Season at a Glance
The 2009/2010 Season
Last updated: June 16, 2009
With this year’s season in it’s last quarter, we enter that dream state where we get to see what companies have planned for next year. Everything is subject to change. We’ll keep updating this page as new seasons are announced.
To see what’s playing now, check the drop down listings in Find A Show located above in the gold bar.
| Company / * Production | 2009/2010 Dates |
| SOURCE FESTIVAL | June 20 - July 12 |
| CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL | July 8 - Aug 2 |
| * FARRAGUT NORTH by Beau Willimon | |
| * YANKEE TAVERN by Steven Deitz | |
| * FIFTY WORDS by Michael Weller | |
| * THE HISTORY OF LIGHT by Else Davis | |
| * DEAR SARA JANE by Victor Lodato | |
| CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL | July 9 - 26 |
| PAGE-TO-STAGE FESTIVAL | Sept 5 - 7 |
| Adventure Theatre | |
| * GO, DOG, GO! By P. D. Eastman | Sept 18 - Nov 15 |
| * THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD | Dec 7 - Jan 10 |
| * THE NEW MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY by Jeff Brown | Feb 12 - Apr 6 |
| * THE RED BALLOON | Apr 30 - June 13 |
| * IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE by Laura Joffe Numeroff | July 2 - Aug 15 |
| Arena Stage | |
| * THE QUALITY OF LIFE by Jane Anderson | Sept 11 - Nov 1 |
| * THE FANTASTICKS by Jones & Schmidt | Nov 20 - Jan 3 |
| * STICK FLY by Lydia R. Diamond | Jan 1 - Feb 7 |
| * THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA by Lucas and Guettel | Mar 5 - 25 |
| * DUKE ELLINGTON’S SOPHISTICATED LADIES by McKayle and Ellington | Apr 9 - May 30 |
| * R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER: THE HISTORY (AND MYSTERY) OF THE UNIVERSE by D. W. Jacobs | May 28 - July 4 |
| Folger Theatre | |
| * MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare | Oct 21 - Nov 29 |
| * ORESTES by Euripedes | Jan 27 - Mar 7 |
| * HAMLET by William Shakespeare | Apr 20 - June 6 |
| Ford’s Theatre | |
| * BLACK PEARL SINGS! by Frank Higgins | Sept 25 - Oct 18 |
| * A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens | Nov 23 - Jan 3 |
| * THE RIVALRY by Norman Corwin | Jan 22 - Feb 14 |
| * LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS by Menken & Ashman | Mar 12 - May 23 |
| Forum Theatre | |
| * ANGELS IN AMERICA, Parts 1 and 11 by Tony Kushner | Oct 4 - Nov 22 |
| GALA Hispanic Theatre | |
| * LUCIDO by Rafael Spregelburd | Sept 17 - Oct 11 |
| * BEAUTY OF THE FATHER by Nilo Cruz | Feb 4 - 28 |
| * THE BILLY-CLUB PUPPETS by Federico García Lorca | Apr 8 - May 2 |
| * BOLA: CUBA’s KING OF SONG by Hector Quintero | June 9 - 27 |
| Happenstance Theatre | |
| * A FOOL NAMED “O” | Aug 29 - Oct 5 |
| * LOOK OUT BELOW! | Dec 4 - 20 |
| * LOW TIDE HOTEL and FARFAR OASIS | Mar 10 - 12 |
| Imagination Stage | |
| * FERDINAND THE BULL by Zacarias and Wicks La Puma | Sept 26 - Nov 1 |
| * DISNEY’S MULAN by Wilder, Zippel, Schwartz, Tesori & Junge | Nov 25 - Jan10 |
| * PETER AND THE WOLF by Sergei Prokofiev | Feb 3 - Mar 21 |
| * THE DANCING PRINCESSES by Currin, & Youstra | Apr 14 - May 30 |
