Part of the magic of Lumina Studio Theatre is that it mounts serious, artistically thoughtful productions of complex works with a young cast of all ages and makes it work for all of them and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:42PMThe fast-paced and energetic “Push the Button” is making its world premiere at the Keegan Theatre. The hip-hop musical emerged from Keegan’s Boiler Room Series, an incubator for works …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:30PMImagination Stage has a well-earned reputation for presenting innovative children’s theatre that does not talk down to its audience. It continues to impress with “The Hula-Hoopin’ Quee…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:08PMWashington Stage Guild has mounted a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” that is more than satisfactory in its parts. The acting, direction, and set and sound design are all top-n…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PMFive years ago, NextStop Theatre Company presented “45 Plays for 45 Presidents,” (read our review here), a collection of super-short plays about each of the men who had served in the nat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:57PMThe actor playing Nina in a production of “The Seagull” trips over one line and forgets another. Her scene partner tries to cover for her. She stumbles through another line or two, then …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:14PM“The Outsider” by Paul Slade Smith feels unstuck in time. First performed in 2015, the politics of this agreeable, light satire are those of 2008, and the tone and style evoke smart sitc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:20PMBlue Man Group is, as the Kennedy Center website says, a “phenomenon.” Created in New York in 1987, Blue Man Group has performed for more than 35 million people on multiple continents, w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:56AMCapital Fringe perseveres. Two years after the pandemic led to the cancellation of the 15th annual festival, Fringe has returned—a bit smaller, a bit quieter, but alive and unbowed. If the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:17PMMichael Seebold’s “Etched Glass Decanter” evokes Edgar Allan Poe or the darker works of Neil Gaiman. The 70-minute play takes place in an obscure universe where dream logic prevails an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:08PM“Is this legal?” “More or less!” Welcome to the weird world of D.C. marijuana gifting. In the District of Columbia, every law comes with an asterisk. The Council can overturn a measu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:58PMIf you laugh at the abyss, the abyss laughs back at you. Samuel Beckett was the funniest of the existentialists who took European thought by storm after the horrors of Nazism and the Second …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:29PMIn addition to being a prolific playwright, Lauren Gunderson is also one of the nation’s best ambassadors for science. Works like “Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:17PMCurrently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, “Nollywood Dreams” is a delightful, feel-good telling of the familiar young-girl-makes-it-big-in-the-movies story set in a world that may be…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:24PMLauren Gunderson has made a name for herself—and became the nation’s most produced living playwright in each of two recent years—with a series of works that include wordy and funny,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:08PM“Jesus Christ Superstar,” the current production the Kennedy Center, reminds us that it is a half-century old — or rather, a bit past that, since the “50th Anniversary Tour” was de…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AMAnne Frank is an icon. A symbol. A tragedy. Anne Frank is also a commodity. Rinne B. Groff’s “Compulsion or the House Behind,” currently at Theater J, is a lightly fictionalized loo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PM“Flight” contains no live actors—and no actors at all, save for those heard over headphones. It has no traditional set, and yet has dozens of them. It is a work of immersion experience…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:24PM“Mysticism & Music,” a newly devised Constellation Theatre piece running both in person at the Source Theatre and in streaming production, is not a play. It has no through-line of na…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:47PM“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” now running at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Michael R. Klein Theatre, is a searing and intimate study of a hero who thought he was a failure…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:05PMClassic novels and plays have often been reimagined and updated with modern language in high school settings — films like “Cruel Intentions,” “Clueless,” and “Easy A” come to m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PMThe real star of the Kennedy Center’s world premiere, commissioned production of “A Wind in the Door” did not herself appear on stage during the show’s just-ended run. This one-hour …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:05PMWith director Angelisa Gillyard’s production of “Moon Man Walk,” Constellation Theatre Company continues its tradition of exceptionally staged, visually rich performances — this time…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:18PMThe Her Majesty & Sons production of “Twelfth Night” is a delightful, quick-paced bit of very midsummer madness that manages to achieve theatrical intimacy even in this time of renew…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:50PMSignature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will leave his position as of next Tuesday in the wake of allegations of sexual assault. Schaeffer co-founded Signature in 1989 and has bee…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:19AMMontgomery County-based Flying V fired Producing Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein and accepted the resignation of Associate Artistic Director Jon Rubin on Monday evening following the rev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:41PMWith theatre on indefinite lockdown throughout the region and the nation, Pointless Theatre in Washington is keeping an eye on the future. The decade-old professional company — known for s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PMMaryland Theatre Guide reached out to more than 100 professional and community theatres, as well as performance venues, in our coverage region about their policies regarding the COVID-19 sit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22AMHarry Potter novels involve certain tropes. There’s a mission, some unexpected setbacks, some tragedy, and ultimately triumph due to teamwork, ingenuity, and a bit of magic. All of these e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:11AMTaffety Punk Theatre Company, one of the region’s boldest and most vital troupes, this weekend offers up a brief 10-year anniversary revival of Artistic Director Marcus Kyd’s “suicide.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:54AM“The Toxic Avenger: The Musical” at Rorschach Theatre is, as one of the characters says late in the show, “a wonderful musical based on a movie most people saw when they were stoned.�…
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