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friday, march 13, 2020p.m. through Sunday. $15-$20.
T.K. KiRKlanD the comedian who once
toured with n.W.a and hosts his own
podcast comes to D.c. Dc comedy loft and
Bier Baron tavern, 1523 22nd St. nW. 202-
293-1887. dccomedyloft.com. Friday at 7:30
p.m. through Saturday. $20.
WHinDeRsson nUnes the Brazilian
comedian and singer comes to D.c. lincoln
theatre, 1215 u St. nW. 202-888-0050.
thelincolndc.com. monday at 6:30 p.m. $35-
$50.DanCe
les sylpHiDes anD MoRe manassas
Ballet theatre presents “les Sylphides,”
and new contemporary works. hylton
Performing arts center, 10960 george
mason cir., manassas. 70 3-993-7759.
hyltoncenter.org. Friday at 7:30 p.m. through
Sunday. $30-$70.march 22. $15-$35.CoMeDy
FliRTing liKe an aMeRiCan Sufian
Zhemukhov’s story of a professor who
moves out of russia and navigates the
world of dating. union Stage, 74 0 Water St.
unionstage.com. thursday at 8 p.m. $15-
$20.
JaMie lee Known for her role in “crashing”
and her book “Weddiculous,” the writer and
comedian arrives for a weekend of shows.
the Dc Improv comedy club, 1140
connecticut ave. nW. 202-296-7008.
dcimprov.com. thursday at 7:30 p.m.
through march 21. $20-$25.
JesUs TReJo Stand-up from the comedian
known for the show “mr. Iglesias” and
comedy central’s “roast Battle.” the Dc
Improv lounge, 1140 connecticut ave. nW.
202-296-7008. dcimprov.com. Friday at 7:30202-777-3210. through Sunday. $30-$69.
THUMBelina a girl no bigger than a thumb
journeys to find somewhere she can be
herself in the world in a production inspired
by Japanese street theater. Imagination
Stage, 4908 auburn ave., Bethesda. 301-
280-1660. imaginationstage.org. through
april 5. $15-$35.
TiMon oF aTHens timon lives in a golden
world of opulence throwing wild parties
attended by high-profile people of athens.
When she loses her wealth and her friends
abandon her, timon takes to the fore.
Shakespeare theatre company, 610 F St.
nW. 202-547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.
through march 22. $35-$127.
ZoMo THe RaBBiT: a Hip-Hop CReaTion
MyTH Zomo the hip-hoppity rabbit bounces
around D.c. in this hip-hop adaptation of a
nigerian folk tale. Imagination Stage, 4908
auburn ave., Bethesda. 301-280-1660.
imaginationstage.org. throughTHe 39 sTeps alfred hitchcock’s 1935 spy
movie gets a reboot with a cast of four actors
embodying more than 150 characters.
constellation theatre company, 1835 14th St.
nW. 202-204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.
through Sunday. $19-$55.
THe aMaTeURs a gainst the backdrop of
Black Death-ravaged 14th-century Europe, a
traveling troupe of actors perform the story
of noah. olney theatre center, 2001 olney-
Sandy Spring rd., olney. 301-924-3400.
olneytheatre.org. through april 5. $59-$74.
THe aMen CoRneR the James Baldwin
play of a 1950s church and its community is
directed by Whitney White. Shakespeare
theatre company, 610 F St. nW. 202-547-- shakespearetheatre.org. through
Sunday. $35-$127.
THe WanDeReRs a drama about two
couples: one arranged by marriage, the
other between two celebrities married to
other people. theater J, 1529 16th St. nW.
openings
aDa anD THe engine a lauren gunderson
play about ada lovelace, the daughter of
lord Byron and a mathematician in her own
right. gunston arts center, 2700 South lang
St., arlington. 70 3-418-4808. avantbard.org.
Fr iday at 7:30 p.m. $10-$40.
gUys anD Dolls the beloved musical
comedy set in 1950s new York is directed by
Peter Flynn. Ford's theatre, 511 10th St. nW.
202-347-4833. fords.org. Friday at 7:30 p.m.
$34-$86.
saM anD DeDe, oR My DinneR WiTH
anDRÉ THe gianT By gino DiioRio
Inspired by the real-life friendship between
writer Samuel Beckett and wrestler and actor
andré the giant. Washington Stage guild at
the undercroft theatre, 900 massachusetts
ave. nW. 202-900-8 78 8. stageguild.org.
thursday at 7:30 p.m. $25-$60.
ongoing
Celia anD FiDel an imagining of a
conversation between the political leader
and his most trusted confidant and political
partner, celia Sánchez. the arena Stage at
the mead center for american theater,
1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300.
arenastage.org. through april 12. $72-$115.
easy WoMen sMoKing loose
CigaReTTes the retired, newly married
matriarch of a family gets a surprise in the
form of a pregnant niece, a daughter with a
secret and a troubled neighbor. Signature
theatre, 4200 campbell ave., arlington.