| * HOW I BECAME A PIRATE by Cardarelli & Goers | June 23 - Aug 18 |
| * PIRATES! A BOY AT SEA by Charles Way | July 6 - Aug18 |
| The Kennedy Center | |
| * A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams | Oct 29 - Nov 21 |
| * AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts | Nov 24 - Dec 20 |
| * YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN by Brooks & Meehan | Dec 15 - Jan 10 |
| * TERRENCE MCNALLY’S NIGHTS AT THE OPERA: Masterclass, The Lisbon Traviata and Golden Age | Mar 12 - Apr 18 |
| * THURGOOD by George Stevens, Jr. | June 1 - 20 |
| * MARY POPPINS by Fellowes, Stiles & Drewe | opens July 1 |
| * SHEAR MADNESS by Paul Portner | continuous |
| MetroStage | |
| * MUSICAL OF MUSICALS: The Musical by Rockwell & Bogart | Aug 27 - Oct 18 |
| * PEARL BAILEY … BY REQUEST by White and Jones II | Nov 19 - Dec 20 |
| * MAHALIA by Tom Stolz | Jan 21 - Mar 14 |
| * TINY DANCER by Goodman & Gordon | Apr 15 - May 9 |
| Molotov Theatre Group | |
| * BLOOD, SWEAT & FEARS II | Oct 2 - 31 |
| * MONDO ANDRONICUS and SKINHEAD HAMLET | Spring, 2010 |
| * HORRORS OF ONLINE DATING by Shawn Northrip | Summer 2010 |
| National Theatre | |
| * JERSEY BOYS by Brickman & Elice | Oct 1 - Dec 12 |
| Olney Theatre Center | |
| * A PASSION FOR JUSTICE: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow by Jack Marshall and Paul Morella | Aug 12 - Sept 6 |
| * NIGHT MUST FALL by Emlyn Williams | Sept 30 - Oct 25 |
| * CAMELOT by Lerner & Loewe | Nov 18 - Jan 3 |
| Quotidian Theatre Company | |
| * PORT AUTHORITY by Conor McPherson | Oct 23 - Nov 22 |
| * THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL by Horton Foote | Apr 16 - May 16 |
| * A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR by Tennessee Williams | July 9 - Aug 8 |
| Rep Stage | |
| * WITTENBERG by David Davalos | Aug 26- Sept 13 |
| * HYSTERIA by Terry Johnson | Oct 7 - Nov 1 |
| * A DICKENS OF A CAROL by Kimberley Lynne | Dec 1 - 20 |
| * THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams | Feb 3 - 28 |
| * ON THE VERGE OR THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING by Eric Overmyer | Apr 14 - May 2 |
| * THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA? By Edward Albee | June 2 - 27 |
| Rorschach Theatre | |
| * BRAIN PEOPLE by Jose Rivera | Jun 28 - July 26 |
| * DEAD CITY by Sheila Callaghan | July 19 - Aug 16 |
| * LIVING DEAD IN DENMARK by Qui Nguyen | Aug 2 - 23 |
| Round House Theatre | |
| * THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa | Sept 9 - Oct 4 |
| * 26 MILES by Quiara Alegria | Oct 28 - Nov 22 |
| * PERMANENT COLLECTION by Thomas Gibbons | Jan 27 - Feb 21 |
| * MY NAME IS ASHER LEV by Araon Posner | Mar 17 - Apr 11 |
| * AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS by Mark Brown | May 5 - 30 |
| Scena Theatre | |
| * DUBLIN CAROL by Conor McPherson | Aug15 - Sept. 20 |
| * SINK THE BELGRANO! by Steven Berkoff | Oct 12 - Nov. 15 |
| * PUBLIC ENEMY by Kenneth Branagh | Oct 24 - Nov. 29 |
| * METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka | TBA |
| Shakespeare Theatre | |
