This list of theaters and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C. includes present-day opera houses and theaters, cabarets, music halls and other places of live entertainment in

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Current theaters

Producing theaters

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* Adventure Theatre *Ambassador Theater at Flashpoint *

Arena Stage Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest, Washington, D.C. Established in 1950, it was the first racially integrated theater in Washington, D.C. and its founders helped start the U.S. regional theater movement. It is ...

at the Mead Center for American Theater - Recipient of the 1976

Regional Theatre Tony Award The Regional Theatre Tony Award is a special recognition Tony Award given annually to a regional theater company in the United States. The winner is recommended by a committee of drama critics. Background Initially presented in 1948 to Robert P ...

**Fichandler Stage **Kreeger Theater **The Kogod Cradle * Capital Fringe Festival, with annual, temporary venues *

Capitol Steps The Capitol Steps was an American political-satire group that performed from 1981 to 2020. Most of the Capitol Steps' material parodied well-known contemporary songs, usually introduced with a short skit. The songs were interspersed with other ro ...

*Charter Theater at Theatre on the Run (folded 2011) * Constellation Theatre Company *Damascus Theatre Company *DC Improv *Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian Ripley Center *

Folger Theatre The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materia ...

at the Elizabethan Theatre *

Forum Theatre Forum theatre is a type of theatre created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal. It is one of the techniques under the umbrella term of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). This relates to the engagement of spectators influencing and engaging with ...

GALA Hispanic Theatre GALA (Grupo de Artistas LatinoAmericanos) Hispanic Theatre is a theater located at 3333 14th St NW in Washington, D.C. It hosts plays in Spanish and English, as well as dance, music, poetry, spoken word, art and films. History The GALA Hispan ...

at the Tivoli Theatre *Glaser-Luchs Studio Theater at the National Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts *

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at the Duke Ellington School *Histrio (Theater), A French Theater *

Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Located in Olney, Maryland, the Olney Theatre Center offers a diverse array of professional productions year-round that enrich, nurture, and challenge a broad range of artists, audiences and students. One of two state theaters of Maryland, Olney ...

* Keegan Theatre * Mosaic Theater Company of DC *Rorschach Theatre *

Round House Theatre Round House Theatre is a nonprofit theater company based in Bethesda, Maryland. History Round House began life in 1970 as “Street ’70”, a program of the Montgomery County Department of Recreation that provided educational outreach in the ...

Shakespeare Theatre Company The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. The theatre company focuses primarily on plays from the Shakespeare canon, but its seasons include works by other classic playwrights such as Euripides, ...

at the

Harman Center for the Arts The Harman Center for the Arts is a complex consisting of the Michael R. Klein Theatre (450 7th Street NW) and Sidney Harman Hall (SHH; at Sixth and F Streets NW) in downtown Washington, D.C., US. SHH is the latest addition to the existing Lans ...

- Recipient of the 2012

** Sidney Harman Hall **Lansburgh Theatre * Signature Theatre - Recipient of the 2009

Silver Spring Stage
*St Mark's Players *

Studio Theatre A black box theater is a simple performance space, typically a square room with black walls and a flat floor. The simplicity of the space allows it to be used to create a variety of configurations of stage and audience interaction. The black ...

**Mead Theatre **Milton Theatre **Metheny Theatre **Stage 4 *Synetic Theater *Teatro de la Luna at Casa de la Luna *

Theater J Theater J is a professional theater company located in Washington, DC, founded to present works that "celebrate the distinctive urban voice and social vision that are part of the Jewish cultural legacy". Organization Hailed by ''The New York T ...

at The Cecile Goldman Theater, Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts *Theater of the First Amendment at

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was orig ...

*Washington Audio Theater *Washington Stage Guild *Wildwood Summer Theatre *

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1980, it produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provokin ...

Presenting and rental theaters

*Anacostia Playhouse * Atlas Performing Arts Center **Lang Theater **Sprenger Theater **Atlas Theater Lab 1 **Atlas Theater Lab 2 *

Carter Barron Amphitheater The Carter Barron Amphitheatre is a 4,200-seat outdoor performance venue in Washington, D.C., United States. Located in Rock Creek Park, the amphitheatre opened in 1950, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Washington, D.C. as the United States' ca ...

Church Street Theater Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

* Corner Store, The * Dance Place *

DAR Constitution Hall DAR Constitution Hall is a concert hall located at 1776 D Street NW, near the White House in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to house its annual convention when membership delegations outgrew Me ...

* D.C. Arts Center (DCAC) *

Ford's Theatre Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. The theater is infamous for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater bo ...

* H Street Playhouse *

Howard Theater The Howard Theatre is a historic theater, located at 620 T Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. Opened in 1910, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. In its heyday, the theater was known for catering to an Afric ...

Lisner Auditorium Lisner Auditorium is a performance venue sited on the Foggy Bottom campus of The George Washington University, at 730 21st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. Named for Abram Lisner (1852-1938), a university trustee and benefactor whose will provid ...

