Tuesday, 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 11:45AMMonday, April 1, 2019
I 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:39PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Well, 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:21PMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Ibsen’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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:55AMMonday, March 25, 2019
This is an intense theatrical experience because there’s just no way forward for these two brothers. Uneducated, poor, black, abandoned by their parents a long time ago, and never part of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AMMonday, March 11, 2019
Sorrow is ground into this play, from the skirl of the bagpipes as you sit down to the grey lighting and scenery that evoke fog and mist and a mizzling rain to the involuntary moment of sile…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:09PMSunday, March 10, 2019
This is a show of such opposites that it is exhilarating and numbing all at the same time. Hate/love, forgiveness/revenge, pain/surcease, brutality/kindness, despair/hope, beauty/ugliness. I…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:09PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Every once in a while a play comes along that is so electric and alive and thought-provoking and mesmerizing that you want to shout about it from the rooftops. This is one such play. Don’t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:49PMSunday, March 3, 2019
“Time Stands Still” may have been a replacement for a musical in their line-up this year, but the Reston Community Players do full justice to it. From the phenomenally constructed and go…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:42PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
In terms of the #MeToo movement and a growing seriousness about sexual violence against women, this is a very timely script. It checks a number of boxes—body dysmorphia, Queen Bee syndrome…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:42PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Sometimes a production is so good it reminds you all over again of the power of theatre to demand participation by paying attention and losing yourself in the story. This production of ̶…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:54PMMonday, February 4, 2019
“Arsenic and Old Lace” is like an old friend—comfortable, cozy, known. It’s not going to offer any surprises, but you hope the ride will be fun. ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:04PMFriday, February 1, 2019
This is a shiny show. The music, the actors, costumes, set, lighting—they just shine. This musical revue, with the book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by various comp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:58AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
Get ready to raise the roof. Then stomp your feet and clap and shout amen. This show grabs you by the throat with raw emotion and music that will lift you to a better place for two hours. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:27PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Like many of the plays WSG produces, this one is a quiet barn-burner. It takes two families from the mid-1950s and puts them through some bedrock-deep changes, set against the backdrop of ra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:41PMSunday, January 27, 2019
This show is a delight and funny and sad and ultimately hopeful. Working with themes of growth and loss and change and generosity, love and unexpected friendship, the Reston Community Player…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:09PMKleptocracy is an interesting word. It means a government with corrupt leaders that exploit the people and resources for personal gain and expansion of powers. As produced at Arena, “K…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:33PMThursday, January 24, 2019
One of the highlights of this work is that for around 15 minutes one is treated to a hysterically funny and deadly serious non-stop howl of outrage from a college-bound senior (a deliriously…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
In the best of circumstances, this is a demanding, difficult musical; and the circumstances at the Port Tobacco Players Theatre were quite good. The troupe were up to the challenge and did n…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:01PMMonday, December 17, 2018
Somehow there is a cosmic joke running through Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “The Panties, The Partner and The Profit: Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class” and it�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:15AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
“Madeline’s Christmas” is a delightfully gentle musical exploring the magic of Christmas. The staging is innovative, it has puppets, really good voices, beautiful use of li…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:03AMClocking in at just an hour, “My Father’s Dragon” is another family friendly show that will not tax kids’ abilities to sit in a seat and watch a live show. In fact, this …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26AMMonday, December 10, 2018
This past weekend, the Chesapeake Choral Arts Society presented a beautiful program of seasonal music at Peace Lutheran Church in Waldorf, MD. The icing on this solemn and joyous program was…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:21PM‘She The People’ at Woolly Mammoth will make you stand up and roar for women’s rights and experiences. Playing through January 6, 2019, this is a tour-de-force production d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:02PMFriday, December 7, 2018
‘Christmas at the Old Bull & Bush’ may be a chestnut, but it’s a lovely interlude in a season that doesn’t seem all that joyous to many; set on the eve of WWI, it reminds us that…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:37AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Cozy is a word that comes to mind when watching this world premiere by Greg Jones Ellis. While the play does attempt to tackle some big subjects — homophobia, sexism, ageism, religious…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:11AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
A gong against a brass bowl introduces the acts. Ancient place names that resonate in the bones surround us. We enter a circle and sit almost adrift. For ‘In This Hope: A Pericles Proj…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:48AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Lighthearted and fun—that would describe the Damascus Theatre Company’s production of “Beauty and the Beast.” As probably everyone knows, the story concerns Belle who is …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:26PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
Is it wrong to be so enamored of a play called blight? Written by John Bavoso, it is a show that has solid writing, some really funny lines, and an assortment of characters that ring true—…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:31PMFriday, October 26, 2018
This Illyria, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” by Jonelle Walker and Mitchell Hebert, is not set on the isle, but in a basement nightclub in the 1980s. Befitting …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:50PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Even goddesses get the blues and evidently can fall further—into deep depression. Only when a goddess, or a god, becomes enveloped by the black fog of sorrow, grief and despair, the ramifi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:17PM 
