Get ready for murder mysteries, send-ups of murder mysteries, baseball-themed musicals and more during April on stage. Here’s the roundup.

>> You gotta love Taffety Punk’s description of their latest, The Car Plays: “Three one-act plays about people in their cars.” Fair enough (April 13).

>> The man with the big nose is at the center of Folger’s next play, Cyrano (April 26).

>> Signature’s favorite composer is paid tribute in a revue with Side by Side by Sondheim (April 26).

>> A young press secretary is confronted with the ins and outs of Washington in Olney’s Farragut North (April 27).

Also Playing:

• A father disturbingly makes his kids reenact their past in Studio’s The Walworth Farce (April 6).
• Stage Door is a behind-the-scenes ’30s show from American Century (April 8).
• Factory 449 is back with their world premiere, Magnificent Waste (April 9).
• Keegan’s musical National Pastime explores the worlds of both baseball and radio (April 9).
• The touring production of The Color Purple is back, briefly, at National Theatre (April 12).
• Three teenage misfits are linked by a sex scandal in RepStage’s Speech & Debate (April 13).
• Studio is also staging the Ireland-set The New Electric Ballroom (April 13).
• The Kennedy Center highlights five short Beckett works in Peter Brook’s Fragments (April 14); the venue also hosts the American College Theater Festival (April 20).
• MetroStage performs Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound (April 20).
• The Neo-Futurists return to Woolly with their Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (April 20).
• Arena Stage’s Ruined is set in the Congo (April 22).
• The Hub performs a murder mystery, The Clockmaker (April 29).

Still Playing:
April 10 is the last chance to see Arena’s incredibly intense Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Round House’s The Trip to Bountiful, Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at Woolly, and Signature’s And The Curtain Rises; Shakespeare Theater’s opulent An Ideal Husband, 1st Stage’s The Glass Menagerie, Active Cultures’ The Resurrectionist King, and Quotidian’s well-directed Master Harold… close the weekend of April 17; April 24 marks the end of Arena’s Edward Albee Festival and their Home At The Zoo, Landless’s China: The Whole Enchilada, Scena’s The Weir and Synetic’s surprisingly funny King Lear; Ford’s Liberty Smith and Signature’s Art run into May, while Toby’s Happy Days musical stretches into June.