Avant Bard has been proudly presenting edgy, innovative classic works, both time-tested and contemporary, since 1990. View our history of past productions by season below.
2023-2024 Season
- Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
- Deserted Garden by Matt Minnicino—a film making experience
- Scripts in Play Festival
- Walter Mercado presents: a queer Puerto Rican (not just) Christmxs Carol by Jayne Deely
- Tofana by Julia Marks
- Historic Doubts by Luke Sorge
2022-2023 Season
- Billy and George by Ken Jones and Daryl L. Harris (world premiere)
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George
- Scripts in Play Festival
- Torn by John Becker
- The Figs by Doug Robinson
- A Lovely Light by Hannah Land
2021-2022 Season
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Arlington Cultural Affairs’ Fall Spotlight Series at Lubber Run Amphitheatre)
- How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson
- Ada and the Engine by Lauren Gunderson
- Suddenly Last Summer and Talk to Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams
2019-2020 Season
(curtailed by the pandemic)
- Suddenly Last Summer and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams
- Ada and the Engine by Lauren Gunderson
2018-2019 Season
- Illyria, Or What You Will adapted by Jonelle Walker and Mitchell Hébert from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
- A Misanthrope by Matt Minnicino (adapted from The Misanthrope by Molière)
- Scripts in Play Festival
- Antigone by Sophocles, translated by Kenneth Cavander and adapted by Mattthew Minnicino
- Tragedy Averted by Alexandra Petri
- Hercules in Russia by Allyson Currin
- Hey Darcy! A Bromantic Comedy by Amanda Quain and Rebecca Speas
- Three Suitcases by Richard Byrne
- Adoration of Dora by Lojo Simon
- Ada and the Engine by Lauren Gunderson
- A Two Woman Hamlet adapted from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2017-2018 Season
TAME. by Jonell Walker
The Gospel at Colonus by Bob Telson and Lee Breuer, based on Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
King Lear by William Shakespeare
2015-2016 Season
- Holiday Memories adapted by Russell Vanderbrouke from “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- The Good Devil (in Spite of Himself) by Mario Baldessari and Tyler Herman
2014-2015 Season
- Visible Language by Andy Welchel and Mary Resing (world premiere) — co-production with Gallaudet University
- There Is a Happiness That Morning Is by Mickle Maher
- Benefit Reading: A Klingon Christmas Carol by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom (author, translation), Sasha Walloch (author), Laura Thurston (translation), Bill Hedrick (translation), Chris Lipscombe (additional content and translation), Terrence Donnelly (lyricist)
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Laurence Senelick
2013-2014 Season
- King John by William Shakespeare
- Orlando by Sara Ruhl, adapted from the book by Virginia Woolf
- Nero/Pseudo by Richard Byrne (world premiere) — Washington, DC Fringe Festival
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