Event category: Theater & Opera

The Tall Girls Written by Meg Miroshnik Directed by Madeleine Regina December 3 – 20, 2026 Sometimes basketball is the only way out. Even for a girl. Even in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The tiny hamlet of Poor Prairie doesn’t see a lot of folks coming into town, least of all men – they’ve...

Kick off the season with Encore’s Fall Open House and discover where creativity takes center stage! Join us for a morning of FREE theatre sampler classes designed for preschool through 8th grade, where young performers can act, move, play, and let their imaginations soar. Our Fall Open House...

The greatest holiday show south of the North Pole is back with another brand spankin’ new wintertide wonder! Award-winning comedy icons, writers, actors, and drag queen powerhouses BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon are coming back to town with the wildly successful, internationally acclaimed, “The...

Presented By: Virginia Chamber Orchestra Step into the spotlight with an electrifying evening of Broadway’s greatest hits — the songs that defined American musical theatre.

Spooky Action Theatre and Solas Nua partner on a new play ‘Hakawati /hakəˈwɑːti/. Noun: Storyteller; from the Arabic terms “hekaye” meaning story and “haki” meaning to talk. A tyrant avenges his wife’s infidelity by wedding, bedding and beheading a new bride every day. Years later, only...

Few musicals have left a mark on Broadway quite like the legendary CHICAGO—and it’s coming to Atlas Performing Arts Center to give DC the old razzle dazzle! Roxie Hart is a chorus girl with stars in her eyes and blood on her hands, navigating the sultry, seedy world of 1920s Chicago, where scandal...