Tuesday, February 18, 2020
‘Shipwreck’ is a big play—big on ideas, big in its exploration of people’s expectations and view of themselves versus reality, hellbent on exploring the divide in America with the el…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:37PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Matthew Senie, a recent graduate of American University’s MA program in philosophy, showcased two of his plays, running in reparatory this past weekend. While outwardly dissimilar, both de…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:53PMMonday, February 10, 2020
“A Daughter’s A Daughter” is one of the most meh titles I have ever read, and this confused play by Agatha Christie written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott in the 1930s, put on …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Go. See. This. Show. That is all. This is a must-see production. The strength of the script transcends the boxing world to encompass a world of bigotry and hatred where humans are denied bei…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:42PM“Venus in Fur” is a bold, riveting exploration of more than just sexuality—it’s about the exchanges of power between people and the lies we tell ourselves and others. It’s about st…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:29PM“Comedy of Venice” is a mildly diverting amusing pastiche of an old art form—the Commedia dell’ Arte. Focusing on two rivals for the hearts of Venetian playgoers, Carlo Goldoni (John…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:12PMThursday, January 30, 2020
Henrietta Leavitt and her glass-ceiling-shattering compatriots, Annie Canon and Williamina Fleming, are the subject of Lauren Gunderson’s 2011 play, “Silent Sky” which covers about 20 …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:08PMMonday, January 27, 2020
What would you do if you could go back in time and observe and interact with your younger self? If you knew how things were going to turn out? But yet you didn’t know how things might have…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:22PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
“Move Over, Mrs. Markham” is a sprightly way to segue into the new year and beat back some of the doldrums of January and February. . . . the Port Tobacco Players have created a zesty, t…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 04:02PMSaturday, January 18, 2020
“Sheltered,” like “The Children” currently playing in Annapolis, asks some very important questions regarding what do we as a society owe to the next generation? This play goes a ste…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 01:49PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
“The Children” is one of the most thought-provoking, humorous and heart-wrenching stories I’ve seen in quite a while. The writing is brilliant, and the story is timeless. This is a pro…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:12PMFriday, January 10, 2020
Creative Cauldron kicked off the 2020 “Passport to the World of Music” cabarets with a breezy, relaxing jazz show by San Francisco Bay Area-based jazz vocalist and arranger Danielle Wert…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:52AMSunday, December 15, 2019
Erick Acuña is a Peruvian comedian living and working in Washington, DC. He presents a series of gently amusing monologues taken from his life as a Latino immigrant. Skits include filling o…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:28PMThursday, December 12, 2019
Prepare to fall in love—with words, with writing, with creating, with art, with theatre, and with Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper. This beautiful work is based on the 412 letters that the t…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Adapted and directed by Gregory Keng Strasser, “The Infinite Tales” at 4615 Theatre Company covers three of the four major periods recognized in Irish mythology. In this production, we h…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:58PMMonday, October 14, 2019
This was a most unexpected play. It doesn’t shy away from confronting the audience with searing truths about the history of racism in this country. Douglas Turner Ward, the playwright, was…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:13PMThe Bowie Community Theatre does an admirable job at putting on this amusing, yet serious, slice-of-life look at what it means to be a Jew in the South before WWII. Set in Atlanta, the Freit…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:09PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
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 10:32PMSunday, August 25, 2019
So, 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 03:32PMFriday, August 23, 2019
Let 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 11:52AMSunday, August 18, 2019
To 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 06:43PMThursday, August 15, 2019
Nassim 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 08:55PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
A 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 07:52PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Interestingly, 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 10:39PMSunday, July 21, 2019
It 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 09:16AMMonday, July 15, 2019
Adapted 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 07:42PMSunday, July 14, 2019
Martin 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 04:54PMSaturday, June 29, 2019
Signature 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 07:26PMMonday, June 17, 2019
Imagine 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…
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