A new year, a new year of theater. Though it's not DC's busiest month ever, there still are a few notable openings this January.
» We're pretty curious to discover How Theater Failed America, and Woolly Mammoth will be sure to tell us (Jan 7).
» Reportedly the last show to be performed in the long-scheduled-for-demolition Clark Street Playhouse, Washington Shakespeare Company presents Chekov's The Cherry Orchard (Jan. 15).
» Gotta hand it to Constellation Theater for sexy marketing - the busty graphic they've got going alongside their ad for The Marriage of Figaro makes the show seem positively scandalous (Jan. 22).
» Fan of the classic musical songwriters? Check out Irving Berlin's I Love A Piano, being staged at the end of the month at Arena (Jan. 29).
Also This Month
- For one night only, see Landless's take on A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (Jan 2).
- American Century's production of Life With Father returns (Jan 8).
- The National Players make a brief stop at Olney to perform As You Like It and 1984 (Jan. 9).
- Signature Theater is billing The Little Dog Laughed as "a Hollywood lust story" (Jan 13).
- Take wind with Studio's production of The Seafarer (Jan 14).
- For a limited time, catch Theater J's Dai (Enough) at Studio (Jan 14).
- Here we go again. My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm STILL in Therapy appears at Bethesda Theater (Jan. 15).
Still Playing
This is the last weekend to catch The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Kennedy Center, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind at Woolly and The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut, & The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree at Rep Stage; Kennedy's Legally Blonde, Shakespeare Theatre's romantic Twelfth Night, Studio's moody Grey Gardens, and Olney's Peter Pan close Jan 11; you've got until the weekend after that to catch the affecting Next To Normal and the Broadway-bound West Side Story, as well as Theater J's Theodore Bike's Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears; meanwhile, you can hear the people sing over at Signature's Les Miz through February.



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