Hello, young lovers! If a night in a theater sounds like it will melt your significant other’s heart on Valentine’s Day, Washington has to offer you…tales of sexual abuse, domestic boredom, eerily sunny singing teens, and Little Orphan Annie. If that doesn’t spell romance, we don’t know what does.

If Zach Efron makes your heart flutter like a fourteen-year-old girl, you may be satiated with the knock-off version appearing in the tour version of Disney’s High School Musical, which is making a stop at the National Theater (Feb. 5).

There’s a whole bunch of cool theatrical stuff happening during the Kennedy Center’s “Japan! Culture and Hyper-Culture” Festival, opening Feb. 7. Whether you’re intrigued by the musical The Story of Boonah, the Tree-Climbing Frog or the nudity and Alan Rickman voice-over in Shintoku-Maru – or even a Kyogen take on The Comedy of Errors, you should find something interesting.

Synetic gave us silent Macbeth, now Folger has a magical Macbeth up its sleeve — conceived by Teller of Penn & Teller fame (Feb 28).