Production History Archive

From the writer of BASRA BOY and STELLA MORGAN, Irish playwright Rosemary Jenkinson once again brings her unique and potent brand of wit and verbal acrobatics...

We close the season with another rep, leading off with The Bacchae of Euripides (it’s been too long since we produced one of the great Greek plays) as we...

The Washington premiere of the 3-time Tony Award winner, including "Best Play." From Yasmina Reza, the award-winning author of ART comes this shrewd and vicious...

Mystery, lust, intrigue, and murder! Disillusioned insurance agent Walter Huff finds temptation too hard to resist when he meets femme fatale Phyllis Nirlinger...

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is the classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell...

WASHINGTON, DC PREMIERE After massive success at Chicago’s Gift Theatre and New York’s Roundabout Theatre, this dark comedy about a business that helps its...

Not even the Great Depression is enough to dampen Flora's determination to land a fashion job, that is, until she meets Harry, the stammering handsome face of...

Written when Mozart was twenty-five, Idomeneo reflects classic Enlightment ideals and Mozart’s profound humanity, in glorious music. The story —King Idomeneo...

Lonely Planet takes place in a small map store on the oldest street in an unnamed American city. It is here that an extraordinary story unfolds. Steven Dietz...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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