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.

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Shear Madness

Kennedy Center

A “revelation” at the 2018 Grand Piano Competition where she stormed to victory at the age of 10, Alexandra Dovgan has become a teenage piano phenomenon with sold-out concerts worldwide. Witness her extraordinary talent in a performance of Schumann’s masterwork, considered the ultimate romantic piano concerto. Marek Janowski returns to lead the composer’s shimmering Symphony No. 4.

Alexandra Dovgan plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto Marek Janowski conducts Bruckner’s Fourth

Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s smoldering tragedy is a riveting exploration of power, corruption, and freedom. Fresh off the success of Romeo and Juliet in our 2023–2024 season, Washington National Opera brings the Bard’s historical epic back for the first time in 17 years.

Macbeth

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Produced in partnership with The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University and developed in collaboration with The Global Health Institute; School of Health; School of Nursing; Medstar Health; and Medical Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University

Mosaic Theater: The Art of Care

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Witness this social phenomenon first-hand, in a VR experience set at the end of a turbulent decade in the UK. Combining Acid House tracks with interactivity and multi-sensory simulation.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats

Studio Theatre

Following a decade touring the world as one of the most successful magic shows in history, the Champions Of Magic team is back with an explosive all-new show featuring thrilling and mind-bending illusions. Combining their signature humor with groundbreaking magic, this team of illusionists presents a brand-new production unlike anything that has come before.

Champions Of Magic

From the creators of Black Side of the Moon and She the People, The Second City returns to Woolly Mammoth, now delivering a dose of brilliant Black Joy. The hilarious brand-new show, created exclusively for Woolly Mammoth, features the troupe’s world-renowned improv, an ensemble of rising comedy stars, songs, and sketches. The Black Excellence Revue is here to help you blow off steam at the end of this year with razor-sharp wit, a fresh look at the ridiculous things in life, and non-stop laughs.

The Second City's Dance Like There's Black People Watching

Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Released in 1994, The Brand New Heavies’ third album Brother Sister changed everything for the band. Propelled by the classic singles Dream On Dreamer, Midnight At The Oasis and Back To Love, the record achieved huge success (a #4 chart position, over a million sales and a BRIT nomination) as they cemented their position as the pioneers of Acid Jazz.

The Brand New Heavies: Brother Sister 30 Tour

In Ken Ludwig's thrilling adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot becomes entangled in a web of deceit and desire aboard a cruise ship on the Nile River. When a murder occurs among the passengers, Poirot springs into action to unmask a killer who could strike again at any moment.

Death on the Nile

Mead Center for American Theater

Regularly noted as one of the world most versatile symphonic orchestras with soloistic qualities and robust musical prowess, the Amsterdam-based Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra makes its first return to Washington in 5 years, conducted by 28-year-old Finnish phenomenon Klaus Mäkelä, who is also the incoming music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The concert opens with a new composition by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer and sound artist Ellen Reid (p r i s m, Push/Pull). Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a masterpiece of fleeting tranquility punctuated by episodes of abrupt changes in mood and tonality, is performed with the “rich and technically immaculate” (The Guardian) playing of Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili. The program concludes with Rachmaninov’s textured, bombastic, and serene Symphony No. 2— a work with which the composer avenged the failure of his First. And how!

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

A passionate chamber musician and soloist, Charlotte Spruit was a winner at the 2023 Young Classical Artists Trust international auditions and has been selected as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars of 2024.



Charlotte Spruit and friends

In Forest Hills, Queens, Nelson Castro, a Colombian American laundromat owner, grapples with a failing business and buried secrets. When his son Nick returns from a mental wellness facility after a traumatic incident, Nelson's world unravels. Committed to protecting his family and business, he tackles racial and identity challenges to achieve his dream, proving his success. In this gripping tale of resilience, Nelson must navigate morality's murky waters to salvage his future. Will he emerge victorious, or will his past consume everything he holds dear?

The Other Americans

Starring Corinne Winters, Joshua Guerrero, Levi Hernandez

Puccini’s MANON LESCAUT

The George Washington University

The exquisite new album unfurls O’Brien’s trademark melodic flair, his gift for simultaneously vivid and subtle arrangements and lyrics that couch his hopes, fears and dreams in richly absorbing poetry.

Villagers

Warren Miller is going big for 75 years! Stacked with unbelievable action and unexpected stories, Warren Miller’s 75 will bring fans to powder stashes and chutes around the world, from Canada, Colorado, California, and Utah to Finland, Japan, Austria, and New Jersey. Catch a diverse lineup of snowsports legends, Olympic hopefuls, world champions, X Games stars, and emerging talents on the big screen this fall, including snowboarders Shaun White, Jeremy Jones, Danny Davis, and Toby Miller, plus skiers Max Hitzig, Lexi duPont, Caite Zeliff, Mark Abma, and Aaron Blunck.

Warren Miller’s: 75 film screening

Transglobal Underground came into being during the electronic dance scene of the early 90s. Pioneers in the mixing of club culture with world music, their first single Temple Head went Top 30 and their debut album, Dream of 100 Nations top 20. Their seventh album Moonshout picked up a BBC World Music award.

Transglobal Underground (Live)

Thanksgiving Break

Levine Music

Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age – and carry a certain amount of scars.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

CALAN's versatility is legendary; from intimate house concerts to the grandiose Royal Albert Hall, the band have become modern day folk heroes themselves. They also notably graced operatic superstar Sir Bryn Terfel's most recent album, marking their triumphant return to the musical forefront. 

Calan

New fans might know Beth as the all-conquering global icon, dubbed 'extraordinary' by The Times and 'daring, brooding and angry' by The Guardian. But to understand her rollercoaster backstory, you need only read the War In My Mind lyric sheet.

Events in Washington, DC this month

Shear Madness

Kennedy Center

Alexandra Dovgan plays Sc...

National Symphony Orchestra

Macbeth

Washington National Opera

Mosaic Theater: The Art o...

Atlas Performing Arts Center

In Pursuit of Repetitive ...

Brighton Dome

Champions Of Magic

Kennedy Center

The Second City's Dance L...

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

The Brand New Heavies: Br...

Brighton Dome

Death on the Nile

Arena Stage

Royal Concertgebouw Orche...

Washington Performing Arts

Charlotte Spruit and frie...

Brighton Dome

The Other Americans

Arena Stage

Puccini’s MANON LESCAUT

Washington Concert Opera

Villagers

Brighton Dome

Warren Miller’s: 75 film ...

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Transglobal Underground (...

Brighton Dome

Thanksgiving Break

Levine Music

Jason Isbell and the 400 ...

Brighton Dome

Calan

Brighton Dome

Beth Hart

Brighton Dome