Emily Townley in Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's production of The Totalitarians

Stan Barouh

The cast of the National Theatre's production of West Side Story

Amy Boyle Photography

Toby Mulford, Miranda Medunga, and Nello DeBlasio in Faction of Fools Theatre Company's production of Titus Andronicus

Teresa Wood

Ryan Sellers and Maggie Erwin in Arts on the Horizon's production of Sunny and Licorice

Aram Vartian

Mariela Barufaldi and Meremias Massera in GALA Hispanic Theatre's production of Puro Tango II

Stan Weinstein

Jennifer Osborn and Sun King Davis in SeeNoSun OnStage's production of Killer Joe

SeeNoSun OnStage

Bianca Amato and James Waterston in Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Private Lives

Paul Marotta

Jon Spelman in Theater J's production of The Prostate Dialogues

Stan Barouh

Michael Replogle, Kim Curtis, Victor Gold, and Tom Fuller in The American Century Theater's production of Judgment at Nuremberg

Johannes Markus

Theater Alliance's production of The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Theater Alliance

Erin Weaver, Will Gartshore, Janine DiVita, and Samuel Edgerly in Round House Theatre's production of Ordinary Days

Danisha Crosby

The cast of Spooky Action Theater's production of Kwaidan

Evy Mages

Arena Stage's production of Healing Wars

Lou Beach

No Rules Theatre Company's production of Boeing Boeing

No Rules Theatre Company

From a world premiere to a Broadway revival, this week's Roundup features 14 productions that just opened over this past week. Check out the list below.

1. Boeing Boeing | No Rules Theatre Company
   Playboy Bernard juggles three fiancées, all flight attendants, with careful planning and the reluctant assistance of his housekeeper. But, weather delays and the invention of a faster Boeing jet send his elaborate love life into chaos in this hilarious retro comedy.
    
2. Healing Wars | Arena Stage
   A pioneer in the world of contemporary dance, Liz Lerman’s newest theatrical dance piece explores the experiences of the healers tasked with treating the physical and psychic wounds of battle in this exciting world premiere about how we experience and recover from war.
    
3. Judgment at Nuremberg | The American Century Theater
   Based on the true story of the war crime trials that followed WWII and their sole legal precedent, this play raises important moral issues that remain relevant and controversial today.
    
4. Killer Joe | SeeNoSun OnStage
   The play is a southern gothic black comedy that derives humor from the dirty realism of stereotypical white trash characters that are not only victims of circumstance, but also victims of themselves, enslaved to their own malice and delusions. Before it’s over, nearly everyone is a bloody mess.
    
5. Kwaidan | Spooky Action Theater
   Ghostly Japan, as captured by American novelist Lafcadio Hearn. These folk tales and supernatural stories are embedded in the Japanese mind and heart – they speak to a world of spirit everywhere around us, revealed in astonishing ways.
    
6. Ordinary Days | Round House Theatre
   When Deb loses her most precious possession – the notes to her graduate thesis – she unwittingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of four New Yorkers into something extraordinary as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love, and cabs. 
    
7. Private Lives | Shakespeare Theatre Company
   Noël Coward’s fast-talking, manners-breaking comedy about the people we cannot live with or without.
    
8. The Prostate Dialogues | Theater J
   This dynamic solo performance by renowned story-teller Jon Spelman explores masculinity and mortality in the face of disease with humanity and humor. Drawing from personal experience and interviews, Spelman examines the effects of prostate cancer and treatment on sexuality and relationships with warmth and candor.
    
9. Puro Tango II | GALA Hispanic Theatre
   A dazzling musical revue with singers and dancers from Argentina and Uruguay, the birthplace of tango, will delight audiences again in this homage to the creators and stars of this international sensation. In Spanish with English subtitles.
    
10. Sunny and Licorice | Arts on the Horizon
    Sunny, the zoo’s sole orangutan, is delighted to get a new roommate, but things don’t go smoothly when Licorice first arrives. When the zookeeper leaves behind a radio, a curious thing happens – toes start tapping and arms start swinging. Could music bring this “odd couple” together?
     
11. Titus Andronicus | Faction of Fools Theatre Company
    Faction’s fifth season ends with a shriek, as they bring you the funniest version yet of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play. In the Fools’ darkly comic take, something wicked becomes something wickedly delightful. The play is not exactly a barrel of laughs, but it is too shocking to stomach as a drama.
     
12. The Totalitarians | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Francine, the ambitious speechwriter for a rich housewife’s vanity campaign for public office, has stumbled upon pure gold: a perfectly patriotic slogan. This high-energy farce exposes just how vacuous and absurd our political language is.
     
13. West Side Story | The National Theatre
    The story of star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria as they struggle to rise above the hatred and intolerance that surrounds them remains as powerful, poignant, and timely as ever.
     
14. The Wonderful World of Dissocia | Theater Alliance
    Lisa Jones has been feeling a bit off. One hour off, in fact; the hour she lost when her flight to London crossed the Greenwich meridian at the exact moment daylight savings time ended. To retrieve her wandering hour, Lisa must take a journey…to Dissocia, where cars fly, bears sing, and the Black Dog King reigns.
     

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