Sunday, October 6, 2024
Since 2006, the annual "ARTSÂ by George!" gala has been a George Mason University tradition that brings together students, faculty, and community arts enthusiasts to support scholarships f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:38PM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2024
Uncommon artistry and elegance characterize "Silent Night," a contemporary opera in two acts that lays bare the shared humanity of enemy soldiers on a European battlefield while simultaneous…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:22PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2024
The Tony Award®"winning Best Musical "Nine" recounts the story of Italian film director, Guido Contini (Steven Pasquale), who decamps to a Venetian spa in an attempt to overcome writer's …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:14PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2024
Even in the extreme heat of a Washington, DC summer, the haunting melodies of Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" have the power to transport listeners to a freezing Parisian flat whose youthful …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Theatre enthusiasts converged on the Filene Center last Saturday evening for the fifth annual "Broadway in the Park." In a collaboration between Arlington's Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2024
Directed by Jakari Sherman, Step Afrika!'s revival of "The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence" is a glorious synthesis of dance, music, and the visual arts that traces Black Americans'…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2024
Five of the world's finest magicians have joined forces to baffle and mystify audiences in a production that features mind reading, vanishing acts, and even a snowstorm. Amidst a steady stre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:09PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
With Master of Ceremonies Diego Prieto at the helm, the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH) organization held its 22nd annual awards show at The Birchmere this past Sunday. The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:14PM[SHARE]Under the baton of conductor Adam Turner, Virginia Opera and Richmond Symphony Orchestra gifted Northern Virginia with a dazzling and heartfelt production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butter…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Providing laugh-out-loud theatre for more than a decade, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning musical "The Book of Mormon" is as fresh and entertaining now as it was when it premiered on Bro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:40PM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2024
City of Fairfax Theatre Company's current production of "POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive," features witty dialogue, a creative set, and a talen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
Before Jonathan Larson's "Rent" became one of Broadway's longest-running musicals, Larson penned a little-known, autobiographical rock monologue titled "30/90." In the ensuing decades, the m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2024
Mystifying, magical, and moving, "Mindplay" is a guided exploration of memory and the power it has to shape and reshape our perceptions"with an endless stash of astonishing surprises along t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
 "Our Dirty War" is a rare gem of theatrical depth and daring. Written and directed by Camilla Madero (this is her senior thesis), who also plays the role of her father, Roberto Madero, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2023
 "Arts By George!" is an annual fundraising event held at George Mason University to provide scholarships for young artists enrolled in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This ye…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Once again, Creative Cauldron is breaking new ground by launching its 2023-2024 season with the East Coast premiere of "Monarch: A Mexican American Musical." This is a new work that examines…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Wolf Trap Opera's one-night only production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" featured vocal talent of the highest caliber in a memorable performance of some of opera's best-loved music. It was dir…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:20AM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2023
Part concert, part communal meditation, "Little Central America, 1984″"directed by Elia Arce and written and performed by Elia Arce and Rubén MartÃnez"uses song, film, and spoken w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2023
 Rorschach Theatre's transformation of a former men's clothing store into a 1990s era rock club is nothing short of spectacular. The 360-degree theatrical installation"including a stage …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 10, 2023
With book, lyrics, and music by Anais Mitchell, the 2019 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, "Hadestown" is a rollicking and witty take on Greek mythological characters Orpheus and Eurydice,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Spontaneity rules the evening and the #BossBabes are in charge in Washington Improv Theater's (WIT) production of "Not a Pyramid Scheme." Now playing at Studio Theatre where WIT is celebrati…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
 An earthquake can"either literally or figuratively"rock the foundations of a person's life. In this two act, "song-play," with music by John Adams and libretto by June Jordan, it's 1994…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2023
"Les Mis" is back! A spectacular production of the Tony-Award winning musical is currently playing in the Kennedy Center Opera House, featuring some of musical theatre's finest actors, singe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:42PM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2023
Washington's theatre community gathered at the elegant Perry Belmont House on Tuesday evening to celebrate this year's Helen Hayes Award nominees and raise a toast to yet another bountiful y…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:26PM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2023
'"Gloria: A Life" at Theater J takes the audience on a journey through second-wave feminism with feminist icon Gloria Steinem (Susan Lynskey) as guide while she reflects on her youth and ear…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2023
"Blue," in its D.C. premiere by The Washington National Opera, elegantly makes use of a centuries' old art form to tell a 21st century story. It is one with national repercussions, but that …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2023
In Sylvia Khoury's "Selling Kabul," lives swiftly unravel as the Taliban closes in on Afghan interpreter, Taroon (Mazin Akar) in retaliation for his collaboration with American military forc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:45PM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2023
The Royal Court Theatre Production presented in association with The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival Set both in real life and the virtual world of social media, the provocatively …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2023
More than a century after its premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy, Verdi's "Falstaff" continues to charm audiences with its humor, lovable characters, and magnificent score. The Maryland Ly…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2023
Any musical theatre enthusiast alive in the 1980s (or maybe just anyone alive) will remember the immense popularity of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "CATS," winner of seven Tony Awards® including…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2022
 Howard University's Cramton Auditorium was awash in color, rhythm, and light during the Dance Institute of Washington's annual concert dedicated to the observance of Kwanzaa. This is a …
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