Thursday, March 22, 2018
“A Winter’s Tale” according to Standford University’s Stephen Orgel, “is a story to be told or read in front of a fire on a long winter’s night.” In this season of never-ending…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:20PMThursday, March 1, 2018
One Sunday night in 1983, New York City’s WYNY-FM made radio and television history by introducing the world to a little German-Israeli American woman. What she talked about that night was…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:15PMMonday, February 19, 2018
One of the most influential and inspiring artists of our time, the late Ursula K. LeGuin was a pioneer in the genre of science fiction and a literary behemoth. Nestled amongst her collection…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:20PMFriday, January 26, 2018
Think back. When was the last time you visited the theatre and experienced a show starring Native Americans? “Annie Get Your Gun” does not count. Now think back and tell me when was the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:36PMMonday, January 15, 2018
In 2015, Washington DC’s theatre community came together to form the Women’s Theater Voices Festival, a festival of plays composed by female playwrights. Three years and a ton of hard wo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:13PMSunday, November 19, 2017
In Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman” a man runs all over creation looking for a place to hide, while Simone asks him repeatedly, “Oh Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?” It’s not unlike t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:44PMThursday, November 9, 2017
In the original 1982 New York Times review of the Public’s production of “Top Girls,” critic Frank Rich explained the way that the playwright Caryl Churchill sees the theatre as “an …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:49PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
There are plays that leave you breathless, there are plays that leave you speechless. “Wilderness” is one of those plays that doesn’t leave you when you walk out of the theatre, in a t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:32PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Recently, I was watching a movie from a franchise that deals heavily with superheroes, and one scene, in particular, gave me pause. In this scene, a character triumphantly throws a bag of pr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:29AMThursday, September 28, 2017
Tucked away in the heart of America’s capital is a little slice of the Emerald Isle known as the Keegan Theatre. This theatre is so connected to their Irish roots, in fact that they have p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:35PMFriday, September 15, 2017
On August 18th, 2016, in the height of the campaign season months before election night, The New Yorker published a cartoon from Paul Noth that is still eerily relevant over a year later. It…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Dominique Morrisseau began writing “Skeleton Crew” when she met a woman who was living in her car in the parking lot of a hotel in her hometown of Detroit. She remembers being devastated…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:52PMFriday, August 11, 2017
“Big Fish” is one of those shows whose origin feels a little bit like a game of telephone. Before it was a musical, it was a critically acclaimed movie by Tim Burton, with a screenplay b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
In a 1986 interview with the New York Times, screenwriter and playwright Horton Foote once said, “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them, to kill th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:03AMMonday, July 10, 2017
We drove up in our car and were faced with huge blown up signs of fetuses, babies, and a man on a megaphone screaming things at a couple of peaceful women in simple red sashes who blocked th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:50PMTennessee Williams once said, “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:37PMThursday, June 22, 2017
From Sarah Treem, the woman who brought you the incredibly nuanced and stimulating play “The How and The Why” comes another incredibly stimulating and nuanced play, “When We Were Young…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:45PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Before Patti Lupone took on the role of Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s “Master Class,” the New York Times hailed it as “actor proof.” However, as “art is domination” …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:01AMFriday, April 21, 2017
My acquaintance with Gilbert and Sullivan began, as most high school theatre kids’ do, with the tongue twister song “Modern Major General” from “The Pirates of Penzance.” We wo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:36AMMonday, February 27, 2017
A play about the biological origins of menstruation? When he first heard about it, even Theatre J’s esteemed artistic director, Adam Immerwahr, remembers being skeptical. But as he worked …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:32PMFriday, January 27, 2017
Does the curse of the Scottish play still apply when the play is stylized “Mack (comma) Beth”? If the audience’s reception is any indication, I would say no. Keegan Theatre has shown o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41PMFriday, January 20, 2017
After a tirade from her tutor about the nature of human beings being derived from their status as animals and not from any superiority to the other creatures living in the world, Hilary reto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:27PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Sydney Poitier said it best when he said “So much of life, it seems to me is determined by pure randomness.” John Guare might have had this quote in mind when he was writing “Six Degre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:22PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
“I’ll give this letter to a worm and hope that it reaches you.” With those words Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice’s absurd and ancient world is encapsulated. The play is an award-winning mode…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:21AMMonday, October 17, 2016
There are few mythical creatures in our culture as pervasive as the witch. Especially around this time of year, it’s hard to go anywhere without seeing them leering at you from advertiseme…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:47PMFriday, September 30, 2016
It’s been quite a year for men who know next to nothing about certain industries talking over women who’ve made careers out of the same industry. I think that’s partially what inspired…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:22PMSunday, September 25, 2016
Can I make a confession to you, theatregoer? “Man of La Mancha” is one of my all-time favorite plays, and this production by the Arlington Players reminded me of all of the reasons why! …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:58PMMonday, September 19, 2016
At the height of the action of Jen Silverman’s “A Collective Rage: A Tale in Five Boops,” one of the Boops joyfully exclaims “art is danger and profit!” The full title: “In Essen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:39PMFriday, September 16, 2016
The origin story of “The Last Schwartz” is equally as endearing as its actual story. This was actually Deborah Zoe Laufer’s first play, and it was read as part of a reading of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:52PMMonday, September 12, 2016
In one of my previous jobs, I walked past the security guard, let’s call him Fred, every morning. Sometimes I would be running trying to get to work on time. Other times, I would be amblin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22PMSaturday, July 30, 2016
The Kennedy Center is an institution, inspiring awe from the moment you walk in the door. You get to your seat and the stage is an Elizabethan hall, with light filtering through the latticew…
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