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A classic tragedy by Greek playwright Aeschylus, The Oresteia is an epic story of war, love and revenge -- at least, as it is usually performed. In the hands of Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue, however, it becomes rowdy, raucous, loud and literate, filled with rock, bluegrass and folk music and a sensibility that's part carnival, part burlesque, and part vaudeville. Learn more...

Beneath a pious facade, Tartuffe is a schemer intent on securing Orgon's fortune and his daughter's hand in marriage. Will Tartuffe be rewarded with riches or will the slippery hypocrite get the comeuppance he richly deserves? Translated by Richard Wilbur. Learn more...

Journeymen Theater presents a Paris-themed cabaret performance at Church Street Theater. Enchanting stories unfold through classic French chansons d'amour and songs by American composers celebrating the city of love. Learn more...

Queen Elizabeth I was forced to condemn to death a man believed to be her former lover. On the night before the execution, she demanded that William Shakespeare's acting troupe perform a play to distract her from the heartbreak. Playwright Timothy Findley takes these historical facts, blends in a few "what ifs?" and creates a play about men, women, fantasy, death and, ultimately, love. Learn more...

In Nikolai Gogol's 19th-century masterpiece of dramatic satire, the system of graft, corruption and ineptitude in Tsarist Russia plays out in a backwater town so far removed from Moscow that it might as well be here. Local leaders and their cronies curry favor by giving a visiting official money, women and more. But are they greasing the right man's palm? Learn more...

A cabaret "for the gypsy in you," Journeymen Theater's From Russia With Love is a program of cabaret-style interpretations of nineteenth century Russian poetry, folk songs, and romances, mixed with other musical fare about the pangs and pleasures of love. Learn more...

Infused with David Mamet's trademark rhythm and dialogue, Glengarry Glen Ross explores the cutthroat world of selling and its ruthless inhabitants. Once named "the bard of immorality," Mamet pits five real estate salesmen in a ferocious battle for their lives as they ricochet from the exhilaration of success to the degradation of failure. Learn more...

Journeymen Theater presents Ken Prestininzi's As American As. Homeland security comes at a personal price in this dark comedy when war and terrorism come home to Middle America, the Penini family's basement is transformed into a black site and a hooded man is interrogated by two Franks. Learn more...

The Tony Award-winning 1965 musical Man of La Mancha tells the story of the classic novel Don Quixote. An old knight seeks renown for his heroism, but instead finds true love, in this heart-warming musical, which features classic songs such as "The Impossible Dream". The Keegan Theatre revives this production, one of their most successful, with David Jourdan reprising his acclaimed turn as Quixote. Learn more...

Neglect is the story of an elderly woman, Rose, and her young neighbor, Joseph, who come together on the first day of a brutal Chicago heat wave to escape the unbearable heat and their own feelings of loneliness. A story of social responsibility, Neglect is an often funny, deeply moving play about what holds us together and what keeps us apart. Learn more...

Translations, often considered the literary masterwork of Irish playwright Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa), is set in the politically charged landscape of early 1800s Ireland. The inhabitants of a small town in County Donegal feel the repercussions as British engineers come through town to Anglicize place names. Learn more...

The IRA takes an innocent British soldier hostage in a bawdy Irish bar. He is to be shot if the British go through with the execution of an IRA youth. What follows is an examination of Irish politics, history, and art that is both provocative and comic. The Hostage is a circus of flamboyant characters, rich language, and a medley of theratrical styles. Learn more...

Pedro Calderón's work is playfully reimagined by one of D.C.'s most talented young actor/directors, featuring a company of his equally respected peers. The New York Times said of the play: "Life's a Dream, the Calderón metaphysical masterpiece, is one of the finest fruits of the 17th-century golden age of Spanish drama... an ever pertinent play about the power of free will." Learn more...

It's Belfast, 1970. After the premiere of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," two boys -- one Protestant and one Catholic -- make their way through the war-torn streets as modern-day outlaws. As fantasy and reality collide in this hysterical and moving play, the young men are forced to confront the cultural divide that separates their worlds. Learn more...

This brain-teasing play looks at the ruling metaphor of our times: the survival of the fittest. Set in two distinct periods, After Darwin follows Charles Darwin traveling with Robert FitzRoy into uncharted waters off the coast of South America, and then, hundreds of years later, Millie, Ian and Tom as they re-create a stage version of Darwin's travels. Learn more...