Sunday, July 1, 2018
Sarah McLachlan’s singing, remarkably, hasn’t changed much in the past 20 years. There’s a startlingly intimate quality to her voice and to her music that’s virtually…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:41PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
“Other Life Forms,” now playing at the Keegan Theatre, is a profound examination of what it means to be human, as seen by someone who (probably) isn’t. The world premiere b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:47AMThursday, March 22, 2018
As a storm loomed outside on March 20, 2018, baritone Theo Hoffman and pianist Bradley Moore braved the wintry spring weather to present a program at the Kennedy Center called Abendphantasie…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:35PMSunday, February 25, 2018
Vocal Arts DC’s Feb. 24 concert was a series of Lieder by Franz Schubert. Schubert, though he died before his 32nd birthday, left behind an impressive repertoire of music, including so…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:12PMSunday, February 11, 2018
Vocal Arts DC’s Feb. 8 concert was a Liederabend, a series of German art songs, largely from the Romantic era. Thematically, the series told the stories of four women—Mignon, the wai…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:39PMSunday, January 28, 2018
“Hamlet” is the longest Shakespeare play and certainly among the playwright’s most well-known. It tells the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who returns home from univer…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:49PMThursday, January 11, 2018
If you had gone into Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught’s recital at the Kennedy Center on Jan. 9 expecting a series of music from her homeland, you would have been sorely mistaken — …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:25PMSaturday, December 23, 2017
The June Rebellion of 1832 lasted all of two days, a short-lived revolution in Paris that had little lasting effect on the world of French politics. Its cultural impact has been much farther…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PMSaturday, December 16, 2017
At this time of year, as the days end earlier and the nights get darker, it’s easy for the world around us to seem a little more strange than usual. After all, it’s the time of year when…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26PMThursday, December 7, 2017
Vocal Arts DC’s Dec. 5 offering at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater featured Andrei Bondarenko, a Ukrainian baritone, and Gary Matthewman, a British pianist, performing a program exc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:11PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
The Kennedy Center’s newly reopened Terrace Theater feels like the perfect place for a tribute to Leonard Bernstein — it’s vibrant but intimate; unique, but working within …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:39PMFriday, October 13, 2017
In 1939, the S.S. St. Louis fled Nazi Germany with nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees on board, headed for Havana, Cuba. When the ship arrived in Cuba, however, only a few passengers were allowed …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:31PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
It’s 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. In the United States, the Great Depression lingers, evident even in the house of Eugene Morris Jerome (Cole Sitilides), a teenage Brooklynite …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:27AMSunday, April 2, 2017
It’s difficult to know what to expect with modern ballet, especially when it’s not a standard, story-driven piece like “Sleeping Beauty” or “The Nutcracker.R…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:22AMThursday, December 8, 2016
Tuesday night’s Vocal Arts DC performance at University of District of Columbia’s Theatre of the Arts, featuring famed baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber, was compl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:23PMMonday, December 5, 2016
These days, people’s thoughts turn to Christmas before we even hang up our Halloween costumes. Carols fill the air, TV starts airing Charlie Brown and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,”…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:34PMThursday, November 17, 2016
The UDC Theatre for the Arts is a rather unassuming, spartan building tucked into a corner of the University of the District of Columbia’s campus. The actual theater inside, however, is st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:23AMSunday, October 11, 2015
The setting of Christine Evans’s Can’t Complain, now playing at Spooky Action Theater and is part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, can be unnerving to anyone who has…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:17PMSunday, September 20, 2015
Carmen, now playing at the Kennedy Center, is uniquely brilliant. From the very first moment of its robust overture, echoing the now-iconic “Toreador Song” of the second act, the…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:44PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Tying the Knot, a Baltimore Playwrights Festival production now playing at Fells Point Corner Theatre’s Sokal Stage, is about a gay man who decides to marry a woman. With that single p…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:02PMMonday, August 17, 2015
Walking into Flashpoint for the production of One in the Chamber feels almost unsettlingly voyeuristic. The black box stage has been transformed into a disorganized suburban dining room, the…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:51AMFriday, July 24, 2015
Last month, 21-year-old Dylann Roof walked into a South Carolina church and killed nine people with the apparent intention of starting a “Race War.” While the dialogue in news me…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:45AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Walking into the Mead Theatre Lab for We Happy Few’s performance of The Winter’s Tale feels a little like stepping into a dream. The black box theatre is lined with gauzy white c…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PMSunday, July 12, 2015
The Second City is notable for its vast number of talented alumni, including John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and countless others. These alumni are noted fo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:20PMFriday, July 3, 2015
At just shy of three hours long, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof can be a difficult play to sit through–there are few moments of levity to lighten what amounts to an e…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:59AMSaturday, June 20, 2015
Any avid fan of South Park will know that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have a very evenhanded approach when covering issues of religion–universal satire. Their Broadway musical …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:10PMMonday, May 18, 2015
The Vietnam War was a difficult and controversial event in American history. Young men died by the thousands, surrounded by enemies, half a world away from their homes. And sending them ther…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:58PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, directed by Stephen Lawless and now playing at the Kennedy Center, begins with a long overture set against a backdrop of rolling ocean waves, fram…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:09AMThursday, February 5, 2015
There is no other play in Shakespeare’s canon that conjures the power of fear and superstition the way Macbeth does. From the first appearance of the witches, it’s made clear tha…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:02PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
The InSeries’ Artistic Director Carla Hubner noted at the beginning of Saturday night’s performance of Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula that it was a “bigger piece th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:11AMSunday, January 4, 2015
According to the Washington Stage Guild, their production of In Praise of Love is the first Terence Rattigan play produced in Washington, DC since In Praise of Love premiered at the K…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:10PM 
