JohnBT
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Googled up at random:
"The best nightlife districts are Adams-Morgan; the area around U and 14th streets NW, a still-developing district, where it's best to stay on or close to U Street; north and south of Dupont Circle along Connecticut Avenue; downtown streets near the MCI Center, especially F and G streets, between 7th and 15th streets; and Georgetown. If you don't mind venturing into the suburbs, you should know about Arlington's hot spots. As a rule while club-hopping -- even in Georgetown -- stick to the major thoroughfares and steer clear of deserted side streets.
The best source of information about what's doing at bars and clubs is a fat weekly, City Paper, available free at bookstores, movie theaters, drugstores, and other locations; and online at www.washingtoncitypaper.com Also check out the monthly On Tap, another fat freebie found mostly in bars, but whose website, www.ontaponline.com is essential reading for carefree 20-somethings. By the way, Thursday night is "College Night" at nearly every club.
Washington's clubs and bars tend to keep their own hours; it's best to call ahead to make sure the place you're headed is open.
Jazz--A calendar of jazz gigs for the Washington area is posted at www.dcjazz.com including free performances."
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Here's the daily list from www.washingtoncitypaper.com/theater
Theater Calendar
Fri. Mar. 9, 2007 - Thu. Mar. 15, 2007
Carnival!
Ladeeez and gentlemen, step right up and see an oddball show: The hero's miserable, the heroine perplexingly simple, the tunes an ill-unified collection of saccharine ballad and midway oom-pah and...
Kennedy Center, Closes March 11
Cats
Live Nation presents Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on T. S. Eliot's collection of poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Warner Theatre, To March 18
A Chorus Line
The Howard University Department of Theatre Arts presents James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante's musical about Broadway.
Howard University, To March 17
The Constant Wife
What bounces like Coward and bites like Shaw? A Somerset Maugham comedy, at least according to the evidence at the Olney Theater Center: The Constant Wife plays brisk and witty and pretty (oh, that...
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Closes March 11
Crave
Horrifying and lovely, less conventional play than pain-drenched poem (or maybe a kind of agonized string quartet), Sarah Kane's intricately layered Crave sets four nameless people speaking to and...
Signature Theatre, To April 1
Drama Under the Influence
In the ’20s, when booze was illegal and the stage was still mostly a man's world, some of theater's smartest women wrote plays that had precious little chance of getting produced. Now comes...
Gunston Arts Center, To March 24
Family Secrets
Theater J presents Sherry Glaser's one-woman play about a Jewish family.
Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, To April 15
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
A short-order cook and a waitress are making love at the start of Terrence McNally's romantic comedy, and it's not a pretty sight. The couple is writhing naked on a sofa-bed as their apartment...
Arena Stage, To April 8
Gem of the Ocean
The first yarn in August Wilson's African-American decalogue, chronologically speaking—it's set in 1904—but one of the last completed before Wilson's death, Gem of the Ocean finds the...
Arena Stage, To March 28
Insurrection: Holding History
Seriously funny: That's all you need to know about Robert O'Hara's uproar of a comedy. OK, maybe you need to know it's a time-traveling (and occasionally musical) comedy about black gay 20-somethings...
H Street Playhouse, To March 25
Kiss Me, Kate
To christen their spacious and impressive H Street digs, the Washington Savoyards are presenting Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter's biggest Broadway hit, and over at the Atlas they're serving it up like...
Atlas Performing Arts Center, To March 17
The Owl and the Pussycat
The liveliest things about this gender-bent revival are the candy-colored frocks Erin K. Sutton has whipped up for Jeffrey Johnson's gum-smacking Pussycat, who dominates the show's ratty apartment...
Source Theatre, To March 25
The Passion of the Crawford
The latest homage of John Epperson, aka drag royalty Lypsinka, to the divine excesses of Hollywood divadom is singularly brilliant: A full-length interview in cringe-inducing Inside the Actors Studio...
Studio Theatre, Closes March 11
The Pillowman
Studio Theatre presents Martin McDonagh's play about a writer whose stories seem to come to life.
Studio Theatre, Opens March 14
The Rape of Lucrece
You'd have to be a little nuts to go where Washington Shakespeare Company is traipsing so adventurously with its world premiere of Callie Kimball's adaptation of an 1800-line epic poem that the Bard...
Clark Street Playhouse, Closes March 11
Rehab
Quique Aviles performs his one-man play about addiction, recovery, and relapse.
District of Columbia Arts Center, To March 17
Richard III
We're accustomed to thinking of the vicious title character, Richard of Gloucester, as the one who's off-kilter in Richard III—crabbed and bent not just psychologically but physically too, with...
Shakespeare Theatre, To March 18
Shaw's Shorts
George Bernard Shaw can be long-winded, possibly because he couldn't resist taking the other side of his own arguments. But the old windbag is back-to-back-to-back in Washington Stage Guild's evening...
Washington Stage Guild, To April 1
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
37 Stones or The Man Who Was a Quarry
Charter Theatre presents Mark Charney's play about a man who has passed 37 kidney stones.
Theatre on the Run, To March 31
Writer's Cramp
Though the dry wit and absurdity found in British humor doesn't always translate overseas, successful works such as Monty Python's Flying Circus and, more recently, The Office, remind us that comedy...
