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who builds a woman from snow (Dec. 1 to 23). Also across the Potomac, Little Theatre of Alexandria will present Ken and Jack Ludwig’s “Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol,” directed by Madeleine Smith (Dec. 3 to 17). Discovery Theater will present “Seasons of Light,” an interactive, multicultural event recommended for ages 5 to 10, at the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center (Dec. 5 to 16). The Kennedy Center will host the Los Angeles-based Improvised Shakespeare Company, a comedy troupe that geeketh out Bardly. Expect “mild mature content” (Dec. 6 to 18). Pianist Mona Golabek will return to Theater J to tell and play her mother’s story of escaping Vienna in 1938 and living in London during the Blitz. Adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, “The Pianist of Willesden Lane” is based on “The Children of Willesden Lane,” written by Golabek and Lee Cohen (Dec. 6 to 18). Signature Theatre Associate Artistic Director Ethan Heard will direct “Which Way to the Stage,” about obsessed Idina Menzel fans (Dec. 6 to Jan. 22). Mosaic will present workshop performances at the Atlas of “Mexodus,” a new hip-hop musical about enslaved people who went south by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson (Dec. 9 to 18). LAST CHANCE!
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Based on the book The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen Adapted and directed by Hershey Felder DECEMBER 6-18, 2022 A BRAVURA PERFORMANCE OF AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY
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Broadway’s “Wicked” will fly in to the Kennedy Center Opera House (Dec. 8 to Jan. 22). Overlapping in the Eisenhower Theater: Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Soldier’s Play” (Dec. 13 to Jan. 8). In Talene Monahon’s “Jane Anger” at Shakespeare Theatre Company, the title character (Amelia Workman) climbs in a window to help Will (Michael Urie) write “King Lear.” Jess Chayes directs (Dec. 13 to Jan. 8). More ways to celebrate: “An Irish Carol,” the Keegan Theatre’s homage to Dickens, set in a Dublin pub (Dec. 15 to 31), and “A Magical Cirque Christmas” at the National Theatre, with music, acrobatics and magic galore (Dec. 16 to 18).
TIME TO PLAN FOR JANUARY? Former Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr will return to Theater J from his new base of operations, Village Theatre in that other Washington, to direct Seth Rozin’s “Two Jews Walk Into a War …,” a “vaudeville” about the last Jews in Afghanistan (Jan. 11 to Feb. 5). In Sanaz Toosi’s “English,” directed by Knud Adams at Studio Theatre, four adult students study for the Test of English as a Foreign Language in Iran (Jan. 11 to Feb. 12). Arena Stage will roll out “Ride the Cyclone,” directed by Sarah Rasmussen, a “quirky cult musical” by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond in which six teenagers from a Canadian choir come to terms with fate (Jan. 13 to Feb. 19).
