Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Noah Diaz has written an original play for Baltimore Center Stage, and it’s a shifty play (it’s loosely inspired on his mother and grandfather). The people are certainly shifty; the plot…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:46PMSaturday, September 18, 2021
The Revoluntionists, currently playing at The Colonial Players of Annapolis, is a romp of a play. Like much comedy, it has has a serious core. Think of this as the “A Vindication of the Ri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:38PMThe Little Theatre of Alexandria blew the roof off the building this past Wednesday with their production of August Wilson’s “Fences.” The production is taut, layered, and deserving of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:20PMWednesday, September 15, 2021
One superb thing Gala Hispanic Theatre’s production of “Doña Rosita la soltera (Doña Rosita the Spinster)” has going for it is the beautifully poetic language. It’s the language of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:53PMSunday, September 12, 2021
“Good People,” which opens Keegan Theatre’s 25th anniversary season, is a play about rough-edged people — Southies from Boston — who cut right to the chase. That chase is surviving…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:57PMTuesday, September 7, 2021
I thought this play had one of the most lyrical titles I’ve ever heard, and I still think that. “Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees,” an audio play presented by Edge of the Universe P…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:36PMFriday, August 27, 2021
Erin Granfield most recently played the inimitable Louise in “Always…Patsy Cline” by Creative Cauldron during this past June and July. She is a Helen Hayes-nominated actor for “On Ai…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:49AMThursday, August 26, 2021
It is rare that I will see a play twice (but only because there is so much theatre and so little time), but several seasons ago I saw “An Act of God” at another theatre and thought it wa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:16AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Psalmayene 24’s latest production is “The Blackest Battle,” a parable set to a love story set in the near future where America has gone through a second civil war after reparations wer…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:04PMThursday, August 12, 2021
Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ‘67” focuses on five days in the summer of 1967 when racial tensions between Black residents and the police force came to a head. It culminated with ta…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:30PMMonday, August 9, 2021
Originally titled “The Indian Fighters” in 1954 when Horton Foote wrote the play, it was presented as “The Day Emily Married” at Silver Spring Stage in 1997 when the Quotidian Theatr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:58AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Searing is the word that comes to mind in this depiction of intergenerational racism on Black people in this country. Adapted by Lydia R. Diamond from the book by Toni Morrison, the horror a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:02PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
“Rumors,” Neil Simon’s first farce, premiered in 1988. Like many farces it depends on confusion, lots of exits and entrances, and fast ripostes. Some of this the play delivers very wel…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:15PMMonday, July 19, 2021
Everyman Theatre’s “An Almost Holy Picture,” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play currently available online, is a beautifully staged and acted production. It proves to be a one-man tou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
The Colonial Players is ending its 72nd season with a play that has more to it than initially meets the eye. “Love, Loss and What I Wore” is a journey through women’s lives and how the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:13PMTuesday, July 13, 2021
It is very easy to see why this show is a favorite of high schools and colleges. It takes a tragic scenario — the death of parents and a younger sibling — and shows that there is still…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:37AMMonday, July 5, 2021
Hope comes up a lot in this play. At one point the protagonist, Martin (Bobby Moreno), repeats “It’s all about hope” a couple of times. But hope proves not to be the panacea he thinks …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18AMMonday, June 28, 2021
“Talk Radio” is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play written by Eric Bogosian and based on a concept by Bogosian and Tad Savinar. You can tell it’s 1987 because people are still smokin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:10PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
What happens when you put an introvert and an extreme extrovert together in a shared bedsit? Chaos. “Ripcord,” the comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed for The Little Theatre of A…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:06PMThursday, June 17, 2021
“We’re Gonna Die” is a play with music that faces reality — yes, we are all going to die. That’s okay, because the point of life is living, so why waste it? Young Jean Lee’s “W…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:19PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Madeline Sayet’s ‘Where We Belong’ is an elegy for so very much — the voices lost to colonialism, the lives lost through the insanity of war, the languages stamped out, and the en…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:35PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Insanity was the byword for this year’s “Will on the Hill and Far Away,” by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. With a healthy dose of magic, we lost part of Congress in the mystical land…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:54PMSunday, June 6, 2021
Creative Cauldron has chosen an innovative way to bring this favorite jukebox musical, “Always…Patsy Cline” (created and originally directed by Ted Swindley), to life. Each of the four…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:01PMIn this world premier of Ann Timmons’ “A Very Present Presence,” we meet a middle-aged mother and career woman who has come to the end of her rope. The story may seem similar to many o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AMMonday, May 31, 2021
‘Written by James Reston, Jr., “Luther’s Trumpet” is the story primarily about the duel between Martin Luther (Edward Gero) and Pope Leo X (Craig Wallace), but it is also a duel betw…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:53PMMonday, May 24, 2021
The first five-minute entry in this 12-play collection is by Sharlene Clinton, who is also making her playwriting debut. “Flawless Beauty: Hair Across The Diaspora” is a heart-wrenching …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:08PMThursday, May 20, 2021
I have become so accustomed in the last couple of months to seeing plays filmed on the actual stages. I have also recently attended three in-person, socially-distanced shows. This made watch…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:10PMSaturday, May 15, 2021
Everyman Theatre is running a heart-felt, brilliantly-acted production of “Berta, Berta,” which originally premiered in 2018 and was a part of the 2019 National Black Theatre Festival. T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:50AMWednesday, May 12, 2021
This show is a love letter. A love letter to family and to memories that bind us and both demolish and lift us up. It’s a joy to watch. It’s also clear-eyed, compassionate, and unsentime…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:21AMMonday, May 3, 2021
I could actually sum up this review in four words: Go. To. This. Production. This is an indelible experience. …an intense and visceral…it needs to be experienced first-hand. You enter a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PMSunday, May 2, 2021
“First Date” has a sterling cast and they all give very solid performances. The show can also be quite funny. One of the funniest moments is the song sung by Taylor Witt’s Aaron, final…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:41PM 
