Tuesday, November 3, 2020
“Marisol,” by José Rivera, is a fever-dream of a play. It is as if the normal world has lost its moorings, or mind, and people, systems, institutions are breaking down under the strain.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PM“Roaring” is one of the most delicious productions put on by Best Medicine Rep, and a world premier written and directed by John Morogiello, a founder of Best Medicine Rep. ‘Roaring’…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
Stage managers rule. In this innovative and imaginative venture that combines theatricality, games, and last-man-standing types of reality shows, the stage managers have gotten together and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:50PMWednesday, October 28, 2020
In this imaginative upending of “Hamlet,” We Happy Few has put Ophelia front and center. It’s a refreshing concept, and mostly works pretty well in this new play by Amber Smithers and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:02PMFriday, October 23, 2020
“Joy” is complicated. It’s not just a sudden childlike leap of glee with a whoopee. At least not all the time. In the hands of Synetic Theater’s cast and director, these two iteratio…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PMWednesday, October 14, 2020
This is another world-creating, universe-hopping story brought by the same folks that brought ‘Shattered Spaces’ to streaming earlier in the pandemic. It has a similar message of unity, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:27PMSunday, October 11, 2020
This is a show that is made for our times when we have a reality TV show star as the president, and the chaos that has worn us down. Created in 2016 (or at least started to be conceptualized…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Are you comfortable with surprises? With not having a clear idea of what is happening next? With vagaries and/or vicissitudes? Of a moment of unexpected snort-laughter and then a sudden sear…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:39PMWednesday, September 16, 2020
“The Alden presents Drive-Thru Drama, a new model of theater…in a COVID-19 world. Drive-Thru Drama is a social-distance theater format that brings people together for live theater from t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:46AMThursday, September 10, 2020
“Genesis 37” was an intriguing and rather mysterious play and where it ended up was not at all expected. It was also a rather savage — in a supremely civilized fashion — takedown of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:22PMWednesday, September 9, 2020
The Q-Fest Round Three was a full eight hours of theatre and talk-backs featuring 20 playwrights (five per theatre). Artists from Adventure Theatre MTC, ArtsCentric, 4615 Theatre Company, an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:44PMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Before I start the review of the last act of this new play, let me be clear that this is a work in progress, and this was the first public reading of the entire work (over two Tuesdays). It …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:07PMSunday, August 30, 2020
Families are never easy. Add in generations of “heritage,” familial roles, declining wealth, and seething rage, and a family business meeting becomes incendiary. . . . there was enough t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:38PMMonday, August 24, 2020
On Sunday night, nearly 150 households that had signed up for The Colonial Players Virtual Pub Reading brought their A game to a mini-festival of four, one-act plays and a Mad Libs-type of a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PMWednesday, August 19, 2020
“Zero” is enigmatic, devious, heartbreaