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This list of theaters and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C. includes present-day opera houses and theaters, cabarets, music halls and other places of live entertainment in Washington, D.C.

Current theaters

Producing theaters

• Adventure Theatre
• Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater - Recipient of the 1976 Regional Theatre Tony Award
  • Fichandler Stage
  • Kreeger Theater
  • The Kogod Cradle
• Capital Fringe Festival, with annual, temporary venues
• Capitol Steps (closed in 2020)
• Constellation Theatre Company
• Damascus Theatre Company
• DC Improv
• Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian Ripley Center
• Folger Theatre at the Elizabethan Theatre
• Forum Theatre
• GALA Hispanic Theatre at the Tivoli Theatre
• Glaser-Luchs Studio Theater at the National Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts
• Hexagon at the Duke Ellington School
• Histrio (Theater), A French Theater
• Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• Keegan Theatre
• Mosaic Theater Company of DC
• Rorschach Theatre
• Round House Theatre
• Shakespeare Theatre Company at the Harman Center for the Arts - Recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award
  • Sidney Harman Hall
  • Lansburgh Theatre
• Signature Theatre - Recipient of the 2009 Regional Theatre Tony Award
• Silver Spring Stage
• St Mark's Players
• Studio Theatre
  • Mead Theatre
  • Milton Theatre
  • Metheny Theatre
  • Stage 4
• Synetic Theater
• Teatro de la Luna at Casa de la Luna
• Theater J at The Cecile Goldman Theater, Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts
• Theater of the First Amendment at George Mason University
• Washington Audio Theater
• Washington Stage Guild
• Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Presenting and rental theaters

• Anacostia Playhouse
• Atlas Performing Arts Center
  • Lang Theater
  • Sprenger Theater
  • Atlas Theater Lab 1
  • Atlas Theater Lab 2
• Carter Barron Amphitheater
• Church Street Theater
• Corner Store, The
• Dance Place
• DAR Constitution Hall
• D.C. Arts Center (DCAC)
• Ford's Theatre
• H Street Playhouse
• Howard Theater
• Lisner Auditorium
• Jack Guidone Theater at Joy of Motion Dance Center
• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • Kennedy Center Concert Hall
  • Kennedy Center Opera House
  • Eisenhower Theater
  • Family Theater
  • Theater Lab
  • Terrace Theater
  • Millennium Stage
  • KC Jazz Club
• Lincoln Theatre
• Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
• Metro Cafe
• National Theatre
• National Sylvan Theater
• Source Theatre
• The Puppet Co.
• DeLaski Theater at the Sitar Arts Center
• Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus (THEARC) Theater
• Warehouse Theatre
  • Mainstage
  • Second Stage
• Warner Theatre

Independent companies

• African Continuum Theatre Company
• Ambassador Theater, International Cultural Center
• Artists' Initiative
• banished? productions
• Bouncing Ball Theatrical Productions
• Brave Spirits Theatre -- Closing
• Constellation Theatre Company
• Didactic Theatre Company
• Doorway Arts Ensemble
• dog & pony dc
• Faction of Fools Theatre Company
• Federal Theatre Project
• Flying V Theatre
• Forum Theatre
• Ganymede Arts (formerly the Actors' Theatre of Washington)
• Gross National Product Comedy - founder John Simmons
• Happenstance Theater
• Horizons Theatre
• Journeymen Theater Ensemble
• Keegan Theatre
• Lean & Hungry Theatre
• Longacre Lea Productions
• Madcap Players
• MuseFire Productions
• Now This!
• Omaemoda Productions
• Open Circle Theatre
• Pointless Theatre Company
• Quotidian Theatre Company
• SCENA Theatre
• Serenity Players
• Solas Nua
• Spooky Action Theater
• Taffety Punk Theatre Company
• The In Series
• The Landless Theatre Company
• The Puppet Co.
• The Rude Mechanicals
• The Saartjie Project
• Theater Alliance
• Venus Theatre Company
• Washington Audio Theater
• Washington Improv Theater
• Washington National Opera
• Washington Savoyards
• WSC Avant Bard, formerly Washington Shakespeare Company
• Yams Theatre, Inc.
• Young Playwrights' Theater
• Washington Audio Theater
• Wildwood Summer Theatre

Educational theater

• Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre, American University
• Katzen Arts Center, American University
  • Abramson Family Recital Hall
  • Studio Theatre
• Hartke Theatre, Catholic University of America
• Elstad Auditorium, Gallaudet University
• Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, George Washington University
• Royden B. Davis, S.J. Performing Arts Center, Georgetown University
  • Gonda Theatre
  • Devine Studio Theatre
• Walsh Black Box, Georgetown University
• Poulton Hall, Georgetown University
• Fine Arts Complex, Howard University
  • Ira Aldridge Theater
  • Environmental Theatre Space (ETS)
• Auditorium, University of the District of Columbia
• The Theatre Lab School of Dramatic Arts

Non-operational theaters

• Takoma Theater

Theater organizations

• theatreWashington
• League of Washington Theaters
• Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
• Dance/Metro DC

Theater awards

• Helen Hayes Awards
• Kennedy Center Honors
• Mary Goldwater Award
• Offstage Honors ("The Offies")
• Richard Bauer Award
• Ruby Griffith Award
• Usher's Favorite Show Award
• Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH Awards)

References

External links

• District of Columbia Historic Theatres

• Theatres in Washington, D.C.
• Lists of theatres in the United States by populated place
• Entertainment venues in Washington, D.C.
• Lists of buildings and structures in Washington, D.C.
• Music venues in Washington, D.C.