Thursday, May 14, 2026
“The Great Gatsby – A New Musical,” now at The National Theatre on the DC leg of its tour, is as sumptuous, slick, and larger-than-life as the myth the title character builds about him…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Lumina Studio Theatre is an acting and performance school designed to give kids ages 6-18 enthusiasm for, and experience with, classic drama, especially Shakespeare. Clearly, its primary goa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
All theater-going society is acquainted with "The Importance of Being Earnest" by British wit and aesthete Oscar Wilde, perhaps the finest and funniest comedy of manners ever written. But fe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
"Shrek the Musical"Â is a rip-roaring, crowd-pleasing blast. The show, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Tony winner for "Kimbery Akimbo") and music by Jeanne Tesori (Tony win…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
"The Bravado: A More Humane Mikado in Concert," Victorian Lyric Opera Company's (VLOC) clever reimagining of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic comic operetta, thoroughly delights. Although it…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
"Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" has reason to be proud. Every "jukebox musical" (one scored with well-known popular hits by established musicians, rather than origin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2025
"Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh" is based on the life of groundbreaking artist, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and her relationship with the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette. The DC area premi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2025
The Lamentable Comedie ofJANE ANGER,that Cunning Woman,and also of Willy Shakespeareand his Peasant Companion,Francis,Yes and Also ofAnne Hathaway (also a Woman)Who Tried Very Hard This is a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2025
The Paul Taylor Dance Company came to the Kennedy Center to celebrate 70 years of presenting innovative, modern dance. The program featured two of Taylor's own 147 dance compositions, "Arden…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:49PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2025
We must never forget. But what if forgetting is the only way to survive? That is the question that looms over Diane Samuels's 1993 play, "Kindertransport," about the suffering wrought on two…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2023
The uniformly excellent voices ring out powerfully in the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. By JENNIFER GEORGIA
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:58AM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2023
It's not a fully staged show, with all the intimate, raw emotions of the original, but Jonathan Larson's masterpiece endures and lifts the heart.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
The dialogue is sharp, witty, and rich, and the actors did their best, with varied results.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Friday, April 7, 2023
It's a rich and nostalgic production, but Bartlett Sher's revival brings us squarely into the present.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2023
In between the comedy and conflict, a sense of communal love and compassion weaves through the show.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2023
The Rude Mechanicals reset this classic Restoration comedy as a sitcom in the 1970s, the decade that taste forgot " and it works.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2023
It takes smart, talented actors to make Tom Stoppard's comedy about chaos theory intelligible, and the cast here is up to the challenge.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2023
If the cast and crew can pick up the pace, the show will be a sweet little diversion to welcome kids to the world of puppetry and live performance.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:35AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
"You don't say!" "I do. I just did." This is the retort that ricochets through John Morogiello's In the Gutter like bullets from a Colt 45 " No, never mind. I'm not even going to try to imit…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2023
The classic Moliere farce unfolds with the quick grace of a flower blooming in fast motion.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Portraits of church ladies and their hats brought to vivid life, with Gospel music, sass, and heart.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:38PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2023
Two hours of loopy delight for the audience and a heaping helping of fun for the cast.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:17AM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2022
Even more than its spectacular staging and themes of good and evil that give it depth, what's best is the moving story it tells of female friendship.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2022
The production warms with tradition and traces the origins of American holiday music to its Appalachian origins.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:29PM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2022
It is the rare musical that isn't transmogrified from some other plane of existence. It is not simply a matter of finding inspiration or stories to tell. Given how mind-bogglingly expensive …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The comedy about a cross-country journey is written, directed, designed, acted, and crewed almost entirely by women.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2022
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Arts on the Green and Montgomery Playhouse stage a head-scratchingly absurd musical entertainment, but the cast has a good time with it.
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