This month around D.C. theater brings a revue of the music of Kander & Ebb — the songwriters behind Kiss of the Spider Woman, Cabaret and others — a revolutionary musical favorite, and a contemporary take on Medea to the D.C. stages. Here are the highlights:

Don’t miss:

FAMILY DRAMA: Anacostia Playhouse is putting on a short run of ‘Night Mother, an emotional mother/daughter story that won the Pulitzer Prize in drama in 21983. (April 19-22)

SOMETIMES IT’S KICKS, THEN IT’S KICKS IN THE SHINS: If songs like “Arthur in the Afternoon” and “Mr. Cellophane” sound up your alley, you might just enjoy Kander & Ebb’s revue The World Goes Round, getting the Olney Theatre treatment. (April 19-May 21)

LISTENING IS WAITING: Also in musicals, Passing Strange at Signature Theatre follows an ambitious rock ‘n’ roller on his travels through Europe and features songs ranging from punk, blues, gospel, and other genres. (April 25-June 18)

A CLIMATE CONUNDRUM: Which sounds more compelling: an unsolved murder or a series on water shortages? Podcast producer turned streaming series producer Mina fights to stick to the latter in The Wilting Point, a world premiere at Keegan Theatre. (April 13-30)

Also this month:

• Two women come together in a medical facility following the Bosnian war in The Body of the Woman as Battlefield from Expats. (April 28-May 21)
• Constellation flexes its farce muscles with the romantic comedy School for Lies. (April 27-May 28)
• A battle over whether to sell a family summer home gets out of hand in La Valentina from Gala Hispanic Theatre. (April 20-May 14)
• William Finn’s excellent dysfunctional family musical Falsettos will be performed by Rep Stage. (April 27-May 14)
• Mojada is a modern retelling of the Greek myth Medea set in Los Angeles’ Mexican American community from 1st Stage in Tysons. (April 20-May 7)
• The Shakespeare-inspired Our Verse in Time to Come gets a quick run from Folger at the DC Public Library while Folger’s home base is still under construction. (April 3-23)
• On the Far End at Round House tells the true story of Native American activist Ella Jean Hill’s family history. (April 1-May 7)
• She could have danced all night, but instead My Fair Lady makes a stop at the National. (April 6-9)
• Wait one day more (well, a few days) and Les Miserables will storm the Kennedy Center. (April 11-29)
• Experience a whole new world when Aladdin also plays the National. (April 19-30)
• For younger audiences, Synetic’s teen company performs The Taming of the Shrew (April 21-30); and the Puppet Co. stages Jack and the Beanstalk (April 20-May 21).
• The month in readings includes Tomorrow Will Be Sunday from Iraqi-American playwright Heather Raffo at Kennedy Center (April 13); and three element-themed workshops from in Keegan’s Boiler Room series for new works, including Air (April 10), Earth (April 17) and Fire (April 24).

Still playing:

The first weekend in April was your last chance to see The Cake at NextStop, a cerebral Julius Caesar at Avant Bard, Beauty and the Beast from Synetic and Gloria: A Life from Theater J; April 7 weekend marks the end for Push the Button at Keegan, Pacific Overtures at Signature, the compelling Clyde’s at Studio, Sleeping Beauty from the Puppet Co., Wake Up Brother Bear at Imagination Stage, and A Nice Indian Boy at Olney; April 16 is last call for Sometimes the Rain Sometimes the Sea from Rorschach, The Jungle from Woolly Mammoth and Shakespeare Theatre, and Ben Butler from Washington Stage Guild; Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches at Arena, The Nosebleed at Woolly Mammoth and Unseen from Mosaic close April 23; you’ve until May to catch Shout Sister Shout at Ford’s, while Grease at Toby’s runs into June.