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The 22+ Weddings of Hugo
9/5 - 9/29/2024
LAS 22+ BODAS DE HUGO – The 22+ Weddings of Hugo By Gustavo Ott Directed by José Zayas September 5 - 29, 202 4 World ...
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. ...
DC ORIGINALITY: Showcasing the Cultural Beat of Capital City
9/10 - 9/11/2024
From smoky jazz echoing down U Street to the pulsating beats of Go-go born in the heart of D.C., the vibrant sounds of our city ...
Event description: Lucas Meachem’s vigorous baritone makes him exceptionally suited to his signature roles of Escamillo (Carmen), Il Conte di Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), ...
Vocal Arts DC presents Lucas and Irina Meachem in a recital at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater on September 12, 2024. The GRAMMY Award-winning baritone ...
POSTMORTEM
9/8 - 9/12/2024
Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Marilyn Ness’ playwriting debut, POSTMORTEM , combines true crime with family drama to tell a story about one woman’s reckoning with ...
American Masters: Eugene Rogers conducts Carlos Simon/Dan Harder, Aaron Copland & Jessie Montgomery
9/14
Celebrate the genius of American composers as the NSO performs Aaron Copland’s Suite from Billy the Kid and selections from his Old American Songs, Jessie ...
Armenian Youth Center of Greater Washington Inc. presents "Armenian Cultural Night" ONE NIGHT ONLY! | September 14th at 6 p.m. Join us for an ...
Cirque du Soleil’s OVO
9/12 - 9/15/2024
OVO is a headlong rush into a colorful ecosystem teeming with life and amazing acrobatics. Visit a magical world where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, ...
Jeffrey Siegel, the popular virtuoso pianist, returns for his Keyboard Conversations® concerts with commentary. In Music of Joy and Peace, Siegel showcases the gorgeous and ...
Soft Power
8/6 - 9/15/2024
Experience "Soft Power" at Signature Theatre from August 6th to September 15th, 2024. This captivating show fuses East and West in a thought-provoking exploration of ...
Tale of Two Cities: Music of Florence and Venice
9/13 - 9/15/2024
Folger Consort opens its 2024/25 season with a series of concerts titled Tale of Two Cities: Music of Florence and Venice, featuring early music from ...
Exception to the Rule
9/22 - 9/18/2024
Exception to the Rule, directed by Miranda Haymon, opens Studio Theatre's 2024-2025 season with a fresh cast of young talent exploring the trials of high ...
Capitol Fools
9/22
Kick off the 2024–25 Hylton Center season with comedy the D.C.-area does best—politics! Former cast members and the co-writer of the long-running, beloved Capitol Steps ...
Theatre Washington returns to the DC Wharf Transit Pier to make waves with musical theatre showstoppers from a dozen of the #dctheatre season’s productions. 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 ...
How To Be a Korean Woman
9/12 - 9/22/2024
*How to Be a Korean Woman* is a hilarious, heartfelt, and personal telling of Korean-American adoptee Sun Mee Chomet‘s search for her birth family in ...
NSO Family Concert: Mo @ the NSO
9/21 - 9/22/2024
With the help of the National Symphony Orchestra and all-star guests, New York Times best-selling author/illustrator Mo Willems introduces fun musical ideas, explores big emotions, ...
Oh My Heart, Oh My Home
9/6 - 9/22/2024
The meteorite shook the ground as it landed, igniting a chorus of barking dogs. Neighbours reported a blast of flames, it felt as though the ...
Shrek The Musical
9/20 - 9/22/2024
“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek….” And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a ...
Alexander Bernstein and Marika Bournaki will perform at the Shenandoah Conservatory, showcasing their impressive piano talents. This concert is part of the conservatory's World of ...
Sierra Hull
9/27
Sierra Hull will kick off the 2024-25 season at Shenandoah Conservatory with her exceptional talent as a bluegrass mandolinist and vocalist on September 27, 2024. ...
Tony and Olivier Award-winning singer and actress Lea Salonga headlines the 2024 ARTS by George! benefit concert, performing songs she has made famous throughout her ...
