Thursday, January 9, 2014
The next time you’re at the National Gallery be sure to visit the old Western Wing—in Gallery 10 you’ll find a masterpiece, the “Adoration of the Shepherds” – biblical in theme, …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:00PMMonday, September 30, 2013
There seems to be a vogue for Oscar Wilde these days, and it’s exciting to see companies that want to give audiences new, innovative stagings of the Victorian aesthete’s work. Those wh…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
You know you’re in for a rare treat when you go to the box office to pick up your ticket, and the staff tells you that the theatre’s original seating plan has been completely changed; in…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Those creepy Irish are back—you know the ones who just stare into the telly or listen to the faded static signal off an antique radio, hunched in their chairs, muttering, rocking away into…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:41AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
Ever since their international break-out hits of the late 80s, “Bamboleo” and Djobi Djoba,” the Gipsy Kings have remained prominent on the music scene, and a fixture at summer festival…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:46PMAs a complement to their performances of Hamlet, the Bard’s greatest tragedy, the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory offers arguably his greatest comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to round o…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:07PMMonday, July 29, 2013
One of the joys of seeing Shakespeare in the open air is that it can remove all the nonsense that has plagued the Bard for decades. Gone is the hyper-subtlety of the Stanislavski “Method…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:04PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
If you want to get your hands on a major center of innovation in Washington theatre, a production that draws from some of the best talent our area has to offer and is relentless in its press…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:24AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
For all our adulation of the Beatles it’s easy to forget that they stood on the shoulders of a scrawny, be-spectacled bean-pole of a dude from Lubbock, Texas by the name of Buddy Holly. …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:17AMMonday, July 1, 2013
Rounding out its 2012-2013 season, Silver Spring Stage has turned to prize-winning playwright Michael Hollinger and his Cold War romantic farce Red Herring. Set in 1952, the year Dwight D…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:46AMMonday, June 17, 2013
If things look a bit funny along Leesburg Pike or Washington Street these days, it may be because Falls Church theatre-goers have been treated to a taste of good, old-fashioned, All-American…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Here’s a recipe for you: take one intimate performance space, add a set evoking three floors in a Victorian manor home, stir in one marriage on the rocks, spice liberally with eccentric …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Although it has often been seen as a vehicle for pop stars, The Wiz has always had the potential to touch audiences and offer some solid life-lessons. It may be fun to watch Michael J…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:00PMSaturday, June 1, 2013
For those of a certain age (and you know who you are), grade-school productions of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado were a rite of passage. Girls donned their mom’s bathrobe and a …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:08AM 
