Journeymen Theater has never been a company to shy away from plays involving heavy themes or brimming with moral dilemmas. The group stays true to form with its ambitious production of After Darwin, now being staged at Church Street Theater. After Darwin is a work where the play within a play is as fascinating, or even more so, as the action going on behind the scenes. A ragtag group of performers is staging a work…

It’s official: we’re going to have no social life this January, as there are too many great productions premiering this month for us to do anything else but plays, plays, plays. We’ve got a ridiculous amount of Shakespeare, a beloved Sondheim musical, a new work by an old favorite, and we haven’t even gotten to Kathleen Turner. It’s a good month to be a theater lover. We adore Neil LaBute here at DCist, even though…

FRIDAY: >> DCist is pleased to offer $5 off Forum Theatre & Dance’s performances of UpShot by Ami Dayan (a scene from the play is at left). It’s already received several positive notices, and director Shirley Serotsky has let us know that anyone who shows up at the box office with a print-out of this post can purchase a ticket for $13 (normally $18). This deal is good for the entire run of the play,…