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

This month is all about big musicals and thoughtful dramas.

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.

Ford’s Theatre premieres the musical about a Canadian town caring for passengers stranded on 9/11.

August is notoriously the slowest month on the D.C. theater scene, and this year isn’t an exception. But there’s still a little Shakespeare, a little Mae West — even a little bit of zombies to get you through the month. August’s highlight is the annual Free For All production by Shakespeare Theater, which this year has been moved inside, at the Harman Center. It’s Taming of the Shrew, which we really enjoyed. (Aug. 27)…

Andrew Long, Ted van Griethuysen, and Aubrey K. Deeker form an uneasy alliance in Antony and Cleopatra. Photo by Carol Pratt. Antony and Cleopatra is a sprawling, lumbering beast of a play — war, international intrigue, doomed love — but the best stuff in the Shakespeare Theatre’s current production is the smallest stuff: he-said/she-said, jealousy, drunkenness. When Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, learns from a rightly mortified messenger that Antony, the Roman General with whom…