Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre opened their summer season with the always entertaining 42nd Street, book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble. If you love classic Broadway tunes and phenomen…
It is with great pleasure that I announce April Forrer as MD Theatre Guide’s new Managing Editor. Since August of 2012, April Forrer has been the Greater Baltimore Area Editor. �…
The late August Wilson is one of America's great playwrights, and his extraordinary canon of plays is making its debut at Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland. Â Theatregoers should not…
The American sex farce Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight begins in the throes of passion, when what would normally just be spontaneous and embarrassing bedroom barking escalates suddenl…
Mike Bartlett's play C**k now playing at Studio Theatre examines the questions of do we really know what lifestyle we want to choose for ourselves and will we be happy with that choice. …
Most people remember Tom Wopat as one half of the Duke cousins opposite John Schneider in the popular hit TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, which ran from 1979 to 1985. But through the years, …
As most of us wonder aimlessly in search of significance amidst an increasingly godless world, there is consolation in seeing this endless internal wondering articulated. And with nothing le…
Randy Johnson’s work is being represented for the second time this season at Arena Stage where he is currently the director of Smokey Joe's Café — The Songs of Lieber and Sto…
Legally Blonde " The Musical was a dandy production by Charm City Players. It's closing weekend had audience's applauding the ensemble numbers such as "Omigod You Guys," "What You Want," and…
Despite its name, A Midsummer Night's Riot has (almost) nothing to do with Shakespeare. This impressive one-man feat races toward its end at neck-break speed, with the mesmerizing Josh Stick…
Every once in a while I get to work an event that gives me total satisfaction. This past Friday night at Theater J was one of those times. As you might know from past features, I will always…
There are some musicals that never get their just due in NY. Stephen Schwartz's biblical masterpiece Children of Eden is one of those shows. It had a rough go of it with its London premiere …
If you spend enough time around theatre and film people, they eventually start talking about their past glories, the failures of others, and shameful acts in general (in my experience, about…
From what I can tell, there are few young performers whose vast talent is identifiable at an early age. And even fewer of those know that they want to commit to the performing lifestyle …
The Arabian Nights, first written and directed by Mary Zimmerman for the Lookingglass Theatre Company is an imaginative, daring collection of the stories of Scheherezade, adapted from The Bo…
John Leslie Wolfe is currently portraying the corrupt police chief Tiger Brown in Signature Theatre’s production of The Threepenny Opera. Â John has been seen onstage in NY in an ecl…
If you are looking to have a toe-tappin’, finger-snappin’ good time, then treat yourself to see Smokey Joe’s Cafe – The Songs of Leiber and Stoller at Arena Sta…
By the time Bloody Poetry, Â Howard Brenton's 1984 play of the romantic poets, begins in the current Taffety Punk production, Percy Byshhe Shelley is already en route to Switzerland with h…
In the modest black box theater where Taffety Punk Theatre Company is in residence in Capitol Hill, there is currently the kind of brash, invigorating literature lesson any teacher would cov…
Compass Rose Theater presents the World Premiere of Another Day on Willow Street by Frank Anthony Polito and Directed by Lucinda Merry-Browne. Comprised of simultaneous settings in various c…
1. Nero/Pseudo by WSC Avant Bard at the Shop at Fort Fringe. ” …this rocking musical is an intense experience, one sure to leave you tapping your foot and wondering what your …
The lava lamps and abundance of tinsel adorning the black box set when you walk through the back door at the Shop at Fort Fringe are only the the tip of the glittering iceberg that is the Ne…
The Pumpkin Theatre hits the high seas and raises the Jolly Roger for the last show of their "Discovering New Friendships Through Familiar Tales" season. A musical version of Peter Pan &…
Emily Young is currently onstage at Folger Theatre as part of Fiasco Theatre’s production of  The Two Gentleman of Verona in the roles of Lucetta and Sylvia . She was seen on …
Washington National Opera's current production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, now playing at Kennedy Center's Opera House, is well sung and has, as far as operas go, a lighthearted story featu…