The Other Americans
10/18 - 11/24/2024
The Other Americans is a world-premiere drama written and starring John Leguizamo, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The play follows Nelson Castro, a Colombian-Puerto Rican laundromat ...
The Other Americans
10/18 - 11/24/2024
Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo stars as Nelson Castro, a Colombian-American laundromat owner grappling with a failing business and buried secrets. When his son Nick ...
Data
10/31 - 12/15/2024
Data is Matthew Libby's intriguingly suspenseful and relevant new play that takes you behind the locked doors of Silicon Valley. Its protagonist is Maneesh, a ...
Death on the Nile
11/30 - 12/29/2024
In Ken Ludwig's thrilling adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile , Hercule Poirot becomes entangled in a web of deceit and desire aboard ...
The Bedwetter - A Musical
1/31 - 3/16/2025
"The Bedwetter - A Musical" is a heartfelt and comedic production set to open on February 13, 2025, at Arena Stage. With performances running until ...
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Past Shows
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
9/6 - 10/13/2024
Jaja's African Hair Braiding is a comedic play by Jocelyn Bioh set in a bustling Harlem salon, exploring themes of cultural identity and the immigrant ...
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
9/6 - 10/13/2024
Step into the vibrant world of Jaja's African Hair Braiding , a riotously funny yet deeply resonant play by Jocelyn Bioh. Set in the pulsating ...
Explore everything #DCTheatre has to offer at the 2024 *Theatre Week Kickoff Fest*. Mix and mingle with leaders from your favorite theatres, explore their upcoming ...
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding is a vibrant exploration of community and culture set to open in September 2024 at Arena Stage. This production features insightful ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced the appointment of Judy Leventhal as Chief Financial Officer, effective August 12, 2024. Leventhal ...
The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence
6/6 - 7/14/2024
Using its hallmark style of percussive dance-theater, Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence tells the story of one of the largest movements of people ...
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 ...
Tempestuous Elements
2/16 - 3/17/2024
Born into slavery in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper was a visionary Black feminist and educator in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and only the fourth ...
Tempestuous Elements
2/16 - 3/17/2024
Born into slavery in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper was a visionary Black feminist and educator in the late 19th/early 20thcenturies, and only the fourth ...
Mindplay
1/19 - 3/3/2024
Drama Desk Award–nominated theatermaker and mentalist Vinny DePonto guides us on an entirely new theatrical event in which your thoughts play a leading role. A ...
Swept Away
11/25 - 1/14/2024
When a violent storm sinks their whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Mass., the four survivors face a reckoning: how far will they ...
Swept Away
11/25 - 12/30/2023
When a violent storm sinks their whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Mass., the four survivors face a reckoning: how far will they ...
Step Afrika!'s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show
12/8 - 12/17/2023
The world’s first holiday show incorporating the African American tradition of stepping, Step Afrika!'s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show is a feast for the eyes and ears. You’ll laugh, you’ll ...
POTUS
10/13 - 11/12/2023
When the Commander-in-Chief publicly calls his wife a “See You Next Tuesday,” all H-E-Double Hockey Sticks breaks loose. In this searingly funny Broadway hit, POTUS ...
Cambodian Rock Band
7/19 - 8/27/2023
It’s 2008 and a father-daughter duo are heading to Phnom Penh; she to prosecute a notorious Cambodian war criminal, he 30 years after escaping then-Communist ...
Exclusion
5/5 - 6/25/2023
A reluctant historian is thrown out of her element when her acclaimed book about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is optioned by a larger-than-life ...
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
3/24 - 4/23/2023
Tony Kushners Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning drama Angels in America is one of the great epic American plays of this past century. We meet ...
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
3/24 - 4/23/2023
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning drama Angels in America is one of the great epic American plays of this past century. We meet ...
The High Ground
2/10 - 4/2/2023
More than a century after the Tulsa race massacre killed hundreds and destroyed the prosperous Greenwood District, a Black man in army garb still stands ...
The High Ground
2/10 - 4/2/2023
More than a century after the Tulsa race massacre killed hundreds and destroyed the prosperous Greenwood District, a Black man in army garb still stands ...
The High Ground
2/10 - 4/2/2023
A Black soldier stands his ground atop Tulsa’s Standpipe Hill, bearing witness to the destruction and desecration of Tulsa’s Greenwood District—but other forces, both friendly ...
