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There's just something immensely satisfying about watching hot women kick some zombie ass.

When a woman offers two strangers $20,000 to dine with her for an evening, there's naturally got to be a catch. But in Jose Rivera's , being given a thoughtful, intimate staging by Rorschach Theatre Company, none of the cliche scenarios and hypotheticals that may have popped into the mind apply to what's about to happen to this trio of women from disparate, if equally desperate backgrounds.

Rorschach Theatre company is in exile.

FRIDAY: >> Don't forget to check out our guide to the Six Points Music Festival as it takes over the town in its second weekend. We're going to once again heartily recommend you head to Iota to catch Unbuckled alums Middle Distance Runner headline a show that also features Unbuckled alums These United States, plus Pittsburgh's Black Tie Revue. Get there early -- this is going to be a packed house for sure. $10, 9:30...

>> Rorschach Theatre begins its "pay what you can" previews of References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot tonight. The surreal and emotional play runs through May 13, but tonight through Friday ticket prices are fluid. There are no reservations, so you'll have to get to the box office at 7:00 p.m. to snatch up cheap seats for the 8:00 p.m. show [The Sanctuary Theatre, Casa del Pueblo Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia Road NW]

Quite a few interpretations of Mary Shelley's have been gracing the D.C. stages lately. Round House Silver Spring has a take, and we were impressed with the lyrical, atmospheric vibe that Synetic Theatre's production captured in September.

As you sit in the tiny performance space inside the Casa del Pueblo Methodist Church - which the Rorschach Theatre Company always manages to make look like an entirely new space from its previous production - you're hot. The sweat's dripping down your face. You're trying to avoid any bodily contact with those sitting next to you. You're starting to feel a little faint. Impressively enough, Rorschach's lack of air conditioning only serves to place...

In May, the D.C. theater community has devils, Dorian and the deformed — and in Round House Bethesda's case, an affection for alliteration that we apparently share. We love the work that Actors Theatre of Washington does, and their latest effort is "Mondays In May", where for three days this month, they showcase new talent. We Wildephiles are particularly interested in what they're going to do with The Picture Of Dorian Gray on May 8....

Rorschach Theatre's production of A Bright Room Called Day does an excellent job of bringing on the tension. Sometimes it's during a young woman's vehement, Reagan-hating scenes set in the early 1980s. In her fervent state of alarm and outrage, she would be just as at home standing in front of the White House today, railing against the current adminstration. Sometimes it's in watching the breakdown of one character, a tortured homosexual man (Alexander Strain),...

FRIDAY: >> Get in line early tonight at the Rorschach Theatre in Columbia Heights for a special Pay-What-You-Can performance of their revival of Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day. Set in Berlin in the 1930's, Bright Room is one of Kushner's (Angels in America, Homebody/Kabul) earlier plays, but by no means his least accomplished. If younger District residents aren't able to connect easily with Zillah, who is consumed by a hatred for Ronald Reagan,...

There are those of us who fall into the category of people who believe that any movie or play with a swordfight is automatically worth watching. Even if you don't fall into that category, Rorschach Theatre's masterful production of Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards has plenty of other pleasures to offer. But those swordfights! Fair Ladies mostly revolves around the tale of two samurai who fall for some off-limits ladies-in-waiting to...

DCist apologizes for this month's theater preview being a bit behind schedule (its resident critic keeps ending up travelling out of state), but there's no reason to fret, as there's plenty of interesting options playing at area venues during November.

We've all sat around debating the age-old conundrum, "Did William Shakespeare really write all those plays?" All right, maybe that's only the stuffy English grad students among us. Rorschach Theatre's production of The Beard Of Avon offers its own answer to the heated question, but the results prove much more than an academic exercise -- instead, it gives us a delightful romp through the lives of the usual suspects in the Shakespeare controversy, from Sir...

FRIDAY: >> The Avalon Theatre is hosting Prism 2005: The New Cinema of Serbia and Montenegro through Sunday, and tonight at 7 p.m. is popular Serbian actor-director-producer Ljubisa Samardzic's Skyhook. The film (pictured), a surprisingly life-affirming basketball flick set in the midst of NATO bombings in 1999, earned positive buzz at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. >> We don't know about you, but we've been kinda addicted to Peter Jackson's Production Diary, the LOTR director's...

The nominations for the Helen Hayes Awards were announced last night, despite the cancellation of the traditional reception at the Canadian Embassy. As today's Post notes, the nominations had their share of surprises. Not surprising, especially to veterans of the D.C. theater scene, was the dominance of the Kennedy Center (17 nominations), Signature Theatre (15 nominations) and the Shakespeare Theatre (14 nominations). With pockets significantly deeper than smaller theater companies, large theaters can spend significant...