List of theaters in Washington, D.C.

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[edit]

Theater Stage Location Built Capacity Website
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium Federal Triangle 1935 1000 [1]
Arena Stage Fichandler Stage Southwest 1950 683 [2]
Arena Stage Kreeger Theater Southwest 1950 514 [3]
Arena Stage Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle Southwest 1950 200 [4]
Atlas Performing Arts Center Lang Theater H Street 2005 (established 1938) 262 [5]
Atlas Performing Arts Center Sprenger Theater H Street 2005 (established 1938) 280 [6]
Atlas Performing Arts Center Atlas Lab Theatre I H Street 2005 (established 1938) 80 [7]
Atlas Performing Arts Center Atlas Lab Theatre II H Street 2005 (established 1938) 90 [8]
Carter Barron Amphitheater Rock Creek Park 1949 4200 [9]
Anacostia Playhouse Anacostia 2013 120 [10]
Dance Place Brookland 1978 0 [11]
DAR Constitution Hall Downtown 1929 3702 [12]
D.C. Arts Center (DCAC) Adams Morgan 1989 42 [13]
Duke Ellington School of the Arts Theatre Georgetown 800 [14]
DCJCC Theater J Dupont Circle 1990 [15]
Folger Shakespeare Theater Capitol Hill 1932 250 [16]
Ford's Theater Penn Quarter 1863 665 [17]
GALA Hispanic Theatre Columbia Heights 1976 [18]
Hamilton Live Downtown ??? 354 [19]
Howard Theater Shaw 1910 1100 [20]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall Foggy Bottom 1971 2465 [21]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House Foggy Bottom 1971 2364 [22]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Eisenhower Theater Foggy Bottom 1971 1164 [23]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Family Theater Foggy Bottom 1971 324 [24]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Theater Lab Foggy Bottom 1971 388 [25]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater Foggy Bottom 1971 490 [26]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage Foggy Bottom 1971 [27]
Keegan Theatre Dupont Circle 1996 120 [28]
Lincoln Theatre U Street 1922 1225 [29]
Lisner Auditorium Foggy Bottom 1946 1490 [30]
National Theatre Downtown 1835 1676 [31]
Shakespeare Theatre Company Lansburgh Theatre Penn Quarter 2007 (founded 1970) 451 [32]
Shakespeare Theatre Company Sidney Harman Hall Penn Quarter 2007 (founded 1970) 774 [33]
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Chinatown 2004 (built 1908) 800 [34]
Sylvan Theater National Mall 1917
Source Theatre U Street 2008 150 [35]
Sitar Arts Center Adams Morgan 2001 0 [36]
Studio 1469 Columbia Heights [37]
Studio Theatre Mead Theater 4th Street 1978 218 [38]
Studio Theatre Metheny Theater 4th Street 1978 200 [39]
Studio Theatre Milton Theater 4th Street 1978 187 [40]
Studio Theatre Stage 4 4th Street 1978 120 [41]
Warner Theatre Penn Quarter 1992 (built 1924) 1847 [42]
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Penn Quarter 2005 (founded 1980) 265 [43]

Producing theaters[edit]

Arena Stage
The Harman Center for the Arts, a major theater of the Shakespeare Theatre Company
The Folger Shakespeare Library
The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Presenting and rental theaters[edit]

The interior of Ford's Theatre
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Lincoln Theatre is located on the U Street Corridor.
The Warner Theatre

Independent companies[edit]

Educational theater[edit]

Non-operational theaters[edit]

Theater organizations[edit]

Theater awards[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Charter Theatre Final Website". Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2013.

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