Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The title says it all. Tom Lehrer, the biting musical satirist who took on Jim Crow, the Catholic Church, and the nuisance of urban pigeons in a three-decade heyday spanning from the end of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]"Next Level," written by and starring Elizabeth Cutler, is a charming work in progress about a woman who is a work in progress. Sophie, played with wry good humor by Cutler, is an "editor at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2024
"Democracy" is a strange, sketch comedy show that ostensibly "takes a look at democracy in a completely unbiased, highly partisan manner." If that is confusing, so is the show. It opens with…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:25PM[SHARE]One of the joys of Capital Fringe is the discovery of new talent. Caitlin Frazier, who just recently graduated from Georgetown University, proves herself to be a face to watch with "Re: Writ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
"Who Did It? An Improvised Murder Mystery" opened Capital Fringe Festival last year on the Theater J stage. In my review, I wrote that creator Erick Acuña's comedic whodunnit had flaws bu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:35PM[SHARE]If there is one sure thing at Capital Fringe, it is Pinky Swear Productions (PSP). Even Founding Artistic Director Karen Lange, speaking to the audience just before this year's opening perfo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Songs of the Goat, a company of actors who all came out of the Studio Acting Conservancy, makes its debut at Capital Fringe with a tight and haunting rendition of Euripides' "Medea." Directo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
One lesson of "Penelope""both the new musical now running at Signature Theatre and the woman at its center"is that it is important to choose one's partners well. Penelope is defined by her h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2024
If society treats soldiers as machines and war as a game, should it be a surprise when those soldiers lose their humanity? That is the question at the core of the startlingly original produc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2024
"The Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company," a devised work presented by the Theater Alliance at the Anacostia Playhouse, is a vibrant and energetic production stuffed with music, storytelli…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2024
"Measure for Measure" is a problem play. "Desperate Measures" is a problematic musical. To be sure, director Allison Arkell Stockman's current production at Constellation Theatre Company" th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:24PM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2024
Director Morgan Duncan's production of Patricia Milton's "The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective" at the Washington Stage Guild is a spirited and impeccably performed show that rises abo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:49PM[SHARE]Friday, December 8, 2023
Daryl Cloran's adaptation of "As You Like It" may not be the absolute best of the several dozen shows I've seen at the Shakespeare Theatre Company over the past decade or so, but it is certa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 3, 2023
There's an adage that states that no one on their deathbed ever said, "I wish I'd spent more time at work." It encapsulates the theme of "An Irish Carol," a charming but flawed original play…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
When "Arms and the Man" opened in the West End in April 1894, George Bernard Shaw found himself called onto the stage after the curtain to receive a cavalcade of applause. The response surpr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2023
In 2008, a new musical appeared on stage in Victoria, British Columbia. Ambitiously called the second work in the "Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy" (the first was a novel and one-act play and th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2023
There's no stage, and it does not take place in a theatre. There are no actors, or at least none that can be seen. There is no set and there are no costumes, save those in the audience's ima…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
Theatre for young children is deceptively hard to do well. It may seem like simple stories would be the simplest to tell, but it requires great skill to craft such stories in ways that are c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2023
The Capital Fringe Festival has changed a lot since the days of Fort Fringe and long afternoons at the Baldacchino Tent Bar. The artists behind "TBD: A Devised Theatrical Celebration/A Music…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]The publicity for "Attack on Tunggorono" is compelling, which accounts for the full house on the evening I attended. But well before the end of the show, several patrons had quietly slipped …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2023
Shaun Michael Johnson's "I could have set the world on fire" is the rare play that is both too long and too short. The play takes us inside the hospital room of Ernest Williams (played by Jo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2023
It's a winter night in Paris in 1926. F. Scott Fitzgerald, one year removed from the publication of his breakout hit "The Great Gatsby," is churning out short stories for publication to make…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Martha Mitchell is having a moment. In April 2022, a well-reviewed limited series about the outspoken wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, with Julia Roberts in the lead, began to air. Tw…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2023
The 16th Capital Fringe Festival kicked off Wednesday evening with a true showstopper: a corpse on the Theater J stage. For the next 50 minutes, a crack team of local improvisers tried to fi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:47PM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2023
It has been a decade since the Elden Street Players, an all-volunteer community theatre located in a nondescript office park in Herndon, took a leap of faith and reinvented itself as NextSto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:28PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2023
Part of the magic of Lumina Studio Theatre is that it mounts serious, artistically thoughtful productions of complex works with a young cast of all ages and makes it work for all of them and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2023
The fast-paced and energetic "Push the Button" is making its world premiere at the Keegan Theatre. The hip-hop musical emerged from Keegan's Boiler Room Series, an incubator for works by new…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, March 13, 2023
Imagination Stage has a well-earned reputation for presenting innovative children's theatre that does not talk down to its audience. It continues to impress with "The Hula-Hoopin' Queen" by …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:08PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2023
Washington Stage Guild has mounted a production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" that is more than satisfactory in its parts. The acting, direction, and set and sound design are all top-notch. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PM[SHARE]Five years ago, NextStop Theatre Company presented "45 Plays for 45 Presidents," (read our review here), a collection of super-short plays about each of the men who had served in the nation'…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:57PM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2022
The actor playing Nina in a production of "The Seagull" trips over one line and forgets another. Her scene partner tries to cover for her. She stumbles through another line or two, then goes…
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