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The immersive sound installation Blindness, originally produced to great acclaim at London's Donmar Warehouse, makes its U.S. premiere at Shakespeare Theatre Company December 8, 2020. For th…
Silver Spring Stage is offering a new season of virtual performances. First up is Lobby Hero by the Academy Award"winning Kenneth Lonergan, an absorbing play where good intentions can be …
Responding to the mounting COVID-19 pandemic, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has canceled all previously scheduled programs through April 25, 2021. Additionally, Washingt…
"If you like theatrical storytelling"the kind that catches you by the heartstrings, gets you all wrapped up, then doesn't let loose until the very end"you're going to love The Resurrection o…
Washington Stage Guild will present a "heavenly" online performance of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, the famous dream sequence from his play Man and Superman.  Audiences are…
Separated by continents, an estranged father and son reunite over Zoom. From their respective kitchens in Ramallah and in New York City, they recreate a cherished family recipe and struggle …
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and DC creative collective Makers Lab reunite for The JookJOYnt, a free, five-part video experience exploring themes of vulnerability, intimacy, and connection…
Baltimore's Everyman Theatre will bet on another successful run with Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, premiering for in-person performances on November …
Round House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theatre Center, has announced updated details for The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence, a four-week festival highlighti…
Just when American politics could not seem more fraught, IN Series is offering a cheeky throwback to a shockingly simpler time: a made-for-film production of Melissa Dunphy's Gonzales Cantat…
Prologue Theatre has launched FOREWORD: A New Works Series. Each month through March 2021, a creative team will come together for two weeks to workshop a playwright's new play, culminating i…
Keegan Theatre returns to mainstage programming with a pair of productions streaming live in rep November 12 to 29, 2020. Performed from the Keegan stage, the fall repertory includes the wor…
This week Signature Theatre releases a new cinematic concert, an inspired alternative to its pre-COVID cabarets. Titled Signature Vinyl, the fully produced, professionally filmed producti…
IN Series returns to the original revolutionary opera, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, for an intimate film experience exploring love, loss, and grief during a global pandemic in which million…
theatreWashington has announced an expansion of the Taking Care COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, originally organized in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and the sudden loss of…
As millions across the country are taking to the polls, Studio Theatre releases its first audio play, an adaption of Kings, the lacerating, fast-talking political drama by Alexandria, Virgin…
Theater professionals from New York City, Kentucky, and DC have come together to launch ​Twist, a new virtual experience centered around a rotating series of social strategy games.ÂÂ…
"Dancing and singing over the wireless airways"how might it have happened? What might have been a dry history lesson is given delightfully appealing musical charm in Creative Cauldron's worl…
Two-time Helen Hayes Award winner E. Faye Butler returns to Arena Stage to take on the iconic role of civil and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Cheryl L. West's play Fannie …
The Breath Project"a new theatrical initiative formed in response to racial injustice against Black people"will stream as a free virtual festival October 24 and 25, 2020. In partnership with…
The Edge of the Universe Players 2, a DC-based company dedicated to deep meanings in the form of theatrical high entertainment, had planned to continue exploring that territory in the 2020 F…
UrbanArias has partnered with eight other American opera companies to create a newly commissioned operatic video series, Tales From a Safe Distance, inspired by Boccaccio's The Decameron. Ea…
Just in time for Halloween, The Alden Theatre in McLean continues its unique Drive-Thru Drama performances with Objects in Mirror May Be SPOOKIER Than They Appear, October 16 to November 1, …
The trials and tribulations of a talk show host's family. A date between two extreme opposites that gets dangerous. These are the themes of the two winning entries in Dominion Stage's first …
The lineup for Shakespeare Theater Company's 2020"2021 season"as announced by Artistic Director Simon Godwin and Executive Director Chris Jennings"is signficantly different from plans first …