“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 08:20PMOne 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 12:15PMOne 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 09:20PMThink 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 07:36PMIn 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 09:13PMIn 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 02:44PMIn 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 11:49PMThere 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 07:32PMRecently, 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 01:29AMTucked 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 09:35PMOn 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 10:29AMDominique 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 08:52PM“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 05:00PMIn 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 12:03AMWe 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 08:37PMFrom 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 09:45PMBefore 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 02:01AMMy 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 04:36AMA 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 09:32PMDoes 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 11:41PMAfter 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 06:27PMSydney 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 09:22PM“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 01:21AMThere 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 11:47PMIt’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 05:22PMCan 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 07:58PMAt 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 11:39PMThe 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 03:52PMIn 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 11:22PMThe 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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