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Season features seven world-premiere works. IN Series has announced its 2025/26 season, IN Principio which consists solely of the premiere of works of music and theater. It is a season that lifts up ...
After nearly two decades of spotlighting local theater, the Capital Fringe Festival went dark, just when the arts needed it most. District Fringe is picking up where Capital Fringe left off. “There’s ...
Raymond O. Caldwell stages Dominique Morisseau's play with immersive raw urgency and an enthrallingly frenetic current of energy and emotion. Dead center of the Black Bottom neighborhood in 1949 ...
Pearl Cleage’s poignant drama brings to life five characters who engage the racial and social consciousness of the 1920s and ’30s. Set during the Harlem Renaissance, this workhorse of a play has been ...
Washington National Opera presents an important and lasting new opera about a tech bro who was not a nice guy. Mark Campbell, one of America’s most successful contemporary librettists, collaborated ...
Highlights include a live conversation between Ben Brantley and Enda Walsh, a screening of one of Walsh’s acclaimed films starring Academy Award-winner, Cillian Murphy, as well as live performances by ...
Signature presents DC premiere of brand-new musical by Joe Iconis, starring Eric William Morris. “I am thrilled that Signature will close out its 35th season with The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s swashbuckling two-act comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, which premiered at NYC’s Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1879, is the subject of a new adaptation, Pirates! The Penzance ...
Alliance for New Music-Theatre's staged reading in a vast underground tunnel testifies powerfully to art’s capacity amid the horror of war to inspire hope. It is the site-specific soundscape that ...
The creators and performers deliver a touching love story, a powerful history lesson, and a cautionary note about continuing bias. “Loving versus Virginia. It’s a song.” So sings ACLU lawyer Phillip ...
Panels to feature leading Broadway creators Jeanine Tesori, Julie Taymor, Camille A. Brown and more. The Library of Congress will host StageStruck! VI: Women and the American Musical, a free three-day ...
World premiere musical adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel runs June 12-July 20 at Arena. “A Wrinkle in Time transcends the boundaries of time, space, and even genre,” said Arena Stage ...