70 3-820-9771. signature-theatre.org.
through march 29. $40-$90.
HoW To elope in THe MosT eXpensiVe
Way possiBle a romantic comedy that
involves an elopement road trip to atlantic
city. Dc arts center, 2438 18th St. nW. 202-
462-7833. dcartscenter.org. through
Saturday. $12-$15.
inHeRiT THe WinDBag a play about the
1968 debates between liberal gore Vidal
and conservative William F. Buckley. atlas
Performing arts center, 1333 h St. nE. 202-
399-7993. atlasarts.org. through march 29.
$20-$60.
MUseUM 2040 Set at a museum
dedication ceremony in the year 2040
comes a political satire from renee calarco.
4615 theatre company (@Dance loft on
14). 301-928-2738. 4615theatre.com.
through march 29. $16.50-$20.
pass oVeR the antoinette nwandu-written
drama that combines the Exodus saga and
“Waiting for godot” comes to D.c. Studio
theatre, 1501 14th St. nW. 202-332-3300.
studiotheatre.org. through april 12. $20-
$104.
sUDDenly lasT sUMMeR an elderly
socialite mourns the death of her son, who
died under mysterious circumstances.
gunston arts center, 2700 South lang St.,
arlington. 70 3-418-4808. avantbard.org.
through april 5. $10-$40.
have included revising his 2013
play “Gnit” — a reinvention of
Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” — for
its run this month at Theatre for
a New Audience in Brooklyn.
He has also worked with docu-
mentary filmmaker and theater
director frederick Wiseman to
draft a french version of “The
realistic Joneses” titled “Juste
Les Jones.” Helping the script
gain momentum abroad will ex-
pose more people to what Eno
sees as the play’s actionable mes-
sage about openness.
“my great hope—among many
hopes—would be that maybe
somebody might walk out of that
play and want to share their fears
and vulnerabilities more,” Eno
says.
[email protected]anything but pessimistic. “I can-
not get over how much I love being
alive, and how much I love life,” he
marvels. “In a crazy way, I can’t get
through dinner, because I’m so
excited thinking about breakfast.”
That candy-bright optimism
perhaps made him a fitting col-
laborator on the live-action Skit-
tles commercial, which had one
performance at a midtown man-
hattan theater — not, technically,
a Broadway venue — on Super
Bowl Sunday last year. Eno was
recruited for the tongue-in-cheek
project and co-wrote the musi-
cal’s book; his recurrent collabo-
rator michael C. Hall (“Dexter”)
starred. Eno, who admits to lik-
ing Skittles “pretty well,” found
the experience entirely joyous.
other than helping t o promote
confectionary, h is recent projectssaying, ‘I’m right-handed and I’m
writing t his with my l eft hand,’ s o
it looked kind of suspicious and
scrawly,” he remembers. “A nd for
whatever reason, they read the
play.” The National mounted a
reading of the piece in 2000, and
London’s Gate Theatre staged
the world premiere in 2001.
As the title of “Tragedy” might
suggest, Eno does not shy away
from the bleaker aspects of hu-
man experience even as he cele-
brates the wonder of the ordi-
nary. His plays’ unflinching exis-
tential awareness, together with
their dark humor and flouting of
theatrical convention, have led to
comparisons with Beckett.
“I don’t really feel that one,” Eno
says of the analogy, while noting
that he admires Beckett. more
generally, he says his outlook islatched on to reading Shake-
speare, a pastime that led to
plays by other dramatists and to
writing his own scripts. “The
attraction had to do with the
mystery of bodies and light and
words,” he recalls, speaking by
phone from Brooklyn, where he
lives with his wife, actress maria
Dizzia (“orange Is the New
Black”) and their daughter.
Eno was working as a proof-
reader of psychology textbooks
when he snagged a courier flight
to London and audaciously
dropped his plays off around
town. Perhaps influenced by jet
lag or quiet desperation, he in-
cluded an unusual cover letter
when he left a copy of “Tragedy:
A Tragedy” at the National The-
atre. “I’m right-handed, and I
wrote a note with my left handmade inroads in the U.K. — is a
sly, fourth-wall-shattering m ono-
logue whose existential rumina-
tions encompass only fleeting
glimpses of story. His metatheat-
rical paean to ordinary life “The
flu Season” features characters
named Prologue and Epilogue.
The title character in “The Un-
derlying Chris” seems to have no
fixed identity.
Like his writing, Eno’s career
has been quirky. raised in mas-
sachusetts, he spent years as a
competitive cyclist before decid-
ing he wanted to pursue other
things. Although he hadn’t
grown up attending theater regu-
larly and didn’t study the subject
at the University of massachu-
setts at Amherst, he eventually
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From left, Cary Donaldson as Mister/ossifer, Christopher Lovell as Moses and Jalen Gilbert as Kitch in “Pass over,” the Antoinette
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