Rachel Stroud-Goodrich and Chris Goodrich are one ambitious theatre couple. They are the C0-Artistic Directors of Unexpected Stage Company which is presenting its first musical called Dani G…
Leaves of Grass is perhaps Walt Whitman's most famous work, a collection of poems numbering up to four hundred. If that sounds to you like a daunting prospect to turn into a performance piec…
Good talent gets drawn to a play for many reasons. In the case of Jean P. Bordewich's predictable and melodramatic play Marriage, Lizards and Love, you have to wonder what that reason was. J…
Signature's Open House will celebrate the very best in theatre, music and fun on Saturday, August 2nd from noon to 10:00pm. Free and open to the public, this special event is an entire day f…
As the saying goes, "People are put into our lives and taken out for a reason." That is what Marjorie Taub and her doctor husband, Ira experience in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. In this…
Robert Michael Oliver is currently embodying Walt Whitman in his one man tour de force solo piece called Song of Myself: The Whitman Project. This is the second in Oliver’s Ameri…
What happens when you take the dance elements of a Synetic Theater production and merge it with a traditional theatre script? Avalanche Theatre Company's devised theatre piece Dream Love ans…
Perfect Liars Club is an underground event in the DC area that has been entertaining audiences for over a year. Most of its performances, including the Fringe shows, are sold-out in record t…
Any play that deals with a hot topic like bullying in school is likely to get a lot of attention from theatre companies across the country. Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams is one of those show…
Faced with summer blockbusters, both in film and theatre, and the delightfully diverse DC Fringe experience, this time of year around the nation's capital is palpably full of the avant-garde…
The Maryland Theatre Guide is proud to introduce a new section on our website called, “Camps/Classes.” You won’t find any math or soccer camps on our list; but, what you wi…
Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre presents Legally Blonde: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach and directed by Robert W. Oppel. Cockp…
A southern take on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew in Jonelle Walker's TAME. is being presented by Blind Pug Arts Collective as part of this year's Capital Fringe festival. Good script, ac…
Saturday night's performance of Disco Jesus Productions/Flying V's You, Or Whatever I Can Get rocked the small black box theater at Baldacchino Tent Bar at Fort Fringe. Billed as an original…
In the theatre the life of an understudy is a hard one. You never know if you are going to get a chance to go on after spending weeks learning a particular role. It's enough to make you turn…
Debuting at the Capital Fringe Festival this year, Tour de Farce follows the antics of Peter, a young man who decides to race in the Tour de France from atop a stationary bike in his Manhatt…
Quattro Gatti’s production of Dateline: Macbeth, written and directed by (and starring) Andy Hopper, is a strange, frequently funny, darkly morbid take on William Shakespeare’s c…
Theatrical theorists weary of plays with their 4th walls intact and the audience's willing suspension of disbelief tucked safely into their breast pockets can have some fun with John Feffer'…
Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, Royal Court Jesters Young People's Theatre presents Annie Jr. Box office reports state that every show in the short run was sold out, and after seeing the sh…
Solo shows need a few elements to make them successful. First the solo performer needs to engage you as an artist. Kate Robards is attractive to look at and has lots of energy onstage so thi…
Jennie Bergman Eng's play Bethesda starts off promising enough. Barry (James Whalen) is a Foreign Service officer who has been sent back to his home in Bethesda, MD with his family fr…
Whatever director Mark Minnick touches turns to gold.  His production of The Pirates of Penzance now playing at Toby’s Dinner Theatre is no exception. The Pirates of Penzance, an…
The phrase “Jacobean tragedy” may not inspire enthusiasm in modern theatergoers, but We Happy Few’s production of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, directed admira…
Studio 2nd Stage presents the reboot of Carrie: The Musical and open to a packed house. Carrie: The Musical is based on the chilling novel by the famous horror writer Stephen King, with …
There is something wonderful about certain kinds of cabaret acts. In the case of Signature Theatre veteran performers Tracy Lynn Olivera and Bobby Smith's show, there was plenty of great mus…