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Studio Theatre
Founded in 1978, The Studio Theatre is Washington's premiere stage for the best in contemporary theatre. Led by Founding Artistic Director Joy Zinoman, The Studio Theatre has built a national reputation for the production of area premieres of bold American and European works, innovative revivals and arresting performance art. A highly energetic, eclectic urban theatre, The Studio is dedicated to the primacy of performance, intimacy between actor and audience, and the highest standard production values. The Studio Theatre has received nearly 200 Helen Hayes Award nominations for artistic excellence since the awards were founded in 1985.
The Studio Theatre Secondstage, created in 1988, offers a blend of spirited and irreverent performances, provocative productions of created works, cutting-edge writers, musicals, and early works by revered authors. The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory was recently called
- Longest Running Show: Fat Ham
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The 2024-2025 season at Studio Theatre will maintain the momentum established this year with hits like Love, Love, Love and Fat Ham, bringing a diverse array of fresh, fascinating, buzzworthy productions to DC audiences. The 2024-2025 season slate demonstrates Studio’s ongoing commitment to advocating for uncompromising contemporary artists and providing a home for plays that get you to think by asking you to feel.
“It’s a season of extraordinary range,” said Studio Artistic Director David Muse. “We’ve got David Auburn’s recent Broadway hit, starring DC stalwarts Holly Twyford and Kate Eastwood Norris; Bruce Norris’s provocative look at sex offenders who have served their sentences; a sharp and playful look at failing public school systems; a world premiere about mental health interventions for the police force told from the point of view of an actor trying to make sure the police take the work seriously.
“Our Associate Artistic Director Danilo Gambini makes his directing debut at Studio with a new play about three retired women learning to surf. We’ll transform the Victor Shargai Theatre into a 1949 jazz club for a music-filled drama by audience favorite Dominique Morisseau. Studio is as ambitious as ever, custom-fitting projects to our spaces.”
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2024-2025 Subscription Season
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