Roundabout’s 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Play is launching its national tour at the Kennedy Center this month. At the top of “A Soldier’s Play,” unseen men sing a melod…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:11PMShakespeare Theatre Company’s new production of “Much Ado About Nothing,” delayed from its intended season in 2020, is worth the wait. This fizzy romp, confidently directed by Artistic…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:51AMLike the embroidered silk that makes several appearances in its story, “Intimate Apparel,” is finely made, full of small, precious details. Theater J’s new staging of the quietly lumin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:02PMArena Stage continues its 2022-23 season with the gentle, romantic comedy, “Holiday,” a very good-looking show underscored by a solid ensemble cast, directed by Anita Maynard- Losh. (Aud…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:38PMCreating a unique staging of a play produced as often as Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a daunting task, but one that Synetic Theater more than achieves in its reworkin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:27AMThe mortals are foolish and the fairies spectacular in New York City Ballet’s new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Kennedy Center. This cheerful show is wonderfully p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:26PMNature is red in tooth and claw, the poem says, and that’s especially true in Avant Bard’s incredibly compelling new production of “Suddenly Last Summer,” directed by Christopher Hen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:24PMIt’s hard to imagine a play more timely than “Marys Seacole,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s astonishing new show, which is having its regional premiere at the Mosaic Theater Company. Openi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:18PMIf you need a pleasant escape from the world right now, look no further than Synetic Theater’s new staging of “The Servant of Two Masters.” A brilliant farce, this lighter than air sto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:21PMAmerican Ballet Theatre closes its run at the Kennedy Center with the resplendent “Don Quixote,” fantastically staged by artistic director Kevin McKenzie and Regisseur Susan Jones. A cla…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:25PMSpring is in the air and so is romance in “She Loves Me,” a gorgeously performed and staged production of the well-loved musical, now at Signature Theatre. Anyone needing a feel-good, or…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:53PMMurder will out, eventually, in the charming “Arsenic and Old Lace,” directed by Sarah O’Hara and now on stage at Artistic Synergy of Baltimore. This community theatre offering is a co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04PMPeople contain multitudes, which is why telling the story of oneself can seem so daunting. It’s a challenge that “Trans Am,” a one-woman, autobiographical rock musical, meets with star…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:12PMIn the fall of 2020, I had the distinct pleasure of reviewing “Trans Am,” a one-woman rock musical, written and performed by the electric Lisa Stephen Friday. Like many productions at th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:34PMThe divide between middle America and so-called coastal elites has been much dramatized in recent years, but perhaps one of the most enjoyable incarnations is “The Prom,” a glittering di…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:57PMIn his pre-show introduction to Synetic Theater’s new production, “The Madness of Poe,” Director Paata Tsikurishvili jokes that he wanted to start the season with “something light.�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:25PMOlney Theatre Center’s suite of summer programming continues strong with Dance Around the World, a two-part series that features dance troupes with traditions from across the globe. The fi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48PMIt’s old news that theatre is undergoing a transformation this year due to the pandemic. At the same time, it might be the most important moment for the rawness and immediacy the instituti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:07PMThough the pandemic continues, theatre is alive and has a future, according to the playwrights who took part in Olney Theatre Center’s Streaming Saturdays, a video series that investigates…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:04PM“No man is a monster!” claims one of the characters in “Frankenstein,” partway through the thrillingly staged production, directed by Danny Boyle and produced at the UK’s Royal Nat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PMMake time for “Make Way for Ducklings,” Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy’s digital preview of its new musical, based on the classic children’s book and scheduled to debut as par…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:45PMAn appropriate subtitle for “Perfect Arrangement,” a highly attractive period piece now at Silver Spring Stage, could be “The Way We Never Were.” A satire of 1950s conventionality, t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:16PM“Spring Awakening,” the turbulent rock-musical about teenage sexuality, is being given new life at Round House Theatre. Round House stages a surprising and skillful production of this ro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:43PMMatthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake” is not your mother’s Swan Lake, and it’s marvelous indeed. A gorgeous reinvention of ballet’s revered classic, the production, in performance by Bour…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:41PMThe weather outside isn’t yet frightful, but Synetic Theater’s debut production of “The Snow Queen” creates a delightful winter wonderland inside. This innovative outfit’s new show…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:54PMHoliday shows understandably tend towards the heartwarming, and the touring production of “Come From Away,” now at the Kennedy Center, fits the bill. It’s a rich, exhilarating story ab…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:22PMIf you need something to lift the spirits in this dark season, definitely consider “Peter Pan and Wendy,” a buoyant and sparkling new reimagining of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale adapted …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:00PMOlney Theater Center kicks off its season with a captivating new production of “Cabaret.” With a story that charts the rise of fascism in Germany’s inter-war Weimar Republic, it’s ha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:07AM“Hamlet” is back at the Shakespeare Theatre Company for this year’s annual Free For All, and it is not to be missed. The annual program features a Shakespeare production every summer a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:41PM“Matilda,” Roald Dahl’s perennially popular children’s book, will likely be familiar to most generations of readers and theatergoers. Olney Theatre Center’s impressive new staging …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:00PMThe audience at last Saturday’s Tony Awards Ceremony were treated to a karaoke performance of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” sung by the indelible Billy Porter. The number was a lov…
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