Griffin McElroy joins us at Dupont Underground to discuss his new Choose Your Own Adventure book, The Stowaway! Best known for being a New York Times Bestselling author, podcaster, voice actor, video producer and gaming journalist. He’s the co-host of long-running comedy podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and actual play podcast The Adventure Zone, for which he’s co-authored a series of seven graphic novel adaptations. Join us for an interactive reading of his new book, The Stowaway followed by a Q&

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.

The Lady Bird of Saint John brings together Rosa and Verónica, two sisters who migrated to the United States following very different paths. One arrived with documents. The other crossed the border without them.

After years apart, they reunite in Verónica’s apartment in downtown Chicago. What begins as a long-awaited reunion slowly reveals the weight of their shared past: family expectations, sacrifice, resentment, love, and the complicated choices people make in search of a better life.

As the night unfolds, the sisters confront painful truths about immigration, class, and the meaning of family. Hidden secrets surface, memories clash, and the fragile bond between them is pushed to its breaking point. Their conversation becomes a reflection of a larger reality affecting thousands of families across borders.

Inspired by the political climate surrounding immigration policies in the United States, The Lady Bird of Saint John is an intimate story about separation, survival, and the consequences of systems that divide families.

TRIGGER WARNING: This play contains strong language and themes of immigration trauma, family conflict, violence, and references to the detention of migrant children. Viewer discretion is advised.

Language: The Lady Bird of Saint John will be performed in English.

See community cherry blossom photos projected throughout Dupont Underground!

Dates: First two weekends of April 2026 (April 4–5 and April 11–12) Location: Dupont Underground, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
Price: $5

Everyone loves Cherry Blossoms in DC! And we all see them in our own unique ways. This community photo call is for everyone!

Blossom Fever is a projection exhibition featuring cherry blossom photographs taken by DMV residents. No professionals required. No aesthetic agenda. Just your blossoms, your neighborhood, your eye — projected on the 300-foot projection wall of Dupont Underground's historic reclaimed trolley station.

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 at 7:30 PM, with a matinee performance on May 17 at 2:00 PM.

For people who want to be part of the action—upgrade your ticket to an Immersive Seat! You’ll be seated at tables that become part of the performance, with actors moving and dancing around you.

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. 

The Year That Comedy Got Cool. (A Picnic Theater Company Pardoy)

On Thursday June 4, join Picnic Theatre Company at Dupont Underground for a parody performance of My Favorite Year: The Year Comedy Got Cool!

It's 1967 New York in the age of live television, and an aging silver screen legend is slated to appear on the top-rated late night sketch comedy show, the King Kiser Comedy Hour.

A young writer (based on the life of Mel Brooks) is tasked with keeping her sober and on script for the broadcast, while comedy writer veterans navigate the tumultuous changes in American society during the burgeoning era of rock and roll, Vietnam, feminism and the youth revolution.

6pm Cocktails and Music

7pm Performance, 90 minutes

Tickets $20, all proceeds benefit the preservation of the Dupont Underground historic urban art space.

Directed and Adapted by Steve Rochlin

Cast: Sara Cook Matthew Gregory Nihal Krishan* Paul Massaro* Alexa Newlin Antonio Olivo Marisela Ramirez* Steve Rochlin* Adam Ruben* Christina Sevilla* Courtney Sexton* Ram Viswanathan* Shawn Westfall* David White