Martin McDonagh’s violent and difficult script is handled with grace in Yuri Urnov’s production at Forum Theater.

The actors’ stunning chemistry makes this far more than an “illness-of-the-week” play.

This month brings two options for dark Irish comedy to the stage, plus a number of other shows.

D.C.’s independent theatre scene is bustling. Here are some of the best.

If you are willing to sit through the nearly four-hour run time, a beautiful and revelatory work awaits.

Tonight and tomorrow are the final days to see Steve Yockey’s challenging, disturbing PLUTO, a play that gleefully moves between disparate extremes in a way topped only by the recently bipolar weather.

MEENA’S DREAM, a play by local actor/playwright Anu Yadav, has been generating much buzz in advance of its world premiere at the Round House Theatre. DCist interviewed Yadav in advance of her January run.

In One Flea Spare, Naomi Wallace’s bubonic plague-set drama, director Alexander Strain moodily captures the claustrophobic feeling that results when four potentially infected individuals are quarantined in a room together. But when the constrained mood of Forum Theatre’s latest production is combined with the work’s sluggish pacing and unsurprising character reveals, the quartet aren’t the only people eager to escape.

Jjana Valentiner as The Frau in ‘Amazons and Their Men.’ Photo by Melissa Blackall. One of the most talented filmmakers of the 20th century made her reputation supporting one of the most horrific governments to exist during that period. That dichotomy has always been the guilt-ridden asterisk next to the name of Leni Riefenstahl in the estimation of film fans, critics, and scholars. She was a magnificent innovator and master of the camera, but…

The play may be called Kid-Simple, but the premise is anything but: a young prodigy invents a machine that hears things humans never could discern, and when it is stolen, takes a mythical quest with a boy virgin for company in order to get it back. Did we mention the whole thing’s done in the style of an old fashioned radio play – only live, so we can see the action behind the scenes? Forum…