“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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27PMThe City of Fairfax Theatre Company is marking its 10th anniversary this year. Founded by two Fairfax High School drama teachers and a team of volunteers in 2009, CFTC underwent what Artisti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:14PMThis past weekend, The Washington Ballet again partnered with the Shakespeare Theatre Company for the debut of “Three World Premieres” of contemporary ballet at the Harman Center. The ve…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:39PMCastaways Repertory Theatre has been bringing stage classics like “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and modern hits like “August: Osage County” to Prince William County audiences for nearly 40…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13AMTom Stoppard’s 1993 play “Arcadia” is a complex work of ideas, and Lumina Studio Theatre’s student ensemble set itself an ambitious task in taking it on for a just-ended weekend run …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18PMYou art what you eat. Third Rail Projects’ “Confection,” a site-specific slice of immersive theatre open to very limited audiences at the Folger Theatre this month, is many things. It�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:35PMAldersgate Church Community Theater has been entertaining Fairfax County audiences for three decades. Founded in 1990, the company originally mounted just one or two shows per year. Today, i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:38PMShakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “Vanity Fair,” directed by Jessica Stone, is a marvel and a delight, a hilarious rendition of William Makepeace Thackeray’s puckishly nast…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:49AM(This is the first in a series of profiles of nonprofessional and small professional theatres in our coverage area.) Since 1996, 2nd Star Productions has been bringing nonprofessional produc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:30PMDavid Muse’s dour production of “Richard the Third” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company opts for nerve-wrenching tension at the cost of some of the protagonist’s joie de vivre. “Ric…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:48PMConstellation Theatre Company continues its run of visually lush and challenging productions with its current mounting of Edward Kemp’s adaptation of “The Master and Margarita.” My gue…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:37PMTo a certain generation of theatre kid, “Rent” is a landmark, a seminal work that is also a personal milestone, akin to “A Chorus Line” a generation before and “Hamilton” a gener…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:38AMI brought my friend Maddie along with me to review the Adventure Theatre MTC world premiere production of “Blueberries for Sal.” While I have the experience of some years as an actor and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:54PMFrank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is today seen as a sentimental bit of corn that reflects an idealism about American government that has little in common with the real thin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PMSarah Ruhl’s “Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce,” which is opening Constellation Theatre Company’s “Epic Love”-themed 2018-19 season, is a delightful confection of surrealism…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:01PMWith “Heartbreak Hitman,” which just ended its run at the Capital Fringe Festival, Washington journalist Leigh Giangreco serves up what she calls a “love letter to D.C.” in the style…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:05PMCaitlin M. Caplinger’s “Riot Brrrain” is a messy, confusing, raw, and real piece of theatre that takes the experimental nature of the Capital Fringe Festival and runs with it, sometime…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:31AMThe stated premise of A Muse Zoo’s Capital Fringe Festival offering “The Truth*” — an “over-the-top comedy about political power and the winners of war” — might lead on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:54AMHappenstance Theater Company’s “Barococo” is a delightful hour that illustrates the full potential of the Capital Fringe Festival. Happenstance got its start with the very first Capita…
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