Friday, May 19, 2023
The theatrical works of María Irene Fornés are generally big, bold and unafraid to move far away from the realm of realism toward the absurd, magical and surreal. Part of the genius that w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:09PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
More intimate theatre spaces often lend themselves to a completely different type of performance experience. Such was the case when I attended Nu Sass Productions’ “Finding Neil Patrick …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:50PMSaturday, May 13, 2023
There is no shortage of plays, movies and television shows centering on the Holocaust. It is an incredibly difficult subject to broach and yet an important one to depict. Shakespeare Theatre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:02PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Sadly, I am not conversant in Spanish, so I was a bit worried that some of GALA Theatre’s production of “La Valentía” (“Valor”) might not resonate or might prove beyond my immedia…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:34PMMonday, May 8, 2023
To bring the extraordinarily difficult topic of suicide to the stage is one thing, to do so while at the same time provoking your audience to see some humor, love, and moments of familial co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:55AMFriday, May 5, 2023
Raymond O. Caldwell, Producing Artistic Director of DC’s Theater Alliance, makes his Signature Theatre directing debut with the Tony Award-winning rock musical “Passing Strange”—a sh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PMMonday, May 1, 2023
Asif Majid’s play, “The Cassette Shop,” is inherently a story about people trying to find their place in a society that is often indifferent to them, if not at times hostile. These cha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:33PMSunday, April 30, 2023
In the 90s, the Bosnian War not only ravaged a region, but the toll that it took on the people directly in the path of all of the violence and devastation was perhaps the most tragic element…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
If you want to understand how a play is born, how playwrights begin their careers, and how theatres nurture new projects, then you need only check out Anacostia Playhouse’s “New Voices, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:37PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Taking a serious and frightening issue such as climate change and turning it into a thought-provoking, heartwarming, and overall entertaining show is no small feat. Graziella Jackson’s new…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:22PMThursday, April 13, 2023
“Jennifer Who is Leaving,” a dramedy written and directed by Morgan Gould, hits all the right notes, deftly blending slice-of-life comedy with some deeply sobering realities about what g…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:11PMMonday, April 10, 2023
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” meets a revamping of that fairytale, starring a Rain Cloud who becomes obsessed with a rain-loving human, meets the sexual confusion/clos…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:21PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
In Mona Mansour’s new play “Unseen,” the focus (with all due respect to the title) seems to be on that which is left unsaid—that which people keep hidden from one another so as to sm…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:39PMFriday, March 31, 2023
“Angels in America” has been deemed Tony Kushner’s magnum opus. It’s a broadly panoramic and searing look at a very specific time in American history—the mid 1980s and the beginnin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:13PMSaturday, March 18, 2023
Telling historical tales set against a modern mindset, if not milieu, seems to be Perisphere Theater’s specialty. Their mission: to produce plays that “examine personal and collective…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27PMThursday, March 16, 2023
The music of Alanis Morissette, for me, represents a flood of memories wrapped in a nostalgic little pill. She was the definitive soundtrack of my college years, and as such, I was extremely…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMFriday, February 17, 2023
There are many stories about people who endure intense sometimes unimaginable suffering by escaping through their art. Art, after all, has the power to bring beauty even in the midst of that…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:59PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Last year, I saw Nick Payne’s “Constellations.” The play twists and turns through time. There are loops; there are rewinds; and there are moments that seemingly emerge out of nowhere. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:45PMMonday, February 13, 2023
The doubleheader presented by 4615 Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda is as much a series of compelling conversations as it is a theatrical production. The plays, “paper …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PMMonday, February 6, 2023
Bekah Bruntstetter’s play “The Cake” combines a number of timely topics with a confectionary smorgasbord for the eyes, and a highly-charged look at more than one relationship teetering…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:54PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
The two-day workshop/staged reading event of “Vanishing Girl,” with music and lyrics by William Yanesh and book by Hope Villanueva, certainly lived up to the hype. From the endearing …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:36AMSunday, January 29, 2023
If there is one thing you can say about Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin’s play currently running at Strand Theater Company, it’s that it certainly isn’t afraid to take some chances. As a result…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:23PMSunday, January 22, 2023
The love story of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda is one that would make for a pretty engaging movie, a lively limited series, or perhaps even a musical. A musical had actually been p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:36PMFriday, January 20, 2023
The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage was created as an artistic celebration of our “collective cultural heritage in the most inclusive and accessible way possible.” A series of free c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
When one conjures images of vaudeville, such images are usually connected to the “variety act” genre: a series of short skits, songs, gags and attractions that offered audiences more dig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:42AMSunday, January 15, 2023
When you think classic sitcoms and those iconic sitcom couples, generally who spring to mind are the likes of Ross and Rachel, Sam and Diane, Paul and Jamie. In Best Medicine Rep’s product…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:20AMWednesday, December 21, 2022
The “Hip Hop Nutcracker” is the new Nutcracker standard as far as I’m concerned. The original 19th-century classic, adapted from an E.T.A. Hoffman story and set to Tchaikovsky’s scor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:20PMSunday, December 18, 2022
Shakespeare wrote a number of incredibly thought-provoking and complex roles for women characters—Cordelia, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Portia, Kate—and the list is long. In fact, some might …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:19AMFriday, December 16, 2022
Especially for fans of Broadway musicals, Ana Nogueira’s new play, “Which Way to the Stage,” is a must-see. Advertised as a comedy that follows NYC musical theatre superfans “Jeff an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:33PMWednesday, December 14, 2022
David Foster Wallace once said, “hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.” When Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox came to town, they certainly made sure that their rece…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:04PMMonday, December 12, 2022
My understanding of Richard Burton’s life and legacy, prior to seeing this play, was admittedly limited to knowing that he was married (twice) to Elizabeth Taylor, not without controversy;…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:34AM 
