Saturday, April 1, 2017
Peter Brook has been called “our greatest living theatre director”, so his inclusion in The Kennedy Center’s “Spotlight on Directors” series is a straightforward one. Nonetheless, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:03PMMonday, March 27, 2017
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s “Petrushka” on Saturday night was a masterclass in ‘how to do’ orchestral music. An exciting and intelligent program, a captivating soloist and f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:20PMSaturday, March 18, 2017
I hope that – from time to time – everyone else has the nagging concern that they might secretly be ‘a Mrs. Miller’, because I certainly do. A housewife from Claremont, Calif…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PMFriday, March 3, 2017
The time is the present, the place a ‘sacred site’. Part religious rite, part parable, part Gospel musical and part Greek tragedy, “The Gospel at Colonus” is a rich tapestry, and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:09AMMonday, February 27, 2017
The caricature of classical music is that it is ‘serious’ music. The serious conductor conducts the serious musicians, while the audience looks on, seriously. Revealing the lie of this, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:21PMMonday, February 20, 2017
Gaveaux’s opera comique “Léonore, ou L’Amour conjugal” has become something of a historical footnote to Beethoven over the years. Wildly popular in late to post-revolutionary France…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:35PMSaturday, February 11, 2017
Both the Artistic Director of Arena Stage, Molly Smith, and the director of their powerful new production, “Watch on the Rhine”, Jackie Maxwell, emphasize the importance of conte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Finegan Kruckemeyer’s “At Sea, Staring Up” is about the in-between places. The place – physical and emotional – between people, the place between the real and the unreal, t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:10PMThe planned Parisian premiere of Enrique Granados’ one-act opera “Goyescas” was canceled because of World War I, opening instead at The Met in 1916. It was so positively received that…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:05PMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Ivo Van Hove’s “A View From the Bridge” is flawless theatre. It is visceral, detailed, and beautifully wrought with acute clarity of intent and singularity of vision. Arthur Miller’s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:37PMFriday, November 18, 2016
Constellation Theatre’s latest offering is a screening of Fritz Lang’s iconic film “Metropolis,” to live original music composed, improvised, and performed by Tom Teasley. When “Me…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:42PMMonday, November 14, 2016
A story of old-fashioned love overcoming circumstance with catchy tunes and moments of emotionally moving music amidst a background of well-crafted silliness. What else could you ask for? If…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:37PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
“Rameau’s Nephew,” translated and adapted by Shelly Berc and Andrei Belgrader, after Denis Diderot’s “Le Neveu de Rameau,” is an imaginary dialogue between “I,” The Ph…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17PMMonday, October 24, 2016
The In Series’ latest offering is a real treat for a Sunday afternoon. Performed at Source Theatre, “The Romantics III” features the songs of Robert Schumann (1810-1856), in a salon-st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22PMSunday, October 23, 2016
The American University Department of Performing Arts production of Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart’s “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum” goes for the s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:57PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
The four violin concerti that make up Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” seem to be somehow firmly lodged in our cultural collective unconscious. I have friends who have never attend…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:50AMFriday, July 22, 2016
There is much to love in Dial R for Robot, billed variously as “a sci-fi Hitchcock rock opera” and a “multimedia rock opera re-boot.” At its (beating, digital) heart is the eclectic …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
The Forgotten Opera Company is the “alter-ego” of The Victorian Lyric Opera Company, and could perhaps be described as the ‘new music wing’ of the company. A community theatre compan…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:07PMMonday, July 18, 2016
Unexpected Stage Company’s production of 8 STOPS, written and performed by Deb Margolin, tackles universal themes, but through a very personal experience of birth, illness, and above all, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:46PM35mm: A Musical Exhibition is a concept musical written around a series of photographs by Matthew Murphy, which are projected in this production onto the back wall as the songs are sung, wit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:36PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, at the Community College of Baltimore County, has been making theatre for the greater Baltimore area for more than forty years. One of their diverse offering…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:52PMSunday, June 12, 2016
Ahrens and Flaherty, the songwriting team behind Ragtime the musical, are probably best known outside of the theatre for their Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated work on the animated f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:51PMFriday, June 10, 2016
There is something exciting happening over on 14th Street. This year’s Source Festival, organised by CulturalDC runs from June 8 to July 3, and has the kind of energy than can only be wrou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Theater Alliance’s production of Bekah Brunstetter’s Going to a Place where you Already Are may begin at a funeral and end in heaven, but it covers a lot of ground in between. It is also…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
The Pallas Theatre Collective exists not just to stage new musical theatre, but to go through the vital process of developing it. This is a tricky, and often untold, part of every suc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:36PMFriday, June 3, 2016
There’s an excitingly fine line between hilarity and heartbreak in Ayad Akhtar’s The Who & the What, the final production of Round House Theatre’s 2015/2016 season. It̵…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:44PMThursday, May 26, 2016
It’s been a big year for Shakespeare, and 400 years on he can seem as remarkably modern as he does, sometimes, show his age. Ed Sylvanus Iskandar’s new production of The Taming of The Sh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
The final production in Forum Theatre’s twelfth season, Blackberry Winter by Steve Yockey, forms part of the National New Play Network’s flagship initiative of Rolling World Premieres. A…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Happy Hour, Spooky Action Theater’s innovative new production in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Washington, is currently playing at their usual home inside the Universalist Na…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:14PMFriday, January 22, 2016
Lynn Nottage’s Sweat masterfully explores the experience of a group of workers in Reading, PA, against the shifting economic realities of the year 2000. Recession and the de-industrializa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:02PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Equus, now playing at Constellation Theatre Company, follows the story of child psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (played here by Michael Kramer), and his interactions with 17-year-old patient Al…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PM 
