The DC theater community is starting the year off right with…no more productions of A Christmas Carol. Seriously, there’s plenty to like in January, from gutsy works to brand-new musicals. The Neo-Futurists (pictured) are back! Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, which our critic Chris Klimek loved, makes a return engagement at Woolly Mammoth (Jan. 4). Stick ’em up! The American Century Theater gets nostalgic for police dramas with their production of Cops…

We told you about the sad news earlier this week that Warehouse will be shuttering its music venue, as well as the bar and cafe, come July 30, when the entire place will close for a month for vacation. Now the Warehouse has let us know it is looking for potential investors and advisers who can help draft not-for-profit status paperwork — depending on which route they end up taking. If you can help them…

Written by DCist contributor Chris Klimek Arena Stage’s Peter & Wendy is so swollen with visual and musical marvels one might undervalue the performance of Karen Kandel, narrator of this hypnotic take on Peter Pan. She plays Wendy, along with every other speaking part, but this is no one-woman show. Sharing the stage are seven white-hooded puppeteers, and a company of dolls they bring to such astonishing life that it’s hard not to think of…

This review was written by contributor Chris Klimek The Director: The Third Act of Elia Kazan, now in its world premiere run at Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, takes a few more liberties with its subject than did Orson’s Shadow, another recent Round House production about titans of the stage and screen. The latter play imagined what Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier might have talked about during their real-life collaboration on Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros,…