Ride the Cyclone
1/13 - 3/5/2023
In Ride the Cyclone , the lives of six teen chamber choir singers are cut short in a freak roller coaster accident. Stuck in the ...
Ride the Cyclone (Run Extended!)
2/10 - 3/5/2023
In Ride the Cyclone , the lives of six teen chamber choir singers are cut short in a freak roller coaster accident. Stuck in the ...
Ride the Cyclone
1/13 - 2/19/2023
"DELIGHTFULLY WEIRD AND JUST PLAIN DELIGHTFUL SHOW" — The New York Times In Ride the Cyclone , the lives of six teen chamber choir singers ...
Sanctuary City
10/21 - 11/27/2022
Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok brings us the powerful story of two young DREAMers who fight to establish a place for themselves in America, the ...
Holiday
10/7 - 11/6/2022
An up-and-coming Wall Street lawyer from a working-class family aspires to quit and enjoy life once hes made enough money, a prospect that doesnt thrill ...
My Body No Choice
10/20 - 11/6/2022
In My Body No Choice, Molly Smiths final directorial venture for Arena Stage, eight of Americas most exciting female playwrights share what choice means to ...
American Prophet
7/15 - 8/28/2022
Charles Randolph-Wright (Arena’s "Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story", Broadway’s "Motown the Musical") returns to Arena Stage with a ground-breaking musical about Frederick Douglass, ...
American Prophet
7/15 - 8/28/2022
Charles Randolph-Wright (Arenas Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story, Broadways Motown the Musical) returns to Arena Stage with a groundbreaking musical powered by Frederick ...
American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Own Words
7/15 - 8/28/2022
Drumfolk
5/31 - 6/26/2022
Electrifying percussive dance fused with contemporary art forms fuels Step Afrika!’s latest production, "Drumfolk," inspired by the Stono Rebellion of 1739 and the Negro Act ...
Cambodian Rock Band
4/12 - 5/15/2022
Catch Me If You Can
3/4 - 4/17/2022
Humor, music and dance drive this rousing musical based on true events and a critically acclaimed film. See how charming, young con man Frank Abagnale ...
Change Agent
1/21 - 3/6/2022
August Wilson's Seven Guitars
11/26 - 12/26/2021
The lives of seven friends are irrevocably changed when their old friend and blues singer Floyd Barton reappears with a chance of a lifetime. Infused ...
Celia and Fidel
10/8 - 11/21/2021
Can one woman change the mind of a man and the fate of a nation? Fidel Castros most trusted confidant and political partner, Celia Snchez, ...
Toni Stone
9/3 - 10/3/2021
History is filled with trailblazers and Toni Stone was one of them. Considered a pioneer, Toni Stone is the first woman to play baseball in ...
Waiting Room: A New Film by Voices of Now Ensembles
6/6 - 7/5/2021
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is pleased to announce the premiere of Waiting Room: A New Film by Arena Stages Voices ...
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
4/2 - 5/2/2021
Explore the turbulence of changing convictions, conflicting beliefs and the hidden possibilities obscured by ridged preconceptions. Told through the eyes of 17-year-old Ernestine, this is ...
Costume Design Workshop: Character Costume Collage with Ivania Stack - Masterclass
11/18 - 11/20/2020
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week ...
Dancing through the Decades: Musical Theater Dance
10/2 - 11/20/2020
Dancing through the Decades: Musical Theater Dance Fridays (10/2,10/9,10/16,10/23,10/30,11/6,11/13,11/20) 7 - 8 p.m. Participants: Grades 10 to Adult...
Elementary School Acting Class
10/1 - 11/19/2020
Acting Thursdays (10/1,10/8,10/15,10/22,10/29,11/5,11/12,11/19) 4 - 5 p.m. Participants: Grades 4 and 5...
Acting for the Camera
9/29 - 11/18/2020
Acting for the Camera Wednesdays (9/30,10/7,10/14,10/21,10/28,11/4,11/11,11/18) 4 - 5 p.m. Participants: Grades 7-9...
Bilingual Moving Stories - Historias en movimiento
9/29 - 11/17/2020
Bilingual Moving Stories Historias en movimiento Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17) 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Participants: Pre-K and K students and their caregiver...
Musical Theater Dance Middle School Class
9/29 - 11/17/2020
Musical Theater Dance Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17) 4 - 5 p.m. Participants: Grades 5 - 8...
