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Theater and Dance

THEATER

Anna Christie

• Eugene O’Neill’s poignant portrait of a Swedish barge captain and the mysterious past of his estranged daughter. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Through June 19. Arena Stage, Kreeger Theater, 1101 Sixth St. SW. $45-$66. 202/488-3300.

After the Flood

• An epic comedy about the ways in which myths shape our lives. Anna Tingle’s Box of Prophecy is missing, and Palomino, proprietor of the Palace of the Peculiar, a traveling side show, must find it. 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday. May 26-June 26. Rorschach Theatre at Calvary Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia Road NW. $12-$18. 202/452-5538.

Big Death and Little Death

• A dark comedy about the end of the world as we know it. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Through June 12. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St. NW. $30-$48. 202/393-3939.

Cigarettes and Moby Dick

• Miranda must choose either her lover or her partners in this seductive play by Migdalia Cruz. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Through May 29. Venus Theatre Company at the Warehouse Theater, 1021 Seventh St. NW. $20. 202/236-4078.

Continente Viril (Virile Continent)

• This satire combines biting attacks on society’s love of order with mankind’s war against nature. 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. Through June 18. Teatro de la Luna, 2700 S. Lang St., Arlington. $15-$25. 703/548-3092.

Hannah and Martin

• Celebrated journalist Hannah Arendt is forced to confront charges that philosopher Martin Heidegger, her lover and former professor, is a Nazi sympathizer and must choose whether to indict or forgive him. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Through June 5. Theatre J at the D.C. Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. $10-$36. 800/494-8497.

Headsman’s Holiday

• Morality is on the side of the professional murderer; knowledge is on the side of the illiterate; and the truth, which everyone is preaching about, is no more than a dream in Paris circa 1794. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. May 26-June 26. Presented by Theater Alliance at the H Street Playhouse, 1365 H St. NE. $25. 800/494-8497.

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