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 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 05:05PMMonday, June 12, 2023
“The Laramie Project,” the most iconic and widely produced play developed by the Tectonic Theater Project under founder Moisés Kaufman, chronicles a very well-known and heinous anti-LGB…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:26PMFriday, June 9, 2023
Having strong chemistry on stage suggests that the actors are not only invested in playing their own parts to the utmost of their ability but, also, they are mindful of helping their cast ma…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:50AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Can I get a “Gay-Men!” as part of their season of celebrating phenomenal women which included Whitney, Judy, and Cher, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC (GMCW), rounded out their h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:56AMSunday, June 4, 2023
DC area theatre is alive and well! That was my initial reaction after watching a performance of The Essential Theatre’s Washington DC’s premiere of “Dissonance,” presented by their W…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:51AMFriday, June 2, 2023
Beyond dancing, beyond the hours and hours of practice that go into the artistry of movement, and beyond the insider’s glimpse of a cutthroat teenage competition, Margaret McAuliffe’s �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:12PMSaturday, May 27, 2023
Nu Sass Productions’ “Open” might best be described as a very personal show that invokes some big themes to depict a rather intimate story. Magic is at the center of this one-woman per…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:57AMFriday, 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 02:33PM 
