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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

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

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

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

Educational theater

Non-operational theaters

Theater organizations

Theater awards

References

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

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