DC Theater Arts

Play readings and workshops offer a chance to see exciting new work at various stages of development. Want to see the next big thing while it’s still being crafted? Get in on the ground level and see the creative process in action. Featuring new plays and musicals by local and national artists, here are the upcoming play readings and workshops in the DMV.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Susan Galbraith, Artistic Director for Alliance for New Music-Theatre, in great detail about the 2026/27 season of The George Fulginiti Series: Cabaret, Cocktails, & Convers...

By Mary Campbell

Bright lights fill the tent, fog creeps its way across the ground, and an audience holds its breath in anticipation — Circus Vazquez brings suspense and comedy in equal measure as performers earn gasps of terror and screams of delight alike.

Circus Vazquez was founded in 1969 in Mexico City, beginning as a small-scale pro...

How do you stage the story of Woody Guthrie, possibly the most iconic and certainly one of the most prolific songwriters and chroniclers of the first half of what we might call “the American century”? Theater Alliance has honored him with a musical tribute outdoors in a park next to the Southwest Wharf. I was there on Saturday night’s rescheduled opening whe...

Play readings and workshops offer a chance to see exciting new work at various stages of development. Want to see the next big thing while it’s still being crafted? Get in on the ground level and see the creative process in action. Featuring new plays and musicals by local and national artists, here are the upcoming play readings and workshops in the DMV.