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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

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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) 258 [5]
Atlas Performing Arts Center Sprenger Theater H Street 2005 (established 1938) 160 [6]
Atlas Performing Arts Center Atlas Lab Theatre I H Street 2005 (established 1938) 70 [7]
Atlas Performing Arts Center Atlas Lab Theatre II H Street 2005 (established 1938) 82 [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 2017 800 [14]
DCJCC Theater J Dupont Circle 1990 238 [15]
Folger Shakespeare Theater Capitol Hill 1932 250 [16]
Ford's Theater Penn Quarter 1863 665 [17]
GALA Hispanic Theatre Columbia Heights 1976 265 [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 235 [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 [35]
Source Theatre U Street 2008 150 [36]
Sitar Arts Center Adams Morgan 2001 0 [37]
Studio 1469 Columbia Heights [38]
Studio Theatre Mead Theater 4th Street 1978 218 [39]
Studio Theatre Metheny Theater 4th Street 1978 200 [40]
Studio Theatre Milton Theater 4th Street 1978 187 [41]
Studio Theatre Stage 4 4th Street 1978 120 [42]
Warner Theatre Penn Quarter 1992 (built 1924) 1847 [43]
Washington Stage Guild Undercroft Theatre Mt. Vernon Square (founded 1986) 148 [44]
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Penn Quarter 2005 (founded 1980) 265 [45]

Producing theaters

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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

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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

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  • 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
  • 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

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Non-operational theaters

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  • Takoma Theater

Theater organizations

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Theater awards

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References

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