'Art Beat' With Tara Boyle, Jan. 30

(January 30) Impressive Impressionists

If you've spent the past few years wondering when the National Gallery of Art would reopen its renowned French galleries, your wait is over. A two-year renovation has been completed and the expansive collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist painters is once again on public view...including works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Cézanne.

(January 30-March 4) Gaming and Guffaws

The eighteenth-century comedy The Gaming Table isn't exactly new, but the Folger Theatre is unveiling a new-to-Washington interpretation of the work by playwright Susanna Centlivre. A widow with a taste for risk hosts a nightly card game and finds humor in shared vices through early March.

(February 1-March 11) Pinocchio, Reimagined

And you may think you know the tale of the boy whose nose grew every time he told a lie, but on Wednesday Imagination Stage unveils a reworking of that classic story in P. Nokio, A Hip Hop Musical. This version features a game designer named G. Petto who discovers that his new character, P. Nokio, can escape from the computer...and, who knows, become a real boy?

Music: "Les Jours Heureux," by Yann Tiersen from Le Phare