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Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic Judy Gold presents Mommy Queerest. The follow-up to her hit one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother features tales from her life as a lesbian comedian and mother of two boys, plus original music. Gold's credits include stand-up specials on Comedy Central, HBO and LOGO. Learn more...

Theater Alliance presents Black Nativity at the H Street Playhouse. The show uses scripture, verse, music and dance to tell the original story of the Nativity. Based on the Gospel of St. Luke, combined with the poetry of Langston Hughes, this song-play touches a special chord in the hearts of all. Learn more...

In her tribute to Pearl Bailey, award-winning singer/actor Roz White has chosen many of Pearl Bailey's 16 Most Requested Songs, which she recorded for Columbia Records at the height of her career (including "St. Louis Blues," "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "The Hucklebuck") and built an evening of marvelous music and memorable stories. Learn more...

Spanning the years 1880 to 1927, this lyrical masterpiece concerns the lives, loves, and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi. Show Boat is a sweeping tale of enduring love and devastating hatred, illuminating through unforgettable music the cruelty of prejudice -- and the beauty of romance, featuring such beloved songs as "Make Believe," "Bill," "Can't Help Lovin 'Dat Man," and "Ol' Man River." Learn more...

This irresistible musical takes you inside the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's dream of creating a utopian kingdom is complicated by love for his new Queen, Guinevere, and friendship with his favorite knight, Lancelot. This ravishing story of passion, chivalry, and betrayal has a gorgeous score that includes "If Ever I Would Leave You," "What Do the Simple Folk Do?," and, of course, "Camelot." Learn more...

Folger Theatre presents Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing, set in the colorful Caribbean. In this clever classic, reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick conceal their attraction behind a war of wit. Learn more...

Arena Stage presents an innovative staging of the classic musical The Fantasticks. This production of the timeless musical whose original off-Broadway run lasted 42 years is set in an abandoned amusement park, and features astonishing feats of illusion. The romantic tale of a young couple and their meddling fathers features the beloved songs "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain." Learn more...

In this touching coming-of-age story that won 4 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, two brothers are left to fend for themselves in a dysfunctional household with their formidable immigrant grandmother, sweet but simple-minded aunt and a hoodlum of an uncle. This classic American tale is simultaneously comic and poignant. Learn more...

For the Halloween season, as well as the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, Scena Theatre presents a Poe Double Feature: the horror classic The Fall of the House of Usher, a story of insanity and premature burial, and the gothic masterpiece The Tell-Tale Heart, a suspenseful monologue by a murderer re-counting and reliving his terrible deed. Learn more...

Keegan Theatre opens their season with Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck's stage adaptation of his classic novel. It's the tragic tale of George and Lennie, two displaced ranch hands seeking employment and a better life in Depression-era California. Learn more...

All the world's a stage as Shakespeare Theatre Company presents a colorful, unique, wildly entertaining production of As You Like It. Director Maria Aitken, best known for her work on Broadway's Tony-winning The 39 Steps, sets the story of the irrepressible Rosalind's quest for love and freedom against the backdrop of Hollywood's Golden Age. Learn more...

Potomac Theatre Company presents this family musical adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street, written by Meredith Willson (The Music Man). A white-bearded gentleman claiming to be the real Santa Claus spreads a wave of love throughout New York City, convincing a divorced, cynical single mother, her somber young daughter and the entire state of New York that Santa Claus is no myth. Learn more...

Considered Jonson's best comedy, The Alchemist follows the antics of three con-artists: Subtle, Face and Dol. When the gentleman Lovewit flees England to avoid the Plague, the trio set up headquarters in his home and set about exposing the social ills of their fellow Londoners. Learn more...

In this unconventional play, set in various locations around the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, a crotchety East German Chancellor watches a play when students suddenly riot and the profiteers swoop in. Amid the chaos, two women launch a madcap chase to save an abandoned baby and outrun the vultures of both communism and capitalism. Their journey through Woolly's entire building comes full circle back to the stage -- but can a disgraced artistic director help them reset the nation's moral compass? Learn more...

Forum Theatre presents the second of Tony Kushner's two-part Angels in America epic: Angels in America: Perestroika. In Reagan-Era New York City, a colorful array of characters confront the AIDS crisis and questions of morality, community, guilt and forgiveness. This acclaimed play won Tony and Drama Desk Awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more...

Solas Nua brings its off-Broadway hit Disco Pigs to Washington D.C. for the first time. Enda Walsh's feverish, disturbing thrill ride of a drama centers on two inseparable friends, Pig and Runt, out celebrating their 17th birthday in the nightclubs of Cork. As events unfold, their unusually intense friendship -- which includes its own made-up language -- is altered forever. Learn more...

Acclaimed pop/rock trio GrooveLily presents their concert musical Striking 12 at Crystal City's Arena Stage. Co-written by Tony Award-winning playwright Rachel Sheinkin (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Striking 12 tells the story of a grumpy, overworked New Yorker who resolves to spend New Year's Eve alone in his apartment when an unexpected visitor brings some much-needed cheer. Learn more...

1st Stage Theater presents Three Days of Rain. In this production of Richard Greenberg's Pulitzer Prize finalist, three talented young actors play characters in the present day, as well as their parents three decades earlier, when three fateful days of rain changed everyone's lives forever. Learn more...

Happenstance Theater employs whimsical imagery, physical comedy and live music to engage imaginations of all ages, telling this story of comic misadventures in turn-of-the-century France. Audiences love Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandel's kinetic humor, playful interaction, musical wit and inventive imagination. Learn more...