DCist's September Theater Preview
They’re baaaaack.
The area’s theater companies, that is. September marks season opener time for quite a few groups around town. Here are some of the highlights:
This weekend kicks things off with the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage festival. Get a free first look at some of the new plays premiering around town this season. Lots of stuff looks interesting -- a new take on Kafka's The Trial from Catalyst, Ken Ludwig's version of The Three Musketeers, a new offering from 3/4 of a Mass for St. Vivian prodigy Phoebe Rusch, etc. (Sept. 1)
Sondheim. Signature. Will Gartshore. 'Nuff said. Merrily We Roll Along is the next offering from the Shirlington-based company. (Sept. 4)
Batboy definitely falls into the pantheon of Weird But Worth Watching productions. Landless Theater, always up for cult favorites, tries their hands at it. (Sept. 21)
Our last brush with Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" was likely in high school lit class (or possibly an AMC classic movie rerun?). No doubt, though, Synetic's take on the chilling work will be no schoolboy endeavor. (Sept. 22)
True confession: Our favorite version of the Bard's classic might be the "Moonlighting" episode which parodies it. For a bit more substance, see Shakespeare Theater Company's The Taming of the Shrew (Sept. 24).
Also this month:
- My Children! My Africa! is a provacative Studio offering. (Sept. 5)
- Accident, featuring the talent of one of the stars of rock band Betty, is Theater J's latest (Sept. 6); Eugene O'Neil does comedy? Check it out with American Century's production of Ah Wilderness! (Sept. 7)
- Rorschach opens its season with a one-night only event, Myth Appropriation: The Brothers Grimm, where they've written a play in 24 hours and staged it in 6 days. (Sept. 8)
- All is Well at Arena Stage. (Sept. 14)
- Scena does Satre in No Exit. (Sept. 14)
- Vivica Fox stars in Whatever She Wants at Warner. (Sept. 18)
- Round House Bethesda gives us A Lesson Before Dying. (Sept. 19)
- Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright's My Trip To Al-Qaeda is at Kennedy Center. (Sept. 22)
- Olney Theater performs Of Mice And Men. (Sept. 26)
Still playing
Sept. 9 marks the closing of The Hothouse by Longacre Lee and Three Sistas at Metro Stage; The Lazarus Syndrome at H Street Playhouse was extended through Sept. 16; the next weekend means the end for Getting Out by Journeymen (see our review next Monday), Mrs. Farnsworth at Rep Stage and Woolly Mammoth's The Unmentionables; Arena's 33 Variations runs through Sept. 30; if you've got a taste for Titanic, Toby's Dinner Theater will be performing it through November.