Restoration comedy...very hungry caterpillars...and Justin Timberlake. The D.C. theater scene has a diverse set of offerings this May, to say the least.

Speaking of the former bye-bye-bye-er, Catalyst's Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake) sounds intriguing...and if it isn't, their tickets are only $10, so not much lost there. (May 7).

Kate Eastwood Norris just snagged her second Helen Hayes award in a row for best supporting actress. See her strut her comic stuff in Folger's The School For Scandal (May 7).

Theater J has what looks to be an interesting take on the story of King David with its David In Shadow and Light (May 7).

Woolly Mammoth's Measure For Pleasure looks like it has the potential to be as riotous as its She Stoops To Comedy (which also cleaned up at Helen Hayes) (May 26).

Also this month

• New company Active Cultures stages a telling of the John Wilkes Booth story with Mad Breed (May 2).
• For one night only, Ganymede Arts does a readying of Dr. Anonymous (May 5).
• Go Greek with Constellation Theater's telling of The Orestia (May 9).
• Chita Rivera comes to town in Signature's The Visit (May 13).
• Spend some time with The Internationalist at Studio Theater (May 14)
• Treat your inner child with Olney Theater's production of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (May 17).
• Be part of the zaniness that is Rorschach's Myth Appropriations event, in its second year (May 24).
• Rep Stage tells an Iraq story with In The Heart Of America (May 28);
• The infamous president gets a look with Nixon's Nixon at Round House (May 28).
• Synetic gets tragic with its staging of Carmen at the Kennedy Center (May 29).

Still playing
This weekend is your last chance to catch Charter's Am I Black Enough?, Forum's thought-provoking Judas, and Quotidian's The Molluse; The weekend of May 13 marks the end for The Plague at Scena; The following weekend is the last for Keegan's Translations, African Continuum's Intimate Apparel, Arena's Arthur Miller Festival, Olney's 1776; MetroStage's The Stephen Schwartz Project, which we caught, closes May 25, and Signature's The Happy Time and Shakespeare's Roman Rep extend into June and July, respectively.