Friday, September 2, 2016
Every public figure has a brand: a carefully shaped, smoothed over, polished up image that, by design, features only the most salable dimension of the person’s character. Then there’s th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:20AMFriday, August 12, 2016
An essence of Dupont Circle-based Keegan Theatre’s work is “scripts that put real people out there on the stark edges of life.” The edge couldn’t be much starker or farther out there…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:43PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Those who have dared to venture into the grimy, blood-stained corner of theatrical history occupied by the Grand Guignol French Theatre of Horror tradition might know that the success of the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:54AMMonday, June 27, 2016
That second-to-last letter in the LGBTQ acronym represents a segment of the community that is probably least visible and least understood. Ballast, written by Georgette Kelly and directed by…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:17PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
A changing climate—that’s not a bad way to characterize life in America right now. Sure, we (almost) all agree that our planet’s actual physical climate is changing, at best causing in…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
The Taffety Punk theatre group is one of the smallest but mightiest acting groups in the DC theatre scene. This impressive band of professional actors, dancers, and musicians applies the pun…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:00PMSaturday, May 7, 2016
Theatrical productions presented as near recreations of hit films often find themselves in an awkward catch-22. Standing upon a rigidly defined, iconic brand that’s practically guaranteed …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:56PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
You may gain new appreciation for the old saying, “practice makes perfect,” while watching the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s performance of William Shakespeare’s Long Lost F…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:53PMMonday, April 11, 2016
In an election season battered by super-charged personalities, we’re reminded that public officials take widely varied approaches to winning elections and getting things done. On one end w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26PMMonday, March 7, 2016
What makes a lion a lion? Identity is the question of the hour in The Lion, a roaring one-man musical show written, sung and strummed by Benjamin Scheuer and directed by Sean Daniels, whic…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:40PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Simply delicious. That’s perhaps the best word to describe the Adventure Theatre’s new production of James and the Giant Peach, which made its triumphant opening this past weekend at Gle…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:00PMThursday, February 18, 2016
Think back to the last event you attended where you met someone new. Did you make a good impression, or did you totally blow it? Will you never talk to that person again, or could they becom…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:00PMMonday, February 15, 2016
The biblical proverb instructs parents to “train up a child in the way he should go,” with the promise that “even when he is old he will not depart from it.” But what should a fa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:54PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
The centuries old fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk is sprouting up everywhere lately. Most recent incarnations appear in the likes of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, ABC Televisio…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44PMFriday, January 29, 2016
Few venues in the Washington area espouse social justice as intentionally and intrinsically as the Mosaic Theater Company. Such a commitment urges risk-taking that pays off generously in the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:00PMSaturday, January 23, 2016
I was grateful to slip into the St. Mark’s Players’ last pre-Snowzilla performance of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and not only because the next two performances had a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:32AM 
