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In at the National Theater, a bilingual production is hardly a language barrier.

Forget Christmas shopping, paying your bills, reading articulate reviews on your favorite local blog. The Internet is for porn. Such is one of the life lessons the delightful Avenue Q, now playing at the National Theater, provides. The now-famous show is a Sesame Street for the post-college, ennui-ridden 20 or 30-something. This means it teaches us not to spell and know our colors, but instead how to cope with useless liberal arts degrees, commitment-phobic boyfriends...

It’s November, so most minds are on turkey and stuffing, but two theater companies are getting a jump on Christmas festivities. While we won’t see Ford Theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol until December, both Arena Stage and Synetic Theater have their own take on the classic. Arena's Christmas Carol 1941 emphasizes the DC Christmas experience (Nov 16), while Synetic's promises to be more choreography-driven (Nov. 24). The relatively new company Spooky Action Theater...

It's hard to believe that a musical could get you hooked on phonics. But spelling suddenly becomes irresistible in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," the touring production of the Broadway hit, now playing at the National Theater. The pleasing, goofy show takes an amalgam of precocious, oddball kids and makes you root for them all. There are archetypes for sure -- the obsessive Asian kid, the nasal, self-important geek -- but each one...

, one can't help but have that rare, wonderful feeling that they're the witness to something amazing.

, and its cliché-riddled plot doesn't even showcase its solid songbase as it could.

FRIDAY: We like to think of Dame Edna as a sort of old-school Eddie Izzard, with only slightly worse eye shadow. The "glittering gigastar" is performing Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance at the National Theater this weekend, and the title is probably somewhat telling -- it sounds a bit like a last hurrah to us. Still, how many chances in life does one really have to be verbally abused and assaulted with gladiolus by...

February’s theater scene brings a month of insomnia and exorcisms, dames and deaths. But before we outline the month’s offerings, allow us to say thanks to DCist reader Jeffrey, who reminded us that tickets for the Monty Python spectacular, Spamalot, coming to the National Theater in June, go on sale Februrary 26. They’ll be gone faster than you can say "shrubbery," so mark your calendars. In the meantime, how far would you go to protect...