Arena Stage (Mead Center for American Theater)

Arena Stage, founded in 1950 and relocated to the Mead Center on the Southwest Waterfront in 2010, is a major nonprofit theater in Washington that has produced numerous American plays and musical theater works. The company has commissioned and premiered musicals and music-driven productions that contributed to the city’s performing-arts history. Arena Stage's complex includes multiple performance spaces and has been a documented site for premieres and music-theater programming.