The Studio Theatre is proud to partner with breakout New York theatre company The Civilians to present the World Premiere of their latest play, This Beautiful City. The second event in The Studio Theatre's new Opening Our Doors initiative, This Beautiful City takes on the Evangelical movement in America. In The Civilians' signature style, the six company members mix docu-drama with cabaret, weaving engaging songs into a script based on interviews with actual people.

New York's hip new theatre company 13P originated this fresh and fascinating comedy by one of their resident playwrights. Anne Washburn follows an American businessman lost in translation in this mysterious, multilingual romance.

The performance group rainpan 43 arrives at The Studio Theatre for a three-week festival of their inventive and surprising work. Washington audiences at last have the opportunity to experience not just one but three of rainpan 43's extraordinary shows: their original hit, all wear bowlers; the highly popular Amnesia Curiosa (being developed at The Studio Theatre); and their latest, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines.

The Tony Award winner for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play! Alan Bennett's sharply funny and touching comedy goes inside the world of a British boys' school, where two teachers (Floyd King and Simon Kendall) become rivals for the minds and hearts of eight unruly students.

The Tony Award winner for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play! Alan Bennett's sharply funny and touching comedy goes inside the world of a British boys school, where two teachers (Floyd King and Simon Kendall) become rivals for the minds and hearts of eight unruly students, from March 26 to May 4, 2008. Founding Artistic Director Joy Zinoman re-imagines this warm, brilliant and epic play, which features a cast of 16.

All wear bowlers, the hit show from the New Vaudeville sensations Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobell – will be presented with their sell-out work, Amnesia Curiosa; and their newest piece, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines. These shows were the toast of Off-Broadway and The Philadelphia Fringe. This is a limited engagement. Don't miss your chance to be part of this new comic movement.

Acclaimed writer Alan Ball, the creative mind behind Six Feet Under and American Beauty, follows the relationship between two men living in Los Angeles—one white, one Middle Eastern. Through the story of their romance, Ball fashions an erotic and thought-provoking look at ethnicity and the eternal search for belonging.

The Studio 2nd Stage kicks off its 20th Anniversary Season with Breath, Boom: the gritty, vivid story of one woman’s journey from gang-girl to grown-up. Breath, Boom follows fourteen years in the life of Prix, as she goes from sixteen-year-old gang queen to mature, thirty-year-old woman.

Scenic Designer Russell Metheny, one of The Studio Theatre's founding artists, has created a soaring two-story set for the theatre that bears his name. The entire play takes place in one location: the office where Ian works running from November 7 to December 16, 2007.

On the fortieth anniversary of this groundbreaking modern classic, The Studio Theatre returns to Tom Stoppard's first play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead takes place behind the scenes of Shakespeare's great tragedy, as Hamlet's two schoolmates find themselves the reluctant heroes of their own play, driven forward by the plot of Hamlet itself.