The cast of Come From Away (Ford’s Theatre)

The cast of Come From Away (Ford’s Theatre)

DON’T MISS

  • The brand-new musical Come from Away has its local premiere at Ford’s Theatre. The Broadway-bound show takes place in a Canadian town that’s caring for passengers stranded on 9/11 (Opening Sept. 2).

  • Flying V produces Be Awesome: A Theatrical Mix-Tape of the 90’s, using the group’s signature mix of dance, puppetry and more. Don’t forget the flannel and slap bracelets (Sept. 22).

  • Round House does some heavy lifting with both chapters of Tony Kushner’s Angels In America debuting September (in conjunction with Olney Theatre Centers). Millennium Approaches opens Sept. 7 and Perestroika starts Sept. 25.

  • See how Synetic brings its unique sensibility to Dante’s Inferno. Expect violence, visuals and no dialogue in their season opener (Sept. 28).

  • Rorschach Theatre’s typical moody season premiere is all about dying. A Bid to Save the World is set in a world without death, with two best friends obsessed with the subject (Sept. 9).

  • Collective Rage: a Play in Five Boops features five different women named Betty. Yes, think of the cartoon character for Woolly Mammoth’s season opener (Sept. 12).

Marg Helgenberger stars in THE LITTLE FOXES. (Sam Spratt/Arena Stage)

ALSO OPENING THIS MONTH:

  • 1st Stage follows the life of a security guard in Lobby Hero, from playwright and film director Kenneth Lonergan (Margaret, You Can Count On Me) (Sept. 8)

  • Arena Stage’s The Little Foxes focuses on a ruthless family (Sept. 23)

  • Folger Theatre tackles the classic Sense and Sensibility (Sept. 13) Cue the school trips.

  • Olney stages The Diary of Anne Frank (Sept. 14)

  • Shakespeare Theatre Company has its own contemporary spin on the oft-performed Romeo and Juliet (Sept. 13)

  • The Puppet Co. brings Rapunzel to life (Sept. 16)

  • Signature Theatre’s new comedy The Gulf is set on the Alabama Delta (Sept. 13)

  • NextStop stages a musical production of the film Catch Me if You Can (Sept. 8)

  • Blackberry Daze at MetroStage is classified as a mystery musical (Sept. 1)

  • The Black Jew Thing plays at Mosaic Theater Company as part of its workshop series (Sept. 25)

  • Gala Hispanic Theater examines Cervantes in The Last Quixote (Sept. 8)

  • Keegan tackles sexism at work in What We’re Up Against (Sept. 24)

  • Studio has two shows premiering in September, including the time-bending Cloud 9 (Sept. 7) and Motherstruck, about a lesbian performance poet (Sept. 28)

  • Set in Brooklyn, Theater Alliance’s Brownsville Song (B-side for Tray) “shifts between memory and reality, and bids that we examine the personal pain beyond the headlines.” (Sept. 15)

  • The Last Schwartz at Theater J is a tale of family dysfunction (Sept. 7)

Mark G Meadows as Jelly Roll Morton with the cast of Jelly’s Last Jam (Christopher Mueller)

STILL PLAYING

  • The goofy musical Urinetown at Constellation (closing Oct. 9)

  • Landless’s symphonic metal version of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (closes Sept. 25)

  • Longacre Lea’s Shakespeare-themed Fear (Sept. 4). In our review, we noted that the play, “has a winning sense of humor about itself and provides a thoughtful window into the creative process, even when creatives are “reduced” to tackling conventional repertoire.”

  • Signature’s musical Jelly’s Last Jam features Mark G Meadows as “a natural, even realistic presence as [Jelly Roll] Morton” and “the show’s most emotional numbers are transformed into stunners,” we found. (Sept. 11).

  • Studio’s wicked Hand to God, which has been extended through Sept 18. “Think a giggle-provoking puppet can’t really be scary?” we asked in our review. “Studio Theatre is ready to convince us otherwise.”

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