Thursday, 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 05:00PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Getting 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 11:41AMWednesday, October 2, 2024
“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 06:59PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Dramas 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 04:44PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
A 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 06:04PMSunday, September 22, 2024
Eboni 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 03:25PMMonday, September 16, 2024
Two-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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:46PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
With a 2023 world premiere on Broadway, it would seem that “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is already bound to become a canonical part of American theatre. The first leg of its tour kic…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:14PMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Immediately, the set design of GALA Theatre’s “The 22+ Weddings of Hugo” whisks you into a quasi-paradisiacal realm in which anything seems possible despite the obstacles and detractor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:36PMThursday, August 15, 2024
Presidential elections have this way of bringing out the claws. The desire to win, the need to have one party decimate the other—people’s baser instincts tend to emerge, even in the nice…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:44PMMonday, August 12, 2024
Caryl Churchill’s work has this uncanny way of harnessing the big picture questions of history, science, and philosophy and distilling them down to what these kinds of questions mean for h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:01PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Faction of Fools Theatre Company specializes in a type of theatrical practice known as commedia dell’arte. Most prevalent in Italy during the Renaissance, this art form leans heavily on st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:07PMSunday, June 23, 2024
Aleshea Harris’ “Is God Is” has been hailed as “high-octane carnage,” a mythic journey, and the ultimate revenge fantasy. After seeing Constellation Theatre’s production, I can a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMThursday, June 6, 2024
Through music, dance, and pure emotion, the cast and crew of “Long Way Down” tell a penetrating story that stays with you long after you leave the theatre. Olney Theatre Centre’s premi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:48AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
Rock operas really are their own special breed of show, comprised of vivid costumes, powerful, edgy songs, and very often a heavy dose of fantasy and adventure. The Baltimore Rock Opera Soci…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
Northern Ireland’s c21 Theatre Company, in conjunction with The Keegan Theatre, is currently presenting “Expecting” by Irish playwright Charis McRoberts. Described as a “poetic one-a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:36AMMonday, May 13, 2024
Eva Perón’s story is the stuff of movies, books, and, yes, even ghost stories. The meteoric rise of Evita from Argentine “showgirl” to beloved political figure has been comprehensivel…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:00PMSunday, May 5, 2024
Often the hallmarks of the most provocative theatre experiences are irreverence, a willingness to push the envelope, and the approach that no subject is off the table and no topic is too tab…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:39PMFriday, May 3, 2024
It was a night of fine dining, Broadway-caliber entertainment, and one truly touched honoree. On April 29, 2024, Signature Theatre presented the Sondheim Award Gala to the iconic Nathan Lane…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:45PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Imagining an apocalyptic world in which food, water, and essentially all of the basic necessities are in short supply has become popular fodder for television, movies and, yes, theatre as we…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:20PMMonday, April 22, 2024
Creative Cauldron’s “Bold New Voices” initiative was designed to support the development of plays or plays with music written by women. As Artistic Director Laura Connors Hull emphasiz…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:15PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
The End of Days is some 100 years past and the world is now populated by robots. All humans have tragically died despite their best efforts not to become extinct. Or have they? This is the b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:22PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
Set in the 1930s, “The Nance” harkens back to the heyday of the burlesque era with clubs and cabarets, featuring bawdy stripteases interspersed with comedic acts, dotting Greenwich Villa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:55PMPart deconstruction of a fraught father-daughter relationship, part dysfunctional love story, and part homage to Nina Simone, Dominique Morisseau’s 2012 play “Sunset Baby” is now playi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:01PMThursday, April 4, 2024
Mosaic Theater’s latest offering is, in large part, a searing and satirical look at the prevailing politics of the 80s. It invites audiences into a comic book world of then First Lady Nanc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:46PMThursday, March 28, 2024
Workhouse Arts Center’s production of Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s “Every Brilliant Thing” was not at all what I was expecting—it was so much more. Developed as part solo p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMMonday, March 25, 2024
“Murder on the Orient Express” is one of Agatha Christie’s most well-known novels. As adapted by Ken Ludwig, the play of the same name takes audiences on a train ride they will not soo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:37PM“Migraaaaants, or there’s too damn many of us on this boat” is a play that seriously defies any sort of theatrical genre. Is it a comedy? Drama? Farce? Political satire? Lower budget m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Weddings (as the reception wears on and the alcohol flows) tend to be drama-filled, emotionally-charged events that can, with the mere flip of a switch, devolve into overly confessional hotb…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:59PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
Eleanor Burgess’ “The Niceties” is a deeply intense two-hander that deftly blurs the line between hero and villain, as it is nearly impossible to completely ascribe any one category to…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:52PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Pulitzer Prize finalist “Rapture, Blister Burn” gives playwright Gina Gionfriddo a theatrical platform from which to explore the topic of feminism from just about every conceivable angle…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:46AM 