* Jack Guidone Theater at Joy of Motion Dance Center *

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potom ...

**Kennedy Center Concert Hall **Kennedy Center Opera House **Eisenhower Theater **Family Theater **Theater Lab **Terrace Theater **Millennium Stage **KC Jazz Club * Lincoln Theatre *Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint *Metro Cafe * National Theatre *

National Sylvan Theater The National Sylvan Theater — often simply the Sylvan Theater — is a public sylvan theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument, National Mall, in Washington, D.C., USA. It is located within the northwest corner of the 15th Street and In ...

Source Theatre Source Theatre Company was a non-profit theater company located in Washington, D.C. Formed 1977, it ceased production in 2002 and legally disbanded in 2006. While active it performed at 1835 14th Street NW, Washington DC in the 14th Street co ...

*DeLaski Theater at the Sitar Arts Center * Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus (THEARC) Theater *

Warehouse Theatre The Warehouse Theatre was a professional producing theatre in the centre of Croydon, England. Based in an oak-beamed Victorian former cement warehouse, it had 100 seats. The theatre closed in 2012 following withdrawal of funding and the disco ...

**Mainstage **Second Stage * Warner Theatre

Independent companies

*African Continuum Theatre Company *Ambassador Theater, International Cultural Center *Artists' Initiative * banished? productions *Bouncing Ball Theatrical Productions * Brave Spirits Theatre -- Closing * Constellation Theatre Company *Didactic Theatre Company
Doorway Arts Ensemble
*dog & pony dc *Faction of Fools Theatre Company *Federal Theatre Project
Flying V Theatre
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*Ganymede Arts (formerly the Actors' Theatre of Washington) *Gross National Product Comedy - founder

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*Happenstance Theater *Horizons Theatre *Journeymen Theater Ensemble *Keegan Theatre *Lean & Hungry Theatre *Longacre Lea Productions *Madcap Players *MuseFire Productions *Now This! *Omaemoda Productions *Open Circle Theatre
Pointless Theatre Company
*Quotidian Theatre Company *SCENA Theatre *Serenity Players *Solas Nua *Spooky Action Theater

*The In Series *The Landless Theatre Company *The Rude Mechanicals *The Saartjie Project *

Theater Alliance Theater Alliance is a non-profit professional theater in Washington, DC, professionally incorporated in 2000 with the goal of producing work that would illuminate the experiences, philosophies and interests of DC's diverse population. That goal w ...

*Venus Theatre Company *Washington Audio Theater * Washington Improv Theater *

Washington National Opera The Washington National Opera (WNO) is an American opera company in Washington, D.C. Formerly the Opera Society of Washington and the Washington Opera, the company received Congressional designation as the National Opera Company in 2000. Perform ...

Washington Savoyards Washington Savoyards was a professional musical theatre company based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1972, the company annually produced three fully staged musicals and operettas, usually including at least one Gilbert and Sullivan production e ...

* WSC Avant Bard, formerly Washington Shakespeare Company *Yams Theatre, Inc. *

Young Playwrights' Theater Young Playwrights' Theater (YPT) is a not-for-profit theater arts-based education organization in Northwest Washington, D.C. It provides interactive in-school and after-school programs presenting and discussing student-written work to promote ...

*Washington Audio Theater

Educational theater

* Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre, American University *

Katzen Arts Center The Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center is home to all of the visual and performing arts programs at American University and the American University Museum It is located at Ward Circle, the intersection of Nebraska Avenue and Massachusetts Avenu ...

, American University **Abramson Family Recital Hall **Studio Theatre *Hartke Theatre,

Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Roman Catholic research university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by U. ...

*Elstad Auditorium,

Gallaudet University Gallaudet University ( ) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children. It was the firs ...

*Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre,

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*Royden B. Davis, S.J. Performing Arts Center,

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

**Gonda Theatre **Devine Studio Theatre *Walsh Black Box,

*Poulton Hall,

*Fine Arts Complex,

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a Private university, private, University charter#Federal, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classifie ...

**Ira Aldridge Theater **Environmental Theatre Space (ETS) *Auditorium,

University of the District of Columbia The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public historically black land-grant university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1851 and is the only public university in the city. UDC is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall ...

* The Theatre Lab School of Dramatic Arts

Non-operational theaters

* Takoma Theater

Theater organizations

* theatreWashington *League of Washington Theaters *

Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington (CAGW) works to increase appreciation, support, and resources for arts and culture in the Greater Washington, D.C. region with over 300 member organizations. References Non-profit organizations ...

* Dance/Metro DC

Theater awards

* Helen Hayes Awards * Mary Goldwater Award *Offstage Honors ("The Offies") *

Richard Bauer Richard Bauer (March 14, 1939 – March 1, 1999) was an American actor. He won an Obie Award The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theatre artists and groups ...

Award *

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Award *Usher's Favorite Show Award * Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH Awards)

References

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External links

District of Columbia Historic Theatres

* Theater and entertainment venues Music venues in Washington, D.C.