Theater Calendar

Fri. May. 16, 2008 - Thu. May. 22, 2008

• Antony and Cleopatra
  The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare's play. Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk...
  Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Center for the Arts, To July 6
• Closing Time
  Keegan Theatre presents Owen McCafferty's play about the patrons of a run-down pub in Belfast.
  Theatre on the Run, Opens May 15
• Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake)
  Catalyst Theater Company presents Sheila Callaghan's play about a little girl who is obsessed with Justin Timberlake.
  Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, To June 7
• David in Shadow and Light
  Theater J presents Yehuda Hyman and Daniel Hoffman's play based on the story of King David.
  Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, To June 22
• Death of a Salesman
  Go home again with Willy Loman, and remember what it's like to ache for someone whose mistakes you can see coming, whose tragic delusions live just this side of absurd. Timothy Bond's attentive,...
  Arena Stage Crystal City, Closes May 18
• Hamlet
  The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents an outdoor performance of Shakespeare's play.
  Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Opens May 22
• The Happy Time
  After the sloppy Kiss of the Spider Woman that opened its Kander & Ebb festival, Signature Theatre is serving up a happier second act: this sweet, stylish tuner about a prodigal who comes home to his...
  Signature Theatre, To June 1
• The History Boys
  Alan Bennett's breezily written but ferociously intelligent and allusive play (unless you know your Auden from your Larkin, you may wish to take along a Comp Lit major) places us in a classroom of...
  Studio Theatre, To June 1
• The Internationalist
  Studio Theatre presents Anne Washburn's play about an American businessman on a strange trip abroad.
  Studio Theatre, To June 22
• Intimate Apparel
  Consider the plight of Esther (Deidra LaWan Starnes), a 35-year-old, unmarried African-American seamstress who makes fashionable undergarments for women at the turn of the 20th century. She's got a...
  Atlas Performing Arts Center, Closes May 18
• Julius Caesar
  The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare's play. Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk...
  Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Center for the Arts, To July 6
• The Lower Depths
  Calliope Arts & Theatre presents a staged reading of Maxim Gorky's play about poor Russians living together in a lodging house.
  Writer's Center, Opens May 16
• Mad Breed
  Active Cultures Theatre presents Jacqueline E. Lawton's play about a teenaged John Wilkes Booth.
  Joe's Movement Emporium, To June 1
• The Oresteia
  Constellation Theatre Company presents Robert Fagles' translation of Aeschylus' trilogy.
  Clark Street Playhouse, To June 1
• The Plague
  There's a reason Albert Camus is better known as a philosopher-novelist than as a playwright: Even the stories he told for the stage (Caligula, anyone?) can be tough theatrical sells. As for his...
  Warehouse Theater, Closes May 18
• The School for Scandal
  Folger Theatre presents Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners. Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk Clip tk clip tk clip tk clip tk...
  Folger Shakespeare Library, To June 15
• The Screwtape Letters
  There's wit and conviction in this almost-solo show–the material, with one of Hell's senior bureaucrats counseling a hapless underling in the finer arts of temptation, is Christian apologia...
  Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Center for the Arts, Closes May 18
• Self-Accusation
  Theatre Du Jour presents Peter Handke's play about awareness, duty, and expression.
  District of Columbia Arts Center, To May 31
• 1776
  Olney Theatre Center for the Arts presents Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's musical about the Second Continental Congress.
  Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Closes May 18
• 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
• The Stephen Schwartz Project
  MetroStage presents Stephen Schwartz's musical revue.
  MetroStage, To May 25
• Translations
  Way back in 1997, Keegan Theatre first produced Brian Friel's thoughtful, closely observed historical drama about a small Irish village and the various subtleties of language that ultimately seal its...
  Church Street Theater, Closes May 17
• A View From the Bridge
  How do you keep the audience's attention in a play where even the narrator says he can see the trouble coming before intermission? Ambiguity helps: If something seems plain in the first half of...
  Arena Stage Crystal City, Closes May 17
• The Visit
  John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Terrence McNally's musical adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play about an outcast who returns to her old village after becoming the richest woman in the world.
  Signature Theatre, To June 22
• Volvio Una Noche ("She Returned One Night")
  Teatro de la Luna presents Eduardo Rovner's play about a young man who can see and hear his deceased mother.
  Gunston Arts Center, To May 31