A busy season underway in local theater scene
“Something for everyone.” It’s a tired tagline, but in the case of this fall’s DMV theater season, it happens to be pretty much true.
And a lot of the work is queer, directly or tangentially. Here’s a sliver of what’s already opened and what’s in store. Theater J jumps into the new season with “How to Be a Korean Woman” (through Sept.
22), Sun Mee Chomet’s comic and heartfelt telling of searching for her birth family in Seoul, South Korea. edcjcc.org Woolly Mammoth Theatre opens with “The Comeuppance” (through Oct.
6), the latest work from Tony-winning out playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. “On the night of their 20th high school reunion, the self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” reconnects while they pregame in Prince George’s County, Md.
