Saturday, May 15, 2021
Everyman Theatre is running a heart-felt, brilliantly-acted production of “Berta, Berta,” which originally premiered in 2018 and was a part of the 2019 National Black Theatre Festival. T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:50AMWednesday, May 12, 2021
This show is a love letter. A love letter to family and to memories that bind us and both demolish and lift us up. It’s a joy to watch. It’s also clear-eyed, compassionate, and unsentime…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:21AMMonday, May 3, 2021
I could actually sum up this review in four words: Go. To. This. Production. This is an indelible experience. …an intense and visceral…it needs to be experienced first-hand. You enter a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PMSunday, May 2, 2021
“First Date” has a sterling cast and they all give very solid performances. The show can also be quite funny. One of the funniest moments is the song sung by Taylor Witt’s Aaron, final…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:41PMTuesday, April 27, 2021
William Luce’s “The Belle of Amherst” is a lovely piece of work. It is literate, graceful, and the dialogue slides so easily into the poetry and back again as it brings Emily Dicki…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:32PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
Constellation Theatre Company has started their season with a bang. “Children of Medea” is an intense, harrowing work, interspersed with moments of joy. The playwright and actor, Sue Jin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:05PMThursday, April 15, 2021
“The Fifth Date” has some very funny moments, particularly between the alter egos. It has been two years in the making and was introduced at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:17AMTuesday, April 13, 2021
This two-hander from Audrey Cefaly is beautifully written, acted, and staged. It doesn’t traffic in grand themes, but it does illuminate very well the complexity of humans and the fears th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:07PMSunday, March 28, 2021
Bon après-midi. Hier soir, le Creative Cauldron a envoyé son public à Paris. Aujourd’hui, nous sommes de retour dans le DMV. Veronneau is so assured and so adept, you sink into their sp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:35PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
Rep Stage had a brainstorm by commissioning ten plays and producing a world premiere. Personally, I’m glad it did. Rep Stage asked local playwrights to create ten short explorations of lov…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:01PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
Ultimately, Round House Theatre’s production of “A Boy and His Soul” is a very feel-good show. Its tight focus is on one Black family on Philadelphia’s southwest side and their bond…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:45PMSaturday, March 20, 2021
“A Walk in the Woods,” presented by Reston Community Players, is a stunning show on so many levels. With beautiful language that paints pictures, intelligent and layered performances, an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:50PMFriday, March 19, 2021
“The Devil’s Disciple” is beautifully acted. That’s the most obvious thing about this production by Washing Stage Guild. They also deserve a shoutout for creating five different back…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:14PMSaturday, March 13, 2021
This is the 35th year the “Mock Trial” has been presented and, like last year, it is virtual. In keeping with the Shakespeare Theatre Company and the STC’s Bard Association, it is a d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:36AMFriday, March 5, 2021
This show is the embodiment of “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy” (Tina Fey). It’s a joyful ode to sisterhood as well. The playwright, Molly Smith Metzler, doesn’t shy …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:58PMTuesday, February 23, 2021
“Bad Auditions…On Camera” is just fun. Sheer, uncomplicated fun. It has an amazingly large cast — 19 in all — that manage to create their characters and have fun with them, in abou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:03PMMonday, February 22, 2021
“Bad Auditions…On Camera” is just fun. Sheer, uncomplicated fun. It has an amazingly large cast — 19 in all — that manage to create their characters and have fun with them, in abou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:01PMSunday, February 21, 2021
This play is based on a real serial killer and bigamist who was tried, convicted, and hanged in England in 1915. He was responsible for the murders of three of his brides — Bessie Williams…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
This is a new play that sheds some light on the time when Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House to have dinner — an unprecedented act in the early 20th century…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:02PMSunday, January 31, 2021
This one-man show, written and acted by Ryan J. Haddad, has some interesting twists. It’s a gutsy play that calls attention to something that many people find discomfiting — that people …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:00PMThursday, January 28, 2021
I have never seen anyone as infectiously delighted with science, specifically epidemiology, as the protagonist of “The Catastrophist” — not even Bill Nye. One of the joys of this multi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:14PMSunday, January 24, 2021
Imagine having the opportunity to interview various people who live in and around Ferguson, Missouri, and get them to really open up, even when they don’t realize how much they reveal. Thi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
“We had no idea it would take so long, and be so hard.” There’s a hard truth in that statement, softly but emphatically delivered by Gwendolyn Briley-Strand as Mrs. Rosa Parks that see…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:35PMFriday, January 15, 2021
“Mothers and Sons” is being produced in memory of Terrence McNally by MetroStage, the Board of Trustees, and Carolyn Griffin, who is the producing artistic director. A study in how quick…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AMMonday, January 11, 2021
“Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side,” part of the “Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence” festival on-going at Round House Theatre, had its world premier on Sunday. T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:27PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
This one-woman show is a story-teller’s dream, and Perry Gaffney, who wrote and performs it, is a storyteller. She can have you laughing, gasping, crying, nodding your head going uh-huh, a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:37PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
Written on an accelerated schedule (commissioned in June 2020 and ready in August 2020), then cast, rehearsed, and produced by five companies across the United States by December 2020, Sunda…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:28PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Updated slightly for the Zoom, socially-distanced theatre era we’re in, “The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs” is a fun romp from the 17th century that has a subtle touch of feminis…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMSunday, November 15, 2020
Dark Horse Theatre Company has come up with an ingenious new play that uses Zoom’s strengths and still gives us an insightful, funny, and wrenching work. And they accomplish it all within …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:10PMMonday, November 9, 2020
Once in a while a reviewer is lucky enough to review a pre-production of a new show, and then review it again when it produced for the public. I have been privileged to watch the incarnation…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:42AMTuesday, November 3, 2020
“Marisol,” by José Rivera, is a fever-dream of a play. It is as if the normal world has lost its moorings, or mind, and people, systems, institutions are breaking down under the strain.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PM 
