To counterbalance the echoey chaos of last year, with the Helen Hayes Awards seemed to have been swallowed up by the party it was having at the National Building Museum, the 31st annual even…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:57AMWith a handful of plays and still in her mid-30s, Amy Herzog may be a slightly premature candidate for a festival of her work. But Baltimore’s Center Stage has forged ahead nonetheless, pr…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:44AMThe cheery cast of the world premiere G-d’s Honest Truth promises, early on, a story that’s “Jewish but not too Jewy.” Theatre J at the DC Jewish Community Theatre would be the place…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:44AMThose who know Guilford's Becki Newton from her glamorous roles on "Ugly Betty" or "How I Met Your Mother" would not immediately associate the blonde actress with either the word "weird" or …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AMThe title of Beth Henley’s new play sounds like an order; at least a nudge. Laugh is her effort to move away from her more serious works from the stage that have included the Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:00PMThere could hardly be a more reverent salute to a great, twisted film than The Pointless Theater’s well-wrought Doctor Caligari, which brings the influential German expressionist film to …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:50PMThe climactic horror at the end of the Washington National Opera’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites has an added jolt — it echoes too closely the beheadings of near…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:56PMMuch respect is due the Washington Stage Guild, which has been systematically producing the plays of George Bernard Shaw for more than 25 years. In that time and in five different locations,…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:38PMOne of the larger mistakes you could make at the theater is to take a youngster to this Frozen at the Anacostia Playhouse. The grim Bryony Lavery play is not only emphatically not the popul…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:12AMFor the readers of the 19 novels in Michael Connelly's best-selling detective series, Harry Bosch will not be a new name.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:08AM“Black lives matter.” That’s the succinct message that’s arisen from protests of the past several months. It’s a rallying cry, too, from August Wilson’s powerful King Hedley …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:29AMBack in the 1980s, playwright Barbara Wiechmann used to marvel at the bombed out surroundings of New York’s Coney Island. Caught between the ruins of the past and promise of future redevel…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PMHumans have a regrettable instinct oftentimes to avoid a recent widow – what can one say to the grieving? How to act? This apparently worked against both Mary Todd Lincoln nearly 150 years…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:11PMWhen Lucy Biggers of Fairfield graduated from Tulane University two years ago, she looked for the kind of job that would give her a lot of experience.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:04PMBessie Smith is having something of a moment in 2015, 121 years after her birth. The celebrated “Empress of the Blues” is not only the subject of a big HBO bio film this year starring Qu…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:30PMThe renaissance of timeless animated Disney musicals occurred during the time of “Beauty and the Beast” more than 20 years ago. There followed the golden age of Disney stage musicals bas…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:33PMNatsu Onoda Power’s The T Party had its start as a workshop in the summer of 2013. As such, you’d expect the return of the work “celebrating gender transformation” at the Forum Theat…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:43AMJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the musical Bible story Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber put together before they did Jesus Christ Superstar (and Evita and all the theater-…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:37PM“Please endeavor to care as much as possible,” the program for the Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s Famous Puppet Death Scenes at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre implores. And so we shall. The q…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:13PMIt’s the music and the dancing of The Nutcracker that have made it an annual tradition in cities across America for half a century. The new production of The Nutcracker at the Round House…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:48PMAnybody can put on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and many theater companies do, year in and year out. But hardly any pairs the Shakespearean romp with his lesser known The Two Noble Kinsman, …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:29PMOne of the best thing I did at my last newspaper was convincing them to run “Mutts,” the splendid comic strip by Patrick McDonnell. A simple strip about dogs and cats and the people who …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:42PMWhat could be better than an evening of the music of Louis Jourdan and his influential jumping jive that paved the road through jump blues to hard R&B and rock ’n’ roll? That’s wha…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:10AMWhen the Theater J production of Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures still hadn’t begun a little after its poste…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:03PMFamilies can be some crazy places. Within these primal institutions, where psychological blocks are built and broken down, everyday nagging and picking can build into some life-imploding pre…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:52PMYou’ll be rooting for the central character of Marc Goldsmith’s Danny Boy in the Unexpected Stage Company production at the Randolph Road Theatre in Silver Spring. Not because he’s a l…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:53PMThe unusual alliance, in 1965, of boxer Muhammad Ali with Stepin Fetchit, the Depression-era comedian and stereotype, seemed so odd that it certainly deserves an imagined play chronicling th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:47PMA nearly 100-year old play by Luigi Pirandello would seem to be a dusty old thing to attempt to stage. But dress it up in kicky 60s clothes on a nifty modernist set with vintage Italian pop …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:11AMThere are some plays that are perfectly suited for Washington’s historic Ford’s Theatre and Alfred Uhry’s “Driving Miss Daisy” is one of them. One imagines the spirit of Abraham Li…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:15PMAssembling a nice night of operatic arias for a cabaret production, Kathleen Cahill was struck by a commonality among the women in classic productions: They pretty much all ended up dead in …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:03AMThe “MOTEL” sign flickers and sputters its message before showtime, forlorn and unforgiving as the Mojave desert landscape, as it awaits the production of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love t…
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