Sunday, January 24, 2021
Imagine having the opportunity to interview various people who live in and around Ferguson, Missouri, and get them to really open up, even when they don’t realize how much they reveal. Thi…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
“We had no idea it would take so long, and be so hard.” There’s a hard truth in that statement, softly but emphatically delivered by Gwendolyn Briley-Strand as Mrs. Rosa Parks that see…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:35PMFriday, January 15, 2021
“Mothers and Sons” is being produced in memory of Terrence McNally by MetroStage, the Board of Trustees, and Carolyn Griffin, who is the producing artistic director. A study in how quick…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AMMonday, January 11, 2021
“Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side,” part of the “Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence” festival on-going at Round House Theatre, had its world premier on Sunday. T…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:27PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
This one-woman show is a story-teller’s dream, and Perry Gaffney, who wrote and performs it, is a storyteller. She can have you laughing, gasping, crying, nodding your head going uh-huh, a…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:37PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
Written on an accelerated schedule (commissioned in June 2020 and ready in August 2020), then cast, rehearsed, and produced by five companies across the United States by December 2020, Sunda…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 02:28PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Updated slightly for the Zoom, socially-distanced theatre era we’re in, “The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs” is a fun romp from the 17th century that has a subtle touch of feminis…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMSunday, November 15, 2020
Dark Horse Theatre Company has come up with an ingenious new play that uses Zoom’s strengths and still gives us an insightful, funny, and wrenching work. And they accomplish it all within …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:10PMMonday, November 9, 2020
Once in a while a reviewer is lucky enough to review a pre-production of a new show, and then review it again when it produced for the public. I have been privileged to watch the incarnation…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:42AMTuesday, November 3, 2020
“Marisol,” by José Rivera, is a fever-dream of a play. It is as if the normal world has lost its moorings, or mind, and people, systems, institutions are breaking down under the strain.…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PM“Roaring” is one of the most delicious productions put on by Best Medicine Rep, and a world premier written and directed by John Morogiello, a founder of Best Medicine Rep. ‘Roaring’…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
Stage managers rule. In this innovative and imaginative venture that combines theatricality, games, and last-man-standing types of reality shows, the stage managers have gotten together and …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:50PMWednesday, October 28, 2020
In this imaginative upending of “Hamlet,” We Happy Few has put Ophelia front and center. It’s a refreshing concept, and mostly works pretty well in this new play by Amber Smithers and …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:02PMFriday, October 23, 2020
“Joy” is complicated. It’s not just a sudden childlike leap of glee with a whoopee. At least not all the time. In the hands of Synetic Theater’s cast and director, these two iteratio…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PMWednesday, October 14, 2020
This is another world-creating, universe-hopping story brought by the same folks that brought ‘Shattered Spaces’ to streaming earlier in the pandemic. It has a similar message of unity, …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 04:27PMSunday, October 11, 2020
This is a show that is made for our times when we have a reality TV show star as the president, and the chaos that has worn us down. Created in 2016 (or at least started to be conceptualized…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Are you comfortable with surprises? With not having a clear idea of what is happening next? With vagaries and/or vicissitudes? Of a moment of unexpected snort-laughter and then a sudden sear…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:39PMWednesday, September 16, 2020
“The Alden presents Drive-Thru Drama, a new model of theater…in a COVID-19 world. Drive-Thru Drama is a social-distance theater format that brings people together for live theater from t…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:46AMThursday, September 10, 2020
“Genesis 37” was an intriguing and rather mysterious play and where it ended up was not at all expected. It was also a rather savage — in a supremely civilized fashion — takedown of …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:22PMWednesday, September 9, 2020
The Q-Fest Round Three was a full eight hours of theatre and talk-backs featuring 20 playwrights (five per theatre). Artists from Adventure Theatre MTC, ArtsCentric, 4615 Theatre Company, an…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:44PMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Before I start the review of the last act of this new play, let me be clear that this is a work in progress, and this was the first public reading of the entire work (over two Tuesdays). It …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:07PMSunday, August 30, 2020
Families are never easy. Add in generations of “heritage,” familial roles, declining wealth, and seething rage, and a family business meeting becomes incendiary. . . . there was enough t…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 02:38PMMonday, August 24, 2020
On Sunday night, nearly 150 households that had signed up for The Colonial Players Virtual Pub Reading brought their A game to a mini-festival of four, one-act plays and a Mad Libs-type of a…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PMWednesday, August 19, 2020
“Zero” is enigmatic, devious, heartbreaking, and breathtaking. Set in a private reform school/residential treatment center called St. Vedastus Academy for Misguided Teens, it does a mast…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:38PMSunday, August 16, 2020
In 2018, Angela Wilson’s play about the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968 first debuted as part of the Angelwing Project in Anne Arundel County, MD. Angela Wilson is a founder and …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PMThere is good news and bad news. The good news is that the City Fairfax Theatre Company is putting on a live show. The bad news is that is was rained out last night, so I didn’t get to see…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:59PMMonday, July 27, 2020
“Spirit Seekers” is a quick romp with a couple of chills and some really funny moments brought to life on Zoom through the efforts of the Dark Horse Theatre Company. It was an engaging, …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PM“Wannabe” is an intriguingly deep dive into the lives of five Black kids that follows them from the early 1980s to young adulthood in Front Royal, VA. There are also three white characte…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 01:22PMMonday, July 20, 2020
Day 10, the final day of Synetic artists’ epic 30-story interpretations of tales from The Decameron, has come to an end. However, the stories will be available until July 31, 2020. They al…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:49PMSunday, July 19, 2020
Day 9 finds us with three stories that explore loss and coming to grips with it in unexpected ways. All three stories of Day 9 were complex emotionally and featured the movement-based theatr…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:44PMThis was one day in which masks and social distancing figured prominently, and the music was striking. Day 8 was very physical and beautifully graceful. Even falling down had a poetic grace …
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