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In-person performance to resume at Ford’s Theatre in October

Season to feature Civil Rights icons Marian Anderson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., world premiere musical ‘Grace,’ and return of ‘A Christmas Carol.’

IN Series sets season of live theater centering DEI

Marking its 40th year, the innovative company plans new collaborations and world premieres to play a dozen DC and Baltimore venues.

Synetic to produce next season both in person and on film

The award-winning physical theater will welcome audiences back to its Crystal City venue while delivering Synetic-curated content to home TVs.

Woolly Mammoth, Spit Dat, and THEARC join for ‘Homegrown’ live July 7–11

What is home to you?’ Local legends of DC’s spoken word scene answer the question together with emerging Ward 7 and 8 spoken word artists.

Faction of Fools embraces collaboration with new season of ‘Foolish Fridays’

In the summer of 2020, Faction of Fools Theatre Company bravely forged into the world of virtual Commedia dell’Arte with the first season of Foolish Fridays, a series of dynamic, short, fun videos...

New comedy about the afterlife from new company born during COVID

Laurence Klavan’s hilarious ‘What Comes Next’ premieres as audio play from 21st Century Players.

Timely new play from Studio Theatre to confront U.S. immigration crisis

George Brandt’s ‘Tender Age’ looks back to Trump-era policies to ask how much has truly changed.

Foursome to sing ‘Songs for a New World’ from Monumental

Jason Robert Brown’s powerhouse song cycle comes to a screen near you.

‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit’ hops next to NextStop

A different actor reads the script cold for the first time each performance. There’s no director, no set, and it’s 100 percent unrehearsed.

Arena Stage to roar back with mix of bubbly and soul

2021/22 season to feature inspiring dramas, a high-energy musical, contemporary dance, electrifying music, diverse voices.

Olney Theatre’s open-air summer is open invitation to all

‘Olney Outdoors’ offers something for everyone, live on the Root Family Stage.

Opera Lafayette to offer 12 hours of free classical music online June 20

The international Fête de la Musique, marking the start of summer, comes to DC.

Wolf Trap marks 50th anniversary with first live performances in a year and half

A full summer season of concerts to reopen America’s only national park for the performing arts.

Creative Cauldron presents ‘Always…Patsy Cline’ live and outdoors

Creative Cauldron presents Always…Patsy Cline, written and originally directed by Ted Swindley and based on a true story. This musical play follows the unlikely friendship between Patsy and a devoted...

1st Stage reveals cast of surprise-filled ‘Duck Harbor’ web series

Actors Geoffrey Rivas and Deidra LaWan Starnes met for the first time live online.

Love goes to and fro in ‘The Last Five Years,’ up next from Constellation

Following the success of Sue Jin Song’s one-woman show Children of Medea, Constellation Theatre Company presents Jason Robert Brown’s beloved two-person musical The Last Five Years as the second...

Shakespeare Theatre Company to resume full-capacity shows in September

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Artistic Director SIMON GODWIN announced the Company’s 2021/22 Season in a virtual townhall meeting for season subscribers, donors, Board members, and STC staff. The Tony...

GALA’s ‘She Is Tango’ to highlight women composers and singers

Tango—called by one Argentinian tango instructor “a caricature of the patriarchy”—will dance to a distaff tune in GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Ella es tango (She Is Tango), a sizzling original musical...

Martin Luther to lock horns with the Pope in ‘Luther’s Trumpet’ from GMU

Edward Gero and Craig Wallace—two of the most prominent actors in DC—go head-to-head as Martin Luther and Pope Leo X in Luther’s Trumpet, presented May 28 to June 5, 2021, by George Mason University’s...

A summer of free weekend mini-festivals at Kennedy Center’s The REACH

Millennium Stage returns to the Kennedy Center with weekly, free, outdoor performance experiences curated by artists and organizations from around the DMV. Every Thursday to Saturday, May 27­­ to...

32 actors to perform Alan Sharpe’s ‘Screen/Plays’ on Black Pride Weekend

African-American Collective Theater (ACT) begins its 29th consecutive season with readings of Screen/Plays—12 original short plays by Founding Artistic Director Alan Sharpe. The latest installment of...

Women’s collective Pipeline Playwrights to premiere magical comedy

Pipeline Playwrights announces its first production in its Our Time, Our Stories Zoom production series: the world premiere of Ann Timmons’s A Very Present Presence, directed by Catherine Tripp. This...

‘Duck Harbor’ from 1st Stage to serialize the surprise of a bicoastal love

1st Stage embarks on a surprise-filled new web series, Duck Harbor, by renowned playwrights E. M. Lewis and Bob Bartlett, who collaborate on the clever, humorous, and heartwarming story of...

Women dish their exes in ‘To the New Girl’ from Peace Mountain Theatre

Peace Mountain Theatre Company presents a weekend of performances of To the New Girl by Samantha Macher, the company’s first foray into film. The play features a series of monologues from eight...

Best Medicine Rep to go live in June with dark vax comedy ‘Variant Strains’

“It’s hilariously sinister,” says Playwright John Morogiello, “kind of like Mamet meets Shaw meets me.”

Monumental adopts landmark policy against discrimination and harassment

Monumental Theatre Company takes “a definitive, proactive step to empower its community members and create a culture of safety, equity, and inclusivity.”

