DCist's April Theater Preview

Also this month

• It's not just about soda; Gala Hispanic Theater performs The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico (April 2).
• It's month of musicals for Signature, as they premiere See What I Want To See (April 7) and Giant (April 28).
• Was Jack London calling for the musical treatment? Find out with Olney's Call of the Wild: The Musical (April 8).
• WSC treats Tennessee Williams with Small Craft Warnings (April 9).
• Richard Wright's socially significant Native Son gets a rare staging from American Century Theater (April 14).
• Middle-agers, unite. It's Menopause! The Musical over at Bethesda Theatre (April 14).
• The title alone is intriguing; Theater J stages The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (April 15).
• Happenstance performs over at Round House Silver Spring, with a brief run of FarFar Oasis (April 16).
• Next for Theater Alliance is the spooky, critically lauded The Bread of Winter (April 16).
• A star-studded cast has been assembled for the epic musical Ragtime over at Kennedy Center (April 18).
• The Tom Stoppard-translated Heroes is next for MetroStage (April 23).

Still playing
This weekend's the last chance opportunity to catch the haunting Marisol over at H St. Playhouse; April 12 weekend marks the end for Chicago at the National, Arena's Long and Winding Road, Studio's Stoop Stories, Shakespeare Theatre's Ion, and Olney's King of the Jews; the following weekend is when Keegan's Elizabeth Rex and Firebelly Productions' Crimes of the Heart bow; April 26 weekend is your last chance for Synetic's Lysistrata, theHegira's Deep Belly Beautiful, Woolly's Antebellum and Arena's Crowns; Ford's A Civil War stretches into May and there's High School Musical madness at Toby's all the way into June.