Anacostia Playhouse presents their first "New Works Festival" Nov. 14-17 showcasing 8 new 10-minute plays. All tickets are PWYC. Plays address the themes of deterioration and renovation, both physically and socially, over the course of Anacostia’s long history and examine the impact of revisionist history on Anacostia and its residents. Plays are separated into Group A and Group B; check site for details.

Washington Stage Guild presents
Greg Jones Ellis' 1950s Hollywood-set world premiere of ALL SAVE ONE and has Pay-What-You-Can performances to start the run - Nov. 15 @ 7:30pm, Nov. 16 @ 8pm and Nov. 17 @ 2:30pm. The cast includes Bill Largess, Laura Giannarelli, Lawrence Redmond, R. Scott Williams, and Danny Beason.

Make your holiday season merry and bright with five weekends of WIT (Washington Improv Theater)'s "Seasonal Disorder" at Source Theatre. Featuring seven events each weekend, "Seasonal Disorder" promises a blast of comedy packaged with a bow! Check out the whole schedule for performances Nov 29-Dec 30.

InterAct Story Theatre's Wheaton Family Theatre Series is back on Saturday, November 17 at 11am (crafts at 10:30am) with The Victorian Lyric Opera Company's production of “Jack and the Beanstalk” at Highland Elementary School. FREE.

Keegan Theatre's Boiler Room Series returns for a second season with a Nov. 12 staged reading (FREE) of Up the Ladder, Down the Slide by David Valdes Greenwood. Directed by Josh Sticklin, the play centers on three friends from "the sandwich generation" – adults taking care of their kids and their aging parents at once – as their own dramas take a back seat to those faced by the suddenly vulnerable people who raised them.

Monumental Theatre Company presents Black Girl Magic: A Monumental Theatre Company Concert, Nov. 27 at DC9 Nightclub featuring Jade Jones, Ines Nassara and Awa Sal Secka (seen together in Ford's The Wiz). The three power house vocalists will perform for one night only to celebrate their talent and what makes them magic.