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 02:35PMThe 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 08:12PMDo 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 05:39PMWith 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 07:34AMAmong 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“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 11:26AMTartuffe, 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 05:22PMUrbanArias’ 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 10:30AMFriedrich 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 09:51PMA 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 09:17PMWord 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 11:56AMWith 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 12:11PMArena 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 10:42AMIn 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 10:15AMShakespeare 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 09:57AMAckerley 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 07:09PMAaron 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 12:18PMTheatrical 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 04:09PMThe 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 05:56PMThe 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 04:52PMThe 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 07:13AMOnce 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 12:45AMMarguerite 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 12:36PMIf 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 09:33PMLovers 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 11:30AMRenowned 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 08:00AMShakespeare 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 07:30PMWith 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 11:30AMIn 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 08:18PMIn 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 08:06AMPast 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…
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