Monday, June 10, 2024
In Workhouse Art Center’s “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a somewhat lonely musical enthusiast, Man in Chair played convincingly by Jeffrey Davis, spins a record on his phonograph of a 1920s m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:32PMMonday, May 20, 2024
In Washington National Opera’s unique and fascinating production of the classic opera “Turandot” by Puccini (directed wonderfully by Francesca Zambello), the setting has been updated t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:17PMSaturday, December 30, 2023
One of the strongest points of the Puppet Co. in Glen Echo Park and its puppet shows is the ability to captivate everyone, from the youngest excited squirmy audience member to the most stark…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:35PMMonday, July 31, 2023
During the height of the inferno of a blazing summer, Wolf Trap Opera took its audiences “to hell and back” with its unusual production of “Faust.” Charles Gounod’s opera, based on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:48PMFriday, July 14, 2023
“Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab orisItaliam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venitlitora, multum ille et terris iactatus et altovi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;multa quoque e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:35PMSunday, June 11, 2023
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is currently presenting “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Director and producer Patrick A’Hearn correctly describes this as a “…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:46PMMonday, October 17, 2022
Flamboyant, sci-fi style costumes help bring “The Valkyrie” (“Die Walküre”) to a new generation in the Virginia Opera production with Claudia Chapa as Fricka and Kyle Albertson as W…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:13PMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Verdi’s “Don Carlo” was recently performed at the Music Center at Strathmore by the Maryland Lyric Opera. While based largely on the history play by Friedrich Schiller, the production …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38AMMonday, February 28, 2022
The story of Turandot has appeared in a surprising number of works, including an eighteenth-century play by Carlo Gozzi, a romantic drama by Friedrich Schiller, and even a modernist offering…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:14PMSunday, January 2, 2022
The Opera Philadelphia Channel, created during the Coronavirus pandemic to stream productions for an opera audience deprived of live productions at the Opera House, has produced a highly acc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:52PMMonday, December 13, 2021
“Momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream…” This quote by Shakespeare’s character Lysander perfectly describes the INSeries production of Henry Purcell’s “A Fa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:01PMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Theatre-goers surely miss attending musicals, plays, and operas in person during the pandemic. While theaters remain closed, the Philadelphia Opera has launched its 2020-2021 season via stre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:04PMMonday, July 27, 2020
“Peanuts,” the classic comic strip featuring “good ol’ Charlie Brown,” spawned a 1967 musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” with book, music, and lyrics by Clark Gesner.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:05PMFriday, June 12, 2020
A rainy night in Fairfax was just the right night for Clue, a game played on a board with dice, pieces, and facsimiles of murder instruments – a murder in a drawing room mystery. The Fa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:27AMSunday, April 5, 2020
“Degas at the Opéra,” an excellent exhibition of Impressionist art with a theatre theme, is currently at the National Gallery of Art. We were fortunate to have had a look at this ex…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:58AMMonday, March 30, 2020
At a time when theaters are closed, Blackfriars Playhouse of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia is streaming productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Currently “Much Ado…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:18PMFriday, March 6, 2020
The anti-hero has a long literary lineage. In the ancient Greek epic tradition of Homer’s “Iliad,” the warrior Achilles is plainly presented viewed as a flawed character — a characte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:28AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
Two World War II-era sailors tap-dancing along “on the town,” so to speak, visit a movie studio with a vintage movie camera ready to film. “What Ought We to Do?” In this conceit,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:10PMThursday, January 16, 2020
The Olney Big Band plays swing music from the 1930’s-1940’s era. Yet the fact it is able to play in different styles and perform diverse material makes its unique repertoire accessib…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:18PM 
