Sunday, July 22, 2018
Happenstance 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:28PMFriday, July 20, 2018
“Titus Andronicus” can be viewed as many things. Some have called it William Shakespeare’s effort to out-gore his macabre rival Christopher Marlowe; others say Shakespeare was satirizi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:25PMSunday, July 15, 2018
Erik Harrison’s “A Slow Bullet” is a rare example of a Capital Fringe Festival show that deserves to be longer. It’s also something of a “meta-show,” to borrow a phrase from one …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:43PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
“The City Of…” at Capital Fringe, by Matthew Capodicasa and based on a short story by Argentine magical realist Jorge Luis Borges, is a funny, creepy, scary, and thought-provoking hour…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:34AMSunday, July 8, 2018
In “Andromeda Breaks,” one of the five Fringe Curated Series productions at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, prolific D.C. playwright Stephen Spotswood gives voice to a voiceless f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:54PMAs I was enduring New Paradise Laboratories’ “O Monsters,” one of the five productions in the Fringe Curated Series at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, I thought often of “The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:42PMMonday, June 4, 2018
With Fred Zirm’s mounting of “A Delicate Balance,” Silver Spring Stage has created a very good production of a very odd play. To mark its semicentennial, Silver Spring Stage — wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:19PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The elevator to Studio Theatre’s Stage 4 opens onto a corridor lined with crates, packing materials, and the stenciled words “Made in Vietnam.” Entering the tight performance space, th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:03AMFriday, May 4, 2018
For a very limited run this week, Denmark by way of West Africa by way of Britain is in residence at The Kennedy Center. The Royal Shakespeare Company has created a sub-Saharan “Hamlet” …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:12PMThursday, April 5, 2018
“Potted Potter”, the good-natured send-up of J.K. Rowling’s seven Harry Potter novels, is back at the Shakespeare Theatre Company for another brief run of dumb fun. Daniel Clarkson and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24AMMonday, April 2, 2018
“Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert” taught me to have faith in NBC, or at least in its live musical endeavors. I was a Doubting Thomas about the Peacock’s plans to mark Easter wi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:10AMMonday, March 19, 2018
David Ives first came to the attention of many theatergoers with his “Venus in Fur” eight years ago or with his adaptations of Pierre Corneille’s “The Liar” and Jean-Francois Regna…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:58PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
“Godspell” has been an American theatrical mainstay for so long that it’s easy to forget just what a strange show it is. It has no linear plot, no particular setting in either time or …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:26PMMonday, February 19, 2018
John Adams once wrote that he devoted his life to politics and war so that his children could devote theirs to science and philosophy. That sentiment is at the core of the American immigrant…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:47PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Actor Ashley Austin Morris and costume designer Linda Cho are the true stars of “The Way of the World,” Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy of the indiscreet, charmless One Percent currently r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:30AM“45 Plays for 45 Presidents” is a rough, vital, essential work of theatre, currently being expertly performed by a perfectly selected cast at NextStop Theatre Company. The show — a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:31AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
“Vicuña & The American Epilogue” is a tale of an aspiring emperor’s new clothes. The Los Angeles premiere of this sharp satire of Donald Trump’s presidential run straddled Elect…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:24PMSunday, October 15, 2017
Three women (though not Three Sisters) elevate director Melissa B. Robinson’s production of Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” running through the end of Oct…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:35PMMonday, October 2, 2017
Rich Amada’s historical drama “The Judicial Murder of Mrs. Surratt” is making its world premiere at Aldersgate Church Community Theater in Alexandria this month, in a production where …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04AMThursday, September 28, 2017
Though thin on plot and weak on character development, the Constellation Theatre Company production of Andrew Lippa’s 2000 musical “The Wild Party” still manages to impress due to a st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:31PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Director Keith Cassidy, a comic book fan, discovered the script of “King Kirby” while browsing a bookstore in New York. He had no idea that the play existed. It was a fitting start for h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:02PMMonday, July 17, 2017
The dozens of shows that make up a Capital Fringe Festival always vary wildly in terms of subject and style, but perhaps even more in terms of stagecraft. Some shows consist of just a perfor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:50AMDavid S. Kessler has a condition known as ordinal linguistic personification. But he does not suffer from it; he could be said to enjoy it (for the most part). The condition is a form of syn…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:44AMThursday, July 13, 2017
“The Dream Dancer,” part of the Capital Fringe Festival, is an intriguing but flawed dance theatre production that veers between well-executed movement pieces and dialogue that is stilte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:03AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Ask someone to name a bad president and they’ll be quick to offer several names. Ask someone to name a bad First Lady, and it’s likely that one name will jump to come to mind. Mary Todd…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:00PMMonday, June 12, 2017
The CBS broadcast of the 71st Annual Tony Awards brought few surprises in terms of winners, and a game but middling performance by host Kevin Spacey. But the performances – the real reason…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:16AMMonday, May 29, 2017
When the Emperor Vespasian’s son Titus criticized his father for placing a tax on Rome’s toilets, Vespasian held up a gold coin and told him, “Money does not stink. And yet it comes fr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PMMonday, May 22, 2017
Washington is wealthy in terms of theatres, but sometimes one has to be wealthy to afford a ticket. Parlor Room Theater is a small professional company with the admirable goal of making grea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:28PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
A 1985 book by a neurologist might seem like strange fodder for the stage, but the real individuals described in Oliver Sacks’s “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” are ripe for th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:02AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
Constellation Theatre Company marks its 10th season with a revival of a show from its first, playwright Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of “The Arabian Nights,” directed by Allison Arkell …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:50PM 
