“I just want something loud,” now-infamous media mogul Rupert Murdoch advises editor Larry Lamb in Ink, James Graham’s dramatic recounting of the Australian businessman’s purchase of a UK tabloid, playing through September 24 at Round House Theater in a co-production with Olney Theatre Center. Under the strong direction of Olney Artistic Director Jason Loewith, the production delivers on volume, but suffers from the play’s lack of substance. Though Graham’s play thoroughly reports the who, what, where, when and how, it never fully makes the case for why this story deserves a front-page spread.

As a tidal wave of anti-LGBTQIA bills cascades through state legislatures, the undercurrent of fear felt by so many queer and trans people can seem at odds with the rainbow displays of (often corporate) Pride Month celebrations. And, after the parade has passed by, our community’s most vulnerable, including those living with HIV, are too often left to once again fend for themselves. That acute disparity between celebration and survival makes Donja R. Love’s ‘one in two,’ presented by Mosaic Theater Company and running through June 25 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, feel all the more urgent.

This is a review about death, err — a review about a show about death. At least that’s what ‘Beetlejuice,’ playing through May 28 at the National Theatre, frequently asserts itself to be over the course of its two-and-a-half-hour run. But this ‘Beetlejuice,’ based on the 1988 Tim Burton film of the same name, is less about death than it might have you believe, and more about the ways we continue living in the wake of shattering loss.

Making its world premiere at Keegan Theatre, Graziella Jackson’s The Wilting Point is the first of four in her Elements series, documenting life on the brink of climate catastrophe and urging viewers to trust young activists.

The music of Disney’s Aladdin, playing through April 30 at DC’s National Theatre, has become so ubiquitous since its 1992 film premiere that by the time the knowing audience arrives at each classic, they practically breathe a sigh of relief, as if encountering an old, anticipated friend. It’s that familiarity, and Disney’s well-known commitment to pulling out all the entertaining stops, that makes this national tour a terrific diversion for old and new theatergoers alike.

The national tour of Lincoln Center Theatre’s acclaimed production of My Fair Lady, playing at the National Theatre through Sunday, dances into town on the strength of beautiful visuals, a high-powered ensemble, and an excellent leading lady.

In Unseen, running through April 23 in a Mosaic Theatre production at Atlas Performing Arts Center, playwright Mona Mansour implores us to consider the photographer’s role in capturing the events that we sometimes find too difficult to look at.

More than three decades after its premier, Arena Stage’s impressive production of Millennium Approaches, playing in the Fichandler theater through April 23, proves again that Tony Kushner’s masterpiece is a timeless work.