Monday, November 2, 2015
As intriguing as its premise, The Metal Children, a play by Pulitzer Prize nominee (not for this work) Adam Rapp lacks subtlety. If vigilantes wearing pig’s masks who terrorize people they…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:21PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
From the moment at the beginning of Maytag Virgin that Jack (William Hardy) casts interested—which quickly turn to adoring—eyes on his new neighbor, Lizzy (Gillian Shelly), we can guess …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:06PMFriday, October 2, 2015
Anyone who has stood mesmerized by a painting or sculpture, wondering how such beauty came into the world (or even how one puts a price on it), will appreciate The Guard. The play by Jessica…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:09PMSunday, September 27, 2015
The suspense escalates—punctuated by humor and moments of sheer poetry—in Steven Dietz’s Private Eyes. Somewhat reminiscent of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and even of David Ives’s Ve…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:25PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
The versatile Noel Coward may have been as English as tea and crumpets, but he found inspiration for one of his most-enduring comedies in the freewheeling American household of actress Laure…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:46PMFriday, September 4, 2015
Before Eugene O’Neill was a household name, he earned his first money as a playwright – $15 – for a one-act play presented by Vagabond Players. That was the second production o…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:59PMThursday, August 6, 2015
It’s probably every actor’s dream to skip over what could be tedious and repetitive rehearsals and go straight to the performance. On the other hand, it’s probably every actor’s nig…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:01PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
There’s a lot of fine acting in Romeo and Juliet: Love Knows No Age, the current production at Wheaton’s Unexpected Stage Company. The staging, by director/co-producing artistic director…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:30PMFriday, June 26, 2015
“There’s no fool like a new fool,” says one of the characters, a simple shepherd who gives new meaning too the term “simple,” in Parlor Room Theater’s production of Neil Simo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:09PMMonday, June 8, 2015
A 19th-century farce by Austrian writer Johann Nestroy (Einen Jux will er sich Machen) has sure had a lot of legs. With a change of venue and the beefing up of a minor character, it provided…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:18PMSaturday, May 30, 2015
For a theater devoted to presenting plays that “start conversations,” the choice of The Shipment as the final offering of Forum Theatre’s 11th season is appropriate. Make that, right o…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:32PMMonday, May 18, 2015
When your name is Arthur Miller, as in the Tony and other Award-wining playwright, the bar is set high. After all, he is the author of Death of a Salesman, which many consider among the gre…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:26PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
What does it mean when one spouse asks the other to take out the garbage? It all depends on the couple and the context. That’s one of the insights of The Language Archive, a play by Julia …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:03PMFriday, April 17, 2015
There’s been a definite maturation since ACW Dances’ last concert in the fall. The dancers seem even better coordinated and confident; the choreography—sometimes by artistic director A…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:41AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Loud applause turned thunderous, accompanied by a long-lasting standing ovation after the opening performance of Man of La Mancha on Monday, March 23 by DC’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. T…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:50PMSunday, March 1, 2015
Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations was inspired by Ludwig von Beethoven’s piano work of the same name, and in one of the play’s joys, we get to hear a fair amount of the 50-minute piece. (…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:05PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Gina Gionfriddo’s dramedy about five flawed characters struggling with ideas of feminism and anti-feminism (and lots of liquor) as well as their own personal and interpersonal conflicts ha…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:20AMSunday, January 11, 2015
Silver Spring Stage has taken on a huge challenge in presenting Orson’s Shadow, a play that moves from the heights of humor to the depths of despair and back and centers on world-famous pe…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:46PMMonday, December 15, 2014
The proverbial wisdom in theater is that dying is easy; comedy is hard; and parody is tougher still. That hasn’t stopped playwright Christopher Durang, master of dark comedy, satire, and a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:58AMFriday, December 12, 2014
Dance and industrial psychology might not seem to be natural allies. But they blend beautifully in ACW Dances’ The Interpersonal Underworld, a two-part modern-dance piece about relationshi…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:38PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Combining intriguing human and non-human characters and a heavy dose of magic, The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare’s best-loved plays. The plot is well-known (even serving as the bas…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:48PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
It’s exciting for the Shakespeare Theatre Company that distinguished British director Michael Attenborough accepted an invitation to oversee a production. His choice—and the opening show…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:39PMMonday, November 3, 2014
To paraphrase a much-more-sarcastic remark by Oscar Wilde about another work of art, one has to have a heart of stone not to cry at least a little at the death of Mimi, La Boheme’s consump…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:41PMTrusting one’s instincts (but backing them up with hard, cold facts) might be the theme of Earth and Sky, a contemporary take on film noir as live theater. This morning, after seeing the p…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:03AMSaturday, September 13, 2014
The broad reach and influence of Franz Kafka’s deeply disturbing, yet funny, story Metamorphosis is illustrated by a line in Mel Brooks’ 1968 film The Producers. Desperate to underwrite …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:59PM 
