Top Rated Plays List - The Highest Rated Shows In DC

The "Theatre In DC Top Rated Plays List" is a list of the top rated plays now running in the DC area based on what the current reviews are saying. To see the Washington DC Theatre Reviews of all the play reviews go to the Theatre In DC Review Round-Up.

Macbeth

Shakespeare Theatre Company

Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare's most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth that he will become King of Scotland, he plots with his wife to attain the title through an assassination; a bloody act that gives him his crown and sends him careening down the path of his own undoing. Artistic Director Simon Godwin directs Tony and BAFTA Award-winner Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient) and Olivier Award-winner Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) in this thrilling account of how our minds deceive us and how a guilty conscience can undo us all.

Washington Post- Highly Recommended
DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended
Metro Weekly- Highly Recommended
Talkin Broadway- Highly Recommended
City Paper- Highly Recommended
MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended
BroadwayWorld- Highly Recommended

Islander: A New Musical

Olney Theatre Center

Winner of Best New Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Islander tells a modern myth featuring two actors who use live mixing and looping technology to create a sonic landscape as dramatic as the Scottish coastline. Eilidh is the only child on Kinnan Island, where most of the dwindling population has moved to the "Big Land." The government has proposed to resettle the rest, and the town must vote soon on whether or not to accept the offer. But the day after a baby whale beaches itself, Eilidh discovers a young girl named Arran along the shore, who seems straight out of Scottish folklore. As the two form a friendship, Islander takes audiences on a magical journey to transcend loss, recover hope, and find community.

Washington Post- Recommended
DC Theater Arts- Recommended
City Paper- Highly Recommended
MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended
BroadwayWorld- Highly Recommended

Webster's Bitch

Keegan Theatre

When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster's Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender and obscenity in the age of social media. As office politics collide with ambition, morality, and lexicography, the future of the English language hangs in the balance. A dark comedy about vulgar words and the people who define them.

Washington Post- Somewhat Recommended
DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended
City Paper- Recommended
MD Theatre Guide- Recommended
BroadwayWorld- Highly Recommended

Human Museum

Rorschach Theatre

As robots on Earth finalize a museum exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of humanity's extinction, an unexpected radio transmission disrupts everything they thought they knew. This darkly comic new play delves into our legacy and who will carry it forward.

Washington Post- Recommended
DC Theater Arts- Recommended
Metro Weekly- Recommended
MD Theatre Guide- Recommended

An Unbuilt Life

Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre

When Agatha Ganner discovers a mystery painting in her deceased husband's art collection, she engages an energetic graduate student to research it for her. As disturbing crimes of the past are unearthed, Agatha must decide to either right the wrong - and possibly ruin lives - or leave the past in the past. Is doing the right thing always the right thing to do?

Washington Post- Recommended
DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended
MD Theatre Guide- Recommended
BroadwayWorld- Somewhat Recommended

Unknown Soldier

Arena Stage

Cleaning out her grandmother's home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier tucked away in a box of keepsakes. And so begins Unknown Soldier, a sweeping, elegiac musical from Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman on a woman's journey to unearth the secrets of her family's past... and which will chart her future.

Washington Post- Recommended
DC Theater Arts- Recommended
Metro Weekly- Recommended
City Paper- Somewhat Recommended
MD Theatre Guide- Recommended
BroadwayWorld- Somewhat Recommended

Little Shop of Horrors

Ford's Theatre

Come down to Skid Row for a non-stop blast, sci-fi horror comedy, love story and rock musical that has become one of the most treasured pieces of American musical theatre.

Washington Post- Recommended
DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended
Metro Weekly- Recommended
Talkin Broadway- Highly Recommended
City Paper- Not Recommended
MD Theatre Guide- Somewhat Recommended
Theatre Bloom- Recommended
BroadwayWorld- Not Recommended

To see Washington DC Theatre Reviews of all plays go the Theatre In DC Review Round-Up.