In 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.�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PMThe best one-word description of “Home, Sweet, _____” is right there in the title. But this 40-minute clowning piece, created by Accademia dell’Arte-trained performer Collette Campbell…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:39PMThe only bad thing to say about “Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical!” is that you will not get a chance to see it at the Capital Fringe Festival. The company of the short musical poppe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05PMAudiences attending “Caribbean Command” at the Capital Fringe Festival will be presented with a stilted, repetitive debate between four members of the service over which one of them shou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PMAnnexus Theatre Company’s “Thanksgiving at Macbeth’s” is a work by a very smart director and very talented actors who all work very well together. Frustratingly, despite the scads of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PM“Shakespeare’s Worst,” a Fringe Curated Series selection at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, has at least two things in common with “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” the play at its…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:02PMFauquier Community Theatre, which marked its 40th anniversary in 2018, has been busily expanding its theatre education programs and upgrading the technical aspects of its venue while still p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:51PMMilburn Stone Memorial Theatre opened in 1992 on the North East campus of Cecil College, but its history dates back further. The Covered Bridge Theatre Company had been performing in various…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:15PMStand Up For… Theatre is a young company that, along with Erase Hate For Art, makes up How Do You Like Me Now Productions. The two programs work to promote acceptance and equality with the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PMStudio Theatre closes its current season with a tight, gripping production of Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Children” — nominated for Best Play at the Tonys last year — that craftily combin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:42AMColumbia-based Silhouette Stages began as Shadow Block Productions in May 2003 with a production of “Quilters” — the name referred to the blocks individually sewn into the quilts. Like…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29PMWhen I took my very first acting class at age 32, having never done so much as a school play, I asked a fellow student with more experience how people in the Washington region found their fi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:50PMThe Colonial Players is one of the region’s oldest continually operating non-professional theatre companies, marking its 70th anniversary this year. The very first production, “The Male …
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