INTO THE WOODS opens at the Kennedy Center on December 6. (Photo courtesy of the Kennedy Center)

INTO THE WOODS opens at the Kennedy Center on December 6. (Photo courtesy of the Kennedy Center)

Christmas and holiday-themed programming continues throughout December. But a few companies have branched out from the expected to deliver musicals, fairy tales, and one-man showcases, as well.

DON’T MISS

  • Stephen Sondheim’s fractured fairy tale Into the Woods opens at The Kennedy Center (Dec. 6).

  • The one-man show Fully Committed is fresh off its Broadway run, and comes to D.C. with Tom Story at MetroStage (Dec. 8).

  • Titanic the Musical gets the epic Signature treatment (Dec. 13).

  • Synetic’s latest silent production is Sleeping Beauty (Dec. 7).

AN IRISH CAROL opens at The Keegan on December 16

ALSO OPENING THIS MONTH:

  • Holiday programming continues with A Christmas Carol Medley at Creative Cauldron (Dec. 1).

  • It would be wise to mention The Magi at The Hub (Dec. 2)

  • The Dickens variations continue with An Irish Carol at Keegan (Dec. 7).

  • Touring musical How the Grinch Stole Christmas! stops at The National (Dec. 13).

  • Rorschach brings its Winter Klecksography, an annual selection of small plays selected to follow a holiday theme. This year’s theme: A Very Pagan Christmas. (Dec. 10),

  • Theater J brings back the Kinsey Sicks’ 2011 hit, Oy Vey in a Manger, featuring America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet. (Dec. 20)
  • Compass Rose Theater knows there’s a legal limit on the snow in Camelot (Dec. 9).

  • Adventure Theatre takes on the children’s classic,The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Dec. 2).

  • Also for kids, there’s the Tot Rock Holiday Sing Along with Rocknoceros at Discovery Theater (Dec. 15).

  • A student prepares to gradaute from college and leave the economic struggles of his homeland in Hecho en Puelto Rico (Made in Puerto Rico) is at Gala for a brief engagement. (Dec. 2).

  • Pointless Theatre takes on Alfred Jarry’s 1896 avant-garde classic with the puppet tale King Ubu (Dec. 9).

SILVER BELLES closes at Signature on December 31st

LAST CHANCE:

  • A View from the Bridge ends its Kennedy Center run on December 3. We wrote that this production of Arthur Miller’s classic “resonates with a tense political climate.”

  • Theater Alliance’s Black Nativity wraps up Dec 31.

  • Two shows at Arena Stage close their run on December 24. We wrote that Carousel, “is always a pleasure to watch, particularly when the dancing is this good.” Stay tuned for our review of Moby Dick later this week.

  • Faction of Fools winds up their production of Merchant of Venice on December 11.

  • The Second Shepherd’s Play closes at Folger on December 21.

  • The last day of December is the last day to see Ford’s production of A Christmas Carol.

  • Signature’s holiday offering Silver Belles, a holiday cocktail that mixes Golden Girls with Designing Women closes Dec. 24.

  • Mary Poppins is still flying at Olney through Jan. 1.

  • Shakespeare Theatre’s The Secret Garden leaves Dec. 31. We wrote that its magic “still spellbinds—even as the musical plods predictably along its course.”

LOOKING AHEAD:

January will bring As You Like it to Folger, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Ford’s, Caroline or Change to Round House, The Hard Problem from Tom Stoppard to Studio, and much more.

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