Well, there’s Rick Foucheaux in a chair playing a dead guy again. And look — Sarah Marshall is acting crazy as only she can. And come to think of it, this is another Sarah Ruhl play that concerns itself with the afterlife. Is there anything original happening here? Yep. Pretty much everything, actually. Dead Man’s Cell Phone, the world-premiere Ruhl now onstage at Woolly Mammoth, tests your patience a bit in the early going,…

We don’t normally include musical events in Baltimore in this agenda, for obvious reasons. However, we are leading off with a singular opportunity up in Charm City this week, the production of Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking (premiered by San Francisco Opera in 2000) at Baltimore Opera. This new opera was a smash success at its premiere and has been revived in several more successful productions in the years since. Having just gone up…

After a promising start to the weekend (a 4-1 win on Friday night), the Nationals dropped back-to-back games to the Cardinals in all too familiar fashion: Back-to-back 6-0 losses to the best team in baseball, and consecutive no-shows by the Nats’ bats. Saturday, the Nats had no answer for the previously struggling Jason Marquis, managing just two hits. Yesterday they collected just four hits and two walks. It all adds up to another series’ loss…

FRIDAY: >> Throughout this weekend at the intimate space of Twins Jazz on U Street, enjoy some fabulous local jazz at the Alto Saxophone Summit. For $15, you can catch Charlie Young, a professor of music at Howard University, Marty Nau, a local jazz alto saxophonist, and Marshall Keys, who’s played with Lionel Hampton and Branford Marsalis. Tickets can be purchased here. 9 p.m. >> If you recently caught “Broken Flowers,” the latest film in…