Even if you are too young or out of the loop to know the name Gloria Estefan, you almost certainly know some of her earworm hits like “Conga” and “1-2-3.” The musical depicting her r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:35PMOn May 17, 2022, friends and supporters of Signature Theatre gathered at Capital One Hall in Tyson, VA for the 11th Sondheim Award Gala. The evening celebrated Signature’s reopening season…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:25PMWhen Chelsea Marcantel was commissioned by Signature Theatre in February 2020 for a new play, she had no way to know the profound changes and losses soon coming to her industry and world. He…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:18PMMove over Arthur Miller, there’s a fresh playwright in town with a steaming hot take on “witch hunts.” Unlike the witches in Miller’s staple of American canon, “The Crucible,” th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:56AMIn 1993, Octavia E. Butler imagined what awaited 30 years in the future, setting her novel, Parable of the Sower, in 2024. Many of Butler’s predictions have proven accurate: fires and drou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:00PMIn an uncanny coincidence of timing while the world focuses on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “We Declare You a Terrorist…” at Round House Theatre takes a somber look back on a viole…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:34PMPoet Alfred Tennyson once wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.” But what if you knew the odds of grief and heartbreak before investing your heart…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23PMWhen a few bars of “Dance at the Gym” from “West Side Story” elicits an impromptu on-beat shout of “Mambo!” from the audience, you know you’ve got a crowd of serious fans. In k…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:08PMIf those walls could talk, Daphne’s Dive—a fictional Philadelphia neighborhood bar—would perhaps have more to tell than it ought. …entertaining…A powerful cast… With the Puerto R…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:44AMThe Cuban Missile Crisis. The Civil Rights Movement. The setting is 1936-1965, America and the afterlife. Characters: Mary, Jack, Cicely, Cord, and Jackie. The program cover: suspicious eyes…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:41PMThe Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC is back to live in-person performance! With ample sequins and a sprinkling of snow, the 80+ singers alongside a dozen dancers and 20+ member youth ch…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:42PMA strange loop is a cognitive science term, encapsulating “the idea that your ability to conceive of yourself as an ‘I’ is kind of an illusion. But the fact that you can recognize the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:00PMWith over 14 million copies sold, Tuesdays with Morrie stands among the most popular and most read books in the world. What makes Mitch Albom’s memoir of the days he shared with his dying …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:32PMThese days, you’ll hear “Rent” sometimes called “the Hamilton of its time.” While the parallels are obvious—throngs of borderline obsessed young fans; groundbreaking diversity; a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:17PMAfter more than two years without in-person performances, Young Artists of America gathered inside the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on November 7, 2021 for its fall mainstage product…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:17PMCuba is on the cusp of crisis. Fidel Castro is struggling to make the right decisions when revolutionary Celia Sánchez returns, four months after her death. Directed by Molly Smith, the pre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:33PMIn 1937, world-renowned opera singer Marian Anderson was denied a hotel room in Princeton, NJ on the basis of race. Albert Einstein, a social justice activist and admirer of Miss Anderson, o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:41AMWho is to blame when a baby dies? Weathered old brick and burgundy carpets replace stained glass in Margaret Alexander’s church, where she warns a young mother, “Don’t let the lord hav…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PMIn modern-day Texas, Don Quixote rides gallantly once more. Accompanied by his squire, Sancho Panza, in pursuit of his lost love Dulcinea, he adventures throughout the land. Except Don Quixo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:11AMOn Friday, September 10th, thousands gathered alongside the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool for a Canadian musical about American tragedy. On the eve of the somber 20th anniversary, with th…
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