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Leopoldstadt
11/30 - 12/29/2024
A Jewish family grows and struggles over the course of nearly 60 years, beginning with their initial assimilation into Viennese culture, negotiating the outbreak of ...
Shear Madness
10/4 - 6/30/2025
Figure out whodunit at this wildly popular record-breaking comedy. Audiences all over the world have spotted the clues and questioned the suspects amid much hilarity. ...
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 ...
Out of Character
1/8 - 1/26/2025
A Berkeley Rep Production co-presented by Theater J and Mosaic Theater Company of DC. Tony Award-winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show brings to life a full ...
Out of Character
1/8 - 1/26/2025
Written and performed by Ari’el Stachel Directed by Tony Taccone A Berkeley Rep production co-presented by Theater J and Mosaic Theater Company Tony Award-winner Ari’el ...
Out of Character
1/8 - 1/26/2025
Tony Award-winner Ari’el Stachel’s one-man show Out of Character brings to life a full ensemble of characters from his past, illuminating what it means to ...
Who Cares: ♥ The Caregiver Interview Project
1/9 - 2/2/2025
Based on dozens of deeply personal interviews with local colleagues, elder justice advocates, and close friends whose lives have been disrupted – but also transformed ...
Kindertransport
1/31 - 2/9/2025
Rockville Little Theatre presents "Kindertransport" 6 performances | January 31 and February 1, 7 & 8 at 8 p.m. | February 2 & 9 at ...
The Acting Company presents 2022 Tony Award nominee Christina Anderson’s delightful adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s earliest works, The Comedy of Errors. In this farcical ...
The America Play
1/31 - 2/15/2025
DC Area Premiere! Perisphere will present The America Play , by Suzan-Lori Parks, with performances from January 31-February 15, 2025. The America Play centers around ...
The Acting Company returns with August Wilson’s Tony Award-winning play Two Trains Running. Set during the civil rights movement, the drama centers on Memphis Lee, ...
Your Name Means Dream
3/12 - 3/30/2025
Written and Directed by José Rivera STARRING NAOMI JACOBSON AND SARA KOVIAK Internationally acclaimed playwright José Rivera directs his profoundly intimate tragicomedy that asks what it means to ...
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 ...
Murder at the Mansion presents "Bingo B4 Murder"
4/4 - 4/6/2025
Murder at the Mansion presents "Bingo B4 Murder" AT GLENVIEW MANSION 3 Performances | April 4 & 5 at 8 p.m. | April 6 ...
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 ...
Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Foreigner"
4/25 - 5/4/2025
Rockville Little Theatre presents "The Foreigner" 6 Performances | April 25 & 26 and May 2 & 3 at 8 p.m. | April 27 and ...
Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
6/6 - 6/21/2025
Another DC Area Premiere! Co-artistic director Lizzi Albert will direct Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh , by Joel Gross, which will run June 6-21, 2025. ...
The Berlin Diaries
6/4 - 6/22/2025
By Andrea Stolowitz Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great-grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy in The Berlin ...
Andy Warhol in Tehran
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 ...
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by Rachael F. Goldberg - December 23, 2024
With a clever script, beloved music, and strong teams both on and off the stage, '& Juliet' is an incredibly witty, thoughtful, and joyful show, and the National Tour’s run at the Kennedy Center is the perfect way to cap off the year....
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by Dara Homer - December 22, 2024
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by Jackson Malmgren - December 13, 2024
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by David Friscic - December 11, 2024
Actor and creator Patrick Page held the audience in the palm of his hand and took the audience (at the Klein Theatre of the Shakespeare Theatre Company) through a veritable “rogues’ gallery” of villains and devious- minded characters from the Shakespearean canon-- including murderers, the revengeful...
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by Roger Catlin - December 10, 2024
Kathy Mattea remembers the time when she was moping around the house, worried about making “an album nobody would hear.” It was 1993 and she was making a Christmas album minus the usual holiday standards or well-known carols. Santa was nowhere to be found; jingle bells, as subject or sound effect, w...
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