Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Sweet 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 01:04AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
When Brazilian theatre artist Augusto Boal brought his politically revolutionary theatre of the oppressed to Europe and the United States several decades ago, he discovered that his techn…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Les Miserables Storms the Barricades at the Reston Holiday Parade on November 29, 2013 The cast and crew of the Reston Players production of Les Miserables are excited to announce the…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:56AMFriday, November 15, 2013
After experiencing Mies Julie, the South African production based on August Strindberg’s incredible drama and written and directed by the equally incredible Yael Farber, I returned home f…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
1. Mies Julie at Shakespeare Theatre Company “Simply put, from the production to the performances, the Baxter Theatre Center and the South African State Theatre have given us the must…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:00PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, now playing at Silver Spring Stage, looks deeply at innocence violated; it looks disturbingly at the creative mind’s response to that violation; it loo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMSunday, November 10, 2013
Before a show, I never read the program. I read the title, which in this case is Appropriate. I like to experience a theatrical performance raw, without the parameters that someone’s…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:27PMThursday, November 7, 2013
A Staged Reading with Acclaimed Actress Kathleen Chalfant Performance of Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for my Father Tony Award® nominee Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, Wit) will per…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
The ghost story, the horror movie, Fright Night! When one thinks of theatre, one does not usually turn one’s mind toward theatre as a good vehicle for the spine chiller. Words can weav…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:00PMFriday, November 1, 2013
“A rose is a rose is a rose.” Gertrude Stein’s famous line spoke to the reality of the object: the object in its materiality trumps the symbolic name we offer it. Hence, “a rose …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PMThursday, October 31, 2013
1. Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill at Signature Theatre “What makes this deluge of unhappiness so special is its fierce combination of exquisite comedy and agonizing pain. This f…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:30PMMonday, October 28, 2013
Parents, caregivers, aunties, nannies, grandparents and godparents: people who love children and care for children and know the struggle to raise them. Do I have a show for you! The Nigh…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Samuel Beckett’s Nell (from Endgame) says, “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.” The four characters in Paul Downs Colaizzo’s new play are deeply unhappy. In fact, they are s…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00PMSaturday, October 26, 2013
Love in Afghanistan, Arena Stage’s world premiere of Charles Randolph-Wright’s new play, has all the themes that would make a Washington liberal proud. A bi-cultural romance built on m…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMMonday, October 21, 2013
As directed by Aaron Posner, Shakespeare’s love tragedy, Romeo and Juliet (renamed Romeo & Juliet), should have been renamed simply Juliet, not because actors Michael Goldsmith (Romeo)…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:24PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
1. Dracula at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company “There are not many places where you can literally follow around the iconic Count Dracula, and become a part of something as well done a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AMMonday, October 7, 2013
As of Saturday, October 5, the US Government was still shutdown. · This, despite the fact that all government employees will now earn a pay check because our lawmakers deemed it so. · This…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMSaturday, October 5, 2013
You do not hear much about “deicide” these days. After all, America is a very religious country; churches, synagogues, mosques, and other assortments of temples and holy clubs clutter …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:38PMFriday, October 4, 2013
First a prologue to the review: because of the government shutdown, Ford’s Theatre could not use their space for the press opening. They also have had to cancel Wednesday’s performance…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
1. Saint Joan at Olney Theatre Center “Saint Joan is great because it cuts to the core of our human dilemma; it is rarely done because in so cutting, so articulately, it leaves the the…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:51PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Titus Andronicus—one could not ask for a more violent play, complete with dismemberment and cannibalism. With Shakespeare’s “Lamentable Tragedy,” as performed by Taffety Punk’s a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:05AMFriday, September 27, 2013
George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan reverberates with as much force today as it did in 1923 when it opened on Broadway, three years after the canonization of Joan of Arc and one year prior …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:30PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Paula Vogel wrote The Baltimore Waltz several years prior to her Pulitzer Prize winning play How I Learned to Drive. Although both plays share a sense of fun, both plays are also deadly…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:46PMFriday, September 20, 2013
Many of us have aging parents; some of us have even spent long periods of time with a parent during those final declining days. Those of us who have known that the comedy of such situation…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:40AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
When the curtain comes down on act one of 1st Stage’s The Pitmen Painters the audience bursts into applause—and why not? Breaking the fourth wall, our five coalminers turn to us and…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:00PMMonday, September 16, 2013
Don Juan—we all know him—the womanizer, the deflowerer of virgins, the cad … the hypersexual hedonist and habitual liar … the atheist. In other words, an all-round wonderful 21st …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMSunday, September 15, 2013
Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit, now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, uses the currently bankrupt Motor City as a symbol not a place, as that point of nostalgia when America—fresh f…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
There is much to love about Forum Theatre’s season opening Agnes under the Big Top now playing at its Silver Spring location. The play by Aditi Brennan Kapil has poetic brilliance at tim…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:59PMFriday, August 16, 2013
Although Don McLean and his repertoire of hits from “American Pie” to “Vincent” was the headliner, Judy Collins with her still angelic, pure voice was the Wolf Trap regular, making h…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:30AMThursday, August 15, 2013
I just found out about Forum Theatre’s new ”Forum For All” ticket policy, and I just had to write about it. Essentially, Forum Theatre has decided to institute what amounts to a “…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMSunday, August 4, 2013
Alan Bennett’s 1999 comedy The Lady in the Van, now playing at the Randolph Road Theatre (produced by the Unexpected Stage Company), has a lot going for it. Bennett’s writing is livel…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PM 
