A new year, a new year of theater. Though it’s not DC’s busiest month ever, there still are a few notable openings this January.

» We’re pretty curious to discover How Theater Failed America, and Woolly Mammoth will be sure to tell us (Jan 7).

» Reportedly the last show to be performed in the long-scheduled-for-demolition Clark Street Playhouse, Washington Shakespeare Company presents Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard (Jan. 15).

» Gotta hand it to Constellation Theater for sexy marketing – the busty graphic they’ve got going alongside their ad for The Marriage of Figaro makes the show seem positively scandalous (Jan. 22).

» Fan of the classic musical songwriters? Check out Irving Berlin’s I Love A Piano, being staged at the end of the month at Arena (Jan. 29).