So much theater, so little time…that’s what DC theater fans will lament as they view the hefty list of Beltway-bound openings this month. Enough introduction: let’s leave room to showcase everything from Kushner to Capote. Not to be confused with the Jennifer Lopez/Ben Affleck disaster, there’s Woolly Mammoth’s The Gigli Concert, focuses on an Englishman’s love for women and vodka which features a struggling Englishman in Dublin who is faced with a client with a…

Sexual intrigue, Hellen Keller and urine; that’s what area theaters have to offer us during the slow month of August, the dead time between the close of the ’04/’05 season and the beginning of the new one. In all seriousness, August still has plenty of offerings for D.C. theatergoers, as a bunch of well-received shows take final bows and a few exciting new productions make their debuts. People can’t stop tinkering with Les Liasons…

An arguably unjust war, largely driven by imperialism. Scores of lives, often belonging to civilians, lost. Sound familiar? Scena Theatre hopes the obvious parallels between today’s post-9/11 world and its production of Robert Auletta’s adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Persians will strike a chord with its audience. Aeschylus’s original, the oldest surviving play in history, is a rather straightforward piece. Examining the Battle of Salamis, which took place in 480 B.C. between the Greeks and the…