A pale Ophelia (Maryam Najafzada), dressed in neutral taupe with roses in her now-loosed red hair, picks waterlilies from the fingertips of the ensemble as she wades into the river of their …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:40PMThere’s something risky about going to a show billed as improvisational and includes audience participation. The press release states: “Audiences can expect an entirely different show ev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:24PMAs luck would have it, on the evening of the presidential debate, I was comfortably seated in the Kennedy Center Opera House enjoying the Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” starring Kateri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:04PMDirectors Meg Lebow and Sophie Cameron have attempted to solve the discordant plot of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” which travels from unfathomable tragedy to slapstick comedy t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:58PM“What does memory look like to you?” asks director Jason Tamborini. We have things that help us preserve our memories: photographs, scrapbooks of past adventures and accomplishments, s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:42PMInda Craig-Galván’s “A Jumping-Off Point” makes its world premiere at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre as the centerpiece of the theatre’s third annual National Capital New Play Fes…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:18PMFor the love of peat. Luke Casserly, a performance artist from the rural midlands of Ireland, invites us to imagine the environment, the earth itself, as a living being and a friend. Commiss…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:13PMDirected by co-founder and Artistic Director, Paata Tsikurishvili, “Romeo & Juliet” is Synetic Theater’s final production in their Crystal City home of the past fifteen years. In…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40AMProcessing the death of Stephen Sondheim continues in the theatre community across the nation. Testaments to his genius are represented locally this winter by several productions: two of �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:06PMLong considered one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” Folger Theatre’s production of “The Winter’s Tale” embraces the discordance of the plot elements and takes us on an invigo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:18PMThe anticipatory buzz surrounding David Ijames’ “Fat Ham” was apt prelude to its arrival at Studio Theatre. It had a sold-out run at the Public and then a stint on Broadway. This produ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PM“Nothing means more than being together,” says a young and pregnant Nawal bidding farewell to her lover Wahab, a refugee fleeing the militia as the country dissolves into civil war. This…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:06PM“Hearing an actor speak in her native language is a natural outgrowth of this play’s quest for a more authentic engagement with another culture,” writes David Muse, Artistic Director o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17AM“It started with the trial,” Scout Finch (the delightful Maeve Moynihan) tells us in the opening moments of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s famous novel, “To Kill a Mocki…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:05AM“Music is the soul of Cambodia,” says a character in Arena Stage’s long-awaited production of “Cambodian Rock Band” by Lauren Yee (in association with Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:19AMWho knew how many people would remember Mickey Rooney? Child star turned adult character actor, Rooney first appeared on the vaudeville stage before he turned two. In his lifetime, he appear…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:53PM“Find the heart…not the art.” Olympe de Gouges (Mary Wakefield) needs to write a play “that’s good and important and annoyingly prescient.” In “The Revolutionists,” playwrigh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:20PMAbout halfway through the joyful opening night performance of “Nate the Great” at Imagination Stage, I noticed three young children seated a few rows ahead of me engrossed in Tyler Dobie…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:27PMIn his interview in Woolly Mammoth’s playbill, playwright Dave Harris says, “How do you separate what you’re doing because of your own free will and your own choice, or what you are do…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:18AMThere are no casual or accidental moments in Marsha Norman’s “‘night, Mother.” For both characters, every word spoken and every action are chillingly intentional—there are no “th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32AMEarth receive an honored guest;William Yeats is laid to rest:Let the Irish vessel lieEmptied of its poetry. – W.H. Auden, 1939 With Scena Theatre’s production of “Three by Yeats,” …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:28PMThere was a sense of excitement among the crowd at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for the opening night of “The Nosebleed,” written and directed by Aya Ogawa. I seldom think of D.C. has …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:06PMAt first glance, the silhouette of a Gothic castle on the set of “Beauty and the Beast” seems to signal a journey to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. The thought is quickly dispelled as the cas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:44PMThis world premiere of “Ghost/Writer,” written by Dane Figueroa Edidi and directed by Danielle A. Drakes, is the penultimate production by Rep Stage at Howard Community College. The firs…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PM“The wrong facts get in the way of the story,” claims writer John D’Agata (Colin Smith) in the midst of a heated discussion with fact checker Jim Fingal (Iván Carlo) in “The Lifespa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:41PMEveryman Theatre’s production of “Jump” by Charly Evon Simpson opens with a young woman vaping while gazing off into the distance from upon a high bridge. She drops the vape into the w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:49PMLumina Studio Theatre, a youth theater company based in Silver Spring, is celebrating its twenty-fifth year with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” set in the Ol…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:07AMBased on the 19th-century folktale “Snegurochka” by Alexander Ostrovsky, “Snow Maiden” is a new production created and directed by Helen Hayes Award-winning choreographer and Synetic…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:07PMWhat does assimilation into U.S. culture mean for immigrants from different Latin American countries and economic classes? The points made in “Fade” by Tanya Saracho may break no new gro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:08AM“Legally Blonde,” with music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach, is an energetic, feel-good story where the worst character is justly punished an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:47PMJames Goldman’s problematic “The Lion in Winter” is a well-known vehicle for actors to show off their command of language, rhythm, and sharp emotional turns. It is, in large part, a du…
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