Washington Center For The Performing Arts

The Washington center for the performing arts presents its own series of national and international touring artists from a broad spectrum of genres and styles. In the last 12 months we have presented world-famous artists such as pink martini, Judy Collins, and Wilco, along with jazz, comedy, nova Scotia, Americana, family-oriented performances, national geographic explorers, and a huge variety of other genres. In addition, we have a long-term collaboration with Indigenous Performance Productions (IPP) to develop new indigenous performances to tour throughout the country and beyond. The collaboration creates world premieres of theater, music, dance, and multi-disciplinary performances by native and indigenous artists. This partnership is the first of its kind in the United States and seeks to fulfill a critical need in the field and help to reverse long standing barriers to indigenous performing artists entering the touring circuit.

Youth education & outreach: participating in the arts and performing in front of a live audience helps our local youth grow as artists, develop professionalism, and many great attributes and real-world skills. The arts help improve open mindedness, empathy, observation, articulating complex thoughts, focus, reasoning, and self-awareness. Our youth education and outreach program continues to rebuild after COVID-19 closures, loss and change of personnel, and will emerge stronger than ever.