Founded in 1938 as a summer playhouse and now serving audiences year-round, Olney Theatre Center produces world and American premieres of plays and musicals, reimagines familiar titles, and presents a variety of performing arts on the 4 venues of our 14-acre campus. For more than 8 decades, Olney Theatre has brought impactful theater performance and education to our community, helping to grow the vibrancy and vitality of our home in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Spooky Action Theater (SAT) is an award-winning small professional theater in NW DC, and a hub for bold aesthetics, vital conversations, and global visions. SAT takes its name from a phenomenon of quantum mechanics, which Einstein called "spooky action at a distance": two particles, without ever touching, become entangled, so that a change in one is mirrored by change in the other. SAT links artists and audiences in a shared act of imagination that leaves all parties transformed. As one of only a few immigrant-led theaters in the DMV area, SAT pursues empathetic resonance through staging and developing groundbreaking plays by diverse writers across the globe that uplift our shared humanity and foster solidarity. In the 2025 Helen Hayes Award season, SAT became the most-awarded theater in the “Helen” category, with its world premiere musical “Professor Woland’s Black Magic Rock Show” bringing home 5 awards and 11 nominations. www.spookyaction.org

Studio Theatre is a national leader in the production of contemporary plays. Over 46 years and more than 425 productions, Studio has grown from a company that produced in a single rented theatre to one that owns a multi-venue complex stretching half a city block, but has remained committed to core distinguishing characteristics: deliberately intimate spaces; excellence in acting and design; and seasons that feature many of the most significant playwrights of our time. Studio’s seasons are intentionally diverse and eclectic, featuring buzzworthy plays from today’s hot writers, groundbreaking world premieres, and reinvigorated contemporary classics, produced and performed by leading local, national, and international artists. Studio also incubates and develops new work, nurtures the next generation of arts leaders, and proactively engages with its community through a wide array of initiatives. Studio is committed to inclusion and access, and makes a concentrated effort to proactively dismantle barriers that have excluded people from joyful participation in our art form. Studio’s location, rich history, unique venues, and commitment to artistry have made it a regional landmark, where audiences find the best that contemporary theatre has to offer. studiotheatre.org

The Tony Award®-winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company creates radically redefining theatre that highlights the tremendous complexity of our world. For almost 50 years, Woolly has exemplified a standard of artistic rigor that dares to take theatrical risks, showcases new and diverse voices, and pushes the culture forward. One of the few remaining theatres in the country to maintain a company of multi-disciplinary artists, Woolly serves an essential research and development role within the American theatre. Plays premiered here have gone on to productions at hundreds of theatres all over the world and have had lasting impacts on the field.   

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is led by Artistic Director Reggie D. White and Managing Director Kimberly E. Douglas. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is located in Washington, DC, equidistant from the Capitol and the White House.  

This unique location influences Woolly’s investment in actively working towards an equitable,  participatory, and creative democracy. Woolly Mammoth stands upon occupied,  unceded territory: the ancestral homeland of the Nacotchtank whose descendants  belong to the Piscataway peoples. Furthermore, the foundation of this city, and most of  the original buildings in Washington, DC, were funded by the sale of enslaved people of African descent and built by their hands.