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 10:08AMPlaywright 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 10:34AMThough 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 04:55PMTEACHING 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 04:10PMFor 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 11:45AMWombats, 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 05:21PMBoundlessly 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 06:05PMCharacters 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 04:41PMWhat 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 06:06PMGetting 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 12:34PMOften, 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 07:29PMPerhaps 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 06:02PMImmersive 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 05:43PMGiven 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 05:24PMAcclaimed 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 04:02PMThe 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 08:48AMThe 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 10:36PMPlaywright 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 01:18PMAlways 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 05:30PMThe 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 12:20PMMusicals 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 01:47PMJoshua 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 03:03PMThe 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 06:11PMFollowing 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 10:05AMMarlene 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 05:00PMGetting a new play off the ground takes a great deal of work. Playwright Marshall Logan Gibbs and director Maxwell Wolf seemingly hit the ground running with “MonstӠr (Or, #MeToo Brute),�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41AM“Night Sky,” a new play by Pipeline Playwright Patricia Connelly at Aldersgate Church Community Theater (ACCT), tells the story of Julia (Patricia Nicklin) who, now in her seventies, mus…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:59PMDramas about high school students often center on the catastrophic issues that trouble younger generations today. These are generally bigger-picture issues. While certainly incredibly worthw…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:44PMA prominent part of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston has become an acclaimed artistic figure helping define a literary generation and pave the way for those who would follow. Laure…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:04PMEboni Booth won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her play “Primary Trust” and is currently being presented at Signature Theatre. It’s a rather intimate play that investigates the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:25PMTwo-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to his DC roots with “The Comeuppance.” This being only the third production of this play, it center…
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