Wednesday, March 12, 2014
1. ‘The Suit’ by France’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at the Kennedy Center 2014 International Theater Festival Most of the theatre-going audience in the United States has a high l…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:52PMMost of the theatre-going audience in the United States has a high level of privilege and, thus, little understanding of the life of the dispossessed, life under the yoke of racial oppressi…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:13PMMonday, March 10, 2014
If you have ever wondered what your lover was thinking as he watched you getting ready for bed from across the room, or as he massaged your back with ever growing passion and sounds of anima…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:31PMSaturday, March 1, 2014
There are at least three reasons you should venture out to see WSC Avant Bard’s new show, Orlando , now playing at Theatre On The Run. First of all, great literature never fails t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:25PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
1. ‘Pluto’ at Forum Theatre, Roundhouse Silver Spring In the 1920s, the founder of French Surrealism, André Breton, famously said: “The purest surrealist act is walking into a crow…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:30PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
In the 1920s, the founder of French Surrealism, André Breton, famously said: “The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly.” Unfo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:30PMWhether by divine order or by sheer coincidence certain people come along and change our lives, for better or for worse. Encounters with strangers, however long or brief, often have a way …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00PMSaturday, February 22, 2014
This last Monday, February 17, The Mead Center for American Theatre at Arena Stage hosted the first evening of The Summit, a three-part discussion on theatre. The brainchild of Molly Smith…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:30PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
Cultural DC’s production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days rings with youthful enthusiasm and skillful craftsman(woman)ship. Karen Lange’s Winnie engages with verve despit…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PMSunday, February 16, 2014
We Are Proud to Present…, now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, asks the simple question: how do six middle class actors from the United States, one of the most powerful coun…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMWednesday, February 12, 2014
1. ‘Mother Courage and her Children’ at Arena Stage, the Mead Center for American Theatre “First of all, Bertolt Brecht is a master playwright, the likes of which come along on…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:30PMFriday, February 7, 2014
First of all, Bertolt Brecht is a master playwright, the likes of which come along only rarely in the theatre. His Mother Courage and her Children is one of the great scripts of the 20th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:30PMThursday, February 6, 2014
Generally speaking, American theatregoers hate mixing politics and art: they almost always prefer the juicy personal drama, the edgy dysfunctional family comedy, or the sexy musical melodram…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:30AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Chinese-American, African-American, Jewish-American, Irish-American, Latin-American, Christian-American, Native-American, White-American, Texan–each of us makes certain choices, willin…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:24PMSunday, February 2, 2014
For Shakespeare’s Richard III, one of the playwright’s earliest history plays, the Folger Theatre has transformed itself. Always an intimate space for the Bard, now the Folger…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00PMThursday, January 30, 2014
1. Ella: The First Lady of Song! at MetroStage “If you love Ella Fitzgerald—heck, even if you were born last week and are thus only vaguely familiar with Ella Fitzgerald (in fact, …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Some plays rely on insight, perceiving deep into the human condition and offering gems to an eager audience. Some rely on wit, exercising the minds of eager audiences anxious to keep up wi…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:00PMFriday, January 17, 2014
At the beginning of Act 2 of The Tallest Tree in the Forest, playwright/performer Daniel Beaty plays the part of Jamal Joseph, a professor at Columbia University. He comes on stage to sp…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:30PMThursday, January 16, 2014
1. Tribes at Studio Theatre “Studio Theatre is on a roll with new, and inspiring theatre. The Apple Family Plays offered us insight into contemporary liberalism. Edgar & An…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:45AMMonday, January 13, 2014
Studio Theatre is on a roll with new, and inspiring theatre. The Apple Family Plays offered us insight into contemporary liberalism. Edgar & Annabel takes us to the dark side of…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00PMThe Capital City Players’ production of Keith Huff’s dramatic two-hander, A Steady Rain, is both tightly drawn and clearly staged. … a disturbing look at the consequences of bigo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:30AMSaturday, January 11, 2014
With Forum Theatre’s world premiere presentation of Meena’s Dream, written and performed by Anu Yadav, the theatre-going audience is given that rare glimpse into the mind of a c…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:31AMSunday, December 22, 2013
With An Irish Carol, Keegan Theatre’s season appropriate Christmas show, you will not find a money grubbing Scrooge or a melodramatically afflicted Tiny Tim. Rather, you get a depressed,…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMMonday, December 16, 2013
Einstein and others have had their thought-experiments. Whether they were chasing after a beam of light or worrying about a cat, they created thought-experiments that used the imagination to…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
If you and your friends and family are in the mood for a fun, witty, and utterly meaningless*** evening of performance this holiday season, then Woolly Mammoth’s presentation of The Pajam…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
1. ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ at Arena Stage “So if you are in need of a little optimism and a renewed sense in the power of people to sit down at a round table a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:30AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
Arena Stage’s production of Todd Kreidler’s stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, by Oscar winner William Rose, is a delightfully funny, wonde…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
With Nicky Silver’s The Lyons we are presented a typical dysfunctional family. We have the dying, cancer-filled, angry father who openly despises his homosexual son; the loveless, shal…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:45PMSunday, December 1, 2013
For the press opening of The Apple Family Plays, a two-play repertory of Richard Nelson’s That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad, Studio Theatre invited the audience to attend a din…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:15PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
1. ‘Sweet and Sad’ at Studio Theatre “Studio Theatre’s The Apple Family Plays is a repertory worth seeing in its entirety. It is truly a unique piece of theatre.” Rob…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:00PMSweet and Sad, the title of the second play in Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays, comes from Walt Whitman’s “The Wound Dresser,” a poem he wrote in reflection on the time he serv…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:04AM 
