Sunday, May 31, 2015
With the Presidential race heating up, some of us might find ourselves thinking you’d have to be brain-dead to vote for one candidate or another. Woolly Mammoth’s Zombie: The Am…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:07PMFriday, April 10, 2015
It is nearly impossible to think of modern absurdist playwrights without thinking of Christopher Durang. Mostly popular in the 1980s with plays including Baby With the Bathwater and Sister M…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:36PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
It’s a touchy subject – the relationship between a priest and a young boy. Nowadays, it’s the kind of story that makes most people uncomfortable. Yet that is just what John Patrick Sha…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:00PMThursday, February 26, 2015
Showcasing the best tenor-dominated songs from music and show business alike, Signature Theatre is now running Signature Tenors. The latest in their Cabaret series, the showcase covers every…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:23PMSaturday, February 21, 2015
Written by famous screenwriter Nora Ephron, Love, Loss. And What I Wore is now playing at Next Stop Theatre Company. This collection of stories from various women about outfits that they or …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:08PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
For those to whom silent theater seems an oxymoron, Synetic Theater’s decade-long decision to produce wordless Shakespeare must seem a very strange decision. How does one tell a complex, m…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:20PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
At last there is a musical for those who enjoy horror movies. Creative Cauldron in Falls Church has premiered an original musical which may be in a genre all its own. Based on Henry James’…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:12PMMonday, July 28, 2014
July 27th saw the closing of the Capital Fringe Festival. Before it went however, I was able to snag some last-minute advice for post-grads from a show called C-. While that grade may strike…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:41PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
For any literary nerds who have ever desperately wished there was a way to get two characters from disparate novels together, the Capital Fringe Festival has now provided the answer. Miss Em…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:16AMFriday, July 25, 2014
Leaves of Grass is perhaps Walt Whitman’s most famous work, a collection of poems numbering up to four hundred. If that sounds to you like a daunting prospect to turn into a performance pi…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:56AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Perfect Liars Club is an underground event in the DC area that has been entertaining audiences for over a year. Most of its performances, including the Fringe shows, are sold-out in record t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:11PMMonday, July 21, 2014
Debuting at the Capital Fringe Festival this year, Tour de Farce follows the antics of Peter, a young man who decides to race in the Tour de France from atop a stationary bike in his Manhatt…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:24AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
To stage a show in D.C. that criticizes the War on Terror takes guts. That’s just what Evan Crump and Unstrung Harpist are doing with Body Armor, which debuted at the Fringe Festival this …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AMMonday, July 29, 2013
“In its first wild promise all the mystery and beauty in the world,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once said. He was referring, of course, to New York City. Paying tribute to this iconic city is L…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMFriday, July 26, 2013
Walking into the space where Field Trip Theatre is performing Fallbeil is a sobering experience. For those unaware that “fallbeil” is a German word, seeing pictures of Hitler and Nazi Ge…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:55AMWhen you walk into the space where Eclectic Mayhem Productions is debuting Mirabilia, you feel as if you had interrupted an improve troupe at rehearsal. The space was missing any elements of…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:30AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
The Afflicted opened at the Capitol Fringe Festival July 16th, running through the 21st. Presented by the Wandering Theatre Company, the play focuses on the young girls and women who accused…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMSunday, July 21, 2013
Silent theatre may seem like an outlandish concept – how can one tell a story or relate to an audience without words? However, 2011’s surprise movie hit The Artist proved that the very b…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AMMonday, June 10, 2013
“I Wanna Rock” – and Rock of Ages is just the musical to help a girl out. This jukebox musical, featuring covers of great 80s bands from Styx to Asia, REO Speedwagon to Whitesnake, (an…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AM 
