MD Theatre Guide's Rising Star: Jake Miller
Our Rising Star for March is 11-year-old Jake Miller. I saw him perform in Pumpkin Theatre's Suessical Jr. last month as the Mayor of Whoville. As soon as he stepped on the stage and…
Our Rising Star for March is 11-year-old Jake Miller. I saw him perform in Pumpkin Theatre's Suessical Jr. last month as the Mayor of Whoville. As soon as he stepped on the stage and…
Review submitted by Elena Schwam of Walt Whitman High School. Seven and a half cents doesnÂ’t buy a heck of a lot, but a ticket to Connelly School of the Holy ChildÂ’s production of…
It's hard to forget the sensation Synetic Theater created when they first premiered their wordless Shakespeare cycle 12 years ago. Hamlet … The Rest is Silence stands as their signatur…
The National Theatre of Iceland produces roughly 30 shows a year. Of those 30, about 10 are new plays. One of those new plays, Harmsaga, by Icelander Mikael Torfason, has come to Wash…
Ariel Dorfman’s powerful La Muerte y La Doncella (Death and the Maiden), now playing at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre as part of their 2014 International Theatre Festiva…
Lynne Shankel is currently the orchestrator for Beaches at Signature Theatre. While being a musical director, conductor and pianist for such Broadway musicals as Beauty and the Beast, You…
Center Stage's production of Twelfth Night, directed by Gavin Witt, celebrates one of Shakespeare's best comedies by focusing on the humor that drips from the text. And Centerstage's Nig…
The “spoonful” symbolizes both the innocence of childhood and the sinister swirl of drug addictions. Think Mary Poppins’ merry “Spoonful of Sugar,” or Willie Di…
We love the theatre. We love going out to dinner at a nice restaurant. We love going on vacation, to the beach, to the mountains, to a foreign country. We love the pleasure…
Not only does the Washington area have a wealth of exciting new theatre companies, but they are collaborating in wonderful ways. And what's fun is that it's not just regular adult audien…
An Epic Revival of a Masterpiece, a Bold Co-production, and the First Ever Festival Celebrating one of America’s Brightest Playwrights are the Cornerstones of Center Stage’s Ambi…
1.  'The Suit' by France's Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at the Kennedy Center 2014 International Theater Festival Most of the theatre-going audience in the United States has a high lev…
Most of the theatre-going audience in the United States has a high level of privilege and, thus, little understanding of the life of the dispossessed, life under the yoke of racial oppres…
Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), proudly announces its 2014-15 season lineup. Themes of transition and transformation abound in Rep Stage's …
If thoughts of high school calculus make you cringe, and words like quadratic, derivative, and exponential polynomial make your eyes glaze over, fear not. Advance prep and number 2 penci…
The Bible has been coming to life on the stage at Sight and Sound Theatre in Lancaster County, PA, for almost 38 years. The company never ceases to amaze me in the way they present theatrica…
You will never laugh harder in your life then you will watching Five Course Love, now playing at Spotlighters Theatre. It is a fresh twist on a modern, and at times, not so modern love story…
If you have ever wondered what your lover was thinking as he watched you getting ready for bed from across the room, or as he massaged your back with ever growing passion and sounds of anima…
This stellar season at the Everyman continues with its brilliant production of The Dresser directed by Derek Goldman. The play was written and produced for the London and Broadway stages …
The winners of the 14th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH) will be announced Sunday,  March 9, 2014 at 7 PM at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. MDTG will be postin…
Dark Passages by Shannon Michal Dow, Jan Henson Dow and Robert Schroeder is a slice of life from any given news headline. In production at Bowie Community Theatre at White Marsh Park, Dark P…
The touring company production for Mamma Mia! opened Tuesday at The National Theatre and will close in a few short days on March 9, 2014. There's not a lot of time to catch this cast, bu…
1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at The Vagabond Players. “Overall, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is very well done and is an evening both your "good" and "evil" side are sure to enjoy!” …
The year is 1951 and Little Bertie  (Brooklyn Shuck) is lost on a beach in Atlantic City, NJ.  Looking for help to find her mother she walks up to another little girl her age and says,…
Twilight Station is a refreshing play that is both experimental and enticing. The play follows three individuals who encounter each other at what appears to be an indeterminate station. As t…