| * THE BACCHAE by Euripides | Sept 29 - Nov 15 |
| * AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare | Nov 17 - Dec 20 |
| * RICHARD II by William Shakespeare | Feb 2 - Apr 11 |
| * HENRY V by William Shakespeare | Feb 4 - Apr 10 |
| * THE LIAR by Pierre Corneille | Apr 6 - May 23 |
| * MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw | Jun 8 - July 11 |
| Signature Theatre | |
| * DIRTY BLONDE by Claudia Shear | Aug 11 - Oct 4 |
| * FIRST YOU DREAM: The Kander and Ebb Concert | Sept 10 - 27 |
| * SHOW BOAT by Kern & Hammerstein II | Nov 10 - Jan 17 |
| * I AM MY OWN WIFE by Doug Wright | Jan 12 - Mar 7 |
| * SWEENEY TODD by Sondheim & Wheeler | Feb 9 - Apr 4 |
| * [title of show] by Bowen & Bell | Mar 30 - June 20 |
| * SYCAMORE TREES by Ricky Ian Gordon | May 18 - June 20 |
| Spooky Action Theater | |
| * DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Don Nigro | Oct 29 - Nov 22 |
| * KWAIDEN by Lafcadio Hearn | Feb 18 - Mar 14 |
| * INSIDE OUT by Alfred Jarry | Jun 3 - 27 |
| Studio Theatre | |
| * MOONLIGHT by Harold Pinter | Opens Sept 9 |
| * THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC by Kaufman & Teichman | Opens Dec 2 |
| * IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER by Tarrell A. McCraney | Opens Jan 6 |
| * A Neil Labute play | Opens Mar 24 |
| * AMERICAN BUFFALO by David Mamet | Opens May 5 |
| Synetic Theater | |
| * DRACULA | Sept 25 - Nov 15 |
| * ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA | Jan 28 - Feb 28 |
| * METAMORPHOSIS | Apr 9 - May 22 |
| * OTHELLO | May 27 - June 13 |
| Taffety Punk Theatre Company | |
| * Measure for Measure | Sept 18 - Oct 10 |
| Teatro de la Luna | |
| * 12th INT’L FESTIVAL OF HISPANIC THEATER | Oct 13 - Nov 21 |
| * CHUMBALE by Oscar Viale | Feb 18 - Mar 13 |
| * ANNA IN THE TROPICS by Nilo Cruz | Apr 29 - May 22 |
| Theater J | |
| * ZERO HOUR by Jim Brochu | Aug 29 - Sept 27 |
| * LOST IN YONKERS by Neil Simon | Oct 21 - Nov 29 |
| * MOMMY QUEEREST by Judy Gold | Dec 16 - Jan 3 |
| * THE FOUR OF US by Itamar Moses | Jan 20 - Feb 21 |
| * ANDY WARHOL: GOOD FOR JEWS? by Josh Kornbluth | Mar 6 - 21 |
| * IN DARFUR by Winter Miller | Mar 31 - Apr 18 |
| * MIKVEH by Hadar Galron | May 5 - June 5 |
| * NEW JERUSALEM by David Ives | June 26 - July 25 |
| Venus Theatre | |
| * WHY’D YA MAKE ME WEAR THIS, JOE? By Vanda | Sept 3 - 27 |
| * HELEN OF SPARTA by Joseph M. Appel | Oct 29 - Nov 22 |
| Washington Shakespeare Company | |
| * CAMILLE by Charles Ludlam | Aug 27 - Sept 27 |
| * LULU by Frank Wedekind | Nov 12 - Dec 13 |
| * THE MISER by Moliere | Jan 28 - Feb 28 |
| * THE FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur | TBA |
| Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | |
| * ECLIPSED by Danai Gurira | Aug 24 - Sept 20 |
| * FULL CIRCLE by Charles L. Mee | Oct 26 - Nov 22 |
| * TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND by The Neo-Futurists | Dec 7 - Jan 2 |
| * THE LAST CARGO CULT by Mike Daisey | Jan 11 - Feb 7 |
| * CLYBOURNE PARK by Bruce Norris | Mar 15 - Apr 11 |
| * GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph | May 17 - June 13 |
