Stage Kiss at Round House Theatre

In the critically acclaimed romantic comedy Stage Kiss, it's altogether unclear whether art's imitating life, or it's the other way around. When a pair of exes are thrown together as leads in a long-forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the onstage story begins to mirror their offstage lives. This warm and witty 2011 comedy, now taking the stage at Bethesda's Round House Theatre, is a thoroughly charming tale about what really happens when lovers share a stage kiss -- or when actors share a real one. The production's renowned playwright Sarah Ruhl was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony nominee for her prior work, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play.