The fall stage season is underway in the Washington area (with Theater Week running through Sunday), and Post critics have been scouting shows. Here are their top picks for what to see right now.

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‘The American Five’

‘Damn Yankees’

‘The Great Privation (How to Flip Ten Cents Into a Dollar)’

‘The Inheritance’

‘Red Pitch’

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A rhetorical triumph about MLK’s famous speech

At Ford’s Theatre, first-time playwright Chess Jakobs is making a sensational debut with “The American Five,” a smart and captivating origin story of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Far from a dry telling of the lead-up to the 1963 March on Washington, the play makes a fresh and compelling case for King’s ideals through the elements of great dr

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