DCist's March Theater Preview
It's a revolutionary time for the D.C. theater scene. Because audiences here will FINALLY get the chance to be exposed to a little-known work featuring the musical antics of a group of crazy cats. Get ready.
Sarcasm aside, we're sure that SOMEBODY will fill the seats of the once-longest running Andrew Lloyd Webber show, Cats, which plays a brief stint at the Warner beginning March 6. We just wish it would leave. Now and forever. When will the cats stop screaming?
Luckily, there are plenty of fun local alternatives this month. For instance, if Hamlet's multi-layered text doesn't offer enough complexity for you, try seeing it in Hebrew with English subtitles. Signature stages the master work in conjunction with Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv (March 6).
Theatre Alliance's Insurection: A Holding History follows the travels of a very old man, through time and as far back as Nat Turner's revolution (March 1).
The Owl and The Pussycat + Actors' Theatre of Washington = we're really not sure, to be honest. But we're interested to find out the LGBT theater company's take on the tale (March 2).
Witness a brutal incarceration and a murder mystery at once with Studio's The Pillowman (March 14).
It's survival of the fittest over at Journeymen Theatre, as they stage After Darwin (March 7).
Also this month:
- John Byrne's latest, Writer's Cramp, is shown at Scena Theatre (March 1).
- Theater J reveals its Family Secrets (March 7).
- Landless does the Jonathan Larson musical, Tick Tick Boom over in Frederick (March 9).
- When in Doubt, go to the National Theatre for this Tony and Pulitzer-winner (March 13).
- Rep Stage gets musical with Bach at Leipzig (March 16)
- . Round House Silver Spring showcases Burial at Thebes (March 16)
- Take some time out to Meet John Doe at Ford's Theatre (March 16).
- Warner Theatre throws The Bachelorette Party (March 20).
- …and there's more Shakespeare in Washington with The Tempest at Kennedy Center (March 22) and Edward III at Washington Shakespeare Co. (March 29).
Still playing:
Woolly Mammoth's Vigils and Kid Simple at Forum, which we liked, bow March 4; March 11 means the end of The Passion of the Crawford, which Salima enjoyed, Rape of Lucrece, which was interesting, and Kennedy Center's Carnival; Shakespeare Theater's Richard III leaves the building March 13; Arena's Gem of the Ocean is here until March 18; American Century Theater's Drama Under the Influence has its last show March 24; and you have until April 8 to see Frankie and Johnny (we're going Thursday) at Arena.