Sunday, 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 09:34AMSaturday, December 3, 2022
Money makes the world go round—as many of the characters in George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara” would readily agree (except for perhaps the titular one). Summing up a play that una…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:10AMMonday, November 28, 2022
One of the issues when trying to bring an older play to the stage is that sometimes themes don’t quite translate, dialogue reads as irrelevant, and characterizations tread the slippery slo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:24PMMonday, November 21, 2022
It is often said that it can be difficult if not impossible to improve upon the original. But with Solas Nua’s production of “The Playboy of the Western World” by Bisi Adigun and Roddy…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:42PMSunday, November 20, 2022
Bless ji Jaja’s new play “The Window King,” a Live Garra Theatre production closed its run thi spast weekend at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. It seems to take its cue from a num…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:41PM 
