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WorldPride 2025 is coming to Washington from May 17 – June 8, 2025, bringing an estimated 3 million people to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Pride in D.C. The WorldPride 2025 Film Festival will showcase films from around the world, as well as highlighting our amazing homegrown D.C. region filmmakers. Join us for this cinematic spin around the globe, May 27 - 29.
Mosaic Theater: Andy Warhol in Iran
MAY 29 - JUNE 29
“Riveting, brilliantly imagined!” -WTTW Chicago
“Highly watchable! Funny!” -Chicago Reader
“Complex and compelling!” -Chicago Tribune
"Diary of War" is a powerful benefit reading highlighting the harrowing and inspiring experiences of Ukrainians affected by the full-scale Russian invasion. Join us for this moving performance and hear DC’s most acclaimed actors use their voices to share true stories of Ukraine's resilience.
Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride 2025
June 1 5:00 pm
Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride 2025 (DBIWP) will take center stage at the Atlas Performing Arts Center as part of Washington, D.C.’s hosting of World Pride. This landmark event will amplify the voices of Indigenous and multiply-marginalized 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, celebrating their beauty, creativity, and defiance in the face of colonialism.
GMCW: WorldPride International Choral Festival
June 3 7:30 pm
World Pride International Choral Festival performance presented by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, featuring DC Labor Chorus and Seasons of Love singing songs of Pride and joy.
Atlas Presents City at Peace: A Quiet Weight
June 6 – 7
A Quiet Weight follows ambitious, smart and talented young people torn between safety and self-expression. Their dreams are loud, but the voices in their heads feel louder—each one adding to the weight they quietly carry. They have everything—resources, talent, opportunity—but with so much at stake, even dreaming feels dangerous.
The DIW Experience 2025
June 7 – 8
We extend a warm invitation to families, esteemed patrons, and valued supporters to attend our spring concert, The DIW Experience, showcasing the talents of our pre-professional dancers.
Atlas Arts Lab presents Rashaad Pearson’s Time Machine
June 14 4:00 pm
Rashaad Pearson, a dancer and cultural historian, will spend this residency creating “Time Machine: Black American Freestyle Dance,” a project that seeks to bridge the past and the present, using the power of dance to explore the enduring legacy of Black American culture.
Atlas Arts Lab presents Shawn Shafner’s Sheldon Feldman Sings the Songs They Told Me Not To Sing
June 15 4:00 pm
Everything's coming up...Sheldon? Born at the start of the baby boom in postwar Brooklyn, Sheldon Feldman always obeyed his mother. He tried to please his wife. But after seventy-some years playing it safe, small, closeted and quiet, it’s Sheldon’s turn and he’s ready to sing out.
Solas Nua: Enda Walsh Festival
June 20 – 21
Readings, workshops, film screenings, and discussions with Enda Walsh and other special guests exploring significant works from across the career of this groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning Irish artist.
Atlas Arts Lab presents RAWRA’S EAT ME, JOANIE
June 21 4:00 pm
It's Frida’s Saturn return, and the stars have served her: Joanie. For one night only, RAWRA with Feeling debuts multi-genre music and screenplay excerpts from Eat Me, Joanie about one late-bloomer reparenting their inner drag monster amidst crisis. In this Atlas Arts Lab staged reading and music showcase, RAWRA invites the audience to observe, question, and alchemize their inner darkness toward outward good.
Atlas Arts Lab presents Anastasia Johnson’s Detangled Stories
June 22 4:00 pm
Color Me (Curly): Detangled Stories is a multidisciplinary performance that explores the complex cultural, emotional, and political landscape of Black hair. Rooted in storytelling, this original work amplifies various narratives through a fusion of movement, voice, and sound—creating an intimate and powerful reflection on Black identity.
VOCA: A Strange Loop
July 23 – August 10
Meet Usher: a Black, Deaf queer writer writing a musical about a black, Deaf queer writer. This blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. All performances will be in spoken English, American Sign Language (ASL), and captions.
PRIVATE EVENT
July 26 7:00 pm
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