DCist's April Theater Preview
April's the most glamorous month for the D.C. theater community, as it marks the celebration of the Helen Hayes Awards, our city's answer to the Tonys. Any favorites to win this year? In the meantime, check out some potential 2009 Tony winners playing this month throughout Washington.
Kander & Ebb fever continues over at Signature, as it produces the little-seen production The Happy Time (April 1).
Round House Theater in Bethesda will take on the gruesome tale we all read as kids, Lord of the Flies (April 2).
Fans of Wicked, Pippin, and, well, Pocahantas will be interested in popping over to MetroStage to check out The Stephen Schwartz Project (April 10).
And by the way, if you enjoy things like musical versions of Carrie, you might want to head over to Landless Theater's Web site; the group through this weekend is having its audience vote on which "So Bad It's Good" play it will produce this summer.
Also This Month
- Philly Fringe fans will be eager to see The Rainpan 43 Festival at Studio (April 1).
- If you remember fondly songs like "Hound Dog" and "Cell Block #9", best make it over to Bethesda Theater for Smokey Joe's Cafe (April 3).
- American Century Theater tackles Tennessee Williams with Eccentricities of A Nightingale.
- See what Dog And Pony DC have to offer with their production of Cymbeline (April 10).
- Forum's latest sounds provocative; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (April 13).
- You can't stop the beat when Hairspray rolls into the Warner (April 15).
- Prepare to be lost in Keegan's Translations (April 18).
- Shakespeare Theater is doubling up on its Bard duty with simultaneous productions of Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar (April 26).
Still playing
Next weekend is the end for Keegan's Last Days of the Killone Players, Woolly Mammoth's Stunning, The Kennedy Center's August Wilson Festival, Landless' Gutenberg! The Musical and Solas Nua's Portia Coughlan (which Chris wasn't thrilled with); April 13 is your last chance to catch the spellbinding Teller Macbeth; the following weekend, Theater J's excellent production of The Price as well as Olney's Bad Dates close; Arena's Arthur Miller Festival and Studio's The History Boys extend into May.