Saturday, March 12, 2022
The Washington Stage Guild has produced a thoughtful and handsome meditation on women’s choices and society’s limits and judgments. Playwright George Bernard Shaw also cleverly focuse…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58AMThursday, March 3, 2022
‘”Blue Stockings” is both a rousing and thoughtful play. Set in the late 1890s as young women were pushing for the right to be allowed a degree while attending one of the women’s col…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Mark Dunn’s “A Delightful Quarantine” is, at its heart, a totally demented and compressed “Our Town.” This play is a mad-cap romp of what could happen in a quarantine—at least…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:39AMThursday, February 17, 2022
Helen Hayes Award-winner, Iyona Blake, has given us a love letter to sisters, family, and staying the course. One of the DMV’s most talented actors, singer sand playwrights, Blake has w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:49PM “La Casa de la Laguna” (“The House on the Lagoon”) at Gala Hispanic Theatre is a passionate play— intense and fascinating. Between the political underpinnings and the lives of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:21PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Rockville Little Theatre’s production of “Bad Seed” harks back to that old debate about nature vs. nurture, as well as the question of can children kill? Can they really understand wha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:48PMSunday, January 23, 2022
“White Noise” is not an easy play. Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks takes the dark history of America and presents it in a searing drama that forces four people to confront some very deep …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:42PMThe Little Theatre of Alexandria’s (LTA) production of “Bright Star”‘ is a sprawling, Southern Gothic that is inspired by a true story. It’s a big-hearted story with the music, boo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:04PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
The current offering at Washington Stage Guild is a delight and unexpectedly so. It’s a fascinating fictional tale (based on a very tiny nubbin of truth) of an episodic, shared journey thr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:26PMWednesday, December 22, 2021
There are questions that need to be answered: Do you like your humor raucous? Rowdy? Completely irreverent? Topical? Sarcastic? Wry? Ironic? Punny? Unabashedly blue? Delivered with panache a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:33AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
During the holiday season, reviewers go to shows that are very diverse. One night we’re reviewing a charming children’s story, and the next, we’re lucky enough to listen to the roof be…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:48PMMonday, December 13, 2021
Creative Cauldron’s new Bold Works for Intimate Musical Stages initiative continues with a new work, “The Christmas Angel,” by the stalwart creative team of Matt Connor and Stephen Gre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58PMMonday, December 6, 2021
Avant Bard Theatre kicks off it’s 2021-2022 in-person theatre season with a meditation on what it means to be Black in America through the life experiences of August Wilson in “How I Lea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:38PMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Olney’s production of John Cameron Mitchell’s (book) and Stephen Trask’s (music and lyrics) “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” is a high-octane, raucous, roller-coaster of a journey. From…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:53PMMonday, November 29, 2021
“Secret Things,” now playing at 1st Stage is a heartfelt, beautifully-staged and acted play about the quest for identity and love. If you enjoy a healthy dose of magical realism, you wil…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:02PMBest Medicine has staked out the comedy territory, and overall, they produce very funny shows. Throughout the closures of the pandemic, they produced a beautifully staged version of “Roari…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:27PMMonday, November 22, 2021
“Catch Me If You Can,” with the libretto by Terrence McNally and a theatrical score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman, borrows much from the 2002 film of the same name which, in turn, w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:26PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Washington Stage Guild’s current production of ‘My Children! My Africa!’ is as relevant today as it was in 1989. Thirty-two years have passed, and Black people are still affected by ce…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:29PMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Lauren Yee’s “The Great Leap” is raucously funny, incredibly profane, not for the kids, thoughtful, and will leave you uncomfortable. The latter is not a bad thing—but you may well h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:25PMTuesday, November 9, 2021
Keegan is currently presenting the regional premiere of “N” by Adrienne Earle Pender. This is a quick exploration of race, culture, and the heavy lifting Blacks did (and still do)—ment…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PMSaturday, November 6, 2021
This was the show I didn’t know I needed on a Friday evening after a long week at work. Dominion Stage is welcoming back theatre-goers with a delightfully funny production of “Five Women…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:56PMWednesday, November 3, 2021
“A Chorus WIthin Her” is a choreopoem theater experience, one written by several developmental poets (Gabrielle Brant Freeman, Glenis Redmond, Christine Sloan Stoddard, and Carmin Wong) …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:00PMSunday, October 31, 2021
One of the funniest moments in the spare, beautifully crafted “Birds of North America” by Anna Ouyang Monech, comes when John (or Dad) dismisses a bird his daughter Regina spies at the b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:14PM‘Flyin’ West,’ now showing in-person at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, MD, through October 31, 2021, and streaming on-demand through November 14, 2021, is a magnificent reason to retur…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:43PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
The Colonial Players are staging a smart, vivid “By The Way Meet Vera Stark” at their theatre in Annapolis. The costumes are pure glam, the set in the first act embodies 1930s Art Deco s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:02PMLast Saturday was the world premier of “Clay’s Place: Inside My Blue Mind” by Angela Wilson of The AngelWing Project. The play is a slice of life in the Black community of Memphis that…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:40PMSaturday, October 23, 2021
The last show I saw in person in March 2020 before the complete shut-down was “The Realistic Joneses” at Spooky Action Theater. Last night I returned to see Spooky’s first in-person sh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:53PMFriday, October 22, 2021
“Girls’ Night (With Spirits)” is an audio play about all kinds of spirits—from the dead to the undead, to the weight we carry in our hearts and souls. Guess which type causes the mos…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:56PMSunday, October 17, 2021
Frederick Knott wrote the psychological thriller “Wait Until Dark” in the early 1960s and the film version (1967) starring Audrey Hepburn is ranked by both AFI and Bravo as one of the sc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMThe Providence Players of Fairfax are presenting “The Beatle Club,” a world premiere by Teresa Sullivan, for their first, back-in-person show of the season. It’s a very family-appropri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:22PMMonday, October 11, 2021
This production is a like a dip in the warmth of late spring. Written by Emily Mann (and adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany with Amy Hill Hearth…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:28PM 
