Halloween’s just about here and there’s a whole host of costume ideas you haven’t yet explored. Forget going as a snake on a plane, a sexy devil/nursemaid/Little Red Riding Hood, or some sort of tasteless Mark Foley political reference. What about going as Lola from Damn Yankees? Adelaide from Guys And Dolls? M. Butterfly him/herself? Ok, these ideas may be too obscure for your typical Saturday night costumed blowout. But if you’ve got a theatrical…

Sure, there probably aren’t too many office pools going around wagering on whether Scott Bradley will take Tony Cisek in the set design category. But lack of watercooler chatter aside, tonight is an important night for the D.C. theater community. This evening, Warner Theatre will be bustling with our local onstage and backstage heroes, dressed to the nines, as they celebrate the Helen Hayes Awards, which recognize the year’s finest contributions to professional theatre in…

DCist fans may have fervent opinions regarding the building of a baseball stadium, but are there any Nats fans loyal enough to sell their soul to see the team take a pennant? One devoted Washington Senators fan and Yankee-hater makes such a deal in the oft-performed Damn Yankees, now closing out the year at Arena Stage. Middle-aged Joe Boyd (Lawrence Redmond) makes the infamous pact with Satan (Brad Oscar) to turn back the clocks and…

Though most local theaters are wrapping up their 2005 seasons come December, the Christmas season’s also a great time for national tours to empty the pockets of those hunting for gifts for their Broadway babies. While new regional pickings are sparse this month, if you’ve got a craving for a large-scale musical, this is your time of year. Hear the People Sing over at the National Theatre’s production of Les Miserables. They’re calling this the…