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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Witches and wizards have taken up temporary residence in the Kennedy Center Opera House in a spectacular production of "Wicked," almost 20 years after the beloved musical made its Broadway d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2022
"Just For Us" is an award-winning, one-man show starring the incomparable Alex Edelman at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. He keeps the audience laughing from the moment he appears onstag…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2022
 Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera" ("A Masked Ball") is the Maryland Lyric Opera's second production in an all-Verdi season featuring some of the composer's best-loved works. In true Verdi …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2022
 Some of the opera world's most glorious voices are currently filling the Kennedy Center Opera House in the Washington National Opera's dazzling production of Verdi's "Il trovatore" …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Rorschach's "Dracula" delivers the feminist revenge fantasy it promises with a witty, relentless, and bloody satisfying attack on the patriarchy. Loosely based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, play…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2022
There's only one Tina Turner in this world, but you'd be forgiven for doubting that reality after seeing "TINA " The Tina Turner Musical' now playing at the National Theatre. The actor who p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2022
Set in the 1950s, American playwright Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" is a meditation on memory, the search for meaning, and the need to belong. Seen through a 21st century lens, it i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2022
 Set in 11th-century Scotland, "Macbeth" is a play in five acts that examines blind ambition, its effects on those who embrace it, and the consequences for anyone standing in its path. A…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2022
 The winner of six Tony awards including Best Musical, 'Dear Evan Hansen' has returned to the Kennedy Center this month, with a dazzling set and gifted cast. Written by Steven Levens…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2022
'Firebringer: A New Stone-Age Musical' is a laugh-out-loud reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Directed by Michael Page with musical direction by Chad Rabago, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2022
 Coil Project's world premiere of "Forgotten Monsters of Filmland" picks up the stories of classic literary characters whose lives, as reimagined in this production, continued on even af…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2022
 The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) opened the evening with Czech composer Bedrich Smetana's "Vitava" ("The Moldau") from Ma Vlast (My Country). The piece, which celebrates one of Boh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:28AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2022
Frederick Douglass' spirit is once again gracing the nation's capital in a world premiere of "American Prophet." The musical, based on his writings and speeches, resoundingly demands racial …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:58PM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2022
The timeless beauty of Verdi's "La Traviata" lives on. Recently it echoed through the woods of beautiful Wolf Trap"an ocean and more than a century away from where it originated"with a trium…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2022
 "Chemical Exile: Synthesis" is the final chapter and culmination of Rorschach Theatre's second, season-long Psychogeography Project which began in October of 2021. "Chemical Exile" took…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
Aaron Sorkin's new play based on Harper Lee's classic novel now onstage at the Kennedy Center is set in 1930s Alabama. It could just as easily have found a home in contemporary America, with…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2022
 "Jersey Boys" celebrates the still-vibrant tunes of music superstars, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, with big dance numbers and quick and witty humor, wrapped in that most American…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2022
Maz (Emily Kester) is in Dublin for a protest urging the legalization of abortion in Ireland and Bricks (Jonathan Feuer) is on his way to collect his daughter for a day at the zoo. A chance …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
 The Little Theatre of Alexandria has mounted a gem of a production in "Prelude to a Kiss." Witty dialogue and a talented cast make for an enjoyable evening. For those who want something…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:30PM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2022
Billed as a comedy, "Do You Feel Anger?" delivers an evening of humor, but amidst the laughter is a profound lesson about women's experiences in the workplace and the desperate need for fema…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2022
 It wasn't my first journey "Into the Woods," but the production currently playing at Creative Cauldron is by far my favorite, due largely to the talent and enthusiasm of the cast, but a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2022
The world premiere production of "Twigs & Bone" is currently playing in one of the city's most intimate and charming theatre venues. This small but mighty company is offering audiences a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2022
In a creative twist, the audience quickly learns that they are the newest members of the BBSM (Bougie Black Single Moms) sisterhood, when they are warmly welcomed into the fold by BBSM Presi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:04PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
Edgy, provocative, and enlightening, Ryan J. Haddad mesmerizes in his one-man show, "Hi, Are You Single?" at the equally edgy and provocative Woolly Mammoth Theatre. A gay man living wit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:13AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2022
 'America's Requiem: A Knee on The Neck" is an intense and moving tribute to George Floyd. It honors the anger and sorrow surrounding his loss and the senseless loss of so many black men…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2022
Based on "The Wind in the Willows," Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story, "The Adventures of Mr. Toad" is a lively journey into the world of Mr. Toad (Ben Graham/E. Agustus Knapp) and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
Some of the performing arts world's brightest stars graced the stage of the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater this past Monday evening with a program featuring American composers Samuel Barbe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 8, 2021
Celebration and remembrance marked the Washington National Opera's return to live performance, officially ending the company's extended absence with a concert honoring the late Supreme Court…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
 You might think you know Dr. Ruth, but do you? Having escaped the Nazis by Kindertransport, serving as a sniper in Palestine, and finally, finding fame as America's best-known sex thera…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 5, 2021
 Two of Broadway's brightest stars were joined Friday evening by a collection of Washington, DC theatre luminaries for "Broadway in the Park," an evening of song that spanned the history…
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