Tuesday, 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 09:58PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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. …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PMThursday, June 13, 2019
Nora 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:54PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
‘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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:27AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Remember 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:37AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
This 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:58PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
This 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:03PMMonday, May 20, 2019
As 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:36PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
The 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:35PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
For 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:28PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Using 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:06PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Let 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:40PMThursday, April 11, 2019
When 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
This 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45AM 
