October 2026 Shows in DMV/Baltimore

Listings are from TheatreWashington and CharmCity.Theatre. These are just a selection, and they are arranged by opening date. 

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Shows in Baltimore Area

• Love in Rhythm at Arena Players; September 25 - October 11
• NEVERMORE by Orange Grove Dance at The Voxel; October 1 - 18
• The Pansy Hour at Submersive Productions; October 2 - November 15
  • Featuring performances by SEVERAL UMBC Theatre Community members, including Professor Nigel Semaj, alumni Vicky Graham, Caitlyn Hooper, Lukas O'Boyle, Connor Kertiss, Tara Cariaso, Alex Shawn, and Chance Payne!
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; October 7 - November 8
  • Sound Design by Professor Adam Mendelson! Featuring alum Dawn Thomas Reidy as Mother!
• Sweeney Todd at Vagabond Players; October 9 - November 15
• The Rocky Horror Show at Iron Crow Theatre; October 16 - November 7
• Addams Family: The Musical at Charm City Players; October 17 - October 25
• Different Words for Happiness at Everyman Theatre; October 18 - November 15
  • Intimacy Choreography by alum Sierra Young! Stage Management by alum Jalon Payton! 
• The M.A.K.A.D.O.: Make America Kingly Again! at Baltimore Theatre Project; October 23 - October 25
• Celebration at Arena Players; October 23 - October 25
• SIX at Hippodrome; October 25 - November 1
• The Orb of Pondering: A BROS Tabletopera at Baltimore Rock Opera Society; October 29 - November 7
• Barococo at Happenstance Theater; October 29 - November 14

Shows in DC and Virginia Area

• Merrily We Roll Along at Signature Theatre; August 25 - November 1
• SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical at Toby's Dinner Theatre; August 28 - November 1
• The Tempest at American Shakespeare Center; September 3 - November 13
• Bat Boy: The Musical at Workhouse Arts Center; September 5 - October 25
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Round House Theatre; September 9 - October 11
• Come From Away at Ford's Theatre Society; September 10 - October 18
• The Fruits of Our Labor at Arena Stage; September 10 - November 1
• The Score at Shakespeare Theatre Company; September 11 - October 18
• The Second Best School Shooting at NextStop Theatre Company; September 17 - October 11
• Some Like It Hot at Olney Theatre Center; September 18 - November 8
• Measure for Measure at Folger Theatre; September 22 - November 1
  • Intimacy Choreography by alum Sierra Young! 
• Wish You Were Here at Studio Theatre; September 23 - November 1
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Washington Stage Guild; September 24 - October 18
• Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights at Spooky Action Theater; September 24 - October 18
• Where Dead Women Go to Dance at Theatre Prometheus; September 25 - October 17
• Stumped at Washington Improv Theater; September 25 - October 24
• Fraudway! Presents at Washington Improv Theater; September 26 - October 24
• Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret at ExPats Theatre); September 28 - October 18
• Hamlet at Classic Theatre of Maryland; October 1 - October 18
• Jennie the Cat: A Halloween Adventure at The Puppet Co.; October 3 - November 3
• Maybe Happy Ending at Broadway at the National; October 6 - October 11
• Sleepy Hollow at Synetic Theater; October 7 - November 1 
• The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk at Theater J; October 7 - November 1
• Woody Sez at Voices Festival Productions; October 8 - October 25
• Betrayal at 1st Stage; October 8 - October 25
• Monsters of the VIlla Diodati at Creative Cauldron Stage; October 8 - November 1
• Frida... A Self Portrait; October 8 - November 8
• Stonewall's Bust at Best Medicine Rep Theater Company; October 9 - 25
• The Royale at Flying V; October 9 - October 31
• Hundred Days at Keegan Theatre; October 10 - November 8
  • Intimacy Choreography by alum Sierra Young! 
• Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour at Prologue Theatre; October 15 - November 8
• Pancho Villa y los ninos de la bola (Pancho Villa & the Children of the Revolution) at GALA Hispanic Theatre; October 17 - October 31
• Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? at Arena Stage; October 17 - December 6
• All the World's a Stage at Signature Theatre; October 20 - December 20
• SPARKED: The Vanishing at Buzzard Point at Rorschach Theatre; October 22 - November 15
  • Direction by alum Liz Ung!