Dane Figueroa Edidi’s ‘Ghost/Writer’ to premiere as Rep Stage radio play

A virtual visit to the intersections of race and gender and the ghosts of the past.

Olney’s outdoor summer programming to uphold its anti-racism pledge

Ten weeks of live performance—much of it free—curated by Olney Theatre Center’s new BIPOC artist advocate, Kevin McAllister.

Strathmore announces new open-air summer concert series

Full season of concerts kicks off at the new Patio Stage on the Music Center’s Trawick Terrace.

Love-triangle comedy by Shaw coming next from Washington Stage Guild

The Washington Stage Guild continues its series of online presentations with a delectable Shavian bon bon to whet audience appetites for a return to in-person production in the fall. Following...

Uplifting music we need right now, from the APO and a starry cast

DC’s own American Pops Orchestra (APO), under the baton of Maestro Luke Frazier, will bring to the nation a program of musical uplift, joy, and comfort that could not be more pitch perfect for these...

GALA to stage sci-fi Latino sendup of anti-immigrant bias

José Torres-Tama performs his solo show ‘Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers’ live, May 14 and 15.

Solas Nua brings back live theater with ‘In the Middle of the Fields’ in a park

Solas Nua, DC’s award-winning Irish arts organization, stages an outdoor, live theater production May 20 to June 12, 2021. Recognized for the excellence of its site-specific work, Solas Nua will mount...

Free audio play from Ford’s features Lincoln–Douglass faceoff

An audio drama adaptation of Richard Hellesen’s Necessary Sacrifices—featuring acclaimed Washington actors Craig Wallace as Frederick Douglass and Paul Morella as Abraham Lincoln—can be listened to...

Virtual musical from NextStop Theatre to poke fun at dating game

A musical comedy about two young singles who have been set up on a blind date and are having dinner in a restaurant. What could possibly be more exciting after the past year? As its first full-scale...

An outlawed gay love gets set to music in ‘Midnight at The Never Get’

Midnight at The Never Get—the Off-Broadway smash hit and third production in the Signature Features 2021 Season—will stream April 30 through June 21, 2021, in HD on Marquee TV. With book, music, and...

A summer of live performances coming from American Shakespeare Center

American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, will reopen in May 2021 with a repertory season of three Shakespeare classics. With programming selected, cast and directed by a cohort of actor...

Shuttered venues can apply April 26 for federal rescue funding

UPDATE: The U.S. Small Business Administration has postponed relaunch of the problem-plagued Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) application portal until Monday, April 26, 2021, at noon ET....

Theater Alliance draws together four dramas from a disparate District

Continuing a season of online content, Theater Alliance presents the world premiere of City in Transition: The Quadrant Series. The full-length evening of digital theater, drawing inspiration from...

Brave Soul Collective to celebrate 15 years of Black Queer artistry

Local HIV/AIDS outreach and arts organization Brave Soul Collective (BSC) kicks off its 15th year and virtual performance season with BSCFifteen, a week-long artist residency at The Kennedy Center...

In ‘Blindness’ at STC, the audience is live, with not an actor in sight

Shakespeare Theatre Company will open the doors of Sidney Harman Hall for the first time in over a year for the Donmar Warehouse’s sound and light installation Blindness. Prior to ReOpen DC’s...

Angelica Chéri’s epic love story ‘Berta, Berta’ is next at Everyman

Playwright Angelica Chéri’s mystical and moving play Berta, Berta is next up at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre. Founder and Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi announced that Everyman is set to stream...

Live onstage again: a coming-of-age comedy at GALA Hispanic Theatre

Having implemented strict safety precautions in keeping with the Mayor’s plan, GALA Hispanic Theatre reopens its 45th-anniversary season live with Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Tía Julia y el...

Shots from the vaccination site at Arena

Arena Stage has partnered with DC Health and MedStar Health to support and provide an accessible and safe location to help steadily vaccinate DC residents. The site will operate Thursdays to Sundays...

A personal relationship to America’s racial reckoning wraps up Arena Riffs

A More Perfect Union—a new concept-album-inspired music piece written and conceived by award-winning composer and lyricist Rona Siddiqui (Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfgan, One Good Day)—will be the...

Landless Theatre Company tries its hands at a sock puppet ‘Urinetown’

Pandemic life may have shut down live theater, but DC’s Landless Theatre Company has always had a knack for making lemonade out of lemons. They found their own digital theater solution hiding in the...

Descendant of enslaved people sold by Georgetown to perform her ‘Here I Am’

Our ancestors have waited patiently through centuries for us to come to the table of acknowledgement. Here I Am fulfills my desire to give voice to those families, including my own, and to our...

Everyman Theatre updates slate of plays for 30th-anniversary season

After delivering on the promise of rehearsing, filming, and streaming the first two production of the season, Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains and Cry It Out, the staff and artists at...

Black actors face grief of pandemic in hip-hop musical from Arena

Arena Stage is now streaming the second installment in its Arena Riffs series: a pandemic-era hip-hop musical written, directed, and performed by award-winning playwright, director and, actor...

Young CityDance Conservatory Dancers win highest honors

CityDance School & Conservatory received the Outstanding School Award at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Boston Regional Semi-finals March 19 – 21, 2021, at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester, MA....