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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. ...
Problems Between Sisters
5/8 - 6/16/2024
Two pregnant sisters—one visual artist, one con artist—converge on a remote family cabin in Vermont. Jess races to finish her long-awaited solo show; Rory sees ...
The Elephant in the Room
6/1 - 6/23/2024
“One-Woman Wonder” Priyanka Shetty’s THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM is a witty, dark comedy about just your typical Indian metalhead and software-engineer-turned-actor who must navigate ...
The Hatmaker's Wife
6/5 - 6/25/2024
A play by Lauren Yee Directed by Dan Rothenberg The Hatmaker’s Wife runs approximately 115 minutes. The 2023-2024 Theater J season wraps up with a ...
Little One
6/21 - 6/29/2024
When 4-year-old Claire is adopted into the family, 6-year-old Aaron’s childhood is disrupted by his new sister whose behavior reveals unsettling insights into her unknown ...
Is God Is
6/13 - 7/14/2024
In this fierce and funny drama, follow impassioned twin sisters as they go on an epic adventure across America to exact righteous revenge on the ...
How To Be A Korean Woman
9/12 - 9/22/2024
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY SUN MEE CHOMET DIRECTION AND DRAMATURGY BY ZARAAWAR MISTRY Back by popular demand after its sold-out January 2024 run. How to ...
Prayer for the French Republic
10/30 - 11/24/2024
By Joshua Harmon DIRECTED BY HAYLEY FINN 2024 BEST PLAY TONY AWARD® NOMINATION WINNER OF THE 2020 TRISH VRADENBURG NEW JEWISH PLAY PRIZE The Benhamou ...
The Art of Care
10/31 - 11/24/2024
One of the most profound experiences we all share is how we care for, and are cared for by, others. Created from interviews and interactions ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Review: THE MIGRATION at Arena Stage
by Itai Yasur - June 08, 2024
Step Afrika! brings paintings, and their history, to life in radically thrilling display....
Review: TOPDOG/UNDERDOG at Round House Theatre
by Pamela Roberts - June 08, 2024
At Round House Theatre, director Jamil Jude stages a brilliant, heightened and deeply emotional interpretation of the Suzan-Lori Parks’ work that is as raw and affecting now as it was when it earned Parks a Pulitzer Prize two decades ago....
Review: New York City Ballet at The Kennedy Center
by Emily Berger - June 06, 2024
New York City Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center with a thrilling production of George Balanchine’s Jewels, through Sunday, June 9....
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by Jake Bridges - June 04, 2024
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by Tavish Young - June 03, 2024
Things at Teatro de la Luan feel familiar, and from May 31 - June 9th, they are showing their one-woman show, Mi Escoba por un Reino, or God Save the Queen, starring Patricia Meneses, written by Kado Lostzer, with direction by Mario Marcel. ...
Review: WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE SEA at Signature Theatre
by Hannah R. Wing - May 31, 2024
Signature Theatre’s production, Where The Mountain Meets the Sea, is a touching narrative that explores the complex dynamics between a father and son, set to the soulful sounds of mountain music. You don’t want to miss out on this original musical, which will stay with you in your heart, even after ...
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by Pamela Roberts - May 28, 2024
Creative Cauldron stages a positively effervescent musical, THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN, a coming-of-age story that ably balances light humorous moments with pointed questions of growing up a Black woman in the latter part of the 20th century....
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by Tavish Young - May 28, 2024
On May 25th, Olney Theatre Center unveiled the world premiere of the musical Long Way Down at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The piece was adapted from Jason Reynolds's novel of the same name, which has received accolades such as the National Book Award and a Newbery Medal, and was written (books,...
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by Michela Dwyer - May 26, 2024
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Funny Girl
Kennedy Center [Opera House] (6/25 - 7/14) | |
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The Matchbox Magic Flute
Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/21 - 6/16) | |
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Pasión y Fuego: The Music of Spain
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (6/15 - 6/15) CONCERT
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Soul In Motion Players 40th Anniversary Concert
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (6/21 - 6/21) | |
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Heathers: The Musical
McLean Community Players (7/19 - 7/21) | |
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The Elephant in the Room
Keegan Theatre (6/6 - 6/22) | |
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Back to the Future: The Musical
Kennedy Center [Opera House] (7/23 - 8/11) | |
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Problems Between Sisters
Studio Theatre (5/8 - 6/16) | |
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The Kite Runner
Kennedy Center [Eisenhower Theatre] (6/25 - 6/30) | |
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The Hatmaker's Wife
Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater (6/5 - 6/25) | |
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