Theater Calendar

Fri. Jul. 18, 2008 - Thu. Jul. 24, 2008

• Big River
  Olney Theatre Center for the Arts presents William Hauptman and Roger Miller's musical adaptation of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, To July 27
• A Body of Water
  Firebelly Productions presents Lee Blessing's play about a couple that wakes up in a mysterious house with no recollection of how they arrived there.
  Theatre on the Run, Closes July 20
• Defending the Caveman
  Bethesda Theatre presents Rob Becker's one-man play about the relationships between men and women.
  Bethesda Theatre, To July 27
• Disney's The Lion King
  The plot? Recycled. The characters? Cardboard. The opening number? Theater of the finest kind: With its puppets and its masks and its ritual-rooted style, Julie Taymor's re-imagining of The Lion King...
  Kennedy Center, To Aug. 24
• Dream Sailors Part One: Jacob's Fence
  Rorschach Theatre presents Colin Hovde's play about four friends who are able to induce lucid dreams.
  Georgetown University,
• Dream Sailors Part Two: The Princess and the Dervish
  Rorschach Theatre presents Colin Hovde's play about four friends who are able to induce lucid dreams.
  Georgetown University,
• Evita
  The McLean Community Players present Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about Juan and Evita Peron.
  McLean Community Center, To July 26
• If You See Something Say Something
  Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company presents Mike Daisey's one-man play about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
  Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Closes July 20
• The Imaginary Invalid
  When does Keith Baxter's giddy, gassy staging of Moliere's medics-be-damned comedy abandon the merely funny and ascend into the sublime? With the rubber-legged, loose-armed, slosh-bellied turkey...
  Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Center for the Arts, To July 27
• Jerry Springer: The Opera
  The Studio Theatre presents Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee's musical based on The Jerry Springer Show.
  Studio Theatre, Opens July 23
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
  The Quotidian Theatre Company presents Eugene O'Neill's play about a series of crises in the Tyrone family during the summer of 1912.
  Writer's Center, To Aug. 10
• Man of La Mancha
  The Keegan Theatre presents Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion's musical adaptation of Cervantes' Don Quixote.
  Church Street Theater, To Aug. 17
• Marat/Sade
  Forum Theatre and Dance presents Peter Weiss' play about post-Revolution France.
  H Street Playhouse, Opens July 17
• The Mousetrap
  Olney Theatre Center for the Arts presents Agatha Christie's play about a group of strangers that get stranded with a murderer at an inn during a snowstorm.
  Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Closes July 20
• Oens
  Warehouse Theater presents Wilson Loria's one-man play about one man's journey of self-realization.
  Warehouse Theater,
• The President's New Clothes
  Shakespeare Theatre Company presents Deborah Langerman's adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes.
  Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Center for the Arts,
• Red Noses
  British playwright Peter Barnes was never one for nuance. His best known plays–1968's The Ruling Class, 1985's Red Noses–couch broad swipes at authority within a kind of caustic...
  Washington Shakespeare Company's Clark Street Playhouse, Closes July 20
• Shear Madness
  The "most fun night" Arch Campbell's ever had at the Kennedy Center is an extended vaudeville routine set in a Georgetown hair salon rather than a play. Funny without ever becoming either witty or...
  Kennedy Center, Open run
• The Skin of Our Teeth
  Rorschach Theatre presents Thornton Wilder's play about mankind's escapes from disaster though the ages.
  Georgetown University, To Aug. 10
• Stuff Happens
  Give playwright David Hare credit for a piercing intelligence and an admirably controlled fury; give Jeremy Skidmore's cast credit for discipline and for carefully thought-out performances. But this...
  Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Closes July 20
• This Storm Is What We Call Progress
  Rorschach Theatre presents Jason Grote's play about a young man who discovers a haunted recording studio.
  Georgetown University's Devine Theatre, Closes July 19
• Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter
  The Kennedy Center presents Julie Marie Myatt's play about a wounded Marine Sergeant who returns home from the War in Iraq.
  Kennedy Center, Opens July 19