Wednesday, 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 08:17PMMonday, October 22, 2018
Can the stories we tell change our lines? Can we really be honest in stories? If we’re honest in our stories, can we handle the fall-out? Can we, should we use our stories to try to seduce…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:58PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
This is a likable show, with likable leads, and a likable score. It has that cute girl-meets-boy, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-back-girl vibe, all told in a brisk 90 minutes. This is a de…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:02PMMonday, October 15, 2018
The first thing that strikes one when entering the theatre proper is how perfect the staging is for Spooky Action Theater’s “New Guidelines for Peaceful Times.” With only a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:18PMFriday, October 12, 2018
When picturing Ichabod Crane, I always pictured a lean, rangy, superstitious schoolteacher. That is not the Ichabod Crane of Synetic Theater’s muscular, voluptuous and engrossing retelling…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:47PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
“Labour of Love” now playing on Olney’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab stage is an homage to the battle of the sexes that Hepburn and Tracey made so memorable, with a hearty dose …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:54PMMonday, October 8, 2018
“Nevermore” is a hauntingly beautiful work that posits that without the shipwreck (both a physical and emotional metaphor in this production) of his life, Edgar Allan Poe’s wor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:27PM“Let the Right One In” is an interesting adaptation of the 2004 novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. It has moments of genuine sadness and a slow-building tension that …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:53PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
It may be a fictional world, but I want to go live in the town that has Truvy’s hair salon, at least for a little while. It may be an idealized world of small-town camaraderie and women’…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PMHow thin is the membrane between death and life? Are there times when perhaps the dead can cross over and stand beside us, just for a moment, so that we can sense them, if not see or hear th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:12PMSunday, September 30, 2018
“Heisenberg,” the play written by Simon Stephens, might be named for German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his uncertainty principle, but there is one certainty in the show runn…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:58PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
“How to Win a Race War,” presented by The Klunch, starts off with a noble goal—to take white supremacist writings and fan fiction and to make a joke out of it, thereby robbing …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:00PMMonday, September 24, 2018
“Pramkicker,” now being produced by the Taffety Punk Theatre Company, is a scintillating kick of a story about love, the life choices society so graciously tries to truss women …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:26PMThis show couldn’t be more timely; surely an act of providence. And as I have come to see as a hallmark of Dominion Stage’s moxie, it is fearless in tackling head-on a subject in today�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:10AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
This past Sunday, Vocal Arts DC presented the final concert of its 2017-18 season, a beautifully executed two-part concert of two song cycles. The first was the world premiere of ‘Walden;�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:25PMMonday, September 10, 2018
“Gloria” is a really, really good comedy. And it is a really, really good drama. The reason it’s so good? It doesn’t go for the easy laugh or the obvious guffaw; although som…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:02AMSunday, September 2, 2018
It was only one act–the first act. And that wasn’t nearly enough. This delicious, thought-provoking, fiery new musical by Britt Bonney, a composer and lyricist, music director, a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:17PMMonday, August 27, 2018
This very spirited production at Shakespeare Theatre Company is part of their annual Free-For-All; it is a wonderful late-summer treat for theatre lovers and those new to live theatre. Using…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:55PMMonday, August 13, 2018
“Happy Ending” at Anacostia Playhouse is a really good time. This show is fun. It is really, really fun. It is laugh-out-loud, guffaw and snort fun. And that is a wonderful way t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:01PMOne thing leaps out right away at this production of “Bridges of Madison County”—this is one of the most gorgeously sung shows of the season. Led by the impeccable Susan Derry …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:21PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
The West Arundel Creative Arts building strikes one as a gutsy little place, as it looks sort of abandoned, the signage is not the easiest to see and the inside spaces are tight. But they ar…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:54PMSaturday, August 4, 2018
Mike Daisey has opinions—lots of opinions—and delivers them in a tour-de-force one-man show that doesn’t hold back. He is profane, smart, and funny as all get out. There is a bit of th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:46PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
This is a quirky little show that packs a lot into its 90 minutes. Given the title, it’s no surprise that becoming a widow is the theme, but the larger themes encompass forgiveness,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:42PMWednesday, July 11, 2018
Let me get the first jaw-dropping moment out of the way immediately—Aubrey, played by Aubri O’Connor, also co-founder, co-producer and artistic director for Nu Sass Productions—looks e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:47PMMonday, July 9, 2018
There were five people on the stage, and no more than a dozen in the audience in this intimate, 75-seat configuration at the Anacostia Playhouse, but it didn’t matter. “People For Wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:50PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
The dancing in the Olney Theatre production of “On The Town” is a delicious gift from the heavens. The voices are a wonderful gift as well, and hearing so many DMV theatre favori…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:27PMFriday, June 15, 2018
When you see this show, see it without the expectations of a typical story arc. Experiencing it fully in the here and now is a wonderful jolt of adrenaline and brio. …the cast, in a swirli…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00PMFriday, June 8, 2018
In Bob Bartlett’s languid “Swimming With Whales,” now playing at 1st Stage, one gets the sense that death is the sixth character on that stage. We have three adults, one 15-yea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:37PMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s sumptuous version of the Lerner & Loewe classic musical, “Camelot” is filled with glorious songs and the engagement of a myth that feels b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32PMSaturday, June 2, 2018
It was a magical night at the first performance of ‘Giselle’ by the Ballet Nacional de Cuba for several reasons. Not only was the dancing joyous and simply gorgeous, but the prima baller…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:45PMBetween the utterly glorious dancing and some truly incandescent songs come the gut punches that slam audience members to their seats. The surface is a trifle gaudy, a little silly at times,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:24PM 
