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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]Friday, September 2, 2022
"The Outsider" by Paul Slade Smith feels unstuck in time. First performed in 2015, the politics of this agreeable, light satire are those of 2008, and the tone and style evoke smart sitcoms …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:20PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2022
Blue Man Group is, as the Kennedy Center website says, a "phenomenon." Created in New York in 1987, Blue Man Group has performed for more than 35 million people on multiple continents, with …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:56AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2022
Capital Fringe perseveres. Two years after the pandemic led to the cancellation of the 15th annual festival, Fringe has returned"a bit smaller, a bit quieter, but alive and unbowed. If there…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:17PM[SHARE]Michael Seebold's "Etched Glass Decanter" evokes Edgar Allan Poe or the darker works of Neil Gaiman. The 70-minute play takes place in an obscure universe where dream logic prevails and wher…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]"Is this legal?" "More or less!" Welcome to the weird world of D.C. marijuana gifting. In the District of Columbia, every law comes with an asterisk. The Council can overturn a measure passe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:58PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2022
If you laugh at the abyss, the abyss laughs back at you. Samuel Beckett was the funniest of the existentialists who took European thought by storm after the horrors of Nazism and the Second …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2022
In addition to being a prolific playwright, Lauren Gunderson is also one of the nation's best ambassadors for science. Works like "Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:17PM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2022
Currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, "Nollywood Dreams" is a delightful, feel-good telling of the familiar young-girl-makes-it-big-in-the-movies story set in a world that may be new…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2022
 Lauren Gunderson has made a name for herself"and became the nation's most produced living playwright in each of two recent years"with a series of works that include wordy and funny, fem…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 26, 2022
"Jesus Christ Superstar," the current production the Kennedy Center, reminds us that it is a half-century old " or rather, a bit past that, since the "50th Anniversary Tour" was delayed beca…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 1, 2022
 Anne Frank is an icon. A symbol. A tragedy. Anne Frank is also a commodity. Rinne B. Groff's "Compulsion or the House Behind," currently at Theater J, is a lightly fictionalized look at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 11, 2022
"Flight" contains no live actors"and no actors at all, save for those heard over headphones. It has no traditional set, and yet has dozens of them. It is a work of immersion experienced in i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 26, 2021
"Mysticism & Music," a newly devised Constellation Theatre piece running both in person at the Source Theatre and in streaming production, is not a play. It has no through-line of narrat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:47PM[SHARE]Monday, October 11, 2021
"Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski," now running at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Michael R. Klein Theatre, is a searing and intimate study of a hero who thought he was a failure, port…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 26, 2021
Classic novels and plays have often been reimagined and updated with modern language in high school settings " films like "Cruel Intentions," "Clueless," and "Easy A" come to mind. Works by …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 11, 2021
The real star of the Kennedy Center's world premiere, commissioned production of "A Wind in the Door" did not herself appear on stage during the show's just-ended run. This one-hour staging …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]Monday, August 16, 2021
With director Angelisa Gillyard's production of "Moon Man Walk," Constellation Theatre Company continues its tradition of exceptionally staged, visually rich performances " this time, rising…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 8, 2021
The Her Majesty & Sons production of "Twelfth Night" is a delightful, quick-paced bit of very midsummer madness that manages to achieve theatrical intimacy even in this time of renewed p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2020
Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will leave his position as of next Tuesday in the wake of allegations of sexual assault. Schaeffer co-founded Signature in 1989 and has bee…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Montgomery County-based Flying V fired Producing Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein and accepted the resignation of Associate Artistic Director Jon Rubin on Monday evening following the rev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2020
With theatre on indefinite lockdown throughout the region and the nation, Pointless Theatre in Washington is keeping an eye on the future. The decade-old professional company " known for suc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
Maryland Theatre Guide reached out to more than 100 professional and community theatres, as well as performance venues, in our coverage region about their policies regarding the COVID-19 sit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Harry Potter novels involve certain tropes. There's a mission, some unexpected setbacks, some tragedy, and ultimately triumph due to teamwork, ingenuity, and a bit of magic. All of these ele…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2020
Taffety Punk Theatre Company, one of the region's boldest and most vital troupes, this weekend offers up a brief 10-year anniversary revival of Artistic Director Marcus Kyd's "suicide.chat.r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
"The Toxic Avenger: The Musical" at Rorschach Theatre is, as one of the characters says late in the show, "a wonderful musical based on a movie most people saw when they were stoned." The sh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
The best one-word description of "Home, Sweet, _____" is right there in the title. But this 40-minute clowning piece, created by Accademia dell'Arte-trained performer Collette Campbell, is m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2019
The only bad thing to say about "Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Musical!" is that you will not get a chance to see it at the Capital Fringe Festival. The company of the short musical popped down…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2019
Audiences attending "Caribbean Command" at the Capital Fringe Festival will be presented with a stilted, repetitive debate between four members of the service over which one of them should t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]Annexus Theatre Company's "Thanksgiving at Macbeth's" is a work by a very smart director and very talented actors who all work very well together. Frustratingly, despite the scads of talent …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2019
"Shakespeare's Worst," a Fringe Curated Series selection at this year's Capital Fringe Festival, has at least two things in common with "Two Gentlemen of Verona," the play at its center: The…
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