Monday, July 11, 2022
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 02:17PMMonday, June 20, 2022
Currently 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 12:24PMMonday, May 2, 2022
Lauren 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 08:08PMSaturday, February 26, 2022
“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 10:49AMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Anne 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 04:25PMTuesday, January 11, 2022
“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 02:24PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
“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 08:47PMMonday, October 11, 2021
“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 08:05PMSunday, September 26, 2021
Classic 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 08:10PMSaturday, September 11, 2021
The 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 12:05PMMonday, August 16, 2021
With 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 12:18PMSunday, August 8, 2021
The 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 05:50PMThursday, June 25, 2020
Signature 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 06:19AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
Montgomery 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 12:41PMTuesday, April 28, 2020
With 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 12:57PMFriday, March 13, 2020
Maryland 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 11:22AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Harry 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 04:11AMThursday, February 27, 2020
Taffety 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 07:54AMFriday, February 21, 2020
“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 05:02PMThursday, July 18, 2019
The 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 01:39PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
The 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 10:05PMSunday, July 14, 2019
Audiences 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 05:31PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
“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 09:02PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Fauquier 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 11:51PMThursday, May 16, 2019
Milburn 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 07:15PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Stand 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 01:48PMMonday, May 6, 2019
Studio 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 10:42AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Columbia-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 10:29PMThursday, April 25, 2019
When 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 10:50PMFriday, April 19, 2019
The 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27PM 
