Saturday, January 23, 2021
If you enjoy theater mostly from the audience perspective, you many not realize how many people work behind the scenes. Most pay attention to the actors’ performances. Many may note the co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:50PMMonday, January 18, 2021
“Ada and the Engine” — written by Lauren Gunderson, produced by Alika Codispoti and Maura Suilebhan, and directed by Jon Jon Johnson for Silver Spring Stage — opened virtually on Fri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:16AMWednesday, December 16, 2020
What happens when respected playwrights like Lauren Gunderson and David Henry Hwang team up with 1st Stage to produce an online reading of seven plays written by teens from around the county…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:45PMSaturday, December 12, 2020
“Lobby Hero” by Kenneth Lonergan, produced by Seth Ghitelman, and directed by Rob Gorman, is currently playing online via Silver Spring Stage. The play was to open the season but, due …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:09PMFriday, October 23, 2020
On Friday, Arena Stage produced its first live production from the Transit Pier Floating Stage at the Wharf since their closure due to the pandemic. The performance is an adaptation by Chery…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:33PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020, Theater of War Productions performed “Antigone in Ferguson” via Zoom. The production was translated, directed, and conducted by Bryan Doerries and co-facilitated …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:54PMThursday, July 9, 2020
I have never interviewed a person for Maryland Theatre Guide that I have known longer than Patti Restivo or as well. Ms. Restivo and I met over three decades ago when we worked together on p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:28PMMonday, July 6, 2020
This summer’s bargain may well be a subscription for one month for the new Disney+ streaming service. The 2016 Broadway production of “Hamilton” with the original cast is available on …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:42PMWednesday, July 1, 2020
The last 20 years at Arena Stage could be called the years of Molly Smith. Since she began, although the quality of the productions remained high, the focus changed to American musicals an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:04PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
“Gloria: A Life,” written by Emily Mann and directed by Diane Paulus, originally opened off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater in October 2018 and ran until March 2019. This production, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:24AMMonday, June 29, 2020
This week, The National Theatre is streaming Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” produced in 2019 by the Bridge Theatre in England. This is a smart and novel approach to this …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:23PMMonday, June 22, 2020
Our local acting troupes are getting quite creative. Rude Mechanicals had five playwrights put together a group of one-act plays on Zoom. They chose the directors and performers and with onl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PMLike so many other area theatres, Arena Stage has been closed since March. As luck would have it, they were set to celebrate their 70th Anniversary in May. Molly Smith has been the Artisti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:06PM“Small Island” a 2019 drama based on the epic and award-winning novel by Andrea Levy, adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Rufus Norris. It is now streaming on YouTube, thanks to t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:46PMFriday, June 19, 2020
The death of George Floyd and the protests that followed affected almost everyone in one way or another. The Pandemic Theatre decided to postpone showing Act IV of “Much Ado About Nothing�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:28PMThursday, May 28, 2020
PBS is currently streaming concerts, Broadway musicals, and plays online from their library – some are free to view and, depending on the PBS station that pops up when you click the link, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:37PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
For two weeks starting May 15, PBS has released several concerts, Broadway musicals, and plays for the general public via streaming. “Following a London West End run in December 2007, a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:12PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
Last Friday, Pandemic Theatre began their quarantine interpretation of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing.” Each week they will have another act, totaling five in all. Y…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:06PMMonday, May 4, 2020
Back in 1949 Washington D.C. theatre was not the pride of the country it is today. There was no Kennedy Center, no Folger and no Arena Stage. The two main theatres, Ford’s Theatre (iro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:45PMSaturday, April 18, 2020
In these very strange times Everyman Theatre, along with many arts organizations, is looking forward to reopening for the 2020-2021 Season. They will be doing this with a brand-new Managin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:37PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
Today word came out that “the bard of American theater,” Terrence McNally died at age 81, probably the first well-known victim and certainly the first multi-Tony Award winner to die from…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:19PMFriday, March 13, 2020
“The Spitfire Grill” with Music and Book by James Valcq and Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley, based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff, produced by Dean Fiala and directed by Terri Magers wit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:32AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
“The Amateurs” written by Jordan Harrison and Directed by Jason King Jones is presently playing at The Olney Theatre Center’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab through April 6, 2020. This …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:55PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
On March 20, 2020 Silhouette Stages will open their production of “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth based on the motion picture of the same name by Firth and Juliette Towhidi. The play…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:34PMSunday, March 1, 2020
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Production of “Mother Road” is presently playing at Arena Stage until March 8, 2020. “Mother Road” is written by Octavio Solis and directed by Bill …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:02PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
The Tony Award winning musical “Bandstand” opens next week on March 3, 2020, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. It was originally directed and choreographed by three-time Tony A…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:10PMSunday, February 23, 2020
Rep Stage under the Producing Artistic Director, Joseph W. Ritsch, is presently performing “Kill Move Paradise” by James Ijames and directed by Danielle A. Drakes. The play will be per…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:37PM“Moonlight and Magnolias” written by Ron Hutchinson, directed by Ilene Chalmers and produced by Maureen Rogers is playing through March 15, 2020, at Laurel Mill Playhouse in historic Lau…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:21PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
William Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” directed by Grayson Owen, is presently playing on the Kestrel Stage at the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory in the Roland Park area of Baltimore until Mar…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:47PMThursday, February 13, 2020
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Production of “Mother Road” is presently playing at Arena Stage until March 8, 2020. “Mother Road” is written by Octavio Solis and directed by Bill …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:09PMOn Saturday, February 22, 2020, at 7:30 pm Candlelight Concert Society Presents “Schumann Quartett” at the Smith Theatre, Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, Howard Community Col…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:24PM 
