Last year, Monumental Theatre presented Act 1 of “Montgomery,” a new musical about Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, civil rights attorney Fred Gray, and the civil rights movement in Montgom…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:52PMWhat is art “supposed” to do? Is there a proper way to view art, much less judge it? Is art even art if you don’t know the artist’s backstory, or at least a portion of it? . . . the …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:51PMSynetic Theater is beginning their new season with a water-filled production of ‘The Tempest.’ So the ignite the late afternoon crowd at the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage on Sunday, S…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32PMSo, eight assassins walk into a bar, six men and two women. All are fabulous singers, skilled at immersing themselves in their roles; dedicated to their craft; and one is a smashing dancer. …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:32PMLet me be honest—I had never heard of any of the three acts I saw on Tuesday at RHIZOME, so had no expectations or preconceptions. And that’s good—because the work of all three was min…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:52AMTo be diagnosed is one thing—to accept it is another. In playwright and actor Iyona Blake’s new work (this is the first production; it is a work in progress) this is one of the issues sh…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:43PMNassim Solimanpour is the playwright who created “Blank.” He also created “White Rabbit Red Rabbit,” another play which must be performed by a different actor each performance. Now t…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:55PMA natural amphitheatre in the woods, at the end of a gravel path and surrounded by rising walls of trees and dirt and foliage is a very fitting setting to experience “Bent,” now playing …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:52PMInterestingly, this play is billed as a “romantic comedy” by the publishing company for it, Samuel French. To my mind, that sobriquet is too lighthearted for a play that eviscerates love…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:39PMIt would not be gushing to say that “Vivian’s Music 1969” is brilliant. It simply is. Impeccably acted and beautifully written, the play, written by Monica Bauer, is a snapshot in time…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:16AMAdapted from a short story published in February 1924 by brilliant horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, this production is very Gothic. It would be easy to picture Vincent Price stumbling into the …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:42PMMartin Graff is an illustrator, author and composer who has created this heartfelt work based on his travels and life and musings about how humans connect with one another. He uses his own l…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 04:54PMSignature Theatre is ending its 29th season with a funny, light-hearted look at the end of the era of pirates in the Atlantic Ocean in the 1700s. “Blackbeard” is a fun, mildly ribald rom…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:26PMImagine that two monks show up at your house, politely knocking and bowing, and then want to discuss taking your three-year-old son back to India because he is believed to be the reincarnati…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:39PMI am officially besotted with Ida Lupino after seeing ‘Gwen & Ida: The Object Is of No Importance’; I was so intrigued by the character onstage (gracefully played with steely resolve…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PMNora returns, and Nora returns in style. She returns as her own fully-realized woman, and even better, keeps learning and growing. It’s a challenge for any writer to credibly imagine what …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 12:54PM‘Forest Treas’ (actually pronounced Forest Triage), the world premiere now playing at Pointless Theatre, is an interesting exploration of an almost-Stepford-type of a community shaken ou…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 12:27AMRemember family vacations—in an earlier era, piling into a station wagon or a big old Chevy Bel Air (or something similar), later in mini-vans, and now in SUVs? While the mode of transport…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:37AMThis show is so hysterically funny it should come with a warning label: may cause unrestrained glee and weakness in the core from laughing so hard. Your jaws might ache, but it’s a good ac…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:58PMThis is an ambitious, involved show that uses the 2010 plane crash in Smolensk that killed 96 people, including Poland’s president as a linchpin. Starting in 1920 with the chance meeting o…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:03PMAs the season winds down, Port Tobacco Players joins with many theatres in producing a lovely piece of nostalgia. “Deathtrap” is knowingly self-referential, wryly witty, and convoluted e…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:36PMThe musical partnership of Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith has produced their fifth new musical under Creative Cauldron’s “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” musical theatre com…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:35PMFor their final show of the 2018-2019 season, Dominion Stage is closing with a vintage 1970s play by James Kirkwood, Jr. Interestingly enough, the play came first, then the novel (both writt…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:28PMUsing simple, beautifully polished and painted screens and low tables and pristine parasols, Constellation has transformed itself into the setting for a magical journey into legend. This is …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:40PMWhen you’re in the mood for just sheer frothy fun and music by Kander & Ebb (the book is by Rupert Holmes), then “Curtains” is both a witty send-up of theatre tropes and a lovingly…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:06PMLet me get this out of the way up front—the Best Medicine Rep Theatre is on the second floor of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg. It is the first time I have ever been to see a show in a ma…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:40PMWhen the doors open for seating, theatre-goers are in for a visual extravaganza—the entire MAX (the larger of Signature’s two black box theatres) has been turned in a grand, paneled and …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PMThis is a very physical, lively play written by Angela Gant in the early 2000s while she was in college; in fact, it won national playwriting awards at the Kennedy Center American College Th…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45AMI fell in love with the dog. The dog’s name happens to be Dog, and as portrayed by Karen Lange, I just wanted to scoop her up and give her all the treats. Lange gives a performance that is…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:39PMWell, Toto, we are in Kansas now—at least for the duration of this reverent revival of ‘Bus Stop’ by William Inge. The Aldersgate Church Community Theatre does a lovely job of bringing…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 02:21PMIbsen’s Hedda Gabler is a serious play, with a capital “S.” One thing audiences should be prepared for in this production of “Resolving Hedda,” is that it is absolutely delicious f…
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