Sunday, April 20, 2025
Sarah Ruhl is not one to shy away from more risqué subjects. Her Tony Award-nominated “In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” deals with, you guessed it, a controversial moment in the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:35PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Dominque Morisseau’s “Pipeline” dives straight into the lives of an utterly exhausted mother and her beleaguered son. Nya (Melissa Scott) is a teacher at a NYC public school. As we lea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:55PMSunday, April 13, 2025
Larissa FastHorse’s widely produced “Thanksgiving Play” has helped establish the playwright as someone who expertly deploys sardonic humor and cleverly nuanced sarcasm, particularly wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:07PMFriday, April 11, 2025
Should a play strive to present all sides of a given issue? In other words, is any audience experience made more meaningful if no one message or position is prioritized over another, if we g…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:20AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Of Anton Chekhov’s work, Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen insightfully observed that he made “subjectivity edit and rule experience.” Moving away from more totalizing abstract themes and e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:18PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Playwright Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini explains that with this play about four young Black British women, she at last felt the “freedom” to write in a style and language that represents t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
A meta-theatrical farce that searingly pokes fun at the things people do in the name of trying to quell their mistakes and their anxiety, “It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure” hits some trul…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:08AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Playwright José Rivera’s resume is certainly an impressive one. The Obie Award-winning “Marisol” sticks out in my mind as representative of a body of work that brilliantly brings toge…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:34AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
Though written in 2014, Dominique Morisseau’s “Blood at The Root” proves an incredibly timely play. Dealing with themes of racial equality, homophobia, and the crackdown on student pro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:55PMThursday, March 20, 2025
TEACHING THE CREATURE’S BRAIN—WHO IS THE REAL MONSTER?Elizabeth Frankenstein v. Victor Frankenstein Originally conceived in 1994, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Mock Trial event this ye…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:10PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
For some, resistance is protesting, for others it’s making their voices heard through whatever channel possible during times of strife, and still for others resistance might be as simple a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45AMSunday, March 16, 2025
Wombats, who knew? Former small mammal, zoo biologist David S. Kessler happens to be a pretty ardent supporter of the wombat—of all small mammals really, but perhaps most fondly, the womba…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMFriday, March 14, 2025
Boundlessly creative is the only way I can think to describe Avant Barde Theatre’s production of “The Margriad.” A complex assemblage of four of Shakespeare’s history plays—the thr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:05PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
Characters in Harold Pinter’s plays tend to have a shorthand when it comes to their conversations. That is, the words they say to one another are generally packed with a lot more meaning t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:41PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
What is “art?” This is the question that Tony award-winning, French playwright Yasmine Reza puts front and center in her quirky drama, “Art” (translated by Christopher Hampton). The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:06PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Getting a new musical on its feet is notoriously difficult. Generally speaking, this is why smaller regional theatres don’t often try it. In the case of Bethesda Little Theatre’s mountin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:34PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Often, we have difficulty seeing beyond the challenges and barriers specific to our own situation or to our own country. Plays like Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “Kunene an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
Perhaps best known for his Pulitzer-finalist “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” playwright Rajiv Joseph walks a different artistic path with “The Lake Effect” now playing at 1st Stag…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:02PMMonday, February 17, 2025
Immersive theatre can take a number of shapes and occur in any number of venues. Bob Bartlett’s “Love and Vinyl” is immersive, record-store theatre with a quirky, highly entertaining e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:43PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
Given this incredibly challenging artistic and national moment, it is so good to see that DC theatres aren’t afraid to embrace material that may be considered on the more controversial sid…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:24PMWednesday, February 5, 2025
Acclaimed DC playwright Karen Zacarias’s “Native Gardens” has been well produced in regional and community theatres across the country—with good reason. While on its surface, this is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:02PMSunday, February 2, 2025
The Reading Room Festival at the Folger Theatre kicked off Thursday with a deep dive into the historic-minded Shakespeare. Artistic Director Karen Ann Daniels invited a few friends to help h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:48AMWednesday, January 15, 2025
The mood as audience members were leaving Studio Theatre following the production of Bruce Norris’s “Downstate” was somber to say the least. Given the play’s themes and several of th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:36PMSunday, December 22, 2024
Playwright Alexis Scheer seems to possess uncanny insight into what it means to exist with a foot in two different worlds, or more, depending on how many feet you can muster. The characters …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:18PMWednesday, December 18, 2024
Always putting on a show full of spirit, heart, and an abundance of feel-good vibes, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC (GMCW) delivers yet again with their holiday extravaganza. Presen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:30PMMonday, December 16, 2024
The Coil Project’s newest “Strange Tales” installment brings four new short plays with equally bizarre, sometimes macabre, and definitely unconventional twists to the stage of Capitol …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:20PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
Musicals don’t get much darker than “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 show, based on a 19th-century penny dreadful, reveals the secret life an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMFriday, November 8, 2024
Joshua Harmon’s 2024 Tony-nominated, epically expansive script, “Prayer for the French Republic,” investigates the horrors of the Holocaust, albeit as more of a side note than headline…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:03PMWednesday, November 6, 2024
The intellectualism of Tony Kushner’s work can sometimes obscure the bigger-picture themes and stories and yet, it is this intellectualism that brands his work as distinctly of its time in…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:11PMThursday, October 24, 2024
Following a sold-out Off-Broadway run in 2023, York Walker’s acclaimed “Covenant” has come to Theater Alliance. Described as “Southern gothic meets the blues,” the show offers some…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05AMThursday, October 17, 2024
Marlene Dietrich is perhaps best known as a symbol of the ever-so distinctive brand of talent and glamour that epitomized the heyday of “Old Hollywood.” German-born, Dietrich came to the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00PM 
