Monday, July 6, 2020
This filmed play is an enhanced archive recording from 2016 and features the original English cast. This is an incredibly thoughtful and anguished work and brilliantly produced. . . . It is …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
For a show set entirely in a small, out-of-the-way girls’ bathroom in a high school, this was a show that was surprisingly big. It was big in ideas and concepts. As a very nice touch, pre-…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:36AMMonday, June 29, 2020
This was a brisk, mildly diverting new play reading in three acts presented by Maryland Theatre Ensemble. The structure lent itself to elliptical story-telling as it is comprised of three mo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:53AMThursday, June 25, 2020
One judge wore a cream bathrobe with “JUDGE” embroidered on the chest. One wore her robes and looked quite serious. One cracked herself up at one point with her pun (to be fair, everyone…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:19PMMonday, June 22, 2020
‘Transferal’ by Jack Novak was the last in Spook Action’s New Works in Action that was presented for the last month or so on-line on their YouTube channel. Fittingly, it was about lett…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:37PMThursday, June 18, 2020
‘Circular’ is a two-hander, ably acted via Zoom by Lisa Hodsoll and Jonathan Holmes. It clocks in at a brisk one hour and 35 minutes, which is no small feat with a story that begins with…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:24PMThursday, June 4, 2020
This is a big play about lots of big ideas – lots of big ideas. Having had a taste of Matthew Cole Kelly’s talent I would say that I look forward to seeing this play developed further �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:36PMSunday, May 31, 2020
Scattered Players, a new, virtually-formed theatre company, presented its first preview for ‘Shattered Space’ on Saturday night, May 30. This is an immersive, participatory style of thea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:29PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
“Moderation” is a psychological thriller by Kevin Kautzman. Since Spooky Action can’t present live readings, they are producing them via their YouTube channel. This is a fun way to spe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:32PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ is the show we need right now—it pulls you in so sharply and you care so much about the characters you can completely forget about the mundane world around you…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PMSunday, May 3, 2020
This was simply lovely. The Apple family is back, having a Zoon conversation in the time of COVID-19. They’re older, feeling their mortality, and making plans for the future. They’re fra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:47PMMonday, March 16, 2020
People can be fragile. Marriages can be fragile. Life is fragile. These are the themes of this multi-layered lovely little work about two couples who happen to be named Jones. One couple are…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:36PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
This is one of the most exuberant, silly, funny and irreverent jukebox musicals I have ever seen. Just like “Mamma Mia” or “Xanadu” or any of a number of jukebox musicals, the book b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:38PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Both are lyrical plays, both are written by Tennessee Williams, although one is a rarely-produced, short fever dream and the other a study in more than just dysfunctional families; it’s a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:52PMMonday, March 2, 2020
Family ties can be hard, even as an adult. And when the adult child comes fleeing home after some unwise choices, they can be even harder. And when you add in a couple of other young lost so…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:57PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
“Weep” by Amanda Zeitler is the final iteration of La Llorona produced at the Capital Fringe in 2014 when she was still an MFA in playwrighting graduate student at Catholic University. B…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:58PM 
