7,144 stories from Maryland Theatre Guide
Nothing makes me smile more than three women getting the ultimate revenge on their egotistical and unappreciative boss. The original 1980's film 9 to 5 first captured the plight of the 1970'…
Silhouette Stages at Slayton House Theater goes back in time before radio became television, to the inner workings of The 1940's Radio Hour. It's December 21, 1942, on a snowy night in New Y…
Abortion is not an issue that is often discussed in rational terms. The debate has become so couched in rhetoric and passion that it might as well not be happening at all, but Theater J's re…
Any grade school history book will tell you that the sociopolitical climate in the United States in the early twentieth century was rife with tension. Â Communities continually struggled t…
Today marks the second anniversary and number 272 of ‘A Quick 5′ column. Over the past two years the column has introduced you to many interesting and talented people working in …
John Buchan's 1915 novella The 39 Steps hasn’t survived so long because it’s a great story. In fact, it might have lasted precisely because it's not. The thread of the plot is so…
Parents, caregivers, aunties, nannies, grandparents and godparents: people who love children and care for children and know the struggle to raise them. Do I have a show for you! Th…
Samuel Beckett's Nell (from Endgame) says, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."  The four characters in Paul Downs Colaizzo's new play are deeply unhappy.  In fact, they are…
This Monday night at Flashpoint a whirlwind performance will take place as Qurrat Ann Kadwani brings her critically acclaimed one woman show They Call Me Q back to DC for one night only. I f…
Singer/composer Michael Cavanaugh is probably best known as the Piano Man from the Broadway production Movin' Out, which was a show featuring the songs of Billy Joel. Cavanaugh brought hi…
Love in Afghanistan, Arena Stage's world premiere of Charles Randolph-Wright's new play, has all the themes that would make a Washington liberal proud. A bi-cultural romance built on mut…
When Company hit the Broadway scene in 1970 it was groundbreaking for its time. The musical garnered 14 Tony nominations (a record finally broken in 2001 with 15 nominations for Mel Brooks' …
1. Dance of the Holy Ghosts: A Play on Memory at Center Stage. “The experience of Dance of the Holy Ghosts, both its script and performance, is not to be missed.” -Â Brandon Am…
If Oscar Wilde could be magically transported through time to 2013, he would surely give his enthusiastic approval not only to the fact that his plays were still being produced, but also to …
Not-for-profit theatres contributed nearly $2 billion to the U.S. economy and attracted 36.7 million attendees, according to Theatre Facts 2012, released by Theatre Communications Grou…
Jayme Lawson recently was part of the cast of The Rimers of Eldritch at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts where she also appeared in Ragtime. She has also performed onstag…
Huge spectacle types of shows and me generally don't go together, but the equestrian extravaganza presented by Cavalia known as Odysseo is a big exception to this rule. Boasting itself as…
As directed by Aaron Posner, Shakespeare's love tragedy, Romeo and Juliet (renamed Romeo & Juliet), should have been renamed simply Juliet, not because actors Michael Goldsmith (Romeo) a…
The capable playwright Marcus Gardley wrote Dance of the Holy Ghosts: A Play on Memory. The play revolves primarily around Oscar, a blues musician, and his estranged grandson, Marcus. Dance …
Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman felt compelled to write about his own experiences as a witness to the ghastliness of the General Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in his country from 1973-1990.…
The 1920s, rightly named "Roaring" by historians, presents a curious mixture of optimism and menace. While art, music, and literature experienced explosions of innovative creativity, fas…
Some musicals regardless of how they originally fared on Broadway just refuse to go away. Richard O'Brien's love letter to B horror movies (or C and even D horror movies) is called The Ro…
Recalling the wise words of a director I worked with in my formative years, he once intoned "I wish theatre groups not take on Man of La Mancha unless they are prepared to do it right." His …
Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker originally starred veteran actress Shirley Booth both on Broadway and in the subsequent film version. It is the story of a widow who is determined that her l…
The Washington National Opera is celebrating the bicentenary of Wagner and Verdi this season, and to honor the latter, artistic director Francesca Zambello has chosen what she called one of …
