Production History Archive

Desperate to reach his long-lost son, an aging father turns to a sorcerer for insight. As the sorcerer conjures three episodes from the young man's life, his...

Shakespeare’s classic comedy "The Taming of the Shrew" pits the spirited Katherine against the fortune-seeking Petruchio, who has agreed to woo and marry her as...

What would you do to avoid eternity in hell? AET presents a comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Glengarry Glen Ross," "American Buffalo," "Oleanna...

Urban legend gets a shot of Edgar Allan Poe and a dash of contemporary horror in Factory 449's world premiere of THE ICE CHILD. Catherine wakes to find herself...

The play that delighted Broadway in 2001 emerges in DC for the first time. Join Ovid’s mythical characters around a shimmering pool of water for a glimpse of...

Half life-size rod puppets, performed in the Italian “Commedia dell’arte” style, tell Carlo Collodi’s story of what it means to be “real.” Share the trials and...

Compass Rose Studio Theater proudly presents Oliver! The Musical. Based on Charles Dickens fable about a starving orphan in 19th century London, the play tells...

Going shopping…baking cakes…sitting in trees…JUMPING ON BEDS!!! In this zany play, all in cumulative verse, five silly simian siblings insist on doing things...

Set in a world where there is a constant and pervasive hum that blocks out verbal communication Van and Eva must discover how to re-connect after a stranger...

During times of economic crisis… there are also marriage crises. This delicious comedy uses the classic love triangle as the base for an intelligent theatrical...

The Washington professional premiere of GBS’ stereoscopic look at sex, the irresistible force! Since 1986, The Washington Stage Guild has built an international...

Hitchcock — With a Twist! When Richard Hannay agrees to take home a mysterious woman he meets at the theatre, he unexpectedly finds himself thrown into a world...

Brian Friel's moving tale of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936 has been called the most elegant and rueful...

The Big Meal follows a young couple, Nicole and Sam, from first date to first fight, their first kiss to their newly wedded life at a single restaurant table...

The Seafarer is set Christmas Eve in a suburb north of Dublin. James "Sharkey" Harkin returns to his blind, aging brother, Richard. As Sharkey trys to stay off...

Rapunzel is a typical 16-year-old girl, with a couple small exceptions: she was stolen from her real parents by a wicked witch who pretends to be her mother...

Tragedy puts an antic disposition on when the Commedia servant Arlecchino is cast in the lead role of Hamlet. This energetic and tragi-comic interpretation of...

With quick-witted dialogue and a playful score, 1776 dramatizes the impassioned debates of Philadelphia’s Second Continental Congress. As George Washington...

Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel and adapted by Stephen Schwartz (WICKED, PIPPIN and GODSPELL) and Nina Faso, WORKING celebrates...