SLEEPOVA Makes U.S. Premiere at Olney Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - Feb 19, 2025
Olney Theatre Center will produce the U.S. Premiere of Sleepova in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The play arrives in the DMV having won the 2024 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre
Malinda Will Headline WAITRESS at Olney Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - Jan 2, 2025
Olney Theatre Center's production of Sara Bareilles' beloved musical Waitress in the Roberts Mainstage will reunite star MALINDA in the lead role of Jenna, and director/choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
Olney Theatre Center to Present Regional Premiere of FROZEN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 25, 2024
Olney Theatre Center is one of the handful of regional theatres chosen by Disney to create their own, original production of Frozen. The production will be directed by Alan Muraoka. Learn more about FROZEN.
EISENHOWER: THIS PIECE OF GROUND to be Presented at Olney Theatre Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 27, 2024
This election season, Tony Award-winner John Rubinstein (Pippin, Children of a Lesser God) will play a four-week special engagement at Olney Theatre Center as President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Natalie Weiss Will Play Carole King in BEAUTIFUL at Olney Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2024
Natalie Weiss, a Broadway performer and vocal teacher who gained viral fame and over a quarter-million subscribers to her YouTube channel “Breaking Down the Riffs,” will star in the title role of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in Olney Theatre Center's Roberts Mainstage.
LONG WAY DOWN Premieres at the Olney Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2024
Olney Theatre Center is rolling out a roster of events for the community on its campus, including live performances, parties, and talkbacks with Black artists and business owners to celebrate Black excellence and to highlight the many themes in and calls to action inspired by the world premiere of the musical Long Way Down.
ISLANDER Comes to Olney Theatre Center Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Mar 13, 2024
Islander, winner of Best New Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and an off-Broadway hit, comes to Olney Theatre Center for three weeks of performances, April 11 - 28, 2024, on the Roberts Mainstage.
Olney Theatre Center Begins Renovations, Oldest Stage Gets A New Name
by Stephi Wild - Feb 28, 2024
Olney Theatre Center, an official state theatre of Maryland, has begun construction on the overhaul of its 1938 Original Theatre and announced that upon completion, the venue will be renamed the Bernard Family Theatre, in recognition of a $1 million gift from philanthropist Cathy Bernard.
SPAMALOT, SWEPT AWAY And More Nominated for 2024 Helen Hayes Awards
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 23, 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.