The Maids, The Artistic Home, through July 14. Author Jean Genet always said he wanted his play's title servants played in cross-gender drag, but playgoers are warned that this examination of domestic power games ( based on a real-life murder ) is no fluffy camp comedy.
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Buddy, American Blues Theater @ Stage 773, remounted through Sept. 15. Far more concert than story, the short, mostly-sweet life of Buddy Holly is presented by 16 rocking vocal and instrumental stars. Don't miss! JA
Haymarket, Underscore Theatre at the Den Theatre, through July 22. A star is born in Bridget Adams-King's clarion-voiced portrayal of Lucy Parsons, who is front and center in this riotous new folk music about the Haymarket Affair and violent birth of the labor movement. CES
Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman, Trap Door Theatre, through July 7. Last call for playwright Mark Brownell's comedically subversive dive into the life of an 18th-century French war hero ( embodied with grit and splendor by David Lovejoy ) who spent a lifetime defying gender norms. CES
By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Sullivan