Theater Openings:

• The Devil In His Own Words opens Thursday, Aug. 9, at Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab
• Private Lives opens Thursday, Aug. 9, at Washington Shakespeare Company’s Playbill Backroom
• Songs For a New World opens Thursday, Aug. 9, at Round House Theatre Silver Spring
• The Hothouse opens Wednesday, Aug. 15, at the Catholic University of America’s Callan Theatre
• Lazarus Syndrome opens Thursday, Aug. 16, at H Street Playhouse