Voices of Now: Devising Film for Change
9/29 - 11/17/2020
Voices of Now: Devising Film for Change Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17) 4 - 5:30 p.m. Participants: Grades 7 - 11...
Freeing the Intuitive Voice with Timothy Douglas - Masterclass
11/11 - 11/13/2020
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week ...
Veterans Day 2020
11/11
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will partner with The Atlantic Council for the virtual premiere screening of VETERANS DAY 2020. This ...
Elementary School Acting Class
9/29 - 11/7/2020
Acting Tuesdays (9/29,10/6,10/13,10/20,10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17) 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Participants: Grades 2 and 3...
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week ...
Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!
10/23 - 10/30/2020
Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It! is a captivating call to action and look at the impassioned freedom fighter who became one of the most ...
Sound Design with Roc Lee - Masterclass
10/28 - 10/30/2020Create and Collaborate: Devise a Performance in 4 Hours with Arena Stage’s Community Engagement Staff - Masterclass
10/21 - 10/23/2020
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week ...
Civil Dialogues
10/19
Arena Stage hosts community conversations that provide an opportunity for members of the Washington, D.C., community to engage in civil discourse about social and political ...
Hip Hop Theater with Psalmayene 24 and DJ Nick tha 1da - Masterclass
10/14 - 10/16/2020
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week ...
Choreography with Parker Esse - Masterclass
10/7 - 10/9/2020
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week ...
Molly's Salon
10/1 - 10/8/2020
A weekly Salon featuring artists and leaders of Arena Stage. These half-hour-long weekly conversations will include some of our best thinkers and creative firebrands. Molly ...
Dramaturgy with Naysan Mojgani - Masterclass
9/30 - 10/2/2020
Arena Stage’s popular masterclass series returns with eight virtual offerings for pre-professional and early-career adults in the fall. Each class will meet twice a week ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns
1/17 - 3/1/2020
adapt: Ursula Rani Sarma; music: David Coulter; dir: Carey Perloff . The Geary Theater:...
Dear Jack, Dear Louise
11/21 - 12/29/2019
When two strangers meet by letter during World War II, a love story begins. U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig, a military doctor stationed in Oregon, ...
Disney's Newsies
11/1 - 12/22/2019
They delivered the papers, until they made the headlines… Direct from Broadway comes NEWSIES, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing new musical from Disney. Winner of the 2012 ...
NEWSIES
11/1 - 12/22/2019
Read all about it! Paper Mill Playhouse is proud to present the premiere of a brand new musical, NEWSIES, adapted for the stage from the ...
Right to be Forgotten
10/11 - 11/10/2019
The Internet never forgets. A young mans mistake at 17 haunts him online a decade later. Desperate for a normal life, he goes to extraordinary ...
Jitney
9/13 - 10/20/2019
Cheering audiences rose to their feet and critics throughout the Southland spun superlatives as the curtain fell on Fences, but that was only the beginning ...
We're All Going To F-ing Die!
7/9 - 7/28/2019
This shit's all gonna end one day, so lets celebrate life right now. Join award-winning sex educator Twanna A. Hines for stories about overcoming anxiety, ...
Jubilee
4/26 - 6/2/2019
The world-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers shattered racial barriers in the U.S. and abroad, entertaining kings and queens. For centuries, the bold a capella African American ...
The 2019 Arena Stage Gala will be a night to remember....
Junk
4/5 - 5/5/2019
As the brilliant and calculating Robert Merkin prepares a hostile takeover of a family-owned manufacturing company, he is not concerned about crossing the line to ...
JQA
3/1 - 4/14/2019
Complicated, passionate and difficult, John Quincy Adams was a brilliant diplomat, ineffectual one-term President and congressman known for his eloquence, arrogance and integrity. This unique, ...
The Heiress
2/8 - 3/10/2019
Finding one’s voice is never easy. Socially awkward and plain Catherine Sloper has struggled her entire life under the disapproving and resentful gaze of her ...
Kleptocracy
1/18 - 2/24/2019
It is one of the most pivotal moments in history?—?the Soviet Union has collapsed. In the ensuing rampage of hyper-capitalism, the Oligarchs, a new class ...
Camp Open House
1/12
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host its second annual Camp Arena Stage Open House on Saturday, January 12, 2019 from ...
