Theatre In DC Top Rated Plays List - The Highest Rated Shows In The DC Area
The "Theatre In DC Top Rated Play 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 all of the play reviews go to Review Round-Up.
It's 1969 and the Civil Rights Movement is sending tremors through Pittsburgh's Hill District. At the center of the community is Memphis Lee's diner, slated to be demolished - a casualty of the city's renovation project. Confronted with a rapidly changing world, Memphis and his regular customers struggle to maintain their solidarity and sense of pride. From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes this masterpiece about everyday lives in the shadow of great events, and of unsung citizens who are anything but ordinary.
Washington Post-
Highly Recommended
Metro Weekly-
Highly Recommended
BroadwayWorld-
Highly Recommended
Talkin Broadway-
Recommended
DCTheatreScene-
Highly Recommended
DC Metro Theater Arts-
Highly Recommended
MD Theatre Guide-
Highly Recommended
Ease on down the road with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion as they try to figure out how to get Dorothy back to Harlem. The funky Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz is based on L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz with a score by Charlie Smalls. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Original Score, The Wiz includes such numbers as "Slide Some Oil to Me," "He's the Wizard," "No Bad News" and "Mean Ole Lion." This Tony-winning musical is coming to Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Metro Weekly-
Highly Recommended
BroadwayWorld-
Recommended
Talkin Broadway-
Highly Recommended
DCTheatreScene-
Highly Recommended
DC Metro Theater Arts-
Highly Recommended
MD Theatre Guide-
Highly Recommended
Based on the Disney movie, and set in New York City at the turn of the century, this Tony Award winning, high energy musical is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, the leader of a ragged band of "newsies." Jack dreams of a better life but when publishing titans raise distribution prices at the newsboys' expense, he rallies "newsies" from across the city to strike for what's right.
DCTheatreScene-
Highly Recommended
DC Metro Theater Arts-
Recommended
MD Theatre Guide-
Highly Recommended
Theatre Bloom-
Highly Recommended
Transporting you from Sicilia to Bohemia and safely home once more, Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a spellbinding tale of jealousy, prophecy and redemption that celebrates the magic of story-telling and the power of forgiveness. Lose yourself in this fantastical play filled with love and loss at Folger Theatre in D.C.
Washington Post-
Somewhat Recommended
Metro Weekly-
Highly Recommended
BroadwayWorld-
Highly Recommended
Talkin Broadway-
Highly Recommended
DCTheatreScene-
Recommended
DC Metro Theater Arts-
Highly Recommended
MD Theatre Guide-
Highly Recommended
Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today's lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation's history, tackling race, sex and power in this kaleidoscopic and fearless comedy for mature audiences. Ars Nova, a company committed to developing outside-the-box thinking and supporting innovative, genre-bending work, was dubbed a "fertile incubator of offbeat theater" by The New York Times. Ars Nova presents Jennifer Kidwell and Scott Sheppard's Underground Railroad Game at Washington, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Are you ready to play?
Washington Post-
Recommended
Metro Weekly-
Recommended
BroadwayWorld-
Highly Recommended
DCTheatreScene-
Somewhat Recommended
DC Metro Theater Arts-
Recommended
MD Theatre Guide-
Highly Recommended
Theatre Bloom-
Highly Recommended
It's 1833, and change is coming to rural County Donegal. While a hodgepodge group gathers at an Irish-language hedge school to study classics of Greek and Latin literature, British army engineers arrive to map the country, draw new borders and translate local place names into the King's English. Languages and histories collide, kindling romance and inciting violence. A modern classic from an Irish master, directed by Studio Theatre's Belfast-born Associate Artistic Director, Translations reminds us how personal the political can be. Watch it all unfold at Studio Theatre's Metheny Theatre in Washington, DC.
Washington Post-
Recommended
Metro Weekly-
Somewhat Recommended
BroadwayWorld-
Recommended
DCTheatreScene-
Highly Recommended
DC Metro Theater Arts-
Highly Recommended
When you picture a B&B, you probably see a charming Victorian, a cozy fireplace, lots of doilies and tchotchkes strewn about. But for Elias and Jenny, the young Brooklyn couple at the center of Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker's John, there's nothing quaint about their little getaway. With their relationship in trouble, the couple checks in only to be greeted by a cheerful yet somehow ... off innkeeper. Soon, it becomes apparent that they're not alone. Shot-through with Baker's wit and lyrical beauty, with shades of the supernatural, John is "so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light" (The New Yorker). Now you can experience it at Signature Theatre in Arlington.
Washington Post-
Somewhat Recommended
DCTheatreScene-
Highly Recommended
DC Metro Theater Arts-
Recommended
MD Theatre Guide-
Recommended
