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The Matchbox Magic Flute
The Matchbox Magic Flute
5/21 - 6/16/2024


In her acclaimed signature style, Mary Zimmerman conceives a brand new theatrical adaptation of Mozart’s beloved opera. Playful and imaginative, it’s big music in a small space. This “matchbox” ...

Ben Platt
Ben Platt
6/23


Dear Evan Hansen  star Ben Platt brings his immense and diverse talents to Wolf Trap. Platt received Tony and Grammy nominations in 2023 for his ...

Panti Bliss: If These Wigs Could Talk


After a lifetime of accidental activism, far-fetched shenanigans and making a full time show of herself, notorious drag queen Panti Bliss—the “Queen of Ireland”—is now ...

Funny Girl
Funny Girl
6/25 - 7/14/2024


This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the ...

Pasión y Fuego: The Music of Spain


The Pan American Symphony Orchestra will perform music by Spain's most prominent composers such as Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, and Enrique Granados, showcasing the ...

Concert

Shear Madness
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. ...

Bye Bye Birdie
6/7 - 6/15/2024


The classic, lighthearted satire of the music industry! When it’s announced that Elvis-style heartthrob Conrad Birdie is being drafted into the army, teenage girls across ...

Into The Woods Jr
6/14 - 6/16/2024


The Brothers Grimm "go Broadway" as Sondheim and Lapine offer up a cockeyed fairy tale where all of your favorite characters-Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, ...

Problems Between Sisters
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 Matchbox Magic Flute
The Matchbox Magic Flute
5/21 - 6/16/2024


Adapted & Directed by Mary Zimmerman Based on the Opera by Mozart In her acclaimed signature style, Mary Zimmerman conceives a brand new theatrical adaptation ...

Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents Ruddigore


Victorian Lyric Opera Company presents "Ruddigore" 6 performances | June 7, 8, 14* & 15 at 8pm | June 9 & 16 at 2pm *Sign ...

Soul In Motion Players 40th Anniversary Concert


Soul In Motion Players 40th Anniversary Concert ONE NIGHT ONLY | Friday, June 21 at 7:30pm   Celebrating Soul In Motion's 40th Anniversary in the ...

The Elephant in the Room
The Elephant in the Room
6/6 - 6/22/2024


“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 ...

Rose: You Are Who You Eat
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
6/5 - 6/23/2024


THEATRICAL CO-WORLD PREMIERE WITH FRINGEARTS AND LA MAMA ETC Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister ...

Rose: You Are Who You Eat
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
6/5 - 6/23/2024


Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister in the womb, but that John consumed her: “You ...

The Elephant in the Room
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 ...

Zavala-Zavala
Zavala-Zavala
6/21 - 6/23/2024


This chamber opera in five cuts delves into the moving story of Natividad Zavala-Zavala, a Honduran woman torn apart from her seven-year-old grandson after their ...

The Hatmaker's Wife
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 ...

The Hatmaker's Wife
The Hatmaker's Wife
6/5 - 6/25/2024


Magic and realism collide in this modern fable about learning to love. A young woman moves in with her boyfriend, and when she has trouble ...

Michael Feinstein


You’ll get a kick out of the legendary career of the late Tony Bennett when Michael Feinstein and The Carnegie Hall Big Band perform a ...

Broadway in the Park


Experience unforgettable live performances of your favorite show tunes as Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap come together for the fourth annual Broadway in the Park. ...

Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls
5/31 - 6/29/2024


2nd Star Productions presents Dreamgirls Book & Lyrics by Tom Eyen Music by Henry Krieger A sweeping and inspirational journey through 20th century American pop ...

Little One
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 ...

Once On This Island
6/1 - 6/30/2024


Once On This Island is a captivating musical based on the novel "My Love, My Love" and a vibrant reimagining of the Hans Christian Andersen ...

Once On This Island
6/1 - 6/30/2024


Once On This Island is a captivating musical based on the novel "My Love, My Love" and a vibrant reimagining of the Hans Christian Andersen ...

The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner
6/25 - 6/30/2024


One of the best-loved and most highly acclaimed novels of our time, THE KITE RUNNER is a powerful play of friendship that follows one man’s ...

Panti Bliss
Panti Bliss
6/26 - 7/7/2024


After a lifetime of accidental activism, far-fetched shenanigans and making a full time show of herself, notorious drag queen Panti Bliss—the “Queen of Ireland”—is now ...

Panti Bliss: If These Wigs Could Talk


Presented by Solas Nua and Studio Theatre A THISISPOPBABY and Abbey Theatre Production Written and performed by  Panti Bliss Directed by  Phillip McMahon Produced by  ...


MISS NELSON IS MISSING! Younger@Part® is the authorized 30 minute edition of the TYA musical for elementary schools and youth theatres (grades 2 – 5). ...

Is God Is
Is God Is
6/13 - 7/14/2024


A Modern Myth That Fuses Ancient Tragedy, Hip-Hop, and Afropunk


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Review: ROSE: YOU ARE WHO YOU EAT at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company


by David Friscic - June 10, 2024

Rose: You Are Who You Eat is an irreverent (yet, concurrently, affectionate) look at a performer/cabaret artist’s autobiographical impulse and gender identity questions/affirmations set against the metaphor of cannibalism as a “who gets devoured?”/”feasting/ingestion”  metaphor ---that plays into “d...

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....

Review: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM at Keegan Theatre


by Jake Bridges - June 04, 2024

What did our critic think of THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM at Keegan Theatre?...

Review: MI ESCOBA POR UN REINO/ GOD SAVE THE QUEEN at Teatro De La Luna


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 ...

Review: THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN at Creative Cauldron


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....

Review: LONG WAY DOWN at Olney Theatre Center


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,...

Review: BEYOND BOUNDARIES, AN EVENING CURATED BY ANNABELLE LOPEZ OCHOA at The Kennedy Center


by Michela Dwyer - May 26, 2024

What did our critic think of THE WASHINGTON BALLET'S BEYOND BOUNDARIES, AN EVENING CURATED BY ANNABELLE LOPEZ OCHOA at Kennedy Center?...



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