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Dissonance Dance Theatre: Black Kinesphere


Kinesphere means the movement space or the space surrounding the body in stillness and in motion, which includes all directions and levels - both close ...

Capital City Symphony: Reflect & Revive


Mozart, Concerto No. 20 in d minor (30”) Sophia Lin, piano Montgomery Variations, Margaret Bonds (24”) Capital City Symphony continues its tradition of presenting outstanding ...

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 ...

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 Iran
Andy Warhol in Iran
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 ...


RELATED STORIES

INTERSECTIONS Festival Returns to The Atlas Performing Arts Center


by Stephi Wild - December 06, 2024

The Atlas Performing Arts Center has announced the return of its anticipated INTERSECTIONS Festival, a month-long celebration of innovative and inspiring performances....

Dance Institute of Washington Will Host THE SPIRIT OF KWANZAA Celebration


by Stephi Wild - November 22, 2024

Dance Institute of Washington has announced their upcoming annual holiday celebration, The Spirit of Kwanzaa. This year sees the event moving to ATLAS Performing Arts Center and expanding from two to three performances....

Review: THE ART OF CARE at Mosaic Theater Company


by Morgan Musselman - November 05, 2024

Those looking for a break from election discourse this month may find welcome reprieve in Mosaic Theater Company's deeply compassionate production, THE ART OF CARE, on stage now through November 24....

THE ART OF CARE Comes to Mosaic Theater Company


by Stephi Wild - October 04, 2024

Mosaic Theater Company will present the world premiere of The Art of Care, a world premiere theatrical event exploring how we care for, and are cared for by, others. Conceived and directed by Derek Goldman, performances run October 31 to November 24, 2024, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center....

Review: LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL at Mosaic Theater Company


by David Friscic - September 10, 2024

The celebrated and now-iconic jazz vocalist and legend Billie Holiday is portrayed as a tormented “just holding on” survivor in playwright Lanie Robertson’s play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. The audience is transported back to the feel of this classic bar and grill to the year 1959 where a t...

Expats Theatre to Present MARLENE by Pam Gems


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 21, 2024

Expats Theatre will present its upcoming production of MARLENE, a new play that explores the life and legacy of Marlene Dietrich. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Mosaic Theater Company to Present Workshop of POSTMORTEM


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 13, 2024

Mosaic Theater Company will present a workshop for POSTMORTEM, a new play that combines true crime with family drama to tell a story about one woman’s reckoning with her difficult childhood. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Review: MEXODUS at Mosaic Theater Company


by Itai Yasur - May 21, 2024

Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson are making history with their new two-person musical extravaganza...

Spotlight: MARJORIE PRIME at Prologue Theatre


by BWW Special Offer - April 26, 2024

Love, loss, and ZZ Top...

Review: Mosaic Theater Company's World Premiere of Nancy


by Hannah R. Wing - April 04, 2024

Nancy is a compelling satirical play with themes which still resonate today as Indigenous communities in the U.S. (and around the world) fight to get their land back, advocate for environmental justice, and improve the lives of people within their communities....

Past Shows

Capital City Symphony: Sing! CCS’s Annual Holiday Concert


The Capital City Symphony’s annual holiday concert fills the air with joyous music once again! Bring your family & friends and sing along, as the ...

Atlas Presents Navidad Flamenca (Flamenco Holidays) 2024


Come celebrate the Holidays with us! Create a new tradition celebrating the holidays the Spanish way. This festive program will take you on a journey ...

Atlas Presents Reverb 2024


Come experience the sounds of the season with DC's very own Reverb, an African American a cappella vocal group that features gospel, soul and pop ...

Atlas Presents Tara Hoot: A Hoot for the Holidays!


Darlings, you deserve to have a HOOT this holiday season! Join DC drag queen Tara Hoot for a night of stories, songs, and feel-good winter ...

Atlas Presents A Bohemian Christmas with the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra


Celebrate the holidays with performances of cool classics by Shorty Rogers, Thad Jones, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, Stan Kenton, and a handful of arrangements by BCJO ...

