Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Chicago’s Mary Zimmerman is no stranger to the D.C. stage. Her productions of “Moby Dick” at Arena Stage and “Argonautica” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company come vividly to min…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:11PMMonday, August 1, 2022
The summer of 2022 has been a time to reconnect with live theatre, and especially live, community theatre. This year, The Bard’s Wagon Players returned to Reisterstown and Catonsville with…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:43PMSaturday, February 12, 2022
In a way, the idea of reviewing a show that is soon to be sold out seems redundant. Everyone knows this is an awesome piece of work—a Broadway classic in the making—so why bother? If for…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:01PMSaturday, May 22, 2021
If you think you’ve been in Hell lately, guess again. The Rude Mechanicals have pulled out all the stops, left no Web- or Zoom-based stone unturned to bring you a truly delightful, live ve…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:27PMThursday, May 20, 2021
If you’re a denizen of Mark Zuckerberg’s infernal world, by this point you may have had a couple friends who have been tossed into “Facebook Jail” for a few days. They usually ann…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:48PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
One of the silver linings of theatre closures from COVID — one of the few, mind you — was the decision to capture productions on film. When the production is as high-caliber as the Harol…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:58PMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Just as every premiere of an August Wilson play on Broadway was a major event, every film based on his plays should shake the earth beneath our feet. Especially for those of us who, being wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:27PMFriday, January 31, 2020
Among the many treasures of world theatre, the tradition of shadow puppets is one of the most fascinating. From Southeast Asia to the Mediterranean, the deceptively simple spectacle of fla…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:39PMMonday, October 22, 2018
One of the great pleasures of being part of the Washington, D.C. theatre scene for so long is that I get the chance to kick back and talk shop with former colleagues—especially those whose…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:01AMMonday, May 28, 2018
Once upon a time Anton Chekhov, the Russian playwright, had a huge problem: his director, Konstantin Stanislavsky (not his real name, by the way) kept on treating his comedies as if they wer…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:52PMSaturday, December 16, 2017
Given the plethora of productions this time of year, it’s a struggle to make Charles Dickens’ classic story your own. The characters of Scrooge, Marley, Cratchit et al. are practically…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:05AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
To appreciate what Lauren Gunderson has accomplished with her latest historical play, “The Book of Will,” it pays to leaf through your Norton Facsimile of the First Folio, as the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
The “Pope of Trash” hosts a sleep-away camp in Litchfield County, Conn. Yes, there were marshmallows, polyester and nudity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00AMThursday, October 12, 2017
So when did the 60’s end for you? When Jimi and Janis died? When the Beatles broke up? When Reagan got elected? Or did it take the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, fo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:19PMFriday, June 9, 2017
Oh, for the days when a snappy prologue got you in the mood for a night of great theatre. Time was when someone would come out before curtain with a little witty patter, a bit of poetry to…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:11PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
The great French novelist Victor Hugo was a notorious provocateur; when he wasn’t writing plays so partisan the government banned them after one night, he was firing up the popular imagina…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:16PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Normally when a theatre company rolls out its new season there’s little to do but listen to boring speeches, nosh a little, drink a lot, and pretend to schmooze with Board members you’ll…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:23PMMonday, February 27, 2017
Broadway hits have a mixed record when it comes to longevity. Some capture the zeitgeist but don’t maintain a strong presence in the repertory in later years; others appeal to New Yorker…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:10AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Deep down we’re all apes, right? Kissing cousins with the monkeys, gorillas and of course those adorable chimps. We’ve got the bananas, we’ve got our instincts, our sense of turf a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:15AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Playwriting being a solitary task, it should come as no surprise that playwrights often enjoy pursuits that are equally solitary. Take fishing, for example – given the crush of audiences…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:04PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Watching President Obama’s farewell address from Chicago this week was an occasion to think of all the progress we have made in this country over the past eight years—as well as the vast…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:29PMSunday, November 27, 2016
Face it, we’ve all survived a brutal presidential election season; it was especially brutal if you found yourself on the losing side. You look around at your neighbors, wondering who vot…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:59AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
‘Tis the season for nostalgia, it seems; hipsters of a certain age are flocking to the Avalon Theatre to catch the Beatles documentary “Eight Days a Week” coming face-to…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:00PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
Director/artist Thomas W. Jones II is a theatrical threat on many fronts: he choreographs, he directs, he writes scripts and lyrics—you name it he does it. What’s more, he has some o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:13PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
One of the attractions of the Contemporary American Theater Festival is Artistic Director Ed Herendeen’s willingness to challenge his audiences with audacious work that takes you right up …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:32AMFew classics of the American stage loom quite as large as A Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical account of a theatrical family, of means, plagued by the da…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:22AMWhen we last caught Christina Anderson two years ago she was solidly in the present, examining the complex psychology of the neglected and dispossessed in the American Northwest with her pla…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:12AMCan there be anything in the world more annoying than late arrivals? You know the ones – harried, apologetic, sitting right in front of you and so-o-o-o-o self-obsessed? And do they ev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:05AMWe’re in a nicely-appointed New York flat, the kind with stairs down to the couch that you never see in real life apartments but I swear I saw everywhere on TV in the 80’s. There is a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:55AMFriday, June 3, 2016
It is a rare gift to see an established performer live onstage – and even rarer to see her making her way through a new piece informally. As odd as it might sound, it can be a thrill to se…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:06PMFriday, May 20, 2016
Just when you thought the Irish were going to get all ‘Danny Boy’ on us with the Centenary of the Easter Rising, that ill-fated but auspicious attempt to occupy the General Post O…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:07PM 
