Theater

Offended easily? Squirm at sex talk? “Bocking,” a new irreverent comedy debuting at Baltimore Center Stage, might not be the play for you.

“Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly” is the latest production onstage at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre, on loan from Baltimore’s Happenstance Theater. It’s a very weird, wonderful and eerily familiar play about life in the aftermath of an apocalypse.

Curious about the future of the arts? Look at what’s happening at local theaters.

Strathmore’s 2026-27 season includes performances from David Foster and Katharine McPhee, the cast of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” as well as celebrity chef Alton Brown, Disney/Pixar‘s “Coco” with a live orchestra and more.

Here’s what to do this weekend and beyond in the capital region, including National Ice Cream Day deals and a free outdoor movie.

Olney Theatre’s new show, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” hired an intimacy director to choreograph its love and murder scenes.

Celebrity Chef Carla Hall shares her life story, and includes a cameo from her longtime idol, in Olney Theatre's “Please Underestimate Me.”

Here’s what to do in the capital region, including Father’s Day and Juneteenth celebrations, a music festival, a comedy show and free yoga.

The Washington National Opera is suing the Kennedy Center, alleging the performing arts center owes the opera company $17 million in donations after the WNO parted ways with the venue this year.

Baltimore’s week of LGBTQIA+ Pride celebrations kicks off this week, with dozens of events happening around the city.

As the country prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a growing number of local theaters, museums, artists and performers in the left-leaning suburbs of Washington are highlighting art that protests the Trump administration.

A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations — the latest legal setback for Trump’s efforts to leave his personal mark on the landscape of the nation’s capital.

Stephen Colbert's run on “The Late Show” ends Thursday, marking the conclusion of his on-air feud with President Donald Trump.

Join a free yoga class, neighborhood festival, comedy show and more this week in the capital region.

Amid political division in and around the nation’s capital, the local theater scene spent its biggest night of the year celebrating the arts as acts of resistance.

After exiting the Kennedy Center, the WNO embarks on its first independent season with shows across the Capital Region.

Benjamin Kintisch, a Columbia man who worked as a hospice chaplain, used the stories he heard from patients to create a musical about life, death and legacy. “Life Review: The Hospice Musical” will be performed in Baltimore on May 9.

As spring progresses, there’s an abundance of activities happening around Montgomery County this weekend and beyond. Watch a movie outside. Go shopping outside. Do some yoga outside. (Don’t worry — there are indoor options, too.)

These are some of the highlight events being held in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties this spring and summer.

Broadway legend Stephen Schwartz joined about 200 students at Strathmore, where Young Artists of America put on a production of “The Prince of Egypt.”