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Mystery Meet
Strangers get stranger in Kathleen Akerley's mournful and enigmatic new play.
Theater Review

Good Grief
At Olney, a family’s agony laid bare, beautifully
Theater Review

Please Kilt Me
Scottish punk isn't dead, it's just likely headed to Broadway
Theater Review

Rockets, Reds, Glares
Wringing drama from the Cuban Missile Crisis
Theater Review

Purge Overkill
Annoying buttons, big numbers, bigger matzo balls, and other closing Fringe observations
Show & Tell

Fringe & Purge
Highlights from Washington City Paper's Capital Fringe Festival Blog
Theater Review

Fringe & Purge
Highlights from Washington
City Paper's Capital Fringe Festival Blog

Theater Review

Of Fringe Facts and
Absent Friends

Kicking off our online coverage of the Capital Fringe Festival.
Theater

Curtain Calls
The new Disney warhorse has a few heart-stopping moments.
Theater Review

Curtain Calls
Peter Barnes' play gets an over-the-top treatment at WSC.
Theater Review

Curtain Calls
An anti-Bush polemic tells the same old story.
Theater Review

Intensive Scare
Hypochondriacs and evangelicals find common complaints in two new productions
Theater Review

Twist of Deflate
Too many costume changes and not enough jokes in Irma Vep
Theater Review

Dick Jokes
Reviewed: Nixon's Nixon at Round House Theatre Bethesda
Theater Review

Curtain Calls
Weldon on Neglect at Church Street Theater
Theater Review

Home of the Grave
A musical about an impending execution. Plus: Synetic gets Bizet!
Theater Review

Curtain Calls
Reviewed: Measure for Pleasure
Theater Review

Curtain Calls
Glen Weldon reviews Closing Time at Theatre on the Run
Theater Review

CP Theater Picks

Theater Calendar

Fri. Aug. 22, 2008 - Thu. Aug. 28, 2008

  • Ace
    The Signature Theatre presents one boys path to self discovery.
    Signature Theatre, Opens Aug. 26
  • Disney's The Lion King
    The plot? Recycled. The characters? Cardboard. The opening number? Theater of the finest kind: With its puppets and its masks and its ritual-rooted style, Julie Taymor's re-imagining of The Lion King...
    Kennedy Center, Closes Aug. 24
  • Jerry Springer: The Opera
    The Studio Theatre presents Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee's musical based on The Jerry Springer Show.
    Studio Theatre, To Sept. 7
  • Maria/Stuart
    Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company presents Jason Grote's play about a man who tries to keep his family's problems under wraps.
    Wooly Mammoth Theater, To Sep. 14
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession
    Greenbelt Arts Center presents George Bernard Shaw's play about a daughter who discovers that her mother works in the world's oldest profession.
    Greenbelt Arts Center, To Sept. 6
  • 1984
    Catalyst Theater Company presents Jim Petosa directing Christopher Gallu's adaptation of George Orwell's chilling dystopian novel.
    Atlas Performing Arts Center, Opens Aug. 27
  • Rabbit Hole
    Olney Theatre Center presents the Washington-area premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a suburban couple dealing with a life-shattering accident.
    Olney Theatre Center, To Aug. 31
  • Rooms: A Rock Romance
    MetroStage presents Paul Scott Goodman and Miriam Gordon's musical about the relationship between a singer/songwriter and a rock musician.
    MetroStage, To Sept. 7
  • 1776
    Little Theatre of Alexandria presents Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's play about the Second Continental Congress.
    Little Theatre of Alexandria, Closes Aug. 23
  • 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, Open run
  • Songs For a New World
    Jason Robert Brown's four-character song cycle gets blown up in more than one way: Suzanne Richard's ambitious rethink for Open Circle Theatre inflates the cast to 24 and grafts on a loose...
    Round House Theatre Silver Spring, Closes Aug. 26
  • Stones In His Pockets
    The Keegan Theater presents a play directed by Kerry Waters Lucas about a Hollywood film crew that sets up in a small Irish village.
    Theater on the Run, Closes Aug. 24
  • Stones in His Pockets
    Keegan Theatre presents Marie Jones's comedy about a Hollywood film crew that overruns a small Irish town.
    Theatre on the Run, Closes Aug. 23
  • Theories of the Sun
    Longacre Lea Productions presents the world premiere of Kathleen Akerley's magic-realism play set in France in 1963.
    Catholic University of America, To Sept. 7
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