Bridget Flanery, Caroline Hewitt, Emilie Krause in THREE SISTERS (March 8 at Studio) (Studio Theatre/Teddy Wolff)

DON’T MISS:

• The American classic A Raisin in the Sun debuts at Arena Stage (March 31).
• The bombastic musical Ragtime, another ode to the American experience, gets the Ford’s Theatre treatment (March 10).
• Frankenstein provides the inspiration for the world premiere From the Mouths of Monsters at Kennedy Center (March 10).
• Studio offers dueling Chekhov productions with Three Sisters (March 8) and the Chekhov-inspired No Sisters (March 16).

Nilaja Sun in PIKE ST. at Wooly Mammoth March 27 (Photo courtesy of Wooly Mammoth)

ALSO OPENING:

• A kid-friendly production of The Emperor’s New Clothes takes the Creative Cauldron stage (March 17).
• Forum has two shows in repertory next month beginning March 16. The #nastywomenrep features Dry Land and What Every Girl Should Know, both focusing on the resilience of teenage women.
• Gala offers two openings in March: the musical Séneca: Ratón de biblioteca (The Library Mouse) (March 13) features ” a street-wise barrio mice, a cat, and a dog” teaching lessons of tolerance; and in Baby Boom en el Paraíso (Baby Boom in Paradise) (March 25) Salvadoran television actress Regina Cañas explores the changes brought on by pregnancy.
• The In Series presents the classic comic opera Don Pasquale (March 18) with an English update.
• Famous artists cross paths in the Canadian production of Needles and Opium (March 16) at Kennedy Center.
• At Mosaic, brothers from different fathers tangle in The Blood Knot (March 29), from South African playwright Athol Fugard.
• Things get silly at Olney with a new adaptation of an 18th century comedy in Fickle: a Fancy French Farce (March 1).
• Scena stages Irish playwright Conor MacPherson’s tense drama The Night Alive (March 23).
• Signature premieres the quirky new musical comedy Midwestern Gothic (March 14).
• A hurricane lands on Woolly Mammoth with Pike St. (March 27), about a Puerto Rican mother who struggles to keep her child’s respirator working during a disaster.
• Solas Nua explores Ireland’s economic woes in Coolatully (March 9).
• Everything is connected in Theater Allliance’s production of Mnemonic (March 16), a play Variety calls, “a compelling tale for the era of the global village.”
• Washington Stage Guild produces George Bernard Shaw’s early example of science-fiction, Back to Methuselah: As Far as Thought Can Reach (March 23).

Signature tells the story of a vocally challenged recording artist in MRS. MILLER DOES HER THING, closing March 26.

STILL PLAYING:

• There’s still time to experience The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus, which closes at Anacostia Playhouse on March 5.
• Imagination Stage’s reimagined fairy tale, The Freshest Snow Whyte closes March 18.
• At Arena, Intelligence closes April 9, and Watch on the Rhine, which we wrote was “timely but not exactly subtle,” closes March 5.
• Sweeney Todd wraps up at Olney on March 5.
• Parental face-off God of Carnage ends at Compass Rose on March 26.
• The Neverland-set Peter and the Starcatcher bids farewell to Constellation on March 12.
• Nintendo-tastic Brother Mario, which we wrote, shows “real pathos behind seemingly two-dimensional characters,” wraps up at Flying V on March 12.
• Shakespearean classic As You Like It, which we didn’t like, ends at the Folger on March 5.
• Play your cards right and head to MetroStage for The Gin Game, which closes March 12.
• Awful singing finds an unlikely audience with Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing at Signature. Stay tuned for our review soon.
• Kate gets kissed until March 19 when Taming of the Shrew wraps up at Synetic.
• Riot Grrrls: The Trojan Women tears things up at Taffety through March 4.
• Evolution is crucial to The How and the Why, through March 12 at Theater J.
• The musical retelling of Oedipus, The Gospel at Colonus wraps up at Avant Bard March 16.

COMING SOON

April brings morality play Doubt to Quotidian, the national tour of Fun Home to the National, new Rorschach show Forgotten Kingdoms, and a Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Macbeth, and much more.