Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Great composers have to start somewhere and, for Giacomo Puccini, it was a one-act called Le Villi. He submitted it for a competition. It didn't win or place. Still, he reworked it, added to…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Let us now praise the Quotidian Theatre Company, which dedicates itself to classics, and crafts performances so good they remind us why the works are considered classics in the first place. …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2013
Delightful is probably not the expected adjective for a show called Cabaret Macabre, except probably for those who have seen earlier editions of the show by Happenstance Theatre. At a time w…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2013
The Washington National Opera is celebrating the bicentenary of Wagner and Verdi this season, and to honor the latter, artistic director Francesca Zambello has chosen what she called one of …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2013
In the early 1970s, Tennessee Williams’ best work was decades behind him. A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie (now in yet another acclaimed revival on Broadway), and Cat on a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Red Speedo, a taut play about athletic competition at Studio Lab, itself begins with its own athletic contest: climbing several flights of stairs to the performance space. Â Once up there,…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2013
There may not be a better musical focus for a jukebox musical than the sounds of Memphis’ plucky Sun Studios in the 1950s, where Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Ca…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
Maria Braun was a character borne of pluck and determination, whose civil wedding was interrupted by bombs of World War II, but not invalidated by it. Â She insisted the officiant sign the…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The problem with building an opera around a star is that sometimes, the star will falter. So even as the cover of the Washington National Opera Playbill of Tristan and Isolde shows Debora…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2013
Back in the 17th Century, theater in Spain was so rich, even the intervals between acts were entertaining. Sketches performed in the streets to engage with passerby led to their becoming par…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
As the curtain rises at the Little Theater of Alexandria’s new British farce, Caught in the Net, the sequel to the hit farce Run For Your Wife by Ray Cooney, the audience delights in t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
The ad for the In Series season opener, a Wild West adaptation of Abduction from the Seraglio, has Mozart in a Stetson. And that might be all you need to know about the fun and strangely rev…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2013
The Book of Mormon is the musical that ate the Kennedy Center. Demand for tickets was so large in March it crashed the computer system. Traffic snarled as people stood in line for tickets…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2013
WSC Avant Bard is living up to its name with its strong and ambitious summer offering crossing Shakespeare with the avant garde, Caesar & Dada. In a season when the carefree and slight e…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Another in the “let’s put on a play” tradition of American musicals, “[title of show]” takes a more meta approach: a musical about writing this very musical. Th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Soprano Marni Nixon speaks about her not-so-secret roles in some of Hollywood's best-known musicalsLong before another Nixon got mixed up with a secret recording in Washington, Marni Nixon w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The Hampton Years, the new play currently playing at Theater J in Washington, shows the value of highlighting a little known chapter in black history – in this case, the rise of Afr…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:48PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
Reinventing theater is easier said than done " and easier still said with an expletive. Thus we have Aaron Posner's Stupid F***ing Bird, an adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull that just open…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2012
In a post-apocalyptic world, after the grid's gone dead, people sit around a campfire and tell stories for entertainment.
But their tales are not classics of Greek mythology or of literature…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:43PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2012
For centuries, they have been figures of fear and fascination, in their colorful clothes and seemingly carefree lives. And while gypsies, as they are called, have left their mark on society …
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