Thursday, May 21, 2026
On Monday, May 18, 2026, the Washington DC theater community gathered to recognize outstanding 2025 productions at the 42nd annual Helen Hayes Awards. The evening was filled with surprised a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2026
Is a classified ad a sound strategy to find a partner these days? More specifically, a partner in crime to travel back in time? In a new, indie-rock musical adapted from the eponymous 2012 f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
Framed by twinkling tulle curtains, Mosaic Theater's The Spark Benefit Celebration on February 7, 2026 celebrated "the spark that has kept Mosaic growing and glowing." Lifting up the artistr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:02PM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2025
The pottery wheel spins like an acrobat. The clay ebbs and flows, hypnotic and sensual, alive with a hint of danger. Will the pot collapse? The sculptor must move sure and strong, yet with d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
"'Parade' is playing the Kennedy Center and we're not changing one word." It's rare for a composer to publicly clarify a Broadway tour will perform as contracted and as written, but these ar…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
From the first song's title alone""The Opening Number Is Indulgent And Perverse""Â audiences can tell "The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical" is weird but has a sense of hu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57AM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2025
Remember "Moonlight?" If you didn't catch that gorgeous, queer, black coming-of-age film, you surely know of it from the ensuing Academy Awards mix-up. Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
When a cop encounters someone in a mental health crisis, do they see a person or a threat? Matthew Capodicasa's tense dash of a play, "The Scenarios," probes this charged question. In the st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Have you ever heard that great actors are great liars? Well, Tony Award-winner Ari'el Stachel's deeply personal, Berkeley Rep-produced, one man show, "Out of Character," certainly supports t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2024
Even from their first sour meeting, it's clear Alice and Diana have chemistry. A deep and fast intimacy strengthens between them, a platonic summer romance, in parallel with their daughters'…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2024
Morals tomorrow, comedy tonight! For those seeking escapist delight, a laugh-out-loud musical croons just outside DC at Arlington's Signature Theatre. Transport yourself to ancient Rome in "…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2024
The fame and endurance of Billie Holiday's discography overshadow the facts of her cruelly brief life, gone at just 44 years old. What would you give to have seen Holiday perform live, her w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2024
 Have you ever worn a hat so enchanting, you felt completely happy and a little bit magic? If you're willing to imagine such a thing were commonplace, then you may enjoy the fable-like "…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2024
In a different decade for a different war, young people"just as hopeful, naive, and outraged"gathered in parks, city halls, and capitals to protest and plead. The hair may be longer, the clo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2024
He's green, he's mean, he's an unidentified plant with a thirst for blood! "Little Shop of Horrors," composer Alan Menken's 1980s ear-worm, horror-comedy classic, has landed at Ford's Theatr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
With a warm smile and welcoming arms, the sparkling hostess Roya invites you into her home for the Persian New Year. As patrons take their seats at Olney Theatre, she makes light small talk.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
A ratchet cranks, or a gun cocks. Then, a snare drum cracks, or a bullet fires. A wounded man whimpers, or is it just a dog? The creative soundscape and direction of "Private Jones" echoes f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
 Like a sharp current through the brain, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical illuminates the rippling impacts of mental illness. Yorkey's darkl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2023
A story for "those who are part way in love with tragedy," as the anti-hero protagonist self-describes his tale, accurately pegs the new musical, "Swept Away." The gorgeous folk-rock score f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:47PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
A new production of "Evita," with rumored Broadway ambitions, has landed at Shakespeare Theatre Company. First conceived for the 2019 New York City Center (NYCC) Gala Presentation, then revi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:40PM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2023
This one is for the Rentheads! If you can belt "La Vie Boheme" from memory and recognize "Seasons of Love" from its first piano bars, "RENT in Concert" delivers as you've never heard it befo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2023
Attend the tale! Sweeney is back in DC in all of his pie-eating, throat-slitting glory. Rounding out Signature Theatre's Season of Sondheim in honor of the late and great composer, this inti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2023
While the real-life WGA strike grinds Hollywood to a stop, a new play in DC is ripping into the racist and sexist inner politics of TV writers' rooms. Highlighting Asian-American experiences…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 2, 2023
"Great is the hope that makes men cross borders." In 2015 and 2016, thousands arrived in the Calais "Jungle," a refugee encampment on the coast of France, 22 miles from England. Fleeing war …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
 Reluctantly, Naveen Gavaskar's parents have reconciled themselves to their son's sexuality, watching "Milk" for research purposes as they wait to meet his Hindu, Marathi-speaking boyfri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2023
What is your ideal sandwich? A nostalgic classic like PB&J or pastrami on rye? An elevated farm-to-table grilled cheese on fresh crusty bread? Artisanal chicken breast with arugula and A…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2023
St. Cassian High School Chamber Choir were dealt an unlucky hand"they came in second place when they were the only team in competition; they hail from the boring small town of Uranium, Saska…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2022
William Shakespeare's script for "The Tempest" innately contains much magic and music. In Aaron Posner and Teller's (of Penn & Teller fame) production at Round House Theatre, these eleme…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:01PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2022
"Do you know what you wish? And are you certain what you wish is what you want?" Classic fairy tales collide in "Into The Woods," where wishes come true, but happily ever after misleads. A r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2022
In mid-2000s Newark, there were few good options for the young people we today know as "DREAMers." DACA would not begin accepting applications for years, NYC was over a decade out from passi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:44PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2022
When family matriarch Gloria dies, a raucous multi-day wake begins, testing her family's stamina and composure. Depicting the Caribbean tradition called Nine Nights, Natasha Gordon's play "N…
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