DCist's June Theater Preview
It's a weird month when you've got no Broadway tours hitting Warner or National, but still can easily fit in four musicals. And if you're not a song and dance man (or woman), there's always three versions of Hamlet to choose from. Welcome to June in D.C. theater! Here are the highlights:
About those musicals: Lloyd Webber descends upon D.C., with Kennedy Center staging The Phantom of the Opera (June 20) and Wolf Trap hosting Jesus Christ Superstar (June 8). But if Andrew isn't your taste, you have the American premiere of The Witches of Eastwick (June 5) at Signature, and Keegan's take on 1776 (June 1) as well.
And about those Hamlets: There's Synetic's Hamlet: The Rest Is Silence (May 31), the standard work at Shakespeare Theater, and, lest we forget, the Tiny Ninja Theater production at Kennedy Center (June 11).
Also this month
- The world premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone is at Woolly Mammoth (June 4)
- Studio's Souvenir stars Nancy Robinette and J Fred Shiffman, two of our favorites (June 13);
- Being committed to an asylum wasn't enough to stop the title character in Mrs. Packard at Kennedy Center (June 16)
- Olney's Summer Shakespeare entry is The Tempest (June 21)
- Theater J participates in Voices From A Changing Middle East with a production of Pangs of the Messiah (June 23).
- And a fairy tale (sort of) gets the Rorschach treatment in Birds (June 30)
Still playing:
This weekend is your last chance to see MetroStage's The Musical of Musicals, Catalyst's The Flu Season (which didn't wow us), Theater J's Either Or and African Continuum's The Oracle; Olney's 13 Rue De l'Amour closes June 10; the Folger's solid version of The Tempest ends June 17; June 24 is the last time to see Arena's magical Peter & Wendy, the fine Scenes From The Big Picture from Solas Nua, Signature's Nest and Round House's Summer of '42; you've until July 1 to see Stoppard's great Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at Studio, and Scena Theater's The Balcony.