Neil Gaiman’s NEVERWHERE opens at Rorshach on September 2. (Rorshach)
DON’T MISS:
Michael John LaChiusa’s cult favorite Prohibition-era musical The Wild Party gets staged by Constellation Theatre Company (September 21).
Thanks to Hamilton fever, two local companies are mounting Lin Manuel-MIranda’s first hit musical In The Heights. We previewed GALA’s spring production here and wrote that the play’s “roles were groundbreaking compared to the Latino stereotypes trotted out in pop culture.” Two new fall productions open at Olney and Round House on September 6.
Labor Day weekend means one thing for the D.C. theater community: Page to Stage Festival at Kennedy Center. Dozens of area theater companies present free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals (September 2-4).
Rorschach remounts its well-received production of Neil Gaiman’s dreamy, fantastical Neverwhere (September 2).
The Lover and the Collection, a double bill from playwright Harold Pinter, gets the Shakespeare Theater treatment, directed by Michael Khan (September 26).
Can George Betterman keep his home safe from The Arsonists? Find out at Woolly Mammoth (September 5).
Laura Rocklyn stars in Ally Theatre Company’s Clover, which opens at Caos on F September 13th (Teresa Castracane)
ALSO OPENING:
1st Stage performs the Pulitzer-winning Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, in which a bike messenger awaits trial in the death of a religious cult figure (September 7).
The prospect of a fence between neighbors leads to some serious drama in Arena’s Native Gardens (September 15).
It’s a classic for a reason: see what Ford’s Theater does with Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman(September 22).
More than 100 characters are in the mix in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, “a fast moving kaleidoscope of over 60 moments of intimate whispers, philosophical exchanges, and life-changing revelations” at Forum (September 28).
You may not be able to resist the charms of Don Juan Tenorio, The Infamous Seducer of All Times, sweeping the Gala stage Sept 7.
Comedic hijinks ensue on the set of an American film is made in Ireland in Stones in His Pockets at Keegan (September 23).
Ally Theatre Company dramatizes the life of Marian Hooper Adams, the inspiration for Saint Gauden’s Adams Memorial, in Clover (September 13).
A dinner party brings together a Muslim, an African-American, a Jew, and a Christian in NextStop’s Disgraced (September 7).
Open Circle, which stages professional productions by artists with disabilities, puts on the retrospective To Reach the Unreachable Star featuring songs from such company productions as Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Who’s Tommy, and Man of La Mancha (September 15).
Scena does Shakespeare and ties it to the age of You-Know-Who in Julius Caesar (September 1).
Spooky Action’s I Killed My Mother is based on a troubled woman’s true story (September 16).
Set in blue-collar Detroit, Studio’s Skeleton Crew focuses on workers in an auto-stamping plant (September 6).
Letters from a man to his unborn son are brought to life through choreography, spoken word, and more in Word Becomes Flesh from Theater Alliance (September 6).
Big Fish closes at Keegan on Septemebr 9 (Keegan)
STILL PLAYING:
Adapted from the Daniel Wallace book, the tearjerker Big Fish closes at Keegan on September 9. We wrote that, “the show is a winning testament to the impact one man from a tiny town can have on the people who loved him.”
Whipping or the Football Hamlet, your once chance this year to catch Longacre Lea in action, wades into NFL territory and wraps up September 10.
MetroStage’s The Wizard of Hip, a one-man show about an African-American everyman, closes September 17.
The Devil’s Music at Mosaic celebrates the music of Bessie Smith through September 24.
Start fall with a little Sondheim: A Little Night Music Signature runs through October 8.We wrote that it’s “a festive, sophisticated romp that more than earns its laughs”.
LOOKING AHEAD:
October brings the world premiere of the Tina Fey-penned musical version of Mean Girls at the National, Folger’s latest staging of Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra, Stephen Sondheim’s dark musical Assassins shows up at NextStop, and more.
