Yarrrrrr. Forget Jacob Marley and Sugarplum Fairies. What DCist wants for Christmas this year is pirates. And Round House is more than happy to oblige. Their production of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (a new version by Broadway vet Ken Ludwig) fully embraces the pirate fascination that our culture has embraced even before Johnny Depp made the word "savvy" his own. The story is one familiar to many who grew up with the tale --......

"I don't think too many people are going to come see this musical, Officer Lockstock," Little Sally whines during the second act of Signature Theatre's production of Urinetown. And sure, it has what Sally calls an "awful title" and is, after all, about a town where times have gotten so tough, people have to pay in order to pee. But D.C. theater lovers should certainly beg to differ with young Sally's assessment; Signature's current......