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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Disgraced’ at Arena Stage by Elizabeth Bruce

Assimilation. The Cherokees tried, or so a glance at American history tells us. Finally conquered by the Europeans, they tried t acculturate themselves, to do what the white man said would r…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:35PM
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Othello’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

The first thing one notices about Brazilian Director Ron Daniel’s production of Othello is the bank of gigantic fans high up on the upstage wall–huge, overpowering industrial machine…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:12PM
Monday, February 1, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Folger Theatre by Elizabeth Bruce

Do yourself a favor: Transport yourself out of the snow and slush of politics and hie thee to Folger Theatre for A Midsummer Night’s Dream of enchantment. Superbly directed by Aaron Posne…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:39PM
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Theatre Review: ‘Sancho: An Act of Remembrance’ at Kennedy Center by Elizabeth Bruce

With enough stage charm to bridge the pond, esteemed British actor Paterson Joseph brought his one-man show, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance to the Kennedy Center’s World Stages, and the aud…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:34AM
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Theatre Review: ‘Animal’ at Studio Theatre by Elizabeth Bruce

Among the 50+  world premieres of plays by women playwrights being produced in metropolitan Washington as part of the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival is British playwright Clare Lizzimor…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:19PM
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Fringe Review: ‘Ripple of Hope: One Teacher’s Journey to Make an Impact: ‘ at Tree House Lounge by Elizabeth Bruce

“Yo, Miss,” the students in the South Bronx high school greet the newbie drama teacher, and in her one-woman show,  Ripple of Hope: One Teacher’s Journey to Make an Impact, Karen…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:26AM
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Theatre Review: ‘Tartuffe’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

Tartuffe, David Ball’s sleek adaptation of Moliere’s classic skewering of a scumbag grifter hiding under the skirt of piety, receives a gloriously wicked co-production with South Coa…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:22PM
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Opera Review: ‘Blue Viola’ at UrbanArias by Elizabeth Bruce

UrbanArias’ production of Blue Viola, a new short opera by Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi, fills the Artisphere’s Black Box with deep, resonant voices; an accessible, compelling narr…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:30AM
Monday, February 2, 2015

Theatre Review: ‘Mary Stuart’ at Folger Theatre by Elizabeth Bruce

Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart, a modernized version of which by Peter Oswald, is now playing at the Folger Theatre, is a taut historical drama about two of the fiercest Queens in E…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:51PM
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Theatre Review: ‘Life Sucks (or the Present Ridiculous)’ at Theater J by Elizabeth Bruce

A central irony of Life Sucks Or The Present Ridiculous, Aaron Posner’s new, hyper-hip adaptation of Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya—-now making its World Premiere at Theatre J—is …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:17PM
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Terminus’ at Studio Theatre by Elizabeth Bruce

Word is, storytelling prowess is an evolutionarily superior characteristic of the Irish, and in his 3-character play, Terminus, Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe ratchets up the RPMs of storyte…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:56AM
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Synetic Theater by Elizabeth Bruce

With its new production of Beauty and the Beast, Synetic Theater ventures much more deeply into the changeable world of shadow play.  Featuring marvelous shadow puppet storytelling techniq…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:11PM
Monday, October 27, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Our War’ at Arena Stage by Elizabeth Bruce

Arena Stage’s exquisitely intimate Kogod Cradle is home to a new mutli-voiced, multi-authored production, Our War, about the contemporary reverberations of America’s own civil war 150+ y…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:42AM
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Venus and Adonis’ by Isango Ensemble at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

In the other half of its repertory tour at Shakespeare Theatre South Africa’s Isango Ensemble transformed the Bard’s poetic telling of the Venus and Adonis myth into a glorious, multi-di…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:15AM

Theatre Review: ‘The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo’ by Isango Ensemble at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

Shakespeare Theatre launched its 2014-15 Presentation Series with the ebullient work of South Africa’s Isango Ensemble, which is presenting adaptations of Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:57AM
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Pol Pot & Associates, LLP’ by Longacre Lea at CUA by Elizabeth Bruce

