The “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…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:02PMWhen a young woman named Abby returns home unexpectedly one afternoon after nobody showed for her yoga class, she finds her husband Zack home even more unexpectedly. That he was in the bedro…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:15PMA taste of Iceland is only a train ride away this summer as the new rock musical REVOLUTION IN THE ELBOW…, by Iceland’s Ívar Páll Jónsson, opened Off-Broadway at New York’s Minetta …
SOURCE: www.vnews.com at 05:06PMIt seems fitting that LARP and theater would eventually meet. After all, LARP – or Live Action Role Playing, that fringe group of costumes, swords and adopted personalities – involves so…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:27PMA taste of Iceland is only a train ride away this summer as the new rock musical REVOLUTION IN THE ELBOW OF RAGNAR AGNARSSON FURNITURE PAINTER, by Iceland’s Ívar Páll Jónsson, opened of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:29PMThe current post-Fringe, pre-fall lull in D.C. theater is being filled admirably by Scena Theater, which is packing the Atlas Performing Arts Center with two Irish dramas, the first of which…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:32PMThe role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” is supposed to be one of the prized roles for women of a certain age. “One of those parts,” Dame Peggy Ashcroft once said, “ac…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:49PMYou’d be hard pressed to find a better night at the theater than the terrific production of Private Lives at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Doffing the Bard in a season where they’ve p…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:55PMAs the audience files into Studio Theatre’s “Grounded,” Lucy Ellinson is already standing at attention, almost imperceptibly. In the Gate Theatre production directed by Christopher Hay…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:45PMPolitics is such a relentless, fulltime obsession in D.C., it may never occur to you to duck into a theater to take in more of it. Peter Sinn Nachtreib’s The Totalitarians, which is closin…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:41PMAfter being told I couldn’t even get in the door at the Spooky Action Theater until my cell phone was shut off, I thought: They are really cracking down on these electronic devices! Actual…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:34PMThe American sex farce Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight begins in the throes of passion, when what would normally just be spontaneous and embarrassing bedroom barking escalates sudde…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:53PMBy the time Bloody Poetry, Howard Brenton’s 1984 play of the romantic poets, begins in the current Taffety Punk production, Percy Byshhe Shelley is already en route to Switzerland with h…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:05PMIn the modest black box theater where Taffety Punk Theatre Company is in residence in Capitol Hill, there is currently the kind of brash, invigorating literature lesson any teacher would cov…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:39AMJudging from the news headlines nearly every week, race relations in the U.S. remain a social minefield that is difficult to navigate. One of the most direct intersections of race and cultur…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:32AMAs William Shakespeare hits his 450th birthday this week, what better way to celebrate it than at the Folger Theatre, the classiest showcase for the Bard in town and possibly the nation. On …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:01PMOne of the realizations from the brash, surreal play Moth, by Melbourne’s Declan Greene, is that teenagers are pretty much the same in Australia as they are in America – for better…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:45PMBecause he was witness to history — Jimmy Carter’s 13 day peace summit between the heads of Israel and Egypt in 1978 — former White House Communications director Gerald Raf…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:42PMThe more than a dozen productions that make up the World Stages International Theater Festival in Kennedy Center, most are listed for mature audiences. Others are listed for those at least t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:26PMThere must be a reason that most fusty drawing room dramas of yore stay buried in the past. J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, currently being revived by the St. Mark’s Players…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:03PMThe “spoonful” symbolizes both the innocence of childhood and the sinister swirl of drug addictions. Think Mary Poppins’ merry “Spoonful of Sugar,” or Willie Di…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:25AMThe famous quote: “Some look at things that are, and ask ‘why.’ I dream of things that never were and ask ‘why not?’” is often associated with Robert…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:35AMThe epic quest for a white whale in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick seems an apt subject for an epic staging, operatic in its intentions and soaring in its scale. … this &#…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00PMThe physical space used by the Spooky Action Theater is a good reflection of how the innovative company works. Seemingly with every show, they find a new way to turn the subterranean space a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:30PMThe circus today has morphed in a couple of directions: to the streamlined arena fare of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey and the gymnastic spectacles of Cirque du Soleil and their …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AMWith the recent announcement that “Peter Pan” would be the next live musical for NBC this year, Bill Murray flying into David Letterman’s show in costume this week, and Lea…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMSarah Ruhl is one of the most interesting playwrights in the country these days, with popular works like Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Clean House, and In the Next Room, all of which hav…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMA big crowd gathered at Signature Theatre in Arlington earlier this week — not necessarily for the opening of Holiday Follies, the annual Christmas cabaret, but for the start of previ…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMThe most performed operas usually reflect stories of long ago times and foreign cultures, which can sometimes be distancing for an audience. There is no such problem in A Family Reunion, m…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMGreat composers have to start somewhere and, for Giacomo Puccini, it was a one-act called Le Villi. He submitted it for a competition. It didn’t win or place. Still, he reworked it, added …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:00PMLet us now praise the Quotidian Theatre Company, which dedicates itself to classics, and crafts performances so good they remind us why the works are considered classics in the first place. …
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