Noted, briefly, and more or less in passing:

Do you want your theaters to treat you like the airlines do? Some of them think it's a good idea. Not everyone agrees. (But the argument at that first link? It's from a guy at Arena Stage. Hmmm.)
The peripatetic Spooky Action Theater has found itself a home: Richard [...]

Their move: Signature's preview-period gambit
breaks new ground for DC theaters.

"The show opened at Signature on Aug. 10," notes the third paragraph of this TBD.com story about the poster design for Chess.
But you didn't see reviews of the musical last week, did you? And you won't—maybe not until September.
That's because the Signature Theatre, in a move [...]

"David is not a pushover," says Joy Zinoman.
Coming from a woman whose titanic personality has kept at least two generations of Washington theater people busy telling backstage stories, that can only be counted as a compliment.
"David" is David Muse, who'll be stepping into Zinoman's shoes come September, when he takes over as artistic director of [...]

Come Monday, you'll probably read in the Washington Post that at long last, the Studio Theatre has announced a replacement for retiring Artistic Director Joy Zinoman. But if you're like me, your Mondays can be hectic, so let me save you a little time: The name they'll announce is that of David Muse.
How do [...]

By Terrence McNally
Directed by Walter Bobbie
At the Kennedy Center Family Theatre to April 4
Jeffrey Carlson’s flailing, mop-haired Vincenzo Bellini isn’t the only thing that’s a mess in Golden Age: Like too much of the art form it celebrates, Terrence McNally’s new comic drama about the heyday of bel canto opera is overlong, overwritten, and wildly [...]

In which Bob Mondello and Trey Graham trade theories about which one of them is wrong about Cate Blanchett's Streetcar.

Heads up, people: In one hour, the ticket-giveaway phones open for this year's national Free Night of Theater.
(OK, they're not phones — it's an online thing — but you get the point.)
Tickets will probably be gone in half an hour, so look at the list now, and make your picks.  Then, at the crack of [...]

You want free stuff. We're here to give it to you — or at least to point you in its direction. Starting Thursday: three weeks of free theater, courtesy of the Inkwell.