Come out to sing with live piano accompaniment or just enjoy the music! Join the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC for “Sing Out: GMCW Open Mic Night.” Broadway show tunes, jazz standards, pop arrangements, whatever you like to sing! Just bring sheet music for our accompanist, sign up with the host, and have a great time (a few boxes of sheet music will be available for anyone to use as well.)

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Sing Out: A Piano Bar and Open Mic with Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Community Sings bring people of all ages and skill levels together to create beautiful music. This fun, energetic program will have you singing gorgeous five-part harmonies in no time. No experience is necessary. The only prerequisite is a love of music and song!

Community Sing with Micah Hendler

Levine Music

Once again, the show will be written by Paul Hendy and produced by the award winning, Evolution, the same team behind last year’s hilarious pantomime, The All New Adventures of Peter Pan, The Pantomime Sequel.

Cinderella

Mead Center for American Theater

Based on the novel that sold more than 15 million copies and became a worldwide phenomenon, Life of Pi is an epic story of perseverance and hope that speaks to every generation and “gives new life to Broadway” (The Today Show). After a shipwreck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi survives on a lifeboat with four companions—a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a Royal Bengal tiger.

Life of Pi

Kennedy Center

Created by the Emmy Award®–winning writer from Schitt’s Creek, this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: What would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love—her way.

& Juliet

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Washington’s premier contemporary ballet company Chamber Dance Project returns to the prestigious Arena Stage on January 4, 2025. In the Round, brings together our dancers from leading American ballet companies, our resident string quartet, nationally-acclaimed slam poets, and a guest jazz ensemble led by celebrated D.C. singer Lena Seikaly. The repertoire program of powerful, witty, and daring works will be presented in the round at The Fichandler, offering audiences an immersive experience.

In the Round

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Downstate is a button-pushing play from provocateur Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park) that looks at the limits of compassion, the desire for retribution, and what happens when society decides some acts are unforgivable. In downstate Illinois, at a group home for registered sex offenders, four men are living with the realities of post-incarcerated life. When a man shows up to confront the piano teacher convicted of abusing him as a child, events begin to build to an explosive conclusion in this riveting play that the New York Times calls “a squirmy moral thrill-ride.”

Downstate

Studio Theatre

PCE’s seasonal tradition ringing in the New Year, Amazing Grace, returns with a stirring program of music for chamber orchestra and vocal soloists. Celebrating the universal expression of the human spirit through music, PCE’s annual Amazing Grace prompts a living BIPOC composer to curate a concert of music they connect with deeply, as well as sharing their own work. In January, Native American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate takes PCE on a journey of fire and light in a program featuring selections from his moving cantata Standing Bear and Lowak Shoppala’ (Fire and Light), a work expressing Tate’s Chickasaw heritage through music, among others. The concert also includes Samuel Barber’s dreamlike Knoxville: Summer of 1915 performed by Mvskoke soprano, Kirsten C. Kunkle.

Amazing Grace: Fire and Light

Set today in the Shear Madness hairstyling salon, this record-breaking comedy is Washington’s hilarious whodunit. After more than 17,800 performances, the show has stayed in great shape. Performances are ongoing.

Shear Madness

Outstanding Mexican artists treat the audience to timeless classics and stirring new music. Jorge Federico Osorio, hailed as “an imaginative interpreter with a powerful technique” (New York Times), takes on Beethoven’s intensely energetic Piano Concerto No. 3. Rachmaninoff’s lush and lively Symphonic Dances come alive under the baton of Carlos Miguel Prieto—who returns following his “revolutionary,” “high-octane” 2018 NSO debut (Washington Classical Review).

Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances | Jorge Federico Osorio plays Beethoven

Be there for the world premiere of three one-act operas staged in a concert performance, with talented Cafritz Young Artists among the casts.

American Opera Initiative

The whole farmyard is getting ready for a hoedown—but it needs your help! Presented in collaboration with Teller Productions and developed specifically for toddlers, this immersive show features puppets, storytellers, and a string quartet from the National Symphony Orchestra.

NSO Music for Young Audiences: Old MacDonald’s Symphony

National Symphony Orchestra

They are the first Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at the University of Oxford and were named Young Artist of the Year at the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. In August 2023, they premiered Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new string quartet Awake at the Edinburgh International Festival, followed by the Belgian and Netherlands premieres at deSingel Antwerp and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Castalian String Quartet

Comprising titled musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra, this acclaimed ensemble presents chamber music classics.

Kennedy Center Chamber Players: Winter Concert

American Youth Prelude Strings and American Youth Concert Orchestra in Concert


AYPS & AYCO in Concert

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

Immerse yourself in the passion of Samuel Barber’s tour-de-force in the hands of NSO Music Director and renowned opera conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Presented as part of the NSO’s annual Opera in Concert series, Vanessa is a tale of self-discovery, longing, and the raw pursuit of love. Sondra Radvanovsky, J’Nai Bridges, Matthew Polenzani, Susan Graham, and Thomas Hampson join the orchestra as special guests.

Opera in Concert: Noseda conducts Barber’s Vanessa

Introducing Schmigadoon!, the world-premiere musical of the Emmy Award®–winning hit show. New York doctors Josh and Melissa go backpacking in a last-ditch attempt to save their failing relationship, but instead get lost in the woods and end up trapped in Schmigadoon, a magical town that’s a classic Golden Age musical come to life!

Events in Washington, DC next month

Sing Out: A Piano Bar and...

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Community Sing with Micah...

Levine Music

Cinderella

The Alban Arena

Life of Pi

Kennedy Center

& Juliet

Kennedy Center

In the Round

Chamber Dance Project

Downstate

Studio Theatre

Amazing Grace: Fire and L...

PostClassical Ensemble

Shear Madness

Kennedy Center

Carlos Miguel Prieto cond...

National Symphony Orchestra

American Opera Initiative...

Washington National Opera

NSO Music for Young Audie...

National Symphony Orchestra

Castalian String Quartet

Brighton Dome

Kennedy Center Chamber Pl...

National Symphony Orchestra

AYPS & AYCO in Concert

American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras

Opera in Concert: Noseda ...

National Symphony Orchestra

Broadway Center Stage: Sc...

Kennedy Center