Monday, October 11, 2021
 This production is a like a dip in the warmth of late spring. Written by Emily Mann (and adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth “Bessie†Delany with Amy H…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:28PMMonday, October 4, 2021
Aldersgate Church Community Theatre is opening its in-person 2021-2022 season with Jane Anderson’s “Defying Gravity,â€Â a look at the Challenger tragedy of 1986 with Mon…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:13PMThursday, September 30, 2021
‘â€Prepping for Widowhood†is a frequently laugh-out-loud look at what sustains us when life happens—in this case, widowhood. It’s a story of four old friends …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:56PMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Noah Diaz has written an original play for Baltimore Center Stage, and it’s a shifty play (it’s loosely inspired on his mother and grandfather). The people are certainly shifty…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:46PMSaturday, September 18, 2021
The Revoluntionists, currently playing at The Colonial Players of Annapolis, is a romp of a play. Like much comedy, it has has a serious core. Think of this as the “A Vindication of th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:38PMThe Little Theatre of Alexandria blew the roof off the building this past Wednesday with their production of August Wilson’s “Fences.†The production is taut, layered, and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:20PMWednesday, September 15, 2021
One superb thing Gala Hispanic Theatre’s production of “Doña Rosita la soltera (Doña Rosita the Spinster)†has going for it is the beautifully poetic language. It�
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:53PMSunday, September 12, 2021
“Good People,†which opens Keegan Theatre’s 25th anniversary season, is a play about rough-edged people — Southies from Boston — who cut right to the chase. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:57PMTuesday, September 7, 2021
I thought this play had one of the most lyrical titles I’ve ever heard, and I still think that. “Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees,†an audio play presented by Edge of t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:36PMFriday, August 27, 2021
Erin Granfield most recently played the inimitable Louise in “Always…Patsy Cline†by Creative Cauldron during this past June and July. She is a Helen Hayes-nominated actor …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:49AMThursday, August 26, 2021
It is rare that I will see a play twice (but only because there is so much theatre and so little time), but several seasons ago I saw “An Act of God†at another theatre and thoug…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:16AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Psalmayene 24’s latest production is “The Blackest Battle,†a parable set to a love story set in the near future where America has gone through a second civil war after re…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:04PMThursday, August 12, 2021
Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ‘67†focuses on five days in the summer of 1967 when racial tensions between Black residents and the police force came to a head. It c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:30PMMonday, August 9, 2021
Originally titled “The Indian Fighters†in 1954 when Horton Foote wrote the play, it was presented as “The Day Emily Married†at Silver Spring Stage in 1997 when the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:58AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Searing is the word that comes to mind in this depiction of intergenerational racism on Black people in this country. Adapted by Lydia R. Diamond from the book by Toni Morrison, the horror a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:02PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
“Rumors,†Neil Simon’s first farce, premiered in 1988. Like many farces it depends on confusion, lots of exits and entrances, and fast ripostes. Some of this the play deli…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:15PMMonday, July 19, 2021
Everyman Theatre’s “An Almost Holy Picture,†the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play currently available online, is a beautifully staged and acted production. It proves to…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
The Colonial Players is ending its 72nd season with a play that has more to it than initially meets the eye. “Love, Loss and What I Wore†is a journey through women’s live…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:13PMTuesday, July 13, 2021
It is very easy to see why this show is a favorite of high schools and colleges. It takes a tragic scenario — the death of parents and a younger sibling — and shows that th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:37AMMonday, July 5, 2021
Hope comes up a lot in this play. At one point the protagonist, Martin (Bobby Moreno), repeats “It’s all about hope†a couple of times. But hope proves not to be the panac…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18AMMonday, June 28, 2021
“Talk Radio†is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play written by Eric Bogosian and based on a concept by Bogosian and Tad Savinar. You can tell it’s 1987 because people are…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:10PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
What happens when you put an introvert and an extreme extrovert together in a shared bedsit? Chaos. “Ripcord,†the comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed for The Little Thea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:06PMThursday, June 17, 2021
“We’re Gonna Die†is a play with music that faces reality — yes, we are all going to die. That’s okay, because the point of life is living, so why waste it? …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:19PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
 Madeline Sayet’s ‘Where We Belong’ is an elegy for so very much — the voices lost to colonialism, the lives lost through the insanity of war, the languages st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:35PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Insanity was the byword for this year’s “Will on the Hill and Far Away,†by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. With a healthy dose of magic, we lost part of Congress in the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:54PMSunday, June 6, 2021
Creative Cauldron has chosen an innovative way to bring this favorite jukebox musical, “Always…Patsy Cline†(created and originally directed by Ted Swindley), to life. Each…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:01PMIn this world premier of Ann Timmons’ “A Very Present Presence,†we meet a middle-aged mother and career woman who has come to the end of her rope. The story may seem simi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AMMonday, May 31, 2021
‘Written by James Reston, Jr., “Luther’s Trumpet†is the story primarily about the duel between Martin Luther (Edward Gero) and Pope Leo X (Craig Wallace), but it is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:53PMMonday, May 24, 2021
The first five-minute entry in this 12-play collection is by Sharlene Clinton, who is also making her playwriting debut. “Flawless Beauty: Hair Across The Diaspora†is a heart-wr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:08PMThursday, May 20, 2021
I have become so accustomed in the last couple of months to seeing plays filmed on the actual stages. I have also recently attended three in-person, socially-distanced shows. This made watch…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:10PMSaturday, May 15, 2021
Everyman Theatre is running a heart-felt, brilliantly-acted production of “Berta, Berta,†which originally premiered in 2018 and was a part of the 2019 National Black Theatre Fes…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:50AM 
