Classic Membership

Members are some of our most valued patrons and we reward that commitment by providing them with our best seats at the best prices along with a host of benefits. In addition to saving up to 30-50% off top ticket prices*, members enjoy:

• Choose Your Date
  Get the first crack at dates when the season is announced.
• Free, Unlimited Ticket Exchanges
  Life is unpredictable. When your schedule changes we make it easy for you to swap your theatre tickets without paying exchange fees.
• Keep their seats from year to year.
  Before new seasons go on-sale to the public, members get first shot to purchase tickets at loyalty pricing levels. If you like your seats, we'll make sure you can keep them. And, if you want a change, members get the first opportunity to choose new seats.
• Free Events
  Behind the Scenes programs are always free to members and include conversations with directors, designers, journalists and other experts that deepen your experience of the productions you see.
• Complimentary Printed Programs
  Printed programs cost $2 each, except for our members! Yours are included.

Member Discounts
Save on food and drinks at Joe's Players Club, Paul's Place, and at our Gift Shop. You also get discounted member prices to other season performances and special programs.

2026-27 Season

August Wilson’s  
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM 
Co-produced with and performed at Round House Theatre in Bethesda
SEP. 9 - OCT. 11, 2026  
Directed by Lili-Anne Brown

Don’t miss this explosive and thrilling “genuine American masterpiece” (Chicago Reader)—reuniting two Helen Hayes Award winners from our co-production of Fela!, director Lili-Anne Brown and actor Melody A. Betts in the title role—that takes a searing look at the racial exploitation at the heart of the music industry and celebrates the cathartic power of the blues. Set in 1920s Chicago and pulsing with rousing blues music, wry comedy, and poetic insight, August Wilson’s acclaimed play follows trailblazing singer Ma Rainey and her band during a fraught recording session. As conflicts flare over art, power, and control, the struggle between the musicians and studio executives grows to a shattering finale.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Book by Harvey Fierstein
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based on the play by Jean Poiret
BERNARD FAMILY THEATRE 
SEP. 18 - NOV. 8, 2026

Directed by Jason Loewith
Choreographed by Karla Puno Garcia 
Music Direction by Christopher Youstra

Our first production in the brand-new Bernard Family Theatre is an immersive evening at St. Tropez’s hottest drag club, La Cage aux Folles! It is a big night for club owners Georges and his husband, Albin – their son Jean-Michel has just announced he’s engaged! The only catch is that his prospective father-in-law is an infamous politician from the Tradition, Family and Morality Party. And did we mention that Albin is not only Georges’ husband, but also the club’s biggest star, where they perform as the fabulous Zaza? When Jean-Michel requests that Zaza make herself scarce when his fiancée and her parents come for a visit, chaos and a reckoning ensue. Fierstein’s book and Herman’s songs feel just as relevant today as when the musical first premiered in 1983, or when its movie adaptation The Birdcage came out in 1996.  Limited cabaret-table seating available at every show!

SYNETIC THEATER COMPANY PRODUCTION OF
SLEEPY HOLLOW
MULITZ-GUDELSKY THEATRE LAB
OCT. 7 - NOV. 1, 2026

Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili
Choreographed by Irina Tsikurishvili
Adapted by Nathan Weinberger

Olney audiences were blown away in 2025, when we invited Synetic Theater to perform their award-winning, wordless version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Now they’re back, but this time they’re tackling a story with classic American roots in the intimate confines of Olney Theatre Center’s 150-seat Theatre Lab. This adaptation of Sleepy Hollow pulls together all the elements that made Synetic famous: gothic horror, iconic characters and imagery, and an emphasis on the surreal. The production explores and deconstructs the ideas of legend and myth, illuminating the story of a terrifying and well-known villain in a way that only Synetic’s physical lexicon can.

Appropriate for ages 13+

LES MISÉRABLES
A musical by Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Based on a novel by Victor Hugo
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Original French Text by Alain Boubil and Jean-Marc Natel
Adapted and originally directed by Trevor Nunn and John Card
ROBERTS MAINSTAGE
OCT. 30, 2026 - JAN. 31, 2027

Directed by Stephen Brackett (A.D. 16)
Choreographed by William Carlos Angulo
Music Direction by Christopher Youstra

Modern classics don’t come any bigger than Les Misérables, and Olney Theatre celebrates it for the first time in honor of the show’s 40th anniversary. Based on Victor Hugo’s sweeping 19th-century novel of redemption, revolution, and love, the songs of Les Miz conquered Broadway in the 1980s and continue to resonate in this third decade of the 21st Century. Follow Jean-Valjean from his beginnings as convict #24601 to life in hiding, to protector of Cosette,  pursued all the while by the relentless Javert, culminating in the revolutionary passions of the 1832 Paris uprising. Join us at the barricade this holiday season, and be stirred by a musical unmatched by its lyrical humor, its calls for justice, and its portrayal of the sacrifices one can make in the name of love. Featuring: Kevin S. McAllister as Javert, Alex De Bard as Eponine, Tracy Lynn Olivera as Madame Thénardier, Jordan Friend as Thénardier, Stephanie Waters as Fantine, Ben Clark as Marius, and more to be announced soon.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
MULITZ-GUDELSKY THEATRE LAB
NOV. 27 - DEC. 27, 2026

Adapted and Directed by Hallie Gordon

This season, Ebenezer Scrooge gets a refreshed look in our brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic that practically invented our modern understanding of the meaning of Christmas. The one-person performance stays true to the original’s vision of a singular storyteller bringing ghosts, memories, and visions of the future to vivid life.

