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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In  Ride the Cyclone , the lives of six teen chamber choir singers are cut short in a freak roller coaster accident. Stuck in the ...

In  Ride the Cyclone , the lives of six teen chamber choir singers are cut short in a freak roller coaster accident. Stuck in the ...

"DELIGHTFULLY WEIRD AND JUST PLAIN DELIGHTFUL SHOW" — The New York Times In  Ride the Cyclone , the lives of six teen chamber choir singers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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 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 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 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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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! is a captivating call to action and look at the impassioned freedom fighter who became one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

adapt: Ursula Rani Sarma; music: David Coulter; dir: Carey Perloff . The Geary Theater:...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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....

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

August Wilson; dir: Juliette Carrillo. Fichandler Stage:...

Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....

Robert Schenkkan; dir: Kyle Donnelly. Fichandler Stage:...

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, 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, 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 is a 1968 play by Arthur Miller. It is a piece about family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one's ...

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 ...

Lydia R. Diamond; dir: Seema Sueko....

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, ...

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, ...

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 v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion, is still fiercely debated over forty years later. In this incisive play, acclaimed writer Lisa ...

Regional Theater...

Regional Theater...

adapt: David Catlin; dir: David Catlin....

adapt: David Catlin; dir: David Catlin....

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 ...

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 ...

Around the year 1900, a prosperous Southern family conflict centers around money and involving murder, theft and betrayal. Directed by David Swartz....

Around the year 1900, a prosperous Southern family conflict centers around money and involving murder, theft and betrayal. Directed by David Swartz....

Charles Randolph-Wright, BeBe Winans; lyrics: BeBe Winans; music: BeBe Winans; dir: Charles Randolph-Wright....

Charles Randolph-Wright, BeBe Winans; lyrics: BeBe Winans; music: BeBe Winans; dir: Charles Randolph-Wright....

Ayad Akhtar; dir: Timothy Douglas....

Robert Schenkkan; dir: Kyle Donnelly....

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 ...

Anthony Giardina....

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!" 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 ...

Cheryl L. West; dir: Charles Randolph-Wright....

Allison Engel, Margaret Engel; dir: David Esbjornson....

Karen Zacar??as; dir: Jose Luis Valenzuela....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

August Wilson; dir: Timothy Douglas....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller; dir: Randy Johnson....

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 ...

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 ...

The Fichandler Stage: Bertolt Brecht; trans: David Hare; dir: Molly Smith....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

Eric Coble; dir: Molly Smith....

The Fichandler Stage: - Jon Robin Baitz; dir: Kyle Donnelly....

The Kreeger Theater: - Katori Hall; dir: Robert O'Hara....

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 ...

The Fichandler Stage: - Mary Zimmerman ; dir: Mary Zimmerman....

The Kreeger Theater: - David Lindsay-Abaire; dir: Jackie Maxwell....

The Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle: - music: Alexander Bakshi; dir: Stacy Klein....

The Fichandler Stage: - Alan Jay Lerner; book: Frederick Loewe; lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner; dir: Molly Smith....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...