Ah, Wilderness! is the lone comedy in Eugene O’Neill’s eye-gougingly tragic catalog. It works as a sort of photo-negative of his later, bleaker masterpiece A Long Day’s Journey into Night, with which it shares the setting of a “large small town” in early 20th century New England. Written in the early years of the Great Depression but set in the happier days of 1906, it’s a deliberately idyllic take on the sweet miseries of…

Contrary to Timothy 6:10, Cicero, Emerson, and Pink Floyd, George Bernard Shaw claimed that the lack of money is the root of all evil. Despite Washington’s occasional tendency toward idealism, if you are a Metro rider, it’s getting harder to disagree with Mr. Shaw these days. Our city’s transit system is facing its biggest budget shortfall ever, and in order to close the $116 million gap, Metro officials have proposed the first fare increase…

Cheaters…women’s sex lives…Salman Rushdie…during March in the D.C. theater world, looks like anything goes; even Anything Goes. Starting off the month is George Bernard Shaw’s Fanny’s First Play, produced by Washington Stage Guild (March 2). This “comedy within a comedy” should prove witty enough, as Shaw always has a way with words. Speaking of renowned male authors, Haroun And The Sea Of Stories, a Salman Rushdie D.C. premiere, begins at the H Street playhouse this…