan monks ...

Among the Dead
Among the Dead
2/14 - 3/10/2019


Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea. Mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. Three ...

New Guidelines for Peaceful Times


A high-stakes confrontation between a troubled Brazilian immigration official and a WWII European refugee....

The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs


In The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to a mysterious and forbidden room. She has everything - ...

Happy Hour
Happy Hour
5/12 - 6/5/2016


A live video game performance (where the audience controls the action) created by German theater company machina eX. Presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Washington. ...

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Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage (6/6 - 7/14)
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Hylton Performing Arts Center (4/24 - 4/24)
Is God Is in Washington, DC Is God Is
Constellation Theatre Company (6/13 - 7/14)
Riverside Christmas Spectacular in Washington, DC Riverside Christmas Spectacular
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts (11/20 - 12/29)
Funny Girl in Washington, DC Funny Girl
Kennedy Center [Opera House] (6/25 - 7/14)
Rockville Little Theatre presents Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (5/3 - 5/12)
The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute in Washington, DC The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute
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