Thursday, July 13, 2023
You never know what you’re going to get when it comes to Capital Fringe. With Pinky Swear Productions’ “Bell Wringer,” the cleverly contrived, highly entertaining randomness of it al…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:26AMTuesday, July 4, 2023
Plays containing lesbian leads are sadly—at least in this lesbian’s opinion—few and far between. Broadway musicals containing a lead character who is lesbian are even scarcer. In fact,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:47AMSaturday, June 24, 2023
Anna Ziegler’s 2015 play, “The Last Match,” on its surface is the depiction of an intense tennis match between two rivals, the old guard and the new, and two very different approaches …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:59PMThursday, June 22, 2023
Alison Leiby’s 70-minute stand-up show, “Oh God: A Show About Abortion” is not just about abortion. While the story she tells does ultimately wind its way to her self-professed “anti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:40AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
In “real life,” the course of a relationship rarely runs smoothly. In Theater J’s production of “One Jewish Boy” written by British playwright Stephen Laughton, the relationship at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PMMonday, June 12, 2023
“The Laramie Project,” the most iconic and widely produced play developed by the Tectonic Theater Project under founder Moisés Kaufman, chronicles a very well-known and heinous anti-LGB…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:26PMFriday, June 9, 2023
Having strong chemistry on stage suggests that the actors are not only invested in playing their own parts to the utmost of their ability but, also, they are mindful of helping their cast ma…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:50AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Can I get a “Gay-Men!” as part of their season of celebrating phenomenal women which included Whitney, Judy, and Cher, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC (GMCW), rounded out their h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:56AMSunday, June 4, 2023
DC area theatre is alive and well! That was my initial reaction after watching a performance of The Essential Theatre’s Washington DC’s premiere of “Dissonance,” presented by their W…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:51AMFriday, June 2, 2023
Beyond dancing, beyond the hours and hours of practice that go into the artistry of movement, and beyond the insider’s glimpse of a cutthroat teenage competition, Margaret McAuliffe’s �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:12PMSaturday, May 27, 2023
Nu Sass Productions’ “Open” might best be described as a very personal show that invokes some big themes to depict a rather intimate story. Magic is at the center of this one-woman per…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:57AMFriday, May 19, 2023
The theatrical works of María Irene Fornés are generally big, bold and unafraid to move far away from the realm of realism toward the absurd, magical and surreal. Part of the genius that w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:09PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
More intimate theatre spaces often lend themselves to a completely different type of performance experience. Such was the case when I attended Nu Sass Productions’ “Finding Neil Patrick …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:50PMSaturday, May 13, 2023
There is no shortage of plays, movies and television shows centering on the Holocaust. It is an incredibly difficult subject to broach and yet an important one to depict. Shakespeare Theatre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:02PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Sadly, I am not conversant in Spanish, so I was a bit worried that some of GALA Theatre’s production of “La Valentía” (“Valor”) might not resonate or might prove beyond my immedia…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:34PMMonday, May 8, 2023
To bring the extraordinarily difficult topic of suicide to the stage is one thing, to do so while at the same time provoking your audience to see some humor, love, and moments of familial co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:55AMFriday, May 5, 2023
Raymond O. Caldwell, Producing Artistic Director of DC’s Theater Alliance, makes his Signature Theatre directing debut with the Tony Award-winning rock musical “Passing Strange”—a sh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PMMonday, May 1, 2023
Asif Majid’s play, “The Cassette Shop,” is inherently a story about people trying to find their place in a society that is often indifferent to them, if not at times hostile. These cha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:33PMSunday, April 30, 2023
In the 90s, the Bosnian War not only ravaged a region, but the toll that it took on the people directly in the path of all of the violence and devastation was perhaps the most tragic element…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
If you want to understand how a play is born, how playwrights begin their careers, and how theatres nurture new projects, then you need only check out Anacostia Playhouse’s “New Voices, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:37PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Taking a serious and frightening issue such as climate change and turning it into a thought-provoking, heartwarming, and overall entertaining show is no small feat. Graziella Jackson’s new…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:22PMThursday, April 13, 2023
“Jennifer Who is Leaving,” a dramedy written and directed by Morgan Gould, hits all the right notes, deftly blending slice-of-life comedy with some deeply sobering realities about what g…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:11PMMonday, April 10, 2023
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” meets a revamping of that fairytale, starring a Rain Cloud who becomes obsessed with a rain-loving human, meets the sexual confusion/clos…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:21PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
In Mona Mansour’s new play “Unseen,” the focus (with all due respect to the title) seems to be on that which is left unsaid—that which people keep hidden from one another so as to sm…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:39PMFriday, March 31, 2023
“Angels in America” has been deemed Tony Kushner’s magnum opus. It’s a broadly panoramic and searing look at a very specific time in American history—the mid 1980s and the beginnin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:13PMSaturday, March 18, 2023
Telling historical tales set against a modern mindset, if not milieu, seems to be Perisphere Theater’s specialty. Their mission: to produce plays that “examine personal and collective…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27PMThursday, March 16, 2023
The music of Alanis Morissette, for me, represents a flood of memories wrapped in a nostalgic little pill. She was the definitive soundtrack of my college years, and as such, I was extremely…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMFriday, February 17, 2023
There are many stories about people who endure intense sometimes unimaginable suffering by escaping through their art. Art, after all, has the power to bring beauty even in the midst of that…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:59PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Last year, I saw Nick Payne’s “Constellations.” The play twists and turns through time. There are loops; there are rewinds; and there are moments that seemingly emerge out of nowhere. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:45PMMonday, February 13, 2023
The doubleheader presented by 4615 Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda is as much a series of compelling conversations as it is a theatrical production. The plays, “paper …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PMMonday, February 6, 2023
Bekah Bruntstetter’s play “The Cake” combines a number of timely topics with a confectionary smorgasbord for the eyes, and a highly-charged look at more than one relationship teetering…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:54PM 