Dissonance Dance Theatre: Winter Stories


During a time when many enjoy The Nutcracker, Dissonance Dance Theatre presents Winter Stories. Winter Stories is an intimate evening of dance surrounding stories inspired ...

Atlas Presents Happy Theatre: Alphabetissimo


ALPHABETISIMO! Interactive Shadow Show and Workshop Where do words and letters go after we say them, do you know? When it’s dark and we all ...

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


Mosaic Theater presents the World Premiere of The Art of Care. An uplifting exploration of how we care for, and are cared for by, others. ...

Capital City Symphony: Inspire: Family Concert


Join CCS for a musical adventure that will make you gasp with delight! Based on Mo Willems' beloved book, composer Jessie Montgomery's "Because" tells the ...

Atlas Presents Happy Theatre: The Light House


Join us in celebration of light, kindness and magic adventures with our show for families THE LIGHT HOUSE! By Natasha Mirny and Tia Shearer Bassett ...

Atlas Presents Café Flamenco 2024


Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Café Flamenco. This popular, cabaret-style event features traditional flamenco dance and live music performed by dancers from Furia Flamenca Dance ...

Loud As The Rolling Sea: Songs of Recognition and Resistance


These songs from various periods are folk tunes, rock music, R&B, and spirituals pulled from the catalogs of Cat Stevens, Gil Scott Heron, Bob Marley, ...

ExPats Theatre: Marlene
ExPats Theatre: Marlene
9/28 - 10/20/2024


"*Marlene*" is set in the dressing room of a Paris theatre where an aging Marlene Dietrich is getting ready for a singing performance. In intimate ...

Dissonance Dance Theatre: Fall Forward


Fall back in love with dance that excites the eyes, and touches the heart with DDT’s annual Fall Forward. A mixed-bill of contemporary ballet, to ...

Capital City Symphony: Renew


Renew Carlos Simon, Breathe (13”) Beethoven , Symphony 7 (36”) Stravinsky, Firebird Suite 1919 (23”) “Stay put for a spell” in a musical evening of ...

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill


An immersive nightclub experience! Journey back to 1959 for an unforgettable rendezvous with Lady Day herself—the incomparable Billie Holiday performed by DC legend Roz White, ...

Atlas Presents Akua Allrich: A Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba Tribute 2024


Since 2008, Akua Allrich has curated and performed a soul-stirring tribute presentation, honoring Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba. In her tribute concerts, rising vocalist, composer ...

Alliance for New Music-Theatre: The Man Ray Project: Caesar & The Mannequin


Inspired by the Man Ray painting “Shakespearean Equation: Julius Caesar,” in the Phillips collection, Composer Andrew E. Simpson and Librettist Susan Galbraith have concocted a ...

Mexodus
Mexodus
5/16 - 6/9/2024


History meets hip-hop in this groundbreaking theatrical experience that explores the often-untold stories of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico, ...

Atlas Arts Lab presents LINKED


*LINKED* is a starting point for another new chapter exploring themes of disconnection and isolation, and the unrelenting joy we feel when we find where ...

Atlas Arts Lab presents Rex Daugherty's The Well


The Well is a musical memoir that explores addiction and the hope of forgiveness. Rex Daugherty shares the hilarious and the heartbreaking in this intimate ...

Nancy
Nancy
3/28 - 4/21/2024


It’s 1985 in Washington, DC and two women are trying to steer their futures—Nancy Reagan from the White House, orchestrating her husband “Ronnie’s” political career ...

Atlas Presents: Sounds of Silence Film Series: Bare Knees - 1928


With live musical accompaniment by pianist Andrew Earle Simpson. This film is on loan from and preserved by the Library of Congress. "Bare Knees" is ...

ISM II
ISM II
11/29 - 12/17/2023


ISM II, conceived and directed by Michelle Banks, is another episode of the original ISM created by the VOCA Ensemble. The new VOCA Ensemble of ...

Atlas Presents: Navidad Flamenca (Flamenco Holidays)


Come celebrate the Holidays with us! Create a new tradition celebrating the holidays the Spanish way. This festive program will take you on a journey ...

