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 01:00PMMake no mistake about it, Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theatre has the edge. If you are looking for an intellectually challenging, experimental theatrical production, then P.O Box Unabombe…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AMWriting about the end of the world is hard. Creating theatre about the end of the world is even harder. What must it be like facing that horrible, final stop in time? Quotidian Theatre�…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:36PMAn Evening with General Ulysses S. Grant, written and performed by Storyteller “Country Joe” Rosier, has a disarming casualness about it. When Grant enters the small conference space a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AMOne-person shows are hard, for the performer and for the audience. For the performer, its difficulties are obvious: you are flying solo without a net or a parachute. For the audience, w…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:53PMSam Shepard’s Heartless is perhaps his best–and definitely his most mature–play, which is not to say it is his most accessible. For it is not. In fact, though the charac…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:41PMVery rarely does one get the opportunity to witness a completely meaningless piece of theatrics, and enjoy it. Usually, even the supposed meaningless has, unbeknownst to the producing arti…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AMMark St. Germain’s world premiere of Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah is an emotionally taut, funny drama about two of America’s most famous, and important, literary figures, F. Sc…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:13PMThe 2011 Occupy Movement profoundly affected the American social landscape, forcing all but the most psychologically reactionary to acknowledge the impact of class on people’s understandin…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMLiz Duffy Adams’s A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World begins with a promising premise. Abigail Williams, the young girl whose visions of demons and witches initiated the …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PM“Money money money Water water water” The great American poet Theodore Roethke penned those lines in his famous poem, The Lost Son. I couldn’t help but remember the phrasing after ex…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:18AMWe have now lived with the ubiquitousness of terrorism for more than a dozen years. During that time we have learned to hate the “terrorist” quite well. We have also learned to kill …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AMOf the 125 productions at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, 33 are solo performances. There are solo shows about dementia, about Robert F. Kennedy, about what happens when you just say …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:55PMIf one ventures into Ten14’s production of The Deadly Seven at the Warehouse, be forewarned. One will not so much be attending a theatre event in the strictest sense of the word, but r…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AMTo be sure, with a festival that has “Fringe” in the title, and with shows called Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000 and Disco Jesus and the Apostles of Funk and Ok Stupid’s Secret Math Lab, …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AMIn Webster “Fringe” means “a : something that is marginal, additional, or secondary to some activity, process, or subject <a fringe sport> b : a group with marginal or …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMThe end of the universe has never been so much fun. Isn’t that, after all, what art is all about: turning even the most tragic of ends into a celebration of the human spirit? Wakka …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMThe Little Theatre of Alexandria produced its first play in 1935, only three years after Twentieth Century opened on Broadway, and a year after the hit show made it to Hollywood. Even th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:30AMSpring must most definitely be in the air. For love is in the theatres. For jealousy and torment are in the theatres. For The Guardsman is in the Kennedy Center, and it is most defin…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:30PMTo be sure, the fury that hurricane Katrina dumped on New Orleans in 2005 is worthy of a Greek moment—some have even suggested the storm was more: an epic expression of God’s disdain. …
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