Theatres Participating in Stages for All Ages

(Listings as of April 27, 2008)

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 apprpriateness.

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

Arena Stage at Crystal City

1800 S. Bell Street,
Arlington, VA 22202

(202) 488-3300

Crystal City (Blue/Yellow Lines)

Arthur Miller Repertory
Death of a Salesman

This Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece was hailed by The New York Times as "one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." In the iconic figures of Linda and Willy Loman, Miller created two of the most remarkable characters ever seen on a stage. Willy has made his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine. While chasing his elusive American Dream, he has put unrelenting pressure on his sons to achieve at all costs. Faced with the end of his career, he’s haunted by missed opportunities and a troubled past. As the truth unravels, Linda struggles to help her increasingly desperate husband. 

A View from the Bridge

Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone lives in a tight-knit Italian neighborhood with his wife Beatrice and orphaned niece Catherine, whose emerging independence and womanhood disturb him. When two of Beatrice's impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the country illegally, Catherine falls in love with one of them and agrees to marry. As he desperately tries to keep his family from unraveling, Eddie's feelings for his niece turn into an obsession he can neither understand nor acknowledge. His actions have far-reaching effects in the community and lead to a climatic confrontation in a tale of love, betrayal and revenge. 

March 14 - May 18

Ages 13 and up

Charter Theatre

Theater on the Run

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

(202) 333-7009

www.chartretheatre.org

Am I Black Enough Yet? 

By Cinton Johnston

"Can you feel it? Can you see it? When do you wanna be it and when break free of it? And after all, what is it? Where does it start ... and where does it end?" No matter who you are or where you're from, for one night at Charter Theatre, you get to be African American. Playwright Clinton Johnston takes you on a touching, thoughtful, and hysterically funny tour of the state of Blackness in America.

April 11 – May 3

Ages 13 and up; some strong language

Folger Theatre

201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, 20003

(202) 544-7077

www.folger.edu/theatre

  Capitol South (Blue/Orange Lines)

The School for Scandal

By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

True loves and true characters are revealed amid gossip, clever pretenses, and compromising situations in this witty comedy of very bad manners.

Sat. May 10 @ 2pm; Sat May 24 @ 2pm; Sat May 31 @ 2pm

Ages 13 and up

Imagination Stage

4908 Auburn Ave
Bethesda, MD 20814

(301) 280-1660

Bethesda (Red Lline)

Looking for Roberto Clemente

Book & lyrics by Karen Zacarías, music by Deborah Wicks La Puma

The year: 1972. The place: Pittsburgh, where legendary baseball player Roberto Clemente is at the top of his game. Sam Kowalski and the neighborhood baseball-playing kids are in an intense competition to win the chance to meet Clemente in person. But it is their hero’s fateful off-field actions while aiding natural disaster victims in Nicaragua that teach the kids about what is more important in life than winning.  A rock musical about baseball and heroes. “Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on earth.”--Roberto Clemente 

April 12 - June 1; valid Sat. 12:30 & 7pm, Sun 12:30

Ages 4 and up

Keegan Theatre

(703) 892-0202

Translations

By Brian Friel

A brilliant work of historical fiction, Translations explores the dilemma of traditions and national identity juxtaposed with colonialism and changing times in the politically charged landscape of early 1800s County Donegal. Inhabitants of a small town feel the repercussions as the British Royal Engineers Ordinance Survey come through their area Anglicizing Gaelic place-names. Set mostly in a ’hedge school,’ in Baile Beag (renamed Ballybeg), the locals try to deal with what is happening, and where and how they fit in.

Presented at Church Street Theater, 1742 Church Street, NW

April 18 - May 17

Ages 10 and up

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

2700 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20566

(202) 467-4600

Foggy Bottom-GWU (Blue/Orange Lines; free shuttle bus service between Metro and Kennedy Center)

National Symphony Orchestra

Family Concert:   All in the Musical Family

Music Director Leonard Slatkin leads the Orchestra in the world premiere of TROYJAM, a new work by Michael Daugherty, commissioned especially for families by the National Symphony Orchestra.

Sun May 18 at 1:00pm.  

Ages 5 and up.

MetroStage

1201 N. Royal St.
Alexandria, VA 22314

(703) 548-9044

The Stephen Schwartz Project

Conceived by Michael Bobbitt, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, musical arrangements by John L. Cornelius II.

A hot new musical revue featuring the songs of award-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz.  Celebrate the work of one of Broadway’s most acclaimed writers with Wicked new musical arrangements from Broadway and regional favorites Pippin, Godspell, Children of Eden, and The Baker’s Wife, the award-winning films Prince of Egypt, Pocahontas and more.  There is 'magic to do' in our little 'corner of the sky'...'when you believe' you will 'defy gravity'...all at MetroStage this spring!

April 10 - May 25

Ages 13 and up

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Olney Theatre

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road

Olney, MD 20832

(301) 924-3400

1776

Finally, a history lesson you won't sleep through! 1776 is a light-hearted look at John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson as they grapple with the Continental Congress and independence from Britain. Inspired by the words of our founding fathers, this critically acclaimed musical comedy is filled with lively songs, witty dialogue, and true American spirit. Winner of the Tony award for Best Musical

Apr 19-May 11

Ages 9 and up

Quotidian Theatre Company
The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD
(301) 816-1023

www.quotidiantheatre.org 

The Mollusc

By Hubert Henry Davies

An Edwardian comedy of ill manners. The title character, Dulcie Baxter, has an unusual yet hilarious affliction in this delightful farce which first hit the London stage in 1907.

April 4 – May 4

Ages 8 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)

The History Boys

By Alan Bennett
The 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Play! Alan Bennett’s sharply funny and touching comedy goes inside the world of a British boys school, where two teachers become rivals for the minds and hearts of eight unruly students.

March 26-May 18

Ages 13

Teatro de la Luna

Gunston Arts Center

2700 S. Lang Street
Arlington, VA

(703) 548-3092

Volvió una Noche / She Returned One Night

A promising youth who might be a surgeon or concert violinist is living as a street vendor and a member of a tango quartet. His dead mother is determined he live up to his promises. Love and Laughter, two potent allies, hasten the inevitable!

May 8-31

Ages 13 and up

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