In many ways, our local colleges and universities serve as both a boot camp for theater training and a laboratory for creating original works and exploring daring, experimental works rarely seen on professional stages. Many of the theater professionals whose work we see regularly in local professional theaters, teach or supervise productions at these schools. How lucky we are.
As students have returned to colleges and universities across the DMV area, here are some highlights of what’s coming up this fall on local university stages, from University of Maryland Baltimore County’s celebration of the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance with a production of Langston Hughes’ Shakespeare in Harlem (in collaboration with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and its Black Classical Acting Ensemble) to the Catholic University of America’s hilarious new adaptation of Jane Austen’s works, Sense and Austensibility, and much more.
- Overture 2025 (October 3-4, sold out)
- Disarming Girls (October 16-26)
- Zoey’s Perfect Wedding (October 30-November 1)
- Godspell (November 19-22)
Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art at the Catholic University of America
- Sense & Austensibility (October 23-26)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (November 20-23)
- Everybody (November 5-8)
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University
- Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (October 30-November 2)
- Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (October 30-November 2)
- Light Up the Sky (November 20-23)
Howard University Department of Theatre Arts
- Young Griots: New Works for the Stage (October 9-11)
Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society (Georgetown University)
- The Humans (October 29-November 8)
Nomadic Theatre (Georgetown University)
- Heathers: The Musical (November 6-15)
University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Shakespeare in Harlem (October 30-November 9)
- Street Scenes (December 5-7)
University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
- She Loves Me (October 18-25)
- Home (November 14-21)
