Saturday, June 2, 2018
Between 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 05:24PMSunday, May 13, 2018
Clash. This is a story of clashes—between cultures, between values, between religions, between the haves and have-nots. It is not an easy play, nor is it comfortable for the audience. It a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:12PMFriday, May 11, 2018
Zesty. Zany. Funny. Dry-witted. Life-affirming. These can all describe the production of “Calendar Girls” now playing at the Port Tobacco Players theatre in LaPlata, MD. This is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:32PMMonday, May 7, 2018
This is one of the most incisive, insightful works about incest, victimization, alcoholism, misogyny, victim-blaming—so many things—I have ever seen on a stage. Written by Paula Vogel, i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
“Titus Andronicus” may well be the original telenovela, soap opera, and forerunner to many a horror film adapted from Poe’s works. For over three centuries, Shakespearian schol…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:08PMThursday, April 12, 2018
Scott Turow said, “The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.” Whatever one thinks of Mr. Turow’s literary efforts, that statement came to mind when watch…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:53PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
There is one thing that “Translations” excels at—the feeling of helplessness and hopelessness that permeates one’s very existence when one culture cannot speak the dominant c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:07PMThis play, “Alabama Story,” currently running at the Undercroft Theatre, is a gem. It invites you in and then tells a wonderful story of a reluctant anti-discrimination warrio…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:52PMMonday, April 2, 2018
“The Pavilion” at Hub Theatre is a lyrical meditation on choices, consequences, forgiveness and acceptance. It is very effectively staged at The Hub Theatre—it is an intimate p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
The revival of “Jesus Christ Superstar” by the Port Tobacco Players in their little jewel box of a theatre in LaPlata, MD, is a delight. The depth of the choreography and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:22PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Most theater-goers are familiar with Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” with its oh-so-memorable characters—Maggie the Cat, Brick, Big Daddy, Big Mama, Gooper and h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:33PMSunday, January 28, 2018
How would you survive 4,380 nights in prison, on an island halfway around the world from your home, without charges, but suspected of being a terrorist? That is the question that playwright …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:27PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
I’m not sure if there is a term for young wolves on the cusp of adult wolfdom (wolf adulting?) but there should be. Because these girl wolves are brilliant and thoughtful and complicated. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:43PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Synetic’s production of “The Trial” by Franz Kafka, grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. This is a grim, dystopian show that is all too relevant. Considering t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PMMonday, January 22, 2018
Rollicking. That word aptly describes the current production of the Port Tobacco Players (PTP), beginning with the welcome to the theatre and turn off your electronics speech pre-show. The s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:38PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
At the end of this clever, engaging play by Thorton Wilder (Pulitzer Prize, 1943), I was left wondering if this had been the genesis of the idea for Dr. Who. While there is no proof of this,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:39PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Last night’s “Holidays, Hearts, and Home Benefit Concert for Puerto Rico” was an incredible opportunity to catch some of the D.C. area’s best and brightest on the stage, alon…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:17PMSaturday, December 9, 2017
Sons of Serendip is a musical group of four young African-American men who met in graduate school at Boston University. Micah Christian is the lead vocalist; Cordaro Rodriguez plays piano an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:59PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
If nothing else, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” exposes anti-Semitism among the South’s elite Jewish families; a war of German-Jews and “the other kind” from “east of the E…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:21PMOn Sunday, the same day I saw “Hansel & Gretel” at Synetic Theater in Crystal City, was a profile of dancer-choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, the 2017 Kennedy Center Honor w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:12PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
What do we owe the previous generations? What do we owe ourselves when we are born with a driving imperative? Is there a way to honor both? Is the pain inevitable? How do we choose and survi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:15AMSunday, November 19, 2017
“A Coffin in Egypt,” written by Horton Foote and directed by Jack Sbarbori (who also designed the costumes, set/properties, and, with John Decker, set construction), takes us to …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:28PMA story of loss, betrayal, a fall, possible redemption–all told in a lilting Irish brogue as a theatre critic faces an unknown audience and tells his story of hubris and pain. Like man…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:19PMMonday, November 6, 2017
Dinner parties can be hell, but usually not literally. In “Omnium Gatherum” the dinner party is actually in hell, or at least in an anteroom, in this case at the Silver Spring St…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:02PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
There is no single definition as to what constitutes a weir and one English dictionary simply defines a weir as a small dam, derived from the root, werian, meaning “to defend, dam.R…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:07PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
“The Price” at Arena Stage is beautifully realized in its staging and casting. The story concerns a 46-year-old man, Victor (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh), who goes to the house he and hi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:54PM“Act of God” at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, is a much-needed escape from today’s headlines and increasing tensions. God is evidently a born raconteur and he has ple…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:26PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
“Are you now, or have you ever been…”, the play currently running at MetroStage in Alexandria is an intriguing, thoughtful, honest slice of history by playwright Carlyle Brown. This is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:08AM 
