Paso Nuevo returns at GALA Hispanic Theatre with a new intergenerational show - "SILENT SCREAMS: Through Time" on Fri, December 21 at 8pm. FREE! A collection of short scenes, monologues, songs, and poems, SILENT SCREAMS was developed by the Paso Nuevo Youth Performance Group and VIDA Senior Center participants, the culmination of a 3-month collaboration that brought together diverse youth and seniors from throughout the DC area to explore self-expression through music, movement, devised theatre, and spoken word.

Applications for the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival are now open! (Early Bird deadline - Nov 8; Regular Applications deadline - Jan 11, 2019). Have questions about producing a show next July 2019? Join Capital Fringe at the SW BID (Business Improvement District) office to talk about the process of applying and taking part. To attend, email Lee Cromwell, Festival Producer, at lee@capitalfringe.org to RSVP. Accepting applications also for Fringe's commissioning arm, now in its 2nd year. Request for Proposal DEADLINE - Jan 2, 2019.

Creative Cauldron's new Holiday Cabaret Series is just around the corner - events start this weekend with Stephen Gregory Smith & Kara Tameika Watkins on Dec. 9, Dani Stoller on Dec. 10, plus Erin Granfield and Katherine Riddle on Dec. 11, Doug Bowles and Alex Hassan on 12/12. 'Tis The Season - A Holiday Cabaret with Chris Urquiaga follows on Dec. 16 and “Winter Wonderland” on Dec. 17.

Make your holiday season merry and bright with five weekends of WIT (Washington Improv Theater)'s "Seasonal Disorder" at Source Theatre. Featuring seven events each weekend, "Seasonal Disorder" promises a blast of comedy packaged with a bow! Check out the whole schedule for performances Nov 29-Dec 30.

Join Woolly Mammoth Theatre Mon, December 10 @ 7:30PM, for a special reading of "For Black Trans Girls..." by DC-based playwright and performer Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, directed by Paige Hernandez. FREE

The 2018 DC Queer Theater Festival is back with 2 days of performances - experience seven diverse, thought provoking and humorous 10-Minute Plays at DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan on Fri, December 7 at 7:30pm and Sat, December 8 at 3pm & 7:30pm.