"Is this legal?" "More or less!" Welcome to the weird world of D.C. marijuana gifting. In the District of Columbia, every law comes with an asterisk. The Council can overturn a measure passe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:58PM[SHARE]If you laugh at the abyss, the abyss laughs back at you. Samuel Beckett was the funniest of the existentialists who took European thought by storm after the horrors of Nazism and the Second …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]In addition to being a prolific playwright, Lauren Gunderson is also one of the nation's best ambassadors for science. Works like "Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:17PM[SHARE]Currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, "Nollywood Dreams" is a delightful, feel-good telling of the familiar young-girl-makes-it-big-in-the-movies story set in a world that may be new…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Â Lauren Gunderson has made a name for herself"and became the nation's most produced living playwright in each of two recent years"with a series of works that include wordy and funny, fem…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]"Jesus Christ Superstar," the current production the Kennedy Center, reminds us that it is a half-century old " or rather, a bit past that, since the "50th Anniversary Tour" was delayed beca…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AM[SHARE]Â Anne Frank is an icon. A symbol. A tragedy. Anne Frank is also a commodity. Rinne B. Groff's "Compulsion or the House Behind," currently at Theater J, is a lightly fictionalized look at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PM[SHARE]"Flight" contains no live actors"and no actors at all, save for those heard over headphones. It has no traditional set, and yet has dozens of them. It is a work of immersion experienced in i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]"Mysticism & Music," a newly devised Constellation Theatre piece running both in person at the Source Theatre and in streaming production, is not a play. It has no through-line of narrat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:47PM[SHARE]"Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski," now running at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Michael R. Klein Theatre, is a searing and intimate study of a hero who thought he was a failure, port…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:05PM[SHARE]Classic novels and plays have often been reimagined and updated with modern language in high school settings " films like "Cruel Intentions," "Clueless," and "Easy A" come to mind. Works by …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PM[SHARE]The real star of the Kennedy Center's world premiere, commissioned production of "A Wind in the Door" did not herself appear on stage during the show's just-ended run. This one-hour staging …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]With director Angelisa Gillyard's production of "Moon Man Walk," Constellation Theatre Company continues its tradition of exceptionally staged, visually rich performances " this time, rising…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:18PM[SHARE]The Her Majesty & Sons production of "Twelfth Night" is a delightful, quick-paced bit of very midsummer madness that manages to achieve theatrical intimacy even in this time of renewed p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:50PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will leave his position as of next Tuesday in the wake of allegations of sexual assault. Schaeffer co-founded Signature in 1989 and has bee…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:19AM[SHARE]Montgomery County-based Flying V fired Producing Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein and accepted the resignation of Associate Artistic Director Jon Rubin on Monday evening following the rev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:41PM[SHARE]With theatre on indefinite lockdown throughout the region and the nation, Pointless Theatre in Washington is keeping an eye on the future. The decade-old professional company " known for suc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PM[SHARE]Maryland Theatre Guide reached out to more than 100 professional and community theatres, as well as performance venues, in our coverage region about their policies regarding the COVID-19 sit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Harry Potter novels involve certain tropes. There's a mission, some unexpected setbacks, some tragedy, and ultimately triumph due to teamwork, ingenuity, and a bit of magic. All of these ele…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:11AM[SHARE]Taffety Punk Theatre Company, one of the region's boldest and most vital troupes, this weekend offers up a brief 10-year anniversary revival of Artistic Director Marcus Kyd's "suicide.chat.r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:54AM[SHARE]"The Toxic Avenger: The Musical" at Rorschach Theatre is, as one of the characters says late in the show, "a wonderful musical based on a movie most people saw when they were stoned." The sh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PM[SHARE]The best one-word description of "Home, Sweet, _____" is right there in the title. But this 40-minute clowning piece, created by Accademia dell'Arte-trained performer Collette Campbell, is m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]The only bad thing to say about "Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Musical!" is that you will not get a chance to see it at the Capital Fringe Festival. The company of the short musical popped down…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05PM[SHARE]Audiences attending "Caribbean Command" at the Capital Fringe Festival will be presented with a stilted, repetitive debate between four members of the service over which one of them should t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]Annexus Theatre Company's "Thanksgiving at Macbeth's" is a work by a very smart director and very talented actors who all work very well together. Frustratingly, despite the scads of talent …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]"Shakespeare's Worst," a Fringe Curated Series selection at this year's Capital Fringe Festival, has at least two things in common with "Two Gentlemen of Verona," the play at its center: The…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:02PM[SHARE]Fauquier Community Theatre, which marked its 40th anniversary in 2018, has been busily expanding its theatre education programs and upgrading the technical aspects of its venue while still p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:51PM[SHARE]Milburn Stone Memorial Theatre opened in 1992 on the North East campus of Cecil College, but its history dates back further. The Covered Bridge Theatre Company had been performing in various…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:15PM[SHARE]Stand Up For… Theatre is a young company that, along with Erase Hate For Art, makes up How Do You Like Me Now Productions. The two programs work to promote acceptance and equality with the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Studio Theatre closes its current season with a tight, gripping production of Lucy Kirkwood's "The Children" " nominated for Best Play at the Tonys last year " that craftily combines small-s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:42AM[SHARE]Columbia-based Silhouette Stages began as Shadow Block Productions in May 2003 with a production of "Quilters" " the name referred to the blocks individually sewn into the quilts. Like a qui…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29PM[SHARE]
