Tuesday, January 30, 2024
The final day of the Folger Theatre's Reading Room Festival proved as plucky and spirited as ever. At the center of this Shakespeare-filled Sunday was a staged reading of "Everything That Ne…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2024
This is the second year the Folger has produced The Reading Room Festival, "with new work and conversations inspired by or in response to the plays of William Shakespeare." The four-day fest…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2024
Jordan Harrison's play "Marjorie Prime," a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is one that teasingly flirts with the boundaries between past and future, between artificial intelligence and the far "mes…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2024
Questions of parentage, heritage, and of one's past are hauntingly mined throughout Sun Mee Chomet's one-woman show "How to Be A Korean Woman." Sun Mee brings audiences 85 minutes of raw emo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 24, 2023
Shows that attempt to capture a slice of history are most intriguing when they manage to sincerely transport audiences and are able to not only recreate the milieu, but hit upon that essenti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Friday, December 22, 2023
Usually, when reviewing a play, I will sleep on it. The next morning, if I have lingering questions, I want to see the "sequel" or I am unusually reflective about what I saw"then I know it w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:04PM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2023
Last week I had the opportunity to see four shows. Three of them were larger-budget productions. The fourth was a much smaller show staged in a fairly intimate space. In my humble opinion, b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:33PM[SHARE]Some musicals don't fit inside of a neat little box. Some musicals actually blow up said box in presenting a show that dares to defy conventions. Tony Winner (for Best Orchestrations) "Girl …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2023
The trend for turning movies into big-budget Broadway musicals has definitely been picking up steam in the past few years. From "Beetlejuice" to "Mrs. Doubtfire," numerous iconic 90s movies …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2023
The idea of wrestling with one's inner demons is given a slightly different spin in acclaimed Irish playwright Conor McPherson's "The Seafarer," now playing at Round House Theater. For those…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:19PM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2023
Shakespeare has something for everyone"a  little romance, some sword fighting, jealousy, greed, the most tragic of deaths, but is Shakespeare suitable for children? What's more, can Shake…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:47AM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
While technically there is no public obscenity in this play, the content offers a complex, edgy, and, at times, risqué look at modern Indian culture as framed through the literal and metaph…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2023
The world premiere of Iris Bahr's "See You Tomorrow" at Theater J invites audiences along on a frantic, guilt-driven, and semi-neurotic journey about a woman who is determined to help her mo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:48PM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2023
Nicole Burton's "Wednesdays in Mississippi" depicts a snapshot of the Civil Rights movement as experienced by a group of women from northern regions of the country who traveled to cities and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Perisphere Theatre's production of "Hazardous Material" by Beth Kander paints a post-World War II, Lavender Scare-era portrait of two women whose "scandalous" behavior sets the tone for thei…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]Monday, November 6, 2023
Spooky Action Theatre has deemed this season, under new Artistic Director Elizabeth Dinkova, as one that extends "Beyond Borders""both literal and also more metaphorical as far as the border…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
The DC theatre scene is on fire this fall! Just about every theatre I've had the opportunity to visit and every production I've thus far seen has had a critical hand in helping define what r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2023
As is the case with many of her plays, Dominique Morisseau is not afraid to depict what many are hesitant to say out loud. "Confederates" is no exception. Tackling racism, sexism, slavery, a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]David Auburn's "Proof" won both the Pulitzer and the Tony for Best Play. It has become a widely produced American classic. Ostensibly, it centers on mathematical equations and the heady worl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2023
Musicals are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. Local DC-area composer, Neal Learner, was not deterred. Inspired by the often-passionate conversations centered around urban land-us…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]Plays that "rewrite" history are always intriguing to me. Positioning history as something other than a static set of dates or names or images allows you to draw lines that perhaps weren't p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
The plays of August Wilson are indeed theatrical treasures. The pieces comprising the acclaimed Pittsburgh Cycle (10 plays spanning every decade in the 20th century) are among the most treas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]When thinking about how far the fight for women's rights has come, how much has been accomplished, and how many glass ceilings have been shattered over the course of the past 100 years, cert…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 21, 2023
When people conjure images of superheroes, what generally comes to mind are more traditional caped figures in six-pack outlining body suits with personal branding emblazoned across their che…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Not all plays are about the story. In fact, with many Harold Pinter plays, the story is the least interesting part. His works tend to center on character, the turbulence inherent in the rela…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2023
Stunning, haunting, and entrancing are the words that came to mind as I watched Olney Theatre Center's production of Prince Gomolvilas' play "The Brothers Paranormal." The show's deeply enga…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2023
 Intergenerational stories that spotlight that moment, or moments, when a younger person suddenly "gets" what an older person is going through and vice versa can be difficult to pull off…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 27, 2023
I had no idea what to expect going into Brian Feldman's "Dishwasher 2: I Pay You." Was this going to be some sort of performance art piece? A no-holds-barred theatrical experiment? An ingeni…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2023
The emotional stakes are high in Nilo Cruz's "Baño de Luna" ("Bathing in Moonlight"). Cruz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, also directs GALA Hispanic Theatre's production of his pla…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
"My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" defies genre. It defies any sort of easy categorization. In many ways, it even defies a label like "play," and that is precisely why it is so mesmerizin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:56PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prizing-winning dramatist Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation," like many of her plays, focuses as much on what is not said and the awkward silences as it does on the snippe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:14PM[SHARE] 
