List of the Week: Every Play/Musical I Saw in 2025

After using last week's blog post to recap all of the books I read in 2025, I'll be continuing the theme by recounting all of the plays and musical I saw last year. After going to the theatre 55 times in 2024, I saw a considerable drop in 2025, with only 44 theatre-outings to show for it. Pitiful - not even one per week! But it was quality over quantity this year, as my annual Top 5 list swelled to seven entries thanks to a little finagling with some ties. This year’s list includes both plays and musicals, stretches across genres, and even crosses oceans.

1/10 - Elysian Fields (staged reading), Ford's Theatre

1/18 - Downstate, Studio Theatre

2/2 - Primary Trust, Everyman Theatre

2/5 - Mike Birbiglia: Please Stop the Ride, Baltimore Center Stage

2/12 - Richard II, The Bridge Theatre

2/13 - Cymbeline, Shakespeare's Globe

2/14 - A Streetcar Named Desire, Noël Coward Theatre

2/15 - Ballet Shoes, National Theatre (London)

2/25 - Shucked, National Theatre (D.C.)

3/6 - Kunene and the King, Shakespeare Theatre Company

3/12 - Waitress, Olney Theatre Center

3/13 - Sister Act, Ford's Theatre

3/14 - Waitress, Mill Mountain Theatre

3/23 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Everyman Theatre

3/30 - The Scenarios, Studio Theatre

4/3 - The Music Man, Toby's Dinner Theatre

4/5 - Bad Books, Round House Theatre

4/10 - Uncle Vanya, Shakespeare Theatre Company

4/19 - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Music Box Theatre

4/20 - The Last Five Years, Hudson Theatre

4/23 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)

5/10 - Seussical Jr., BCPSS Elementary/Middle School

5/10 - Some Like It Hot, Hippodrome Theatre

5/18 - The Mystery of Irma Vep, Everyman Theatre

5/21 - Kimberly Akimbo, National Theatre (D.C.)

5/25 - Paradise Blue, Studio Theatre

6/17 - Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations, National Theatre (D.C.)

7/12 - Just in Time, Circle in the Square Theatre

7/13 - Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Marquis Theatre

7/23 - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, National Theatre (D.C.)

8/8 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hale Centre Theatre (Gilbert, AZ)

9/18 - The American Five, Ford's Theatre

9/19 - Damn Yankees, Arena Stage

9/21 - Merry Wives, Shakespeare Theatre Company

10/11 - The Inheritance: Part I, Round House Theatre

10/11 - The Inheritance: Part II, Round House Theatre

10/17 - Fremont Ave., Arena Stage

11/5 - The Wild Duck, Shakespeare Theatre Company

11/15 - Just in Time, Circle in the Square Theatre

11/16 - Death Becomes Her, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

12/9 - Water for Elephants, National Theatre (D.C.)

12/11 - Guys and Dolls, Shakespeare Theatre Company

12/18 - Deceived, Everyman Theatre