Folger’s ‘Orestes’ opens Jan. 27.

Another year, another year of theater. After a slow December, the D.C. theater scene is back with a bevy of new productions.

Remember Mike Daisey? He reappears at Woolly Mammoth in The Last Cargo Cult (Jan. 11).

Curious how all that Lincoln versus Douglas animosity came about? The battle of wits is dramatized in Ford’s Theatre’s The Rivalry (Jan. 22).

Go Greek (in a quirky way) with Folger; catch its production of Orestes, A Tragic Romp (Jan. 27).

Miss Synetic’s silent Shakespeare productions? The latest is Anthony and Cleopatra (Jan. 28).

Taffety Punk ventures into dark territory in Suicide.chat.room (Jan. 28).