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INSeries presents: Poppea
INSeries presents: Poppea
3/14 - 3/29/2025


The final part of IN Series’ Monteverdi trilogy, Poppea brings the composer’s most famous and audacious final opera of love, power, sex, and betrayal to ...

Chicken & Biscuits
Chicken & Biscuits
3/13 - 4/6/2025


When a tight-knit family gathers to mourn the passing of their patriarch, old wounds are reopened and secrets are spilled, leading to uproarious moments and ...

Your Name Means Dream
Your Name Means Dream
3/12 - 4/6/2025


Internationally acclaimed playwright José Rivera directs his profoundly intimate tragicomedy that asks what it means to be human as we embrace the technology of our future – and it embraces us. ...

Professor Woland's Black Magic Rock Show


Music & Lyrics: Michael Pemberton , Lyrics: Andrea Pemberton , Book: Jesse Rasmussen & Elizabeth Dinkova . Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, ...

Sister Act
Sister Act
3/14 - 5/17/2025


Sister Act  is a riotous musical comedy based on the hit 1992 film that has audiences jumping to their feet! To escape the mob, a ...

Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS


Season 18 from Constellation Theatre Company brings you A24 screenwriter  Nick Payne's  Constellations  and Broadway favorite  Head Over Heels , a musical featuring music from iconic ...

Blame It On Beckett
Blame It On Beckett
3/14 - 3/30/2025


Heidi Bishop is a wide-eyed dramaturgy intern, eager to better American drama. What she encounters instead is an endless stream of bad scripts by desperate ...

Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
3/30 - 4/20/2025


When the distinguished elderly owner of a rural estate returns with a new, young wife, Yelena, chaos erupts. Tensions run high, marriages reach their limits, ...

A Year With Frog and Toad


Direct from Broadway comes the Tony Award-winning musical A Year With Frog and Toad, based on the beloved children’s books by Arnold Lobel. Featuring a ...

Alison Brown


GRAMMY Award-winning banjoist Alison Brown is renowned for her innovative sound blending bluegrass, folk, and jazz. She has earned praise and legions of fans worldwide ...

DC Sketchfest
DC Sketchfest
3/26 - 3/29/2025


DC Sketchfest is DC's only sketch comedy festival and features 36 comedy troupes from the US and Canada for four days only, March 26-29.

POPPEA
POPPEA
3/14 - 3/29/2025


The final installment of IN Series’ Monteverdi trilogy. An opera of love, power, sex, and betrayal inspired by Bharatanatyam dance. Music of South India, poetry,

Wombat Drool
Wombat Drool
3/8 - 3/29/2025


Drawn from David S. Kessler’s almost forty years experience as a small mammal biologist at the National Zoo and his fevered imagination, Wombat Drool is ...

hang
3/13 - 3/30/2025


"Hang" is a riveting drama that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Set to open on March 13, 2025, at the 1st ...

It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure


Disability rights…and wrongs. PR firm “Rize” faces accusations of ableism, unleashing a whirlwind of spin, changing narratives, and PC-culture. Enter Ross, a Blind influencer with ...

It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure in association with Studio Theatre


Disability rights…and wrongs.  PR firm “Rize” faces accusations of ableism, unleashing a whirlwind of spin, changing narratives, and PC-culture. Enter Ross, a Blind influencer with ...

La Bohème
La Bohème
3/27 - 3/30/2025


Puccini’s La bohème is one of the most famous operas ever written, following the unforgettable story of two young, bohemian lovers in Paris. With a great love story comes a beautiful score, including arias like Musetta’s Waltz and ‘Yes, they call me Mimì’ (Si, mi chiamano Mimì). Four struggling bohemians – a poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher are living together in Paris, when one freezing Christmas Eve their lives are changed forever. When young poet Rodolfo meets seamstress Mimì, it’s love at first sight. But faced by the cruel realities of poverty and ill health, will the flame that burns between them flicker and die? Or will the timeless strength of their youthful passion withstand every trial and tribulation that life can throw at them? Our bohemians try to find their way, but are soon sharply awoken to the harsh realities of life… ...

Les Arts Florissants: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at 300


In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Les Arts Florissants, one of the foremost Baroque music ensembles in the world, reframes ...

The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
2/28 - 3/30/2025


__"Funny, poetic and deeply insightful"__ – *The San Diego Union-Tribune* Against the lavish backdrop of 1870s New York, where hypocrisy thrives and hidden passions simmer, ...

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
2/28 - 3/30/2025


adapt: Doug McGrath; dir: Doug Hughes. World Premiere...

The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
2/28 - 3/30/2025


Against the lavish backdrop of 1870s New York, where hypocrisy thrives and hidden passions simmer, Karen Zacarías brings Edith Wharton's timeless masterpiece,  The Age of ...


