Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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]Thursday, April 25, 2019
When I took my very first acting class at age 32, having never done so much as a school play, I asked a fellow student with more experience how people in the Washington region found their fi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:50PM[SHARE]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 Anim…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 very d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 years. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 at the S…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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's a to…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 09:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 nasty satire…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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. "Richard the T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 guest for…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 generation later.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:54PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 thing. But…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 and silline…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 of oh-s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:05PM[SHARE]Caitlin 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, sometimes in s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:31AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 one to antic…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 Capital Frin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:28PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 satirizing the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 of its chara…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 figure …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:54PM[SHARE]As 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 Emperor's …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 — which co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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, the audi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:03AM[SHARE]Friday, 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" that…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Jeffe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 with a s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:10AM[SHARE] 
