Friday, April 19, 2019
The Colonial Players is one of the region’s oldest continually operating non-professional theatre companies, marking its 70th anniversary this year. The very first production, “The Male …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
The City of Fairfax Theatre Company is marking its 10th anniversary this year. Founded by two Fairfax High School drama teachers and a team of volunteers in 2009, CFTC underwent what Artisti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:14PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
This past weekend, The Washington Ballet again partnered with the Shakespeare Theatre Company for the debut of “Three World Premieres” of contemporary ballet at the Harman Center. The ve…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:39PMSunday, April 7, 2019
Castaways Repertory Theatre has been bringing stage classics like “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and modern hits like “August: Osage County” to Prince William County audiences for nearly 40…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13AMSaturday, April 6, 2019
Tom Stoppard’s 1993 play “Arcadia” is a complex work of ideas, and Lumina Studio Theatre’s student ensemble set itself an ambitious task in taking it on for a just-ended weekend run …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
You art what you eat. Third Rail Projects’ “Confection,” a site-specific slice of immersive theatre open to very limited audiences at the Folger Theatre this month, is many things. It�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:35PMThursday, March 7, 2019
Aldersgate Church Community Theater has been entertaining Fairfax County audiences for three decades. Founded in 1990, the company originally mounted just one or two shows per year. Today, i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:38PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “Vanity Fair,” directed by Jessica Stone, is a marvel and a delight, a hilarious rendition of William Makepeace Thackeray’s puckishly nast…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:49AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
(This is the first in a series of profiles of nonprofessional and small professional theatres in our coverage area.) Since 1996, 2nd Star Productions has been bringing nonprofessional produc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:30PMThursday, February 14, 2019
David Muse’s dour production of “Richard the Third” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company opts for nerve-wrenching tension at the cost of some of the protagonist’s joie de vivre. “Ric…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:48PMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Constellation Theatre Company continues its run of visually lush and challenging productions with its current mounting of Edward Kemp’s adaptation of “The Master and Margarita.” My gue…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:37PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
To a certain generation of theatre kid, “Rent” is a landmark, a seminal work that is also a personal milestone, akin to “A Chorus Line” a generation before and “Hamilton” a gener…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:38AMMonday, October 1, 2018
I brought my friend Maddie along with me to review the Adventure Theatre MTC world premiere production of “Blueberries for Sal.” While I have the experience of some years as an actor and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:54PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is today seen as a sentimental bit of corn that reflects an idealism about American government that has little in common with the real thin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PMMonday, August 27, 2018
Sarah Ruhl’s “Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce,” which is opening Constellation Theatre Company’s “Epic Love”-themed 2018-19 season, is a delightful confection of surrealism…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:01PMSunday, July 29, 2018
With “Heartbreak Hitman,” which just ended its run at the Capital Fringe Festival, Washington journalist Leigh Giangreco serves up what she calls a “love letter to D.C.” in the style…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:05PMCaitlin M. Caplinger’s “Riot Brrrain” is a messy, confusing, raw, and real piece of theatre that takes the experimental nature of the Capital Fringe Festival and runs with it, sometime…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:31AMMonday, July 23, 2018
The stated premise of A Muse Zoo’s Capital Fringe Festival offering “The Truth*” — an “over-the-top comedy about political power and the winners of war” — might lead on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:54AMSunday, July 22, 2018
Happenstance Theater Company’s “Barococo” is a delightful hour that illustrates the full potential of the Capital Fringe Festival. Happenstance got its start with the very first Capita…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:28PMFriday, July 20, 2018
“Titus Andronicus” can be viewed as many things. Some have called it William Shakespeare’s effort to out-gore his macabre rival Christopher Marlowe; others say Shakespeare was satirizi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:25PMSunday, July 15, 2018
Erik Harrison’s “A Slow Bullet” is a rare example of a Capital Fringe Festival show that deserves to be longer. It’s also something of a “meta-show,” to borrow a phrase from one …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:43PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
“The City Of…” at Capital Fringe, by Matthew Capodicasa and based on a short story by Argentine magical realist Jorge Luis Borges, is a funny, creepy, scary, and thought-provoking hour…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:34AMSunday, July 8, 2018
In “Andromeda Breaks,” one of the five Fringe Curated Series productions at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, prolific D.C. playwright Stephen Spotswood gives voice to a voiceless f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:54PMAs I was enduring New Paradise Laboratories’ “O Monsters,” one of the five productions in the Fringe Curated Series at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, I thought often of “The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:42PMMonday, June 4, 2018
With Fred Zirm’s mounting of “A Delicate Balance,” Silver Spring Stage has created a very good production of a very odd play. To mark its semicentennial, Silver Spring Stage — wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:19PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The elevator to Studio Theatre’s Stage 4 opens onto a corridor lined with crates, packing materials, and the stenciled words “Made in Vietnam.” Entering the tight performance space, th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:03AMFriday, May 4, 2018
For a very limited run this week, Denmark by way of West Africa by way of Britain is in residence at The Kennedy Center. The Royal Shakespeare Company has created a sub-Saharan “Hamlet” …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:12PMThursday, April 5, 2018
“Potted Potter”, the good-natured send-up of J.K. Rowling’s seven Harry Potter novels, is back at the Shakespeare Theatre Company for another brief run of dumb fun. Daniel Clarkson and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24AMMonday, April 2, 2018
“Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert” taught me to have faith in NBC, or at least in its live musical endeavors. I was a Doubting Thomas about the Peacock’s plans to mark Easter wi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:10AMMonday, March 19, 2018
David Ives first came to the attention of many theatergoers with his “Venus in Fur” eight years ago or with his adaptations of Pierre Corneille’s “The Liar” and Jean-Francois Regna…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:58PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
“Godspell” has been an American theatrical mainstay for so long that it’s easy to forget just what a strange show it is. It has no linear plot, no particular setting in either time or …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:26PM 
