DCist fans may have fervent opinions regarding the building of a baseball stadium, but are there any Nats fans loyal enough to sell their soul to see the team take a pennant? One devoted Washington Senators fan and Yankee-hater makes such a deal in the oft-performed Damn Yankees, now closing out the year at Arena Stage.

Middle-aged Joe Boyd (Lawrence Redmond) makes the infamous pact with Satan (Brad Oscar) to turn back the clocks and become a young man again (Matt Bogart), one with a hefty enough swing to clinch the World Series for the floundering Senators. To strike the deal, Boyd must leave behind a loving if weary wife (Kay Walbe), and does so with mixed feelings – but the former real estate agent is crafty enough to build in an escape clause in case he wants to get out of his contract. Whether Joe will prove able or willing to wiggle out of that pledge, particularly when irresistible women (Meg Gillentine) and devilish schemes are thrown his way, becomes the subject of the rest of the play.