Theatres Participating in Stages for All Ages

(Listings as of April 24, 2009)

Contact individual theatres directly for information concerning specific productions or to purchase tickets.  Schedules subject to change; please call theatres for specific performance days and times.  Check Tickets for general information.

Check our Quick Guide to Shows by Age Group for information on age appropriateness, as well as the Guide to Shows by Date.

You can also find Stages for All Ages events listed by area: District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia .  

African Continuum Theatre Company

Atlas Performing Arts Center

1333 H Street, NE, Washington, DC

(202) 399-7993

Blue Door
By Tanya Barfield

Join Lewis in his touching, humorous, and riveting story that explores cultural identity and what it means to be a Black male in America.

Apr 16-May 3
Ages 14 and up

American Century Theater

Gunston Arts Center Theater 2

2700 South Lang St.
Arlington, VA, 22206

(703) 553-8782

Native Son

By Richard Wright and Paul Green
A legendary production by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater, and a ground-breaking portrayal of the forces that turn a poor black man into a criminal and killer. Often written about, but rarely produced.
April 14 - May 9
Ages 16 and up

Bay Theatre

275 West Street, Annapolis, MD  21401

(410) 268-1333

Candida
By George Bernard Shaw

Shaw’s brilliant comic dialogue tells the story of Candida, wife and mother with two surprising rivals for her love. Wisdom triumphs in the end.

April 25-May 30
Ages 13 and up

Charter Theatre

Theater on the Run

3700 S. Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington, VA 22206

(202) 333-7009

Princess Peanut's Rainy Day

A new musical for kids, grownups or anyone who ever got all grumpy on a rainy day.
April 25-May 24

Ages 4 and up

Dance Place

3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017

202-269-1600

Brookland - CUA (Red Line)

All Ages

DanceAfrica, DC 2009
DC's 22nd annual festival celebrates the dance and music of the African Diaspora while honoring traditional heritage and its transformation into contemporary forms.

June 6-7

All Ages

Folger Theatre

201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, 20003

(202) 544-7077

www.folger.edu/theatre

  Capitol South (Blue/Orange Lines)

Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
This modern masterpiece—part history, part mystery—calibrates the relationship between past and present in the lush setting of an English country house.
May 5-June14; not valid Sat evenings or  Sat-Sun matinees.
Ages 13 and up

Ford’s Theatre

511 Tenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004

(202) 347-4833

Metro Center (Red/Blue/Orange Lines) or Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red/Yellow/Green Lines)

The Civil War

A musical landscape of the people, voices and sentiments of the American Civil War, the show is inspired by the words of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln as well as the lives (as documented through letters, photographs, and journals) of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This Tony-nominated musical puts a human face on the greatest tragedy of American history.

March 27-May 24; not valid Fri or Sat. eves
Ages 9 and up

Gala Hispanic Theatre

3333 14^th St NW, Washington, DC 20010

(202) 234-7174

Columbia Heights (Green Line)

The true history of Coca cola in Mexico/LA verdadera hostoria de Coca-Cola en México.

Two filmmakers- a young second generation Latino and his gringo friend- travel to Mexico to document How American pop culture has overrun the Mexican way of life. The actors play multiple roles, including an entire village, in a hilarious medley of historical reenactments interscliced with “real life” scenes. In English with Spanish surtitles.

April 2-26

Ages 13 and up

El mundo es una pañuelo/The world is a Handkerchief

When Titilcoco the Clown becomes bored by the circus, his red handkerchief magically transports him to other lands where he helps people become kinder. A joyful tale with amusing situations and engaging songs.  Bilingual production for young audiences.

April 4-May 2
Ages 5 and up

MetroStage

1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria, VA 22314

(703) 548-9044

Heroes

Tom Stoppard’s new translation of tales told by three soldiers in a Parisian veterans' home in work that is achingly funny and piercingly sad.
April 22-May 7

Ages 16 and up

Olney Theatre

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road

Olney, MD 20832

(301) 924-3400

Call of the Wild:   A New Musical

A world premiere which explores a wild new musical frontier. Jack London’s classic pits man against dog in a battle for survival.

Apr 8-May 3;  not valid Saturday evenings or Sunday matinees; please use code SFAA2009

Ages 13 and up

Rep Stage

Howard Community College

10901 Little Patuxent Pkwy
Columbia, MD. 21044

(410) 772-4900

God's Ear

By Jenny Schwartz
Laced with wildly eccentric humor and yet deeply moving in its understanding of what holds a family together, this inventive theatre piece unleashes a parade of quirky characters including the Tooth Fairy, a G.I. Joe Doll and a transvestite airline stewardess, who help two parents find their way back from the land of loss and grief.

April 1-26

Ages 12 and up

Round House Theatre

4545 East-West Highway (at Waverly Place)

Bethesda, MD 20814

(240) 644-1100

Bethesda (Red Line)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A play by Dale Wasserman, based on the ovel by Ken Kesey. 

Playing crazy to avoid prison, the brash Randle P. Murphy is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation. Gleefully rebellious, he wins friends among the inmates and instigates insurrections against the tyrannical Nurse Rached.

Apr 1-26

Ages 16 and up

The Studio Theatre

1501 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC  20005

(202) 332-3000

Dupont Circle (Red Line) or McPherson Square (Blue/Orange Lines)

Radio Golf By August Wilson
Set in 1997, Radio Golf follows a charming and powerful politician campaigning to become mayor of Pittsburgh. Radio Golf tackls gentrification and one African American man's bid for elected office. 

May 30-June 28

Ages 9 and up

Synetic Theater

Rosslyn Spectrum
1611 N. Kent Street, Arlington, VA 22209

(703) 824-8060

Rosslyn (Blue/Orange Lines)

Lysistrata 

Athens and Sparta have been at war for years with no end in sight, and Lysistrata has an answer. She unites the women of Athens in a sex strike to force the men to come to their senses. Synetic, in collaboration with Georgetown University's Theater and Performance Studies Program, brings its unique blend of movement, dance, text, and music to Aristophanes' timeless political satire, a smash since its premiere in 500 B.C. <>
April 11-26 
Ages 16 and over

Teatro de la Luna

Gunston Arts Center

2700 S. Lang Street, Arlington, VA

(703) 548-3092

Rosa de Dos Aromas / Two-Scented Rose

Two women meet casually. Nothing unites them … except the same lover. Who stays with whom? In a brilliant comic flash that has little to do with the lover, both end up happy. A fun-filled comedy, brimming over with humor and enchantment: the seal of Good Theater.

May 21-June 13

Ages 13 and up

Theater J

1529 Q Street, NW

Washington, DC 20036

(202) 777-3229

Dupont Circle (Red Line)

The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall
By Sam Forman
Henry's a hungry librettist with a great idea and the moxie to pull it off.  But complications ensue as he betrays his loved ones securing the rights to Woody Allen's famous film.  The closer he get to his dreams, the more havoc he wreaks. A hilarious tale about skyscraper ambitions in a celebrity-driven town.  (World Premiere)

April 16-May 24
Agse 13 and up

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

641 D Street, NW (7^th & D Streets)

Washington, DC 20004

202-393-3939

Archives-Navy Memorial (Yellow/Green Lines) or Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red Line)

Antebellum

In 1939 Gone with the Wind premiered in Atlanta, a city still struggling with the aftershocks of slavery. Meanwhile in Europe, Hitler’s death camps flourished and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. The romance of Hollywood movies and Berlin cabarets collides with history’s harshest cruelties as a forbidden love transcends the bounds of time, race, and religion.

Apr 1-26; not valid Sat. eves, April 3 & 5.

Ages 16 and up