Ackerley not Ackerby Hermetic, as in obscure and difficult for outsiders to understand.  That’s the word for Kathleen Ackerley’s  new play, Pol Pot & Associates, LLP, Longacre Le…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:09PM
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Stupid F***ing Bird’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

Aaron Posner’s Stupid F***ing Bird soared to a triumphant return to Woolly Mammoth this week–a complete remount with its sensational original cast re-assembled and rearing to go…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:18PM
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Fringe Review: ‘Interrogation’ at Mountain at Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church by Elizabeth Bruce

Theatrical theorists weary of plays with their 4th walls intact and the audience’s willing suspension of disbelief tucked safely into their breast pockets can have some fun with John Feffe…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:09PM
Monday, June 23, 2014

Source Festival Review: ’2014 Full Length Plays’ by Elizabeth Bruce

The noted writer and teacher Richard Bausch posits that a writer can do anything except bore or confuse the reader.  Presumably, the same tenet applies to the playwright, with the proviso i…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:56PM
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘The Piano Lesson’ at Olney Theatre Center by Elizabeth Bruce

The late August Wilson is one of America’s great playwrights, and his extraordinary canon of plays is making its debut at Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland.  Theatregoers should not…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:52PM
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Theatre Review: Brief Encouter by the UK troupe Kneehigh at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

The Noel Coward-based play Brief Encounter, the Kneehigh import now playing at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Landsburgh Theatre, comes to Washington as if from another era, anothe…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:13AM
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by England’s Bristol Old Vic in Collaboration with South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, the by Elizabeth Bruce

Once in a rare while, a work of art comes along that so utterly captures the capacity of the imagination that audiences can but weep with laughter and leap to their feet in splendid delight.…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:45AM
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Savannah Bay’ by Theâtre de l’Atelier at the Kennedy Center’s 2014 International Theatre Festival by Elizabeth Bruce

Marguerite Duras’s play Savannah Bay follows a young woman desperate to discover the truth about her mother’s suicide the day after her birth. Writer Marguerite Duras, best kn…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:36PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Ella: The First Lady of Song!’ at MetroStage by Elizabeth Bruce

If you love Ella Fitzgerald—heck, even if you were born last week and are thus only vaguely familiar with Ella Fitzgerald (in fact, especially if you’re only vaguely familiar with her)&#…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:33PM
Monday, January 20, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘La Vie en Rose’ by the In Series at Gala Theatre by Elizabeth Bruce

Lovers of French song and lovers of beautiful music and beautiful dance will love La Vie en Rose.  And lovers of art forms that blend ballet with transcendent voices, lush musicianship, and…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:30AM
Monday, January 13, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Twelfth Night’ at Synetic Theater by Elizabeth Bruce

Renowned for their inventive, exhilarating choreography, it is indeed thrilling to watch the kinesthetically amazing Synetic Theatre ensemble launch into full throttle dances we actually rec…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AM
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Man in a Case’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

Shakespeare Theatre has again welcomed into its home an ensemble of renowned master artists: Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the combined talents of the Big Dance Theater company. An…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:30PM
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Rancho Mirage’ at Olney Theatre Center by Elizabeth Bruce

With substantial support from the National New Play Network, Olney Theatre is joining two other American professional theatres in birthing Rancho Mirage, the new play by acclaimed American …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:30AM
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Elizabeth Bruce

In the masterful hands of Director Jonathan Munby, Shakespeare Theatre has taken Measure for Measure, one of the Bard’s darker “problem comedies,” and transported it to the hedonistic …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:18PM
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Hard Headed Heart’ by Blair Thomas & Company at the Puppets Take Strathmore Festival by Elizabeth Bruce

In the hands—and imagination—of master puppeteer Blair Thomas puppetry becomes conceptual art of the highest order.  And storytelling becomes a visual and auditory feast that will surpr…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:06AM
Monday, August 5, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘The Third Breast’ by Ambassador Theater at Flashpoint by Elizabeth Bruce

Past is prologue and the human heart cannot abide contradiction, certainly not the murderous Orwellian contradiction embedded in The Third Breast by Ireneusz Iredynski, translated by Sylvi…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:49AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards