DCist's December Theater Preview
Good news in time for Christmas this year; the Warehouse Theater will continue to operate through next summer, according to the institution. The venue is currently hosting Scena Theater's The Maids and will have new shows in February and March. That also means it remains a venue for next year's Fringe Festival. The Warehouse is still looking for a new home.
Despite the usual winter doldrums that December brings, there are still a number of intriguing productions premiering at area theaters this year. Washington Shakespeare Company has two contemporary play choices playing in repertory this December; Kafka's Dick opened Nov. 29 and the Jackie O-obsessed The House of Yes is close behind, beginning December 6.
Nothing says holiday cheer like Greek tragedy. Forum bucks tradition and stages the great Antigone (Dec. 8).
It's baaaaack! Woolly's famed One Man Star Wars Trilogy makes a return engagement (Dec. 11).
And everyone's favorite target, Scientology, gets the Landless treatment as they stage the area premiere of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, poking fun at Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and other scary figures...played by children! (Dec. 20).
Think your family deserves a reality show, or improv act in this case, dedicated to its holiday season zaniness? Washington Improv Theater's Seasonal Disorder will let audience members throw out ideas from personal experience, which then becomes fodder or the six-person team on stage (Nov. 30).
Also this month
- Round House Silver Spring hosts Lumina Studio Theatre's production of Cymbeline (Dec 1).
- The Classic Ford's Theater production of A Christmas Carol is at the Landsburg this year since the building's being renovated (Dec. 6).
- We loved it the first time; now Spamalot is back at the National Theater (Dec 11)
- Breath, Boom at Studio 2ndStage tells the story of a woman whose life began in a gang (Dec. 12).
- Signature's holiday gift to us all is a cabaret show, December Divas (Dec. 12).
- Theater J's going the musical route with its irreverent production of Shlemiel the First (Dec. 18).
- At Kennedy Center, the rain in spain falls mainly on the plains (Yeah, yeah. It's My Fair Lady) (Dec. 27).
Still playing
Next weekend, Mojo Mickybo at Keegan, the appealing Now What? at Woolly Mammoth and Signature's Take The Leap all close; the following weekend marks the end for Didactic Theater's The Waverly Gallery; December 23 is the last chance to see Synetic's A Christmas Carol; while the end of the month means the end for Studio Theater's Shining City, Arena's A Christmas Carol: 1941, Olney's Fiddler On The Roof and Round House Bethesda's Treasure Island; while Edward II at Shakespeare Theater stretches into January.