An Evening with Lea Salonga features the renowned Tony and Olivier Award-winning actress and singer in a special performance at George Mason University’s Center for ...
What could be more fitting than kicking off a season during an election year with a riotous satire? This Broadway hit about seven brazen women ...
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 ...
"Beam me up, Butchie!" In the grand Queer tradition of Kirk and Spock, C-3P0 and R2D2, Lady Gaga’s ArtPop pronunciation of “Jupitah!” and the trailblazing ...
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Review: MAMMA MIA at Kennedy Center
by Ken Kemp - August 21, 2024
Jukebox musicals generally fall into one of three categories: tribute shows which try to reproduce the music and staging of an iconic musical act as closely as possible (Rain, the Beatles Tribute, for example), biographical narratives (Beautiful, the Carole King Musical and Ain't Too Proud being two...
Review: Bandhouse Gigs 20th Anniversary Tribute to DC Legends at Strathmore
by Roger Catlin - August 20, 2024
Bandhouse Gigs, an outfit that assembles top local musicians to honor a variety of artists from Bob Dylan to the Stones, began its life outdoors at the Strathmore, honoring Nils Lofgren. For a big event Saturday with the full title “Strathmore Presents A BandHouse Gigs 20th Anniversary Tribute to DC...
Review: MJ: THE MUSICAL at National Theatre
by David Friscic - August 19, 2024
The myriad music, moods, and motifs of the “king of pop” (not to mention generic mastery of soul, rhythm and blues, funk, rock, disco, and dance-pop) Michael Jackson, are electrifyingly on display in the ingeniously cutting -edge musical MJ: The Musical now playing at the National Theatre. Not at al...
Review: THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS FAREWELL TOUR at Strathmore
by Roger Catlin - August 18, 2024
The latest Righteous Brothers farewell tour pulled into the Strathmore in Bethesda Thursday, entertaining an elderly crowd who enjoyed hearing their hits from the 1960s....
Review: SOFT POWER at Signature Theatre
by Pamela Roberts - August 15, 2024
Soft Power at Signature Theatre, is lush and polished, wacky and worrisome, absurdist and cautionary. It’s a tightrope of high political stakes and a zany montage of the US and China. As we head into high season of the 2024 election, the timing is perfect for staging the recently revised musical by ...
Review: New York Circus Project's HAMLET an Exhilarating Debut
by Andrew White - August 13, 2024
We usually associate circuses with acrobats and clowning; it never occurs to us to think of circuses as an art form, with tremendous expressive potential. The New York Circus Project (NYCP), takes the art of the circus one dramatic step further. Currently on its first national tour with their produ...
Review: Edge Of the Universe Theater's A NUMBER
by Hannah R. Wing - August 12, 2024
Edge of the Universe Theater, in association with Avant Bard Theatre, turns up the family drama in an intimate, edgy production of A Number, directed by Stephen Jarrett, starring a real-life father and son.
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Review: NINE at Kennedy Center
by Elliot Lanes - August 07, 2024
It’s been 40 years since the national tour of the 1982 Arthur Kopit/Maury Yeston Tony Award winning Broadway musical Nine played at the Kennedy Center. It is currently the latest entry into the Broadway Center Stage series and boasts an all-star cast, a large orchestra and an “interesting” concept b...
Review: NOISES OFF at Keegan Theatre
by Mary Lincer - August 05, 2024
Noises Off remains the hardest to perform play ever written, as well as one of the easiest and most fun to watch. The Play That Goes Wrong tried to surpass it, but it can't be done. Playwright Michael Frayn's 1982 play could be called a love letter to theatre people if it weren't the play that threa...
Review: SUMMERTIME: AWA SAL SECKA SINGS LADIES OF JAZZ at Signature Theatre
by Roger Catlin - July 29, 2024
The talented actress and sometime playwright has appeared in dozens of shows in D.C. — and several at Signature, including an award-winning performance in its Ragtime last year. Here, she shares her passion for jazz singers from the golden era that have never gone out of style in a personable revue ...
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