Thursday, November 6, 2025
Henrik Ibsen is on a hot streak in DC. Two high-profile theatres opened their seasons to great fanfare as they each featured an adaptation of Ibsen. Amy Herzog's 2024 reworking of "An Enemy …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:47PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
AI is everywhere. As a professor, I attend numerous faculty meetings, seminars, and sessions to address the head-scratching dilemma of "what do we do with this thing?" This dilemma has been …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
Henrik Ibsen, arguably the forerunner of theatrical realism, did like to take little expressionistic leaps now and then, blending the bleak workaday world with a more surrealist spin on the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:20AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2025
Swiss playwright Reto Finger's "Cold Country" comes across as part folktale, part gothic campfire story, and part dysfunctional family drama. Combined, all of these 'parts' offer audiences a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2025
Theatrically chronicling the rise and fall of Malcolm X demands a contextual framework equal to the larger-than-life mythicism of the story. Al Letson, using Shakespeare as his canvas, c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2025
With his most recent play, Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh proves that he is indeed a master manipulator of the heartstrings. Taking audiences on a wild and still deeply poignant journey t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:27PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
Playwright Eliana Pipes' "Dream Hou$e" isn't afraid to scratch at the scab of human greed, as it takes a deep existential dive into the lengths that some will go to to ensure a comfortable a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
The year is 1832. A mother and daughter stand vigil at the gravesite of Moses Freeman, father and husband. We don't know the circumstances initially. We don't know how he died or why the nee…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Once upon a time, Craigslist was a bold new entry into the online classifieds arena. People flocked to the platform to buy and sell "new-to-you" items, to find employment, look for apartment…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Plays based on actual people from the past generally take one of several approaches: they might offer an in-depth, if not quasi-fictionalized, narrative about a specific moment(s) from that …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]With a new movie musical version set to be released in October, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" seems to be enjoying a dynamic revival. While the Bill Condon-directed J Lo-led film promises to br…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2025
The DC premiere of Greg Kalleres' "Apropos of Nothing" at The Keegan Theatre may be just what this summer ordered in the nation's capital. Forget the politics, forget the chaos, forget every…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
Caro Dubberly's "A Guide to Modern Possession" takes us musically and theatrically where I have yet to see many productions of its kind tread. The setup is unique, the songs are well-conceiv…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
People don't often think about the ones behind the scenes of big-budget films"particularly not the stunt people who fight the fights, take the hits, and fall from bone-breaking heights day a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Most people have likely never heard of the condition known as Akathisia. The mother in Lisa Loomer's new play, "Side Effects May Include…" at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, wa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]No one talks about infertility, not really. Poignantly, actor, writer, and singer Riki Lindhome wiped away tears as she concluded her one-woman show about what she faced over the course of n…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:17PM[SHARE]The history of abolitionism in the United States can be a difficult one to trace, not to mention writing a play about it. The intersection between abolition and women's suffrage is a particu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Improv, when done right, can be a laugh-out-loud journey that constantly keeps you guessing. At the first annual District Fringe Festival, the improv performance of "Out of My Wheelhouse" wa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
"Duel Reality's" tagline, "never was a story of more whoa," a clever play on the final line of "Romeo and Juliet," perfectly encapsulates the experience of watching The 7 Fingers' take on on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Ask anybody what "The Rocky Horror Show" is about and generally answers run along the lines of: "it is such a good time," or "you get to throw toilet paper!" or "the songs are outrageous." P…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
Penning a memoir-style journey into one's ancestral past is an intriguing way to approach a key historical moment. Using a blend of two distinct and, at the same time, blurred voices that de…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
One of August Wilson's most celebrated plays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "The Piano Lesson," takes audiences to 1930s Pittsburgh. Set in a modest home centered around an ancestral pian…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
Mary Woolley isn't exactly a well-known historical figure. Most would be hard-pressed to say who she was. Still, her life and legacy make for absolutely fascinating theatrical material. In p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:52AM[SHARE]As WorldPride 2025 came to a close, it's safe to say that the art and artists marking the events of the past two weeks were just as varied, beautiful, and spectacularly unique as the queerne…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The term "buddy comedy" usually denotes a story about the enduring bond between two generally different, generally male characters as we watch them embark upon some sort of journey, life or …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
 Capturing the essence of a character like Andy Warhol (who arguably was as much self-conceptualized character as he was actual human being) can go one of two ways: either the portrayal …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2025
This year Google did not mark the start of Pride month with some whimsical rainbow-colored send-up of its home page, per their usual. If you've checked out the National Park Service's Stonew…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
Happenstance Theater's "Juxtapose: A Theatrical Shadow Box" is said to have been influenced by the shadow box art of Joseph Cornell, the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jacques Tati, along w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2025
Avant Bard Theatre has a reputation for offering a malleable Shakespeare that speaks to an array of issues, stagings, and audiences. With their production of Kathleen Akerley's conception of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
A pioneer in modern absurdist theatre, Christopher Durang can be seen as polarizing. You either love his work or hate it. Indeed, attend a production of one of his plays and you're apt to fi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Immersive theatre experiences can be somewhat tricky to do well. There's the logistics of it all, having actors disciplined enough not to be distracted or thrown off by less-than-conventiona…
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