A couple of Broadway powerhouses head to D.C., and a “Hadestown” alum takes on the Bard this month.

There’s plenty of free Shakespeare and some exciting one-person shows.

There’s the world premiere of “Jubilee” and a conversation with outgoing Shakespeare Theatre artistic director Michael Kahn.

This month’s rundown includes productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “columbinus,” a loose “Pygmalion” take, and more.

There are a handful of energetic musical offerings, but drama seems to dominate the end of this chilly, unpredictable winter.

“East of the River” debuts in a workshop performance on Friday at 8 p.m. at the Anacostia Arts Center.

Playing through December 8 at National Theatre, If/Then is so similar to Sliding Doors, it makes you wonder why they didn’t just call it Sliding Doors: The Musical.

Les Misérables is kind of like a ouroboros of misery that you wish would just end, but never does. Which makes it probably the worst movie or musical to see during the holiday season.

Now here’s some Christian rock we can get behind. Fresh off their popular adaptation of The Oresteia from last year’s Fringe, Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue — fine purveyors of carnivalesque, fire-and-brimstone alt-country Americana — return with The Saints, a raucous, rangy, mischievous, and ultimately reverent-despite-the-cleavage-and-F-bombs musical biography of a few good Catholic martyrs. Ringmaster Steve McWilliams might want to work on deepening his pipes to give more oomph to his hyperbolic tent-show preacher…

Those evil-natured robots, they’re programmed to destory us. But some of them want to evolve beyond their initial programming, like, say, a puny human raised in a dysfunctional family. There’s really no easy way to summarize Open Drawer Theatre Company’s apeshit hilarious Please Listen: A Musical Chaos that won’t make it sound terrible. Musical parodies are a Fringe staple, but they’re a bitch to pull off: Aside from the fact that the stage musical…