4615 Theatre Company will launch its third season with two plays in rep by distinguished British playwrights, and will finish with two world premieres by local writers. A woman has a passionate affair with her husband’s close friend — what could be less remarkable than that? But in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, the fact of the […]
Creative Cauldron announces its 7 show season, all of them musicals.
Childhood, magic, myths and legends, and Patsy Cline — who is arguably all of those — will make up the docket for Creative Cauldron’s 2019-2020 season. Creative Cauldron will open the season with Disenchanted, Dennis Giacino’s scathing examination of the Disney Princesses, as they really are: embittered, dipsomaniacal, and not too bright. “Nobody’s pretending that […]
Theater Alliance’s next season: dramas and new Psalmeyene 24 hip hop musical
Theater Alliance’s first season under the helm of Producing Artistic Director Raymond O. Caldwell will take a hard look at the experience of being Black in America in its three-play 2019-2020 season. The Theater Alliance season will kick off with Douglas Turner Ward’s 1965 play Day of Absence. In a sleepy Southern town, White residents […]
Quotidian Theatre announces the 3 plays for season 2019-2020
Bethesda-based Quotidian Theatre will be producing plays from two writers familiar to its audiences — Horton Foote and Connor McPherson — and one from Henrik Ibsen which shocked audiences when it was originally produced, in its three play 2019-2020 season. Quotidian will lead off with McPherson’s Port Authority, the tale of three different men, at […]
Best Medicine Rep’s got 4 comedies for Season 3
Best Medicine Rep, the DMV’s only theater company devoted to comedy, will present a 2019-2020 season composed of a fresh comedy from the West Coast, a reprise of a successful 2018 production, and two world premieres for 2020. Helen on Wheels will kick off the season. Cricket Daniel’s comedy is about Helen the hellion Wheeler, […]
Everyman opens its new Upstairs Theatre as part of 8-play 2019-2020 season
This coming season, Everyman Theatre will inaugurate The Upstairs Theatre, its new 210-seat performance space, with a three-play new play festival, against a backdrop of five classic plays on Everyman’s mainstage. The new-play festival will feature an Everyman-commissioned new work by Calleen Sinnette Jennings, adding to her Queens Girl series with Queens Girl: Black in […]
The National Theatre announces its 12-show Broadway season
The new season scheduled for Washington’s National Theatre seems more promising, at this point, than the Washington Nationals season. The National Theatre will present seven musicals and five non-musicals, including a return of The Illusionists and Blue Man Group to our town; the Washington Nationals’ season presents a firm grip on fourth place in the […]
Constellation Theatre Company’s Season 13 ranges from ridiculous to sublime
Constellation Theatre Company, which has established a reputation for performing the sublime epics of our culture, will, in its 13th season, aspire to capture the ridiculous — and a little bit of the sublime as well. Are you considering a plant based diet? Well, meet Seymour, the plant who is considering a diet based on […]
Synetic Theater debuts Phantom of the Opera next season
Synetic Theater will produce — and reimagine — the classics for its 2019-2020 season, reviving two of its most notable productions — The Tempest and The Snow Queen — and adding a classic from the Spanish Golden Age and a story drawn from a Gaston Lereux novel and made famous by an Andrew Lloyd Webber […]
The Kennedy Center’s 2019-2020 Season of Ballet and Dance: An Embarrassment of Riches for Washington Dance Lovers
The Kennedy Center’s 2019/2020 Ballet and Dance Season is an embarrassment of riches with seven of the world’s top ballet companies, and nine stellar modern and contemporary dance troupes. The ballet season opens on October 8, 2019 with the Mariinsky Ballet. The august institution has been a regular on the Kennedy Center’s annual roster for […]
Keegan Theatre announces its 2019-2020 season. Four of the seven shows are Washington area debuts
A world premiere from a local actor/playwright, a co-production, an old favorite, two musicals, and two stories about, or almost about, actual events make up Keegan Theatre’s 2019-2020 season. Jeremy Skidmore’s back in town to direct Brandon McCoy’s world premiere West By God, which will open the company’s season. This play tracks two families in […]
1st Stage’s 2019-2020 season includes co-productions with Keegan and Olney
In their next season, 1st Stage’s eclectic, collaborative twelfth season will take on air guitar wizards, race in the squared circle, aging in (a bad) place, brain surgery and the Attorney General — but not the one you’re thinking about — the company announced. 1st Stage starts things out with Trying, Joanna McClelland Glass’ story […]