Warehouse Theater, To April 7
"The best nightlife districts are Adams-Morgan; the area around U and 14th streets NW, a still-developing district, where it's best to stay on or close to U Street; north and south of Dupont Circle along Connecticut Avenue; downtown streets near the MCI Center, especially F and G streets, between 7th and 15th streets; and Georgetown. If you don't mind venturing into the suburbs, you should know about Arlington's hot spots. As a rule while club-hopping -- even in Georgetown -- stick to the major thoroughfares and steer clear of deserted side streets.
The best source of information about what's doing at bars and clubs is a fat weekly, City Paper, available free at bookstores, movie theaters, drugstores, and other locations; and online at www.washingtoncitypaper.com Also check out the monthly On Tap, another fat freebie found mostly in bars, but whose website, www.ontaponline.com is essential reading for carefree 20-somethings. By the way, Thursday night is "College Night" at nearly every club.
Washington's clubs and bars tend to keep their own hours; it's best to call ahead to make sure the place you're headed is open.
Jazz--A calendar of jazz gigs for the Washington area is posted at www.dcjazz.com including free performances."
____________
Here's the daily list from www.washingtoncitypaper.com/theater
Theater Calendar
Fri. Mar. 9, 2007 - Thu. Mar. 15, 2007
Carnival!
Ladeeez and gentlemen, step right up and see an oddball show: The hero's miserable, the heroine perplexingly simple, the tunes an ill-unified collection of saccharine ballad and midway oom-pah and...
Kennedy Center, Closes March 11
Cats
Live Nation presents Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on T. S. Eliot's collection of poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Warner Theatre, To March 18
A Chorus Line
The Howard University Department of Theatre Arts presents James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante's musical about Broadway.
Howard University, To March 17
The Constant Wife
What bounces like Coward and bites like Shaw? A Somerset Maugham comedy, at least according to the evidence at the Olney Theater Center: The Constant Wife plays brisk and witty and pretty (oh, that...
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Closes March 11
Crave
Horrifying and lovely, less conventional play than pain-drenched poem (or maybe a kind of agonized string quartet), Sarah Kane's intricately layered Crave sets four nameless people speaking to and...
Signature Theatre, To April 1
Drama Under the Influence
In the ’20s, when booze was illegal and the stage was still mostly a man's world, some of theater's smartest women wrote plays that had precious little chance of getting produced. Now comes...
Gunston Arts Center, To March 24
Family Secrets
Theater J presents Sherry Glaser's one-woman play about a Jewish family.
Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, To April 15
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
A short-order cook and a waitress are making love at the start of Terrence McNally's romantic comedy, and it's not a pretty sight. The couple is writhing naked on a sofa-bed as their apartment...
Arena Stage, To April 8
Gem of the Ocean
The first yarn in August Wilson's African-American decalogue, chronologically speaking—it's set in 1904—but one of the last completed before Wilson's death, Gem of the Ocean finds the...
Arena Stage, To March 28
Insurrection: Holding History
Seriously funny: That's all you need to know about Robert O'Hara's uproar of a comedy. OK, maybe you need to know it's a time-traveling (and occasionally musical) comedy about black gay 20-somethings...
H Street Playhouse, To March 25
Kiss Me, Kate
To christen their spacious and impressive H Street digs, the Washington Savoyards are presenting Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter's biggest Broadway hit, and over at the Atlas they're serving it up like...
Atlas Performing Arts Center, To March 17
The Owl and the Pussycat
The liveliest things about this gender-bent revival are the candy-colored frocks Erin K. Sutton has whipped up for Jeffrey Johnson's gum-smacking Pussycat, who dominates the show's ratty apartment...
Source Theatre, To March 25
The Passion of the Crawford
The latest homage of John Epperson, aka drag royalty Lypsinka, to the divine excesses of Hollywood divadom is singularly brilliant: A full-length interview in cringe-inducing Inside the Actors Studio...
Studio Theatre, Closes March 11
The Pillowman
Studio Theatre presents Martin McDonagh's play about a writer whose stories seem to come to life.
Studio Theatre, Opens March 14
The Rape of Lucrece
You'd have to be a little nuts to go where Washington Shakespeare Company is traipsing so adventurously with its world premiere of Callie Kimball's adaptation of an 1800-line epic poem that the Bard...
Clark Street Playhouse, Closes March 11
Rehab
Quique Aviles performs his one-man play about addiction, recovery, and relapse.
District of Columbia Arts Center, To March 17
Richard III
We're accustomed to thinking of the vicious title character, Richard of Gloucester, as the one who's off-kilter in Richard III—crabbed and bent not just psychologically but physically too, with...
Shakespeare Theatre, To March 18
Shaw's Shorts
George Bernard Shaw can be long-winded, possibly because he couldn't resist taking the other side of his own arguments. But the old windbag is back-to-back-to-back in Washington Stage Guild's evening...
Washington Stage Guild, To April 1
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
37 Stones or The Man Who Was a Quarry
Charter Theatre presents Mark Charney's play about a man who has passed 37 kidney stones.
Theatre on the Run, To March 31
Writer's Cramp
Though the dry wit and absurdity found in British humor doesn't always translate overseas, successful works such as Monty Python's Flying Circus and, more recently, The Office, remind us that comedy...
Warehouse Theater, To April 7
