Holly Twyford in Or, opening April 12 at Round House (Photo courtesy of Round House)

DON’T MISS

• Lin Manuel-Miranda fans can see his breakout musical In The Heights produced in Spanish at GALA (April 20).
• Merry murderesses grace the Kennedy Center stage in a touring production of Chicago (April 4),
• The acclaimed Fun Home, adapted from the graphic novel, appears at the National (April 18).
• Holly Twyford stars in Round House’s comedic Or, a Restoration Comedy inspired by the life of 17th century playwright Aphra Behn (April 12).
• Rorschach’s Forgotten Kingdoms takes place in one night on a small Indonesian island (April 21).

The Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg production of Three Sisters opens at the Kennedy Center on April 26

ALSO OPENING

• At Capital Fringe, Next Day Theater and Rabble Crew Productions present the sci-fi comedy Space Cadets, which promises, “a dingo, a stripper, sibling rivalry, salty treats, and the MOTHAship” (April 7 and 14).
• Adventure Theater produces an adaptation of the Aladdin story (April 7).
• Also kid-friendly: The Jungle Book at Imagination Stage (April 22).
• The Late Wedding, staged by Hub, is all written in the second person (April 14).
• Compare Studio’s recent production of the Chekov classic to the Kennedy Center’s Three Sisters, from the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg (April 26).
• The Apartheid-set A Human Being Died That Night is from playwright Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela at Mosaic (April 6).
• Yep, Boeing Boeing by NextStop is about the jet (April 6).
• Take a look into the life of a professional magician with Olney’s The Magic Play (April 12).
• Get ready for the robots in .d0t: A Rotoplastic Ballet from Pointless (April 6).
• The classic morality play Doubt gets the Quotidian treatment (April 7).
• Liesl Tommy directs the latest version of Macbeth from Shakespeare Theater Company (April 25).
• Theater J’s latest, Brighton Beach Memoirs, is Neil Simon’s Brooklyn-set comedy (April 5).

Ragtime closes May 20 at Ford’s Theatre. (Carol Rosegg)

STILL PLAYING

• 1st Stage’s Well, about a struggling healer, runs through April 23.
• Arena’s productions of A Raisin in the Sun (May 7; review to come), as well as its provocative Intelligence (April 9), are both still running.
• The powerful Ford’s Theatre production of Ragtime, which we wrote, “feels urgent, passionate, and high-stakes,” runs through May 20.
• Forum’s two “Nasty Women” shows in rep, Dry Land and What Every Girl Should Know, wrap up April 15.
• Jason Robert Brown’s musical Parade finishes up its Keegan run April 15.
• The South African-set Blood Knot at Mosaic runs through April 30.
• Irish play The Night Alive finishes its Scena production April 9.
• Signature’s new musical Midwestern Gothic completes its run April 30.
• The dual productions of No Sisters and Three Sisters close April 23 at Studio. In our preview, playwright-director Aaron Posner told us that the plays, “[talk] to the other in really interesting ways.”
• You have a a few weeks to see Theater Alliance’s Mnemonic, which we wrote, wasn’t that memorable. It closes April 9.
• Woolly’s immigrant story Pike St. closes April 23. Stay tuned for a review next week.

LOOKING AHEAD:

May brings highlights like The Arabian Nights at Constellations, a Timon of Athens production at Folger, MetroStage’s production of Master Class, and Signature’s version of Jesus Christ Superstar.