I'm going to the National Theatre is 2 weeks and recently have been down there to get the tickets and drop others off for previous show. The Warner is just around the corner I always go, once I leave the National make a left on 14th street and follow it up to Independence Ave going past the Monument, make left on Independence and follow it to, I think its Canal, its across from the Botanical Gardens, make a right theres always a Capital Hill police officer parked there and the leads you right out onto South Capital then go past Nats Park to Suitland Pkwy and then either take 295 south to 495 and Branch, or if your going south to Lexington Pk area stay on Suitland Pwky till Rt. 4 and head south.