The Motherfucker With the Hat, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2011 play about addiction and recovery, is the biggest attraction in the 2012-2013 lineup announced today by The Studio Theatre.

Hot for Teacher: Erin Weaver and Cody Nickell get excited about math in Aaron Posner’s new production of “Arcadia.” A few years after Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld dominated network television with their “show about nothing,” Tom Stoppard astonished the theater with a play about everything. More specifically, the mathematical conceits that govern the ultimate predictability of everything. Or don’t. Learned opinion varies about the math. Not so vis-à-vis the play: Arcadia was hailed…

Written by DCist contributor Andrej Krasnansky Tom Stoppard set his 2006 play, Rock ‘n’ Roll, in the dual locations of Cambridge and Prague during the time of the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia (1968-1987). His protagonist is Czech-born Jan, living in England at a time of turmoil in his homeland, much like Stoppard himself was. Unlike the playwright, however, Jan (Stafford Price-Clark) chooses to return to his country during this time of strife. Stoppard chooses…

>> Fort Reno continues tonight with LeJeune, Pup Tent and Engine Room. There’s a bit of a chance of isolated showers this afternoon and evening, but nothing that should prevent the free concert from going on around 7:15. >> There’s a stand-up comedy benefit show tonight starring Seattle comic Yoram Bauman –“the world’s first and only stand-up economist” — and four local comics: Tyler Richardson, Aparna Nancherla, Jason Weems, and Erin Jackson. Shows at…

It’s definitely not hard to find a postmodern take on a Shakespearean work. But it’s hard to find one injected with as much wit and wisdom as Tom Stoppard’s classic, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Though Studio Theater director Kirk Jackson has assembled a pair of convivial leads, a standout supporting player and an inventive set, the star in their latest production is really the work itself. Stoppard’s famous work focuses on two very minor…

FRIDAY >> The folks over at MN8 have put together a Masquerade Ball at Black Cat, featuring prolific Venezuelan alt-rockers Los Amigos Invisibles (right) and DJ Afro. DCist’s request to the band: For one night only, please change the lyrics to the song “Bruja” from “No eres ni bruja (ni santera),” to “Tu eres una bruja…” It’s a masquerade party, after all. And we want to be your bruja. 9:30 p.m., $18. >> Never in…