Atlas Presents: Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra - A Bohemian Christmas


Celebrate the holidays with performances of cool classics by Shorty Rogers, Thad Jones, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, Stan Kenton, and a handful of arrangements by BCJO ...

Atlas Presents: Sounds of Silence Film Series: The Merry Widow - 1925


With live musical accompaniment by pianist Andrew Earle Simpson. "The Merry Widow" is a romantic drama/black comedy that was a critical and box office success ...

Confederates
Confederates
10/26 - 11/19/2023


Sara is an enslaved rebel turned Union spy. Sandra is a tenured professor at a modern-day university. Despite living 160 years apart, their parallel struggles ...

Capital City Symphony: One Week
Capital City Symphony: One Week
11/11 - 11/12/2023


It’s time for CCS’s annual interactive family concert. The performance begins with local composer Charlie Barnett’s energetic and participatory Give Me the Orchestra, which introduces ...

Atlas Presents: Cafe Flamenco


Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Café Flamenco. This popular, cabaret-style event features traditional flamenco dance and live music performed by dancers from Furia Flamenca Dance ...

ExPats Theatre: Scorched
ExPats Theatre: Scorched
9/23 - 10/15/2023


After their mother’s death, the adult twins Simon and Janine are asked to search for their father and brother in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. ...

Breaking Ground: The Other Side of the Hallway


__The Other Side of the Hallway__ follows a group of LGBTQIA+ students of color in a job placement community college program trying to navigate how ...

Monsters of the American Cinema


When his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself both the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late ...

The Cake
The Cake
2/2 - 2/26/2023


Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to ...

The Revolutionists
The Revolutionists
4/28 - 5/22/2022


Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and ...

World Builders
World Builders
1/27 - 2/20/2022


Max and Whitney are participating in a clinical drug trial attempting to treat their schizoid personality disorder - attempting to turn into functioning members of ...

A Fairy Queen
A Fairy Queen
12/4 - 12/5/2021


Start your holiday season with laughter and magic! Shakespeare's immortal Midsummer Night's Dream mingles with music by Henry Purcell in a performance in the style ...


On September 12, 2001, Waverly prepares for a blind date at her Minneapolis apartment, absently-mindedly watching television in the background. When her date arrives, the ...


Anyone who has ever looked for love knows the dilemma: Do you make a safe, sensible match? Or take a risk on an exciting someone ...

Eureka Day
12/4


At Eureka Day School, a progressive charter school in Berkeley, all points of view are respected, all voices heard. After all, these parents only want ...

Theory
10/23


Norman Yeung; dir: Victoria Murray Baatin....

Specific Gravity
Specific Gravity
2/25 - 2/26/2017


The Circus Collective of San Diego fuses contemporary circus with a social consciousness in their new project that aims to raise awareness for displaced persons ...

Videos


Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS in Washington, DC Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS
Constellation Theatre Company (2/6 - 6/1) Tracker
Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood in Washington, DC Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood
Imagination Stage (12/11 - 2/8) Tracker
Leopoldstadt in Washington, DC Leopoldstadt
Shakespeare Theatre Company (11/30 - 12/29) Tracker
All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain in Washington, DC All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain
STC's Klein Theatre (12/6 - 12/29) Tracker
Who Cares: ♥ The Caregiver Interview Project in Washington, DC Who Cares: ♥ The Caregiver Interview Project
Voices Festival Productions (1/9 - 2/2)
Virginia Opera: A Taste of Opera in Washington, DC Virginia Opera: A Taste of Opera
Hylton Performing Arts Center (2/5 - 2/5)
American Festival Pops Orchestra: Armed Forces Day Celebration in Washington, DC American Festival Pops Orchestra: Armed Forces Day Celebration
Hylton Performing Arts Center (5/17 - 5/17)
Capital City Symphony: Reflect & Revive in Washington, DC Capital City Symphony: Reflect & Revive
Atlas Performing Arts Center (3/23 - 3/23)
Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh in Washington, DC Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
Perisphere Theater (6/6 - 6/21)
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