THE ARTSCENTRIC PRODUCTION OF
CROWNS
By Regina Taylor
Adapted from the Book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry
BERNARD FAMILY THEATRE
JAN. 28 - MAR. 7, 2027

Directed by Kevin S. McAllister
Music Direction by  Cedric D. Lyles
Choreographed by Shalyce Hemby

Generations of Black women in the American South, through good times and bad, at weddings and funerals, on regular Sunday mornings and at festive holiday services, have adorned themselves with a hat for each occasion. Yolanda arrives in the South from Brooklyn to stay with family and encounters a world full of traditions that she initially regards with skepticism.  However, in this play by Regina Taylor, through music and movement, the stories of the women beneath these “crowns” become a usable heritage for Yolanda as she seeks to heal from her own trauma.

CHURCHILL
by David Payne
MULITZ-GUDELSKY THEATRE LAB
FEB. 4 - MAR. 21, 2027

In the spirit of Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, we’re thrilled to present another dramatic encounter with a titan of 20th-century leadership. It is 1963, and Winston Churchill has just been awarded honorary American citizenship by President John F. Kennedy. In this one-man show, Daniel Payne plays Churchill in a role written and created by his father, David. The former two-time Prime Minister reflects on what this newest honor means to him, along with recounting his storied life, from the Boer War, to his relationships with a pair of powerful women, his wife, Clementine, and Elizabeth II. Charismatic, witty, and occasionally risqué, you’ll really feel like you’re spending a special evening with “The Old Lion” of Great Britain.  

KIMBERLY AKIMBO
Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Based on the play by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Ethan Heard
ROBERTS MAINSTAGE
March 18 - April 25, 2027

With power ballads, sharp lyrics, and a book that’s full of laughs, this 2023 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score (by Fun Home’s Jeanine Tesori) sheds light on our universal desire for a meaningful life. It’s Saturday night at a skating rink in Bergen County, NJ, and 16-year-old Kimberly Levaco is meeting up with her odd assortment of misfit high school friends, consumed by their typical insecurities and unrequited crushes. But Kimberly — played by 63-year-old Victoria Clark on Broadway in a Tony-winning turn — is further from the norm, since she has a rare disease that makes her age at 4-times the normal rate. Still, she wants all the things a 16-year-old wants: a family that supports her, a first love, and a great adventure – and time is of the essence. The arrival of her felonious Aunt Debra provides an unexpected opportunity to achieve all that, and more, but at a cost.

“The season’s most moving [and] profoundly funny new musical” - The New York Times


PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
A Play by Rick Elice
Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
BERNARD FAMILY THEATRE
APRIL 29 - JUNE 6, 2027

Directed by Benjamin T. Ismail
Choreographed by Nikki Mirza

In this enchanting, immersive production, discover how Peter became Pan. Audiences of all ages will be whisked across the seas aboard the HMS Neverland with the brave and clever Molly, daughter of the mysterious Lord Aster, while on a secret mission for the Queen. When things go unexpectedly awry, Molly teams up with a nameless orphan boy in a fight to save the day from bloodthirsty (and often hilarious) pirates. Silly and serious, Peter and the Starcatcher harnesses the universal power of storytelling itself to create a totally unique theatrical experience that’s perfect for kids or anyone who ever was a kid.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best New Play
DOUBT: A PARABLE
by John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Hallie Gordon
MULITZ-GUDELSKY THEATRE LAB
JUNE 2 - July 11, 2027

At a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, Sister Aloysius harbors suspicions about the charismatic Father Flynn, who has taken a special interest in the school’s first Black student. As her concern grows into the belief that something inappropriate is happening, she enlists the aid of the young and idealistic Sister James, as well as the boy’s mother. As the confrontation between Aloysius and Flynn builds, Shanley challenges the audience to grapple with their own suspicions. Each conversation in Shanley’s electric script touches deep ethical issues of faith and doubt, good and evil, power and powerlessness, during a time of social change. The language is strikingly personal as these characters seek to chart a path forward in this dramatic powder keg that garnered both the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best New Play.

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Original Concept and Direction by Floyd Mutrux
Inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins
ROBERTS MAINSTAGE
JUN. 30 - AUG. 22, 2027

Directed by Hunter Foster
Music Direction by Sam C. Jones

On December 4, 1956, one man brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley to play together for the first and only time. His name was Sam Phillips... The place was Sun Records... That night they made Rock ‘n’ Roll history – history you get to relive in this rollicking juke box musical jam-packed with hits like “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “That’s Alright,” “Long Tall Sally,” “I Walk The Line,” and “Great Balls of Fire,” to name only a few. Summer nights in the Roberts Mainstage promise to deliver a slice of rock ‘n’ roll heaven.
 

*As of April 2025, our top ticket price for a Zone A, high-demand performance is $125.