"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 Friday, Jan…
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…
"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 to…
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…
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 by D…
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…
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 demand…
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 …
"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, by e…
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 wonderfu…
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…
Like 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 Artis…
"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 the N…
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" f…
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, so…
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 …
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. You…
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 (i…
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 Manag…
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 the…
"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 with Â…
"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 is a…
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 pl…
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 Rauch.…
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 Award…