Tuesday, March 22, 2022
When a young playwright comes onto the theatre scene, their main goal is to get his/her play seen. Of course, who wouldn’t appreciate earning some money as well, but a play without an audi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMMonday, March 21, 2022
Fauquier Community Theatre is presenting the wonderful British comedy, “Noises Off” written by Michael Frayn and directed by Jeff Walker. “Noises Off” is a Tony Award-winning play th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27PMSunday, March 20, 2022
“The Vagina Monologues” was conceived and written by Eve Ensler in 1996. It is currently being presented by the Laurel Mill Playhouse, produced by Maureen Rogers and directed by Hillary …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:54PMOn March 17, 2022, Theater of War Productions premiered “The Nurse Antigone” via Zoom. The work was translated, directed, and conducted by Bryan Doerries and co-facilitated by Cynda Rush…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:26PMAfter waiting two long years due to the pandemic, “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth, produced and directed by Connie Ross, opened triumphantly on March 18 at Silhouette Stages in Slayton Hou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:47PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
On March 27, 2022, the Candlelight Concert Society will be presenting Dénes Várjon, the “a most exciting and highly regarded pianist on the international stage.” The program will inclu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:42PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
On April 1, 2022 Washington Performing Arts, one of our capital’s foremost arts presenters, and GALA Hispanic Theatre, which since 1976 has been a vital supporter of Latino arts and cultur…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:14AMSaturday, March 12, 2022
“Back of the Throat,” written by Yussef El Guindi, produced by Jackie Williams, and directed by Nicholas Bashour, is now playing at Silver Spring Stage. It was first produced at Furious …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:26PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Beginning March 18, 2022, Silhouette Stages will be presenting “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth at Slayton House in Columbia, Maryland. It is based on the motion picture of the same name by…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:37AMSaturday, February 26, 2022
Peace Mountain Theatre Company is currently presenting the iconic August Wilson’s “Radio Golf,” produced by Hal Freed and directed by Eleanore Tapscott. This play was the last of Wilso…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:51PMMonday, February 14, 2022
Beginning on February 17, 2022 Peace Mountain Theatre Company will be presenting August Wilson’s “Radio Golf.” This play was the last of Wilson’s works highlighting African-American …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:42PMSaturday, January 29, 2022
Breaking Light Productions is currently streaming the original play, “Mrs. Hawking,” by Phoebe Roberts and Bernie Gabin on YouTube. Breaking Light is a Boston-based film and stage compan…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:34PMOn February 4, 2022, “A Raisin in the Sun,” the iconic play by Lorraine Hansberry, opens at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. It is directed by Reggie Phoenix. “A Raisin in the Sun” wa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:36PMSunday, January 23, 2022
Online theatrical programming can be anything from polished, professionally-crafted Shakespeare to an original script performed by a small local theatre group from their homes. This opens up…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:03PMSaturday, January 22, 2022
Shakespeare wrote “Much Ado About Nothing” in 1598, and it has become one of his most revered comedies. “Nothing” in Elizabethan days meant “Noting” and refers to gossiping and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:29PMThursday, January 20, 2022
If you grew up in the 1960s, Simon & Garfunkel were part of your life. The duo recorded and performed together until the early 1970s when they went their separate ways, reuniting in Cent…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:09PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
Bach in Baltimore’s next performance is J. S. Bach’s “B Minor Mass” on Sunday, February 6, 2022. Conducting will be T. Herbert Dimmock with featured soloists, Katherine Vetter Cain (…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:11PMSunday, January 2, 2022
I clearly remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, the apex of the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Struggle in the early 1960s. The former indelibly etched in my brain due to the fear of nuclear wa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:20PMMonday, December 13, 2021
What a wonderful Holiday gift is coming on Friday, December 17, 2021 for not only the residents of Laurel, Maryland but for all of those in the DC-Baltimore Area. Laurel Mill Playhouse will …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:10PMWednesday, December 8, 2021
August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” is now playing at Arena Stage on the Fichlander Stage and directed by Tazewell Thompson. Wilson is one America’s foremost playwrights and his plays ha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:45PMMonday, November 29, 2021
I was most fortunate to spend a good part of my childhood through my twenties not far from Broadway. From 1957 to the middle 1990s, if you lived in New York, you were acutely aware of the ar…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:29PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will be present the holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” based on the story by Charles Dickens. This version has a bit of twist CSC’s annual version moves…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:16PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Ayad Akhtar’s acclaimed play, “Disgraced,” was first produced in 2013 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Obie Award for Playwriting that year. It received a Tony Award for Dra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:57PMSunday, November 14, 2021
Olney Theatre Center’s Mainstage reopened with a roar with their production of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.” The show—with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Ti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:20PMMonday, November 1, 2021
On November 11, 2021, Peace Mountain Theatre Company will be opening their new season with Ayad Akhtar’s acclaimed play “Disgraced” at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. This…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:55AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
On November 7, 2021 Bach in Baltimore will present the World Premiere of Hollis Thoms’ “Requiem (2020) [in the time of coronavirus]” at The Maryland State Boychoir Center for the Arts …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:22PMMonday, October 18, 2021
“A Black and White Cookie,” written by Gary Morgenstein and produced by Maura Suilebhan, recently had its world premiere at Silver Spring Stage. The play follows two men, Harold Wilson (…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:41PMSunday, October 17, 2021
“Hadestown,” with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell and co-developed and directed by Rachel Chavkin (“Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812”), officially begins its …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:47PMThursday, October 14, 2021
Shakespeare’s “King Lear” is currently playing at the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory and is directed by Marshall B. Garrett. This is an unusual production as it is presented in the orig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:53PM“Clay’s Place: Inside my Blue Mind” was recently named a quarterfinalist in an international Stage Play Writing Competition. The play takes place in downtown Beale Street in Memphis, T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:28PMSaturday, October 9, 2021
On October 15 and 16, 2021, The Columbia Festival of the Arts will be featuring live performances at the Long Reach Village Center in Columbia honoring the 50th Anniversary of Long Reach Vil…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:56PM 
