Monday, May 4, 2026
In my time as a theatre critic, performer, and director in both professional and non-professional roles, one misconception I encounter more than many others is that theatre for young audienc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2026
“I & You: The Musical” is making its world premiere at Olney Theatre Center in a co-production with New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre Center. It boasts of strong production values, ins…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2026
"Just following orders." It has become modern history's most indefensible defense, a much-maligned attempt to shake off responsibility for one's participation in the banality of evil by clai…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Hope Campbell Gundlah's new play "The H Twins" made its debut at the inaugural District Fringe Festival last summer. Writing here at the time, I called it "promising and important," a searin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2026
Rachel Bonds's "Jonah," which premiered off-Broadway in 2024 and makes its regional debut at Studio Theatre, is a masterful puzzle box of a play about trauma and the healing power of the ima…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2026
The cast and crew of "Annie" at Theatre@CBT had a hard-knock tech week, missing a few vital nights to the winter storm, but they stuck out their chins and grinned and put on an impressive, s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:21PM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2025
"The Snowman and The Snowdog" at Imagination Stage is a gentle and touching original adaptation of the 2012 animated short film that is a perfect choice for families of young children lookin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2025
Everyone who appears on stage in NextStop Theatre's production of Jason Robert Brown's "The Last 5 Years" does a phenomenal job. Ben Clark as Jamie and Caelyn D. Williams as Cathy are exc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Playwright Bob Bartlett and director Alex Levy made a wise choice in selecting the chapel at the historic Congressional Cemetery to stage Bartlett's "Mary Shelley's Monsters," a rumination o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
Signature Theatre's production of "Play On!" takes place in the Shirlington company's MAX Theatre, but you will forget that as soon as you step through the door. The space has been transform…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
Daniel Maseda's impressive credentials were on full display in "'Be Good' with Paulette," a solo performance at the just-ended inaugural District Fringe Festival. Maseda is a local, but he s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
The District Fringe Festival welcomes an inventive solo performance with "Prey Most Difficult," Corvin Kevlihan's retelling of the Irish legend of Oisin. With its spare staging and modern fl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Twin sisters Hilda and Helga like their preadolescent lives. They live in a clean, safe place, and though they have lost the parents they never knew, they are cared for by a kindly doctor an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2025
 Midway through the second act of "A Wrinkle in Time" at Arena Stage, three giant puppets, each roughly nine feet tall, quietly enter the Kreeger Theater from the rear. They make their w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
It is customary during the curtain call of stage productions for the cast to gesture to the booth or backstage to call for applause for those behind the scenes who do so much of the heavy li…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
IN Series, a company committed to making "theater from music," devoted its just-concluded season to the staging of works that were once banned. The season, with productions mounted in both W…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:59AM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2025
Julia Izumi's "Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!)" is not really about Akira Kurosawa and it's not really about yogurt. It is mostly about Julia I…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Nick Payne's "Constellations" opens with Cambridge cosmologist Marianne pitching an endearingly bizarre pickup line at a series of men. But we soon learn that these are not different men but…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:57PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2025
Suzan-Lori Parks is one of today's most relevant and most produced playwrights, but one of her earliest works, 1993's "The America Play," has never been performed in the D.C. area until now.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2025
A talented cast and some clever production concepts cannot overcome the confusion of ideas present in Scena Theatre's production of Sophocles's "Ajax," translation by John Tipton, currently …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2024
The Puppet Co.'s annual presentation of "The Nutcracker" is making its 36th appearance this year, and it continues to be a clever and innovative production that is ideal both to introduce yo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:46PM[SHARE]Some years ago, Adventure Theatre's then-Artistic Director Michael Bobbitt approached playwright Ken Ludwig and asked him to write a show for the children's theatre at Glen Echo. Ludwig agre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2024
I have reviewed more than 100 productions in my seven years with this publication, and "Astro Boy and the God of Comics" is among the best of them. Created by Natsu Onoda Power, author of th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:17AM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2024
For the first time in its 24 years in existence, Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting the final performances of the STC Academy's Master of Fine Arts program on one of the theatre's mai…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2024
North Shore Theatre Productions, a D.C.-based company specializing in one-person performances through its Solo Classics Series, presents a chilling and captivating adaptation of H.P. Lovecra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:05PM[SHARE]The title says it all. Tom Lehrer, the biting musical satirist who took on Jim Crow, the Catholic Church, and the nuisance of urban pigeons in a three-decade heyday spanning from the end of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]"Next Level," written by and starring Elizabeth Cutler, is a charming work in progress about a woman who is a work in progress. Sophie, played with wry good humor by Cutler, is an "editor at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2024
"Democracy" is a strange, sketch comedy show that ostensibly "takes a look at democracy in a completely unbiased, highly partisan manner." If that is confusing, so is the show. It opens with…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:25PM[SHARE]One of the joys of Capital Fringe is the discovery of new talent. Caitlin Frazier, who just recently graduated from Georgetown University, proves herself to be a face to watch with "Re: Writ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
"Who Did It? An Improvised Murder Mystery" opened Capital Fringe Festival last year on the Theater J stage. In my review, I wrote that creator Erick Acuña's comedic whodunnit had flaws bu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:35PM[SHARE]If there is one sure thing at Capital Fringe, it is Pinky Swear Productions (PSP). Even Founding Artistic Director Karen Lange, speaking to the audience just before this year's opening perfo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17PM[SHARE] 
