Sunday, September 11, 2022
A bustling, happy crowd buzzed around Wolf Trap’s open air Filene Center Thursday night. Conversations swelled and quieted, mixing with the sounds of tuning instruments and chirping cri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:03PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Nothing gold can stay. So ends the Frost poem and begins our protagonist’s panicked search for a poet to immortalize the orange blossoms in his gardens. But who will be able to write poetr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AMSunday, October 18, 2020
As the pandemic drags on, the performing arts have worked hard to adapt to a safe and accessible format. Theatres have hosted outdoor shows and online staged readings. Performances from well…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:21PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
In 1965 a group of Walter Johnson High School students from Bethesda decided to put on a show over the summer. Lacking adults to supervise their summer theatrics, the teens decided to go it …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:41PMSaturday, June 29, 2019
Trey Sorrells lit up the room. From his first song of the evening, he radiated energy, moving to the music coming from his saxophone and throwing himself fully into his performance. Sorrells…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:52PMThursday, December 20, 2018
As Christmas rolls around, popular culture is teeming with references to Scrooge and other Dickensian characters. But what would A Christmas Carol be without Marley’s haunting voice or Tin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:30PMFriday, December 14, 2018
Fifty-seven years after their debut single, The Beach Boys are back! Though the original lineup of the Wilson brothers, Al Jardine, and Mike Love saw losses due to cancer, accidents, and men…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PMWednesday, November 14, 2018
As you enter the theatre in Sterling, Virginia, you will be greeted by bloody knives and organ music. At center stage is a pair of dark furnace doors. The chilly space is tinged with blue li…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:28PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
An instant Disney classic, “The Little Mermaid” animated film has captivated audiences for almost 30 years. However, transitioning from a charming cartoon with witty banter to a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:27PMSaturday, January 20, 2018
In their new musical ‘The Princess & The Pauper – A Bollywood Tale,’ Imagination Stage tackles a re-telling of the classic Mark Twain story. Described by playwright Anu Y…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:35PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
Toby’s Dinner Theatre, a popular Maryland venue with a buffet and a theatre-in-the-round, is known for involving its audiences in its shows. Actors double as servers, interacting with audi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:31PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Since March 2011 “The Book of Mormon” has been making audiences wince and laugh as they try not to sing along. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, teamed up w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:19AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?” The famous line from Thornton Wilder’s classic play “Our Town” always seems to hush audie…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:56AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
Gathering in the lobby of the Anacostia Playhouse, we waited for the box office to open as a mix of alternative and country music played over the speakers. Instead of tickets, we were given …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29AMThursday, June 15, 2017
This June, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) hosted their 15th annual “Will on the Hill” performance, a night where members of Congress and other influential Washingtoni…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMMonday, March 20, 2017
Debuting in 1904, Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” is surprisingly modern in its approach to opera. The arias, duets, and choruses examine America’s attitude towards the rest of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:20PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
“I kill a man and the world forgives me. I love a man, and the world wants to kill me.” Terence Blanchard and Michael Cristofer’s jazz opera “Champion” makes its East Coast…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:59PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Sopranessence, an all-female vocal group comprised solely of sopranos and mezzo-sopranos, held their Valentine’s Day event a few days early on February 11, 2017 in the Memorial Theater of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:12PMSunday, November 27, 2016
“It’s a complicated business, is love.” Enda Walsh’s critically-acclaimed, Tony Award-winning musical “Once” tells the story of a Guy (Sam Cieri) and a Girl (Mackenzie Le…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:14PMThursday, November 10, 2016
The smoke that filled the shadowy speakeasy dimmed the red overhead lights and clouded the crystal chandeliers. The University of Maryland’s blackbox Kogod Theatre at The Clarice had been …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
A cacophony of notes filled the theatre as the orchestra tuned their instruments. Six music stands with microphones stood downstage. The instruments gleamed in the red projection light, and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:37AMFriday, June 17, 2016
Seated in fours at small, candlelit tables and sharing bottles of wine, the audience face a miniature stage complete with a grand piano. Signature Theatre is hosting its last cabaret of the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:29PMSaturday, May 14, 2016
“I’m a senator’s daughter…I can put it on, and I can take it off. I just thought I had earned the right not to.” Susan Marie Rhea’s voice rings through the theatre, her words car…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:39AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Two sails rose from the stage, protruding at jaunty angles away from the instruments that surrounded them. Overlapping videos projected onto the sails depicted children telling of their pare…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:07PMSunday, December 27, 2015
The music started and actors walked onstage to harmonize with the lead as they twirled her around in a cabin set-piece. As the opening number continued I thought, “Oh this must be a play w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
“Looks like our silence continues to speak, shout, and roar!” Director Paata Tsikurishvili finished his introduction—the last words spoken onstage for the rest of the evening. Red and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:17PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Cobblestones. Train tracks. Sewer grates. Each of the exits of Arena’s round stage featured a different piece of street life in London. The catwalks below the lighting formed an X and were…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Searching for a modern American political play, Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of New York’s Public Theater, asked Richard Nelson to write him a grandiose drama. Instead, Nelson created a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:00AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to T and 14th? Until November 22nd, Source Theatre in NW D.C. will be hosting Constellation Theatre Company’s Avenue Q, a coming-of-age story featuri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Whiskey. Digestive biscuits. Cadbury chocolate. Everything’s better with an Irish accent. Even distasteful jokes and murder. In The Dealer of Ballynafeigh momma’s boy paramilitary Billy …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:02PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
We walked down rickety paint splattered stairs into a tiny blackbox theatre. Six lengths of white fabric hung across the middle of the stage with Warhol-esque silhouettes blinking across the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:32AM 