Richmond Shakespeare presents a lively production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), offering a comedic whirlwind through all 37 plays in just 97 ...

Peking Acrobats


THE PEKING ACROBATS®, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists, and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments will bring ...

Cirque Mechanics: Pedal Punk


Known for modern circus incorporating mechanical marvels, Cirque Mechanics introduces the wildly astonishing Pedal Punk, set in a Steampunk-inspired world where cycling provides wondrous escape ...

A Room in the Castle
A Room in the Castle
3/4 - 4/6/2025


How does a woman survive the court of Denmark?  A  Room in the Castle  finds Ophelia, her handmaid, and her Queen Gertrude on the other ...

ExPats Theatre: Testosterone


Inspired by the Grimm brothers' “The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear,” German playwright Rebekka Kricheldorf reimagines the tale of the ...

Mountain Stage hosted by Kathy Mattea


GRAMMY Award winner and West Virginia native Kathy Mattea hosts a taping of Mountain Stage , live from the Hylton Center’s Merchant Hall. Since 1983, ...

Murder at the Mansion presents Bingo B4 Murder


Murder at the Mansion presents "Bingo B4 Murder"             AT GLENVIEW MANSION 3 Performances | April 4 & 5 at 8 p.m. | April 6 ...

Testosterone
Testosterone
3/15 - 4/6/2025


Inspired by the Grimm brother’s “The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear”, German playwright Rebekka Kricheldorf re-imagines the tale of the ...

Theater Terra: Rapunzel the Musical


Spend an enchanting afternoon with Rapunzel and her long, golden locks in this reimagined musical fairytale from Theater Terra . With the help of four ...

Menopause The Musical 2


Hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings, memory lapses, weight gain - these are a few of our favourite menopausal things! Cruising Through Menopause is a ...

Pretty Woman - The Musical


Pretty Woman: The Musical , based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time, springs to life with a powerhouse creative team ...


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Latest Washington, DC Reviews


Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE at Keegan Theatre


by David Friscic - March 25, 2025

When I walked into the Keegan Theatre Saturday evening to see the galvanizing play #Charlottesville, I noticed two changes since I reviewed this play at the Capital Fringe Festival one year and eight months ago: this play is no longer about one portentous and isolated incident but, rather, this play...

Review: COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET at The Kennedy Center Opera House


by Audrey Cahak - March 24, 2025

The elite performers of Complexions Contemporary Ballet took to the Opera House stage from March 20th to the 22nd for their first full company engagement at the Kennedy Center. In the same month that the Black Lives Matter Pavillion was being demolished and the executive branch began asserting contr...

Review: SISTER ACT at Ford's Theatre


by Jake Bridges - March 22, 2025

What did our critic think of SISTER ACT at Ford's Theatre?...

Review: hang at 1st Stage


by Hannah R. Wing - March 21, 2025

hang takes its time getting to what the play is actually about. The suspense doesn't really start to develop until the final half hour, and this is where the small ensemble cast of Marie, Greer, and Joy really shine....

Review: YOUR NAME MEANS DREAM at Theater J


by Mary Lincer - March 19, 2025

What did our critic think of YOUR NAME MEANS DREAM at Theater J?...

Review: THE IMMIGRANT AT SYNETIC THEATRE


by Brian Bochicchio - March 19, 2025

And it always is with Synetic. For those unfamiliar with the company, their craft is based on expression through physical movement and scenic snapshots. Sound is used as aural choreography, but words are rarely heard. With this innovative approach, they have tackled some of the classics of stage in ...

Review: CHICKEN & BISCUITS at NextStop Theatre


by Tavish Young - March 18, 2025

NextStop Theatre invites the DC-Metro area to church with Chicken & Biscuits, which runs through April 6th. The show focuses on a Black family, the Jenkins, gathering in a reunion of sorts for the patriarch of their family's funeral. ...

Review: Best Medicine Rep's BLAME IT ON BECKETT


by Andrew White - March 16, 2025

Best Medicine Rep’s DC premiere of John Morogiello’s Blame it on Beckett is a hilarious reminder that sometimes, the real dramas play out in the back offices of our beloved regional theaters. ...

Review: 'RAIN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES' at The Music Center At Strathmore


by Peter Rouleau - March 16, 2025

A vibrant, kinetic bit of Beatles nostalgia....

Review: IT’S A MOTHERF**CKING PLEASURE At Woolly Mammoth


by Hannah R. Wing - March 13, 2025

It’s a Motherf**cking Pleasure, directed by Josh Roche, goes rapidly back and forth between a play and commentary (as well as a little bit of audience interaction) that addresses ableism, and this makes the fictional play hard to follow....



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