Event category: Theater & Opera

Spooky Action’s cabaret series continues with Helen Hayes Award nominee Aaron Bliden for a historic, intimate, and dumb 2-night run of personal songs and anecdotes…that may or may not have actually happened. You decide what’s real as you and Aaron hold hands (figuratively) and tiptoe brazenly (literally)...

Reston Community Players brings laughter to CenterStage with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the Tony Award-winning musical comedy by Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart. Directed by Michael Barret Jones, this high-energy farce follows a crafty slave who will do anything...

May 21- June 21, 2026 Can a chance encounter change your life forever? On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship and collaboration quickly evolves into something more....

All Ages Saturday, May 2, 7 p.m.$45 Standard/$35 Seniors/$30 MCC district residents The Doo Wop Project tells the story of the genre from the beginning: tracing the evolution of Doo Wop from the classic sound of five guys singing tight harmonies to the biggest hits on the radio today. In their epic...

Join us for the staged reading of 8 student plays performed by local professional actors and GMU Theatre students. Always an impressive line up of creative stories of various genres performed by talented local actors. Plays written by students ages 8-18 were chosen from a larger set of submissions...

“A Burning Giraffe Looking at Iran” portrays a world where surrealism meets romanticism. A fun drama that centers on the collision of the West and the East and on modernism deciphering tradition. The play explores concepts such as lost childhood, missed fatherhood, unconditional friendship, love, solitude,...