Theater Calendar

Fri. Jun. 26, 2009 - Thu. Jul. 2, 2009

• Brainpeople
  A wealthy woman invites two strangers to join her in a strange feast commemorating the death of her parents.
  Davis Center,, Opens June 25
• Design for Living
  Cigarette holders, silk dressing gowns, brandy snifters, stiff upper lips, deco for days. Noel Coward’s menage a trois chronicle of bohemians stumbling into fame and fortune is so mannered a...
  Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre,, To June 28
• Fever/Dream
  Chained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO’s penthouse—but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro...
  Woolly Mammoth Theatre,, To June 28
• Five Flights
  This lyrical play explores what happens when a family must decide what to do with a dilapidated monument to the love of their late mother: an aviary.
  H Street Playhouse,, To June 28
• King Lear
  King Lear is both an intimate family drama and an explosive political epic. Beginning with a monarch’s division of his kingdom amongst his three daughters, Lear explores the most basic...
  Sidney Harman Hall,, To July 19
• Lincolnesque
  Our nation’s capital. Two brothers. Leo, a Capitol Hill speechwriter struggling to stay employed, and Francis, a psychiatric outpatient convinced that he is the reincarnation of the 16th...
  Theatre on the Run,, To June 28
• LOOPED
  Tallulah Bankhead, the original celebrity bad girl, enters a studio to re-record (or "loop") one line of dialogue for her final film. What ensues is a showdown between an uptight sound editor and the...
  Lincoln Theatre,, To June 28
• Lyle the Crocodile
  Based on the novel by Bernard Waber, adapted by Kevin Kling, directed by Katherine Chase Bryer.
  Imagination Stage,, Opens June 23
• The Millionairess
  How do you find love and happiness when you’re the richest woman in the world? That is the dilemma at the heart of George Bernard Shaw’s rousing comedy, The Millionairess.
  The Olney Theatre Center,, To July 12
• Mother Courage and Her Children
  Set in the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), the plot follows Anna Fierling (nicknamed "Mother Courage"), a traveling saleswoman pulling her wagon of merchandise and her three children through the...
  Clark Street Playhouse,, To July 5
• Mummy in the Closet: Return of Eva Péron
  Travel through the afterlife of the eternal Evita to the eclectic and sensual beats of tango, waltz and salsa in this new witty and dark Latin American musical.
  GALA Hispanic Theatre,, To June 28
• 1001
  Roschach presents Jason Grote's love story, which mixes the age of terrorism with the World of Arabian Nights.
  Georgetown University,, To June 28
• Radio Golf
  Tackling gentrification and one African-American man's bid for elected office, Radio Golf is the culmination of August Wilson's ambitious 10-play cycle covering every decade of the 20th century.
  Studio Theatre,, To June 28
• Rock'N'Roll
  Tom Stoppard's latest intellectual comedy is as much about a political winding-down–the death of Communism in Eastern Europe–as it is about the anarchic force of rock, but at its core,...
  Studio Theatre,, Extended to June 28
• THE SEAGULL ON 16TH STREET
  Youth is envied, challenged, and mortally wounded in this tale by the great Russian master.
  Theater J, DCJCC,, To July 19
• Shear Madness
  The "most fun night" Arch Campbell's ever had at the Kennedy Center is an extended vaudeville routine set in a Georgetown hair salon rather than a play. Funny without ever becoming either witty or...
  Kennedy Center,
• THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
  After the death of her husband and daughter, Joan Didion distilled her grief into an astonishing memoir. Her adaptation of that razor-sharp work features a single actress and Didion’s...
  Studio Theatre,, To July 5