Tonight and tomorrow are the final days to see Steve Yockey’s challenging, disturbing PLUTO, a play that gleefully moves between disparate extremes in a way topped only by the recently bipolar weather.

Two plays dealing with war, death, greed and conquest are closing this Sunday. Here’s a quick comparison.

Happy Valentine’s Day, theater nerds. Here’s the latest on what’s going on right now, listed in descending order from “must see” to “take it or leave it.”

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, now playing at the Kennedy Center, is a pure, unadulterated treat.

Playing through December 8 at National Theatre, If/Then is so similar to Sliding Doors, it makes you wonder why they didn’t just call it Sliding Doors: The Musical.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate is a searingly funny, painfully accurate play about denial in white identity.

If you made it to any of the Fringe shows this past July, there’s a 90 percent chance you bumped into director Julianne Brienza, the ever-present force behind the festival she founded and has helmed since 2006.

Taffety Punk’s take on Shakespeare’s messy TITUS ANDRONICUS is a worthy, if uneven, endeavor.

The new musical opening at the Kennedy Center now through October 6 explores what was possibly the greatest jam session ever assembled.

Tonight: Graffiti talk at the Smithsonian, Wagner talk at the Goethe-Institut, Cirque de la Symphonie at the Kennedy Center, and more.