DCist's June Theater Preview
It's June and while many houses are wrapping up their seasons rather than embarking on new productions, others are up to the task of bringing something for us to watch this month, though the summer theater season looks a bit heavier than the X-Men-like offerings the summer movie season brings each year.
Dysfunctional student/teacher relationships are at the center of Woolly Mammoth Theater's satirical The Faculty Room (June 5).
Four men renounce women in favor of academics...I think we know where this is going. Shakespeare Theatre's production of Love's Labor's Lost doesn't feature Kenneth Branaugh crooning old jazz tunes, but it's bound to have its own pleasures (June 6).
Studio's Charlie Victor Romeo, which is derived entirely from black box transcripts of six real-life arline emergencies, is bound to be a harrowing experience (June 7).
Hedda Gabler is one of the most notorious characters in Western literature (DCist is annoyed we couldn't make it to NYC to see Cate Blanchett's take on the character). See what Olney brings to the table here with their production (June 12).
Theater J's got another world premiere on its hands with Picasso's Closet, a new offering from Ariel Dorfman of Death and the Maiden fame (whose work brings back college-ethics-class flashbacks). (June 21).
And for those who wish their memories of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy weren't relegated to childhood, and were instead set to song, Kennedy Center brings you Little Women - The Musical.
Also this month:
- *Lillian Hellman gets another DC-shoutout with Washington Shakespeare Company's production of The Children's Hour (June 1).
- Synetic Theater's innovative take on Faust moves to the Kennedy Center. (June 1).
- Monty Python's Spamalot! over at The National is THE hot ticket commodity for the summer. (June 6).
- Scena brings a trio powerful-looking plays to the table with its New World Order and other Plays, dealing with themes of terror and torture, over at Warehouse Theater (June 8).
- *Don DeLillo's newest take on life and death decisions, Love-Lies-Bleeding briefly graces the Kennedy Center (June 17).
- Get patriotic with American Century Theater's USA (Jne 22).
- Forum Theatre & Dance presents The Memorandum, an absurdist Czech comedy (June 30).
Still Playing
*Meat & Potato Theater's puppetfest, Beginnings, which we enjoyed, bows June 4, along with the puzzling A Body of Water at Roundhouse and Lady Day at Arena; Arena has another closing June 11, when On The Verge Or The Geography Of Learning ends; The Monument over at H Street Playhouse, runs through June 18, when Studio's Frozen, Olney's Elephant Man and Roundhouse's tongue-twister of a Mark Twain Musical end, too; Mame at the Kennedy Center, Caroline, Or Change at Studio and Assassins at Signature all run into July.