What: Jack Marshall, the guy who compiles the exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) audience guides at The American Century Theater, sits down for an onstage chat with three of D.C.'s very best working actors: Kate Eastwood Norris, Naomi Jacobson, and Rick Foucheux.

Why: At one point or another, I've interviewed (or at least leaned against a lobby bar with) everybody involved, so trust me when I say they've got stories to tell -- and not all of them are high-toned meditations on craft.  So go check it out; I'd say "See you there," but that would be a lie, 'cause it's my anniversary, and somehow my already overtaxed credit card and I have managed to snag reservations at Komi.

When: Tonight, 8 o'clock
Where: Theatre Lab, 733 8th Street NW Washington, DC 20001. Check the Google map below.
How much: Pay-What-You-Can, to benefit The Arts Fund for Child Health and Development, run by psychologist (and DC-based actor) Brian Razzino.

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The performers you see on area stages? They're professionals. They work their tails off to entertain you, to move you, to get it right night after night.

Sometimes that can be dull. Sometimes that can lead to moments like this one, in which singer Tracy Lynn Olivera -- currently appearing as Fantine in the Signature Theatre's production of Les Misérables -- tries out an, erm, un-canonical reading of the character's signature aria, "I Dreamed a Dream," during a January put-in rehearsal:

I'm hearing like three or four different parody styles there -- is that a Beyoncé she pulled, right around the minute mark, and did it segue into a Patti LuPone? -- and damn if they're not all pretty well executed.

Curse you, Tracy Lynn: Isn't it enough that you're talented in one genre?

Hat-tip to Weslie Woodley and other 'Les Miz' cast members, whose Facebook hysterics alerted me to this gem ...