BLACK HISTORY MONTH BURLESQUE EXHIBITION INFORMATION

Everybody Wants to Be a Showgirl is a Black History Month exhibition celebrating the artistry, cultural impact, and living legacy of Black burlesque performers. Featuring over 100 Black performers from around the world, the exhibition highlights how Black burlesque artists have shaped American performance, fashion, and commercial entertainment—often without institutional recognition.

Through costumes, archival materials, immersive installations, and live programming, the exhibition centers on living artists while honoring the lineage of Black performance traditions that continue to influence culture today.

Dates: February 6-March 1, 2026
EXHIBITION VIEWING HOURS: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 11:00 AM-5:00 PM

This exhibition includes mature themes and may not be appropriate for all ages. Parental and viewer discretion is advised for guests under 18.

Paint & Debate is a transformative, community-forward event series that merges visual art with critical conversation to spark inclusive dialogue

6:30 - 8:30 PM.

Welcome to Melodies of Migration: Storytelling Through Music, a special event celebrating immigrant musicians and the powerful role music plays in preserving heritage. Through live musical performances, featured artists will share their personal journeys and stories of how they use music to remain connected to their roots, despite now residing in the DMV. Together, we’ll honor resilience, identity, and the universal language of sound. Don’t miss this opportunity to listen, learn, and be moved by stories told through melody.

February 24th, 2026 at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm).

This event is led by KAMA DC, a volunteer-run non-profit that provides a platform for immigrants and refugees living in the DMV area to share their stories and skills. If price is a barrier, please email info@kamadc.org for a complimentary free ticket.

Join us for the third installment of Read the Room, a six-part poetry series that turns the Underground into a refuge for urgent truths and literary magic. This opening night features a curated lineup of poets excited and engaged, ready to share, and eager to nurture your love of poetry.​

Poetry here is treated as high-quality art and powerful entertainment — your ticket directly supports the poets through a dedicated revenue share.

Doors: 6:00
Show: 6:30

Keep an eye out for information on our Women’s Month exhibition opening! To be announced soon.

Old music is given new meaning in an original theater piece that includes that searing and unforgettable arias from J.S. Bach’s masterpiece, and a new spoken re-languaging of the Gospel text that reshapes the work into an exploration of profound human loss and grief, and the promise of hope. This miniature approach to one of the repertoire’s largest works seeks to discover its essential emotional power in a ritual staging aimed at the soul of its audience.

March 6 at 7:30pm
March 7 at 7:30pm
March 8 at 2:30pm

Part of InSeries’ Passion Plays Festival

DescriptionIn religious traditions, passion narratives are about suffering, sacrifice, and transformation, and usually centered around one hero or savior. But Passio is a contemporary concert where the passion story takes a different turn: that of polyphony. We meet survivors, pioneers, and creators who reveal an often unheard story of resilience and transformation, where various classical singing techniques, fortepiano, jazz, blues, South Asian percussion, and baroque strings merge with each other in time and space.

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With the direction of soprano Maribeth Diggle and compositions by pianist Lucie de Saint Vincent, created in collaboration with the ensemble, Passio becomes a collective act of voices based on interviews with the musicians of the ensemble themselves. One that makes the passion stories we share with each other visibly more complete. And one that Bach would  have surely loved.

March 13 at 7:30pm
March 14 at 7:30pm
March 15 at 2:30pm

Part of InSeries’ Passion Plays Festival

Persian-American poet and scholar Fatemeh Keshavarz and pianist and composer Adrienne Torf come together to make a new piece of opera-theater that fuses Faure’s Requiem, jazz elements, and Brechtian theatrical traditions in a powerful contemplation of the human experiences contained in “ female incarceration in America”. This extended poem-opera sheds light on the lives and resilience of women in the U.S. prison system, their hopes, dreams, fears, and day to day experiences, offering a voice to a population often overlooked. Six acclaimed local performers join the composer herself, leading an instrumental ensemble from the piano, to animate the important original work.

March 20 at 7:30pm
March 21 at 7:30pm
March 22 at 2:30pm

Part of InSeries’ Passion Plays Festival

Join us for The Movement Street’s annual two-day celebration of culture, fashion, and community impact — an immersive weekend centered on creativity, recognition, and storytelling.

Day 1: A curated mixer + awards night spotlighting emerging leaders, creatives, partners, and community changemakers.

Day 2: A full creative experience featuring our signature fashion show, art gallery, marketplace, live performances, and select scholarship presentations recognizing outstanding students and creatives.

Timbre Trio, featuring Greg Hutton on the hammered dulcimer, weaves luminous three-part harmonies with traditional folk and original contemporary songs that explore history, myth, and memory.

Celebrating Women’s Stories Through Music and Song is a moving journey through love, loss, resilience, and empowerment in honor of Women’s History Month. From tender ballads and songs of steadfast devotion, to sharp reflections on cultural expectations, to bold narratives of feminine strength, this evocative concert shines a spotlight on the depth and enduring influence of women’s voices, past and present.

Doors at 6:30, Concert at 7:00

Join us for the fourth installment of Read the Room, a six-part poetry series that turns the Underground into a refuge for urgent truths and literary magic. This opening night features a curated lineup of poets excited and engaged, ready to share, and eager to nurture your love of poetry.​

Poetry here is treated as high-quality art and powerful entertainment — your ticket directly supports the poets through a dedicated revenue share.

Doors: 6:00
Show: 6:30

More details soon. The Art of Kimono will return to DU!

By presenting Tennessee Williams’ complete, unabridged text, with just four performers - no props, no set- this production can exist anywhere. It strips bare to the bones the greatest piece of American drama.

“Have you ever had anything caught in your head?”

Tennessee Williams’ descent into family, sex, death and decay is a haunting: family, trauma, relentlessly recurring patterns of destruction. It’s about the abuse we heap upon ourselves, and the pleasures we use to forget.

See more here.

Join us for this electrifying production of Cabaret, the iconic Tony Award–winning Broadway musical by Joe Masteroff, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.

Beneath the historic streets of Dupont Circle, where Dupont Underground transforms 15,000 square feet of forgotten passageways into a one-of-a-kind immersive arts venue, the world of Cabaret comes vividly to life—a subterranean escape beneath a city dancing on the edge of turmoil.

Set inside the infamous Kit Kat Club, Cabaret follows young American writer Cliff Bradshaw and English cabaret performer Sally Bowles as they navigate love, ambition, and political unrest in 1930s Berlin. As the club’s irreverent Master of Ceremonies invites audiences into a world of glitter and illusion, the rise of the Nazi party and violent fascism looms over them.

Performances run May 14–17, 2026, with a matinee performance on May 17.

This production is proudly presented by The Theatre Lab, DC’s largest independent drama school. The Theatre Lab works to make the artistic and the real-life benefits of theatre training accessible to all.