Bernadette Peters in “Follies”.Lots of musicals and lots of season closers are on tap in May. Here’s the roundup.
>> Arena Stage produces a world premiere take on John Grisham’s A Time To Kill, which has its eyes on Broadway (May 6).
>> Sondheim. Bernadette Peters. Elaine Paige. Enough Said. Kennedy Center does Follies(May 7).
>> Mozart and his rival face off in a theatrical adaptation of Amadeus by Round House (May 11).
>> Woolly Mammoth finishes off the season with Booty Candy, a take on growing up gay and African-American from the author of Antebellum (May 30).
Also This Month:
- Constellation returns with the fantastical The Green Bird (May 5).
- Get ready for three weeks of Taffety Punk going Dance Crazy (May 6).
- The Moscows of Nantucket at Theater J looks at family bonding in a resort town (May 11).
- WSC has two interesting works in rep: Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, and a group of one acts, Tennessee Continuum (May 12).
- Need a Shakespeare fix? Lumina tackles the lesser-performed Henry VI Parts I, II and III (May 14).
- Holly Twyford performs at Shakespeare Theatre in Old Times, about relationship dynamics (May 17).
- The Hegira has a new take on The Scarlet Letter, In The Blood (May 17).
- Andrew Lloyd Webber + butlers + British comedy = By Jeeves at 1st Stage (May 20).
- Landless has more comedy up its sleeves with The B Team (May 20).
- Solas Nua performs the immersive and mysterious Swampoodle (May 21).
- Studio gets a little kinky with Venus In Fur (May 25).
Still Playing: Next weekend, American Century’s Stage Door, Factory 449’s symbolic Magnificent Waste, Synetic’s silent King Lear, and Studio’s The New Electric Ballroom all close; May 15 is the end for Keegan’s National Pasttime; the May 21 weekend is the last opportunity to catch Ford’s Liberty Smith, The Clockmaker at The Hub, Olney’s Farragut North and Signature’s Art; end the month with MetroStage’s The Real Inspector Hound; Folger’s Cyrano, Signature’s Side by Side By Sondheim, Arena’s Ruined and Toby’s Happy Days musical all stretch into June.