Indecent
11/23 - 12/30/2018
In 1923, the Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s Yiddish drama God of Vengeance set the stage for an explosive moment in its theatrical history. The ...
Anything Goes
11/2 - 12/23/2018
The SS American has set sail from NY to London. Aboard, the lovelorn Billy has stowed away on a mission to stop the marriage of ...
Turn Me Loose
9/6 - 10/14/2018
This intimate and no-holds-barred drama chronicles Dick Gregory’s rise as the first Black comedian to expose audiences to racial comedy. His comedy spared no one ...
Dave
7/13 - 8/19/2018
From a Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning creative team and adapted from the Oscar-nominated film, Dave tells the story of high school teacher (and presidential ...
Two Trains Running
3/30 - 4/29/2018
August Wilson; dir: Juliette Carrillo. Fichandler Stage:...
Hold These Truths
2/23 - 4/8/2018
Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....
The Great Society
2/2 - 3/11/2018
Robert Schenkkan; dir: Kyle Donnelly. Fichandler Stage:...
Sovereignty
1/12 - 2/18/2018
Some wounds refuse to heal. Mary Kathryn Nagle’s daring new work, which debuts as the fourth production in Arena Stage’s Power Plays initiative, travels the ...
THE PAJAMA GAME
11/3 - 12/31/2017
The Pajama Game, a delightful musical brimming with romance, labor disputes, and catchy tunes, is the brainchild of the songwriting duo Richard Adler and Jerry ...
THE PAJAMA GAME
10/27 - 12/24/2017
The Pajama Game, a delightful musical brimming with romance, labor disputes, and catchy tunes, is the brainchild of the songwriting duo Richard Adler and Jerry ...
Wear your pajamas and join Arena Stage and 94.7 Fresh-FM for a special cocktail hour after the performance of The Pajama Game – hosted by ...
The Price
10/6 - 11/5/2017
The Price is a 1968 play by Arthur Miller. It is a piece about family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one's ...
Native Gardens
9/15 - 10/22/2017
Gardens and cultures clash, turning friendly neighbors into feuding enemies in this funny world premiere by the author of The Book Club Play. Pablo, a ...
Smart People
4/14 - 5/21/2017
Lydia R. Diamond; dir: Seema Sueko....
A Raisin in the Sun
3/31 - 4/30/2017
Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, ...
Intelligence
2/24 - 4/2/2017
Inspired by true events, Intelligence is a fictionalized account of a covert operative who, tasked with protecting the national security of the United States post-9/11, ...
Watch on the Rhine
2/3 - 3/5/2017
Four-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) leads an ensemble cast as Fanny Farrelly in Lillian Hellman's suspenseful masterpiece ...
Roe
1/12 - 2/19/2017
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion, is still fiercely debated over forty years later. In this incisive play, acclaimed writer Lisa ...
Carousel
10/28 - 1/1/2017
Regional Theater...
Carousel
10/28 - 1/1/2017
Regional Theater...
Lookingglass Theatre Company’s Moby Dick
11/18 - 12/24/2016
adapt: David Catlin; dir: David Catlin....
Lookingglass Theatre Company’s Moby Dick
11/18 - 12/24/2016
adapt: David Catlin; dir: David Catlin....
The Year of Magical Thinking
10/7 - 11/20/2016
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their ...
The Year of Magical Thinking
10/7 - 11/20/2016
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their ...
The Little Foxes
9/23 - 10/30/2016
Around the year 1900, a prosperous Southern family conflict centers around money and involving murder, theft and betrayal. Directed by David Swartz....
The Little Foxes
9/23 - 10/30/2016
Around the year 1900, a prosperous Southern family conflict centers around money and involving murder, theft and betrayal. Directed by David Swartz....
Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story
7/1 - 8/28/2016
Charles Randolph-Wright, BeBe Winans; lyrics: BeBe Winans; music: BeBe Winans; dir: Charles Randolph-Wright....
Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story
7/1 - 8/28/2016
Charles Randolph-Wright, BeBe Winans; lyrics: BeBe Winans; music: BeBe Winans; dir: Charles Randolph-Wright....
Disgraced
4/22 - 5/29/2016
Ayad Akhtar; dir: Timothy Douglas....
All the Way
4/1 - 5/8/2016
Robert Schenkkan; dir: Kyle Donnelly....
The Lion
2/26 - 4/3/2016
A true story of love, loss, family loyalty, and the redemptive power of music. Following an award-winning run at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, writer/performer ...
The City of Conversation
1/29 - 3/6/2016
Anthony Giardina....
Sweat
1/15 - 2/21/2016
With warm humor and tremendous heart, Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets and laughs ...
Oliver!
10/30 - 1/3/2016
"Oliver!" is a heart-wrenching and captivating musical based on Charles Dickens' classic novel, Oliver Twist. The story transports you to the grimy underbelly of Victorian ...
Akeelah and the Bee
11/13 - 12/27/2015
Cheryl L. West; dir: Charles Randolph-Wright....
Erma Bombeck: At Wit?__s End
10/9 - 11/8/2015
Allison Engel, Margaret Engel; dir: David Esbjornson....
Destiny of Desire
9/11 - 10/18/2015
Karen Zacar??as; dir: Jose Luis Valenzuela....
26 Pebbles
8/24
26 PEBBLES explores the power of community in the face of unimaginable tragedy. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and ...
The Blood Quilt
4/24 - 6/7/2015
Welcome to the Jernigan Gals’ Quilting Corner. Gathering at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia, four disconnected sisters meet to create a ...
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
4/3 - 5/3/2015
Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their ...
The Originalist
3/6 - 4/26/2015
When a Harvard Law School graduate with decidedly different views takes on a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of America’s most brilliant ...
King Hedley II
2/6 - 3/8/2015
August Wilson; dir: Timothy Douglas....
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
10/31 - 1/4/2015
Rich with musical hits you know and love, including “Tradition,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were A Rich Man,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” and “To Life (L’Chaim!),” FIDDLER ...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
11/28 - 12/28/2014
In the little village of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to instill in his five daughters the traditions of his tight-knit Jewish community in ...
FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE
11/14 - 12/28/2014
An exuberant tribute to the music of rhythm and blues pioneer and alto saxophonist, Louis Jordan, Five Guys Named Moe is an international sensation. Initially ...
Smokey Joe?s Caf
4/25 - 6/8/2014
Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller; dir: Randy Johnson....
Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller
4/25 - 6/8/2014
Leiber and Stoller, as much as anyone, virtually invented rock 'n' roll, and now their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates ...
Camp David
3/21 - 5/4/2014
World Premiere March 21–May 4, 2014 in the Kreeger Theater Sixty-two miles north of Washington, D.C., nestled in Catoctin Mountain Park, lies the clandestine retreat ...
Mother Courage and Her Children
1/31 - 3/9/2014
The Fichandler Stage: Bertolt Brecht; trans: David Hare; dir: Molly Smith....
The Tallest Tree in the Forest
1/10 - 2/16/2014
As an internationally-renowned vocalist and star of stage and screen, Paul Robeson was one of the best known African American artists in the world in ...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
11/29 - 1/5/2014
November 29, 2013–January 5, 2014 in the Fichandler Stage Broadway and Arena Stage favorite Kenny Leon (every tongue confess) returns to direct a new adaptation ...
Tappin' Thru Life
11/15 - 12/29/2013
A co-production with Alliance Theatre and Cleveland Play House November 15–December 29, 2013 in the Kreeger Theater Broadway legend and Tony Award nominee Maurice Hines ...
Love in Afghanistan
10/11 - 11/17/2013
World premiere by Resident Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright October 11–November 17, 2013 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle From resident playwright Charles Randolph-Wright (Blue, Cuttin’ ...
The Velocity of Autumn
9/6 - 10/20/2013
Eric Coble; dir: Molly Smith....
Other Desert Cities
4/26 - 5/26/2013
The Fichandler Stage: - Jon Robin Baitz; dir: Kyle Donnelly....
The Mountaintop
3/29 - 5/12/2013
The Kreeger Theater: - Katori Hall; dir: Robert O'Hara....
Mary T. & Lizzy K.
3/15 - 4/28/2013
Writer-director Tazewell Thompson (dir. M. Butterfly, Yellowman) stitches together an insider's look at the unlikely friendship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her talented ...
Metamorphoses
2/8 - 3/17/2013
The Fichandler Stage: - Mary Zimmerman ; dir: Mary Zimmerman....
Good People
2/1 - 3/10/2013
The Kreeger Theater: - David Lindsay-Abaire; dir: Jackie Maxwell....
The Grand Parade (of the Twentieth Century)
2/6 - 2/10/2013
The Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle: - music: Alexander Bakshi; dir: Stacy Klein....
My Fair Lady
11/2 - 1/6/2013
The Fichandler Stage: - Alan Jay Lerner; book: Frederick Loewe; lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner; dir: Molly Smith....
Pullman Porter Blues
11/23 - 1/6/2013
Pullman Porter Blues A world-premiere co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre By Cheryl L. West Directed by Lisa Peterson In the Kreeger Theater November 23, 2012 ...
Long Day's Journey Into Night
3/30 - 5/6/2012
Delusion and disenchantment have pitted the Tyrone family members against one another for decades. One fateful day, as their increasingly drunken hours slip by, they ...
Ah, Wilderness!
3/9 - 4/8/2012
Return to an idyllic age of Americana in Eugene O’Neill’s unabashedly romantic and sweetly funny Ah, Wilderness! As the Connecticut-based Miller clan plans their traditional ...
Ah, Wilderness! [Part of Eugene O'Neill Festival]
3/9 - 4/8/2012
Red
1/20 - 3/4/2012
Goodman Theatre's production of RED. Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Play, Red depicts the brilliant and passionate painter Mark Rothko facing the biggest ...
Elephant Room
1/20 - 2/26/2012
Equivocation
11/18 - 1/1/2012
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL'S PRODUCTION OF EQUIVOCATION. In dark times, the most treacherous weapon is the truth. London, 1605: The worlds of King James and the ...
You, Nero
11/25 - 1/1/2012
As Rome collapses beneath Nero’s outrageous narcissism, a forgotten playwright tries to restore order through the art of theater in this “gloriously funny” (New York ...
The Book Club Play
10/7 - 11/6/2011
Ana is a Type A personality living in a letter-perfect world: a husband who adores her, the perfect job, and her greatest passion, Book Club. ...
Trouble in Mind
9/9 - 10/23/2011
Written on the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement, Trouble in Mind explores the strained relationships of a newly integrated cast rehearsing a bold anti-lynching ...
Oklahoma!
7/8 - 10/2/2011
The best-selling show in Arena's 60 year history is back for 12 weeks only! This is not your mother’s Oklahoma!. Inspired by the toughness of ...
A Time to Kill
5/6 - 6/19/2011
Ruined
4/22 - 6/5/2011
In war-torn Congo, Mama Nadi keeps the peace between customers on both sides of the civil war by serving everything from cold beers to warm ...
At Home at the Zoo
2/25 - 4/24/2011
American master Edward Albee has outdone himself once again with a riveting new drama that expands on The Zoo Story, the one-act that launched his ...
The Edward Albee Festival
3/5 - 4/24/2011
In addition to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and At Home at the Zoo, Albee enthusiasts can experience a never-before-attempted feat: a festival featuring staged ...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
2/25 - 4/10/2011
You’re invited for drinks with George and Martha. As wickedly hilarious today as when it first shocked audiences, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is an ...
The Chosen
3/8 - 3/27/2011
A Theater J Production An Award Winning Adaptation The much beloved story of two boys, two fathers, and two very different Jewish communities in Williamsburg, ...
The Arabian Nights
1/4 - 2/20/2011
In ancient Baghdad, a courageous young girl postpones her execution by weaving magical tales for the troubled king. Genies and jesters, lovers and thieves spring ...
Let Me Down Easy
12/31 - 2/13/2011
Called “the most exciting individual in American theater” by Newsweek magazine, Anna Deavere Smith (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight: Los Angeles) explores the power of ...
Videos
 | Prayer for the French Republic Theater J (10/30 - 11/24) | |
 | Rigoletto Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater (12/7 - 12/15) | |
 | Washington Balalaika Society presents F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (11/23 - 11/23) | |
 | Leopoldstadt Harman Hall - Shakespeare Theatre Company (11/30 - 12/29) | |
 | Alexandra Dovgan plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto | Marek Janowski conducts Bruckner’s Fourth Concert Hall at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (11/21 - 11/23) | |
 | Eureka Day The Kennedy Center - Eisenhower Theater (3/4 - 3/22) | |
 | Prayer For The French Republic Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater (10/30 - 11/24) | |
 | The America Play Perisphere Theater (1/31 - 2/15) | |
 | Canadian Brass: Making Spirits Bright Center for the Arts at George Mason University (11/30 - 11/30) | |
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