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 wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:29PMWednesday, 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, slaver…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:01PMDavid 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 head…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PMSunday, 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 01:54PMPlays 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:40PMTuesday, 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 04:50PMWhen 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, ce…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:25PMSaturday, 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 07:06PMTuesday, 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 05:11PMSunday, 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 d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24PMTuesday, 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 o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:42PMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:45PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:50PMMonday, 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 me…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:56PMPulitzer 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:14PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
Psalmayene 24’s play “Out of the Vineyard,” now running at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mt. Rainier, offers an incisive look at racism and slavery in America through stories conveyed b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PMFriday, September 8, 2023
The depressing opportunism that takes on a life of its own in James Graham’s drama “Ink,” is largely embodied by the set design as conceptualized in Round House Theatre’s production,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:52AMFriday, September 1, 2023
Creating a show that appeals to both children and adults can be a bit of a tricky feat. You have to incorporate enough action, color, and vibrancy to appeal to young people while sustaining …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:50PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
When Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Sweat” first opened on Broadway in 2017, New York Times critic Ben Brantley, reflecting on the play’s blue-collar, Reading, PA roots,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:24PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
“Grounded” is a one-woman show that chronicles an Air Force pilot’s transition from flying actual fighter jets to becoming part of what she deems the “Chair Force.” Not previously …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:24AMMonday, August 7, 2023
In rather vehemently discussing the stark differences between the cold, hard facts of science and the reassurance of belief, Mother Miriam exclaims, “I want the opportunity to believe. I w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:07AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Admittedly, I had never heard of “The Absence of a Cello.” This was also my first time attending a performance by the Bowie Community Theatre. Happily, I have to say that BCT delivered, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:07PMSunday, July 30, 2023
Prologue Theatre seemingly isn’t afraid to take some risks when it comes to the types of productions they mount. They are happily in the process of laying the groundwork for a reputation t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:40AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
“The Road to the End” by Bella Panciocco first developed during her senior year at George Mason, is probably among the weightier pieces premiering at Capital Fringe this year. Its subjec…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:11AMMonday, July 17, 2023
“RiverShe Collective Arts: Queer Family Summer Sanctuary” is part religious revival, part variety show and part platform for the kind of quiet activism that emphasizes kindness over in-y…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:22PMSaturday, July 15, 2023
I was not at all sure what to expect from Erin Joy Schmidt’s one-woman show about the somewhat elusive figure at the center of Roe v. Wade. I went in expecting something akin to a politica…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13AMThursday, July 13, 2023
You never know what you’re going to get when it comes to Capital Fringe. With Pinky Swear Productions’ “Bell Wringer,” the cleverly contrived, highly entertaining randomness of it al…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:26AMTuesday, July 4, 2023
Plays containing lesbian leads are sadly—at least in this lesbian’s opinion—few and far between. Broadway musicals containing a lead character who is lesbian are even scarcer. In fact,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:47AMSaturday, June 24, 2023
Anna Ziegler’s 2015 play, “The Last Match,” on its surface is the depiction of an intense tennis match between two rivals, the old guard and the new, and two very different approaches …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:59PMThursday, June 22, 2023
Alison Leiby’s 70-minute stand-up show, “Oh God: A Show About Abortion” is not just about abortion. While the story she tells does ultimately wind its way to her self-professed “anti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:40AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
In “real life,” the course of a relationship rarely runs smoothly. In Theater J’s production of “One Jewish Boy” written by British playwright Stephen Laughton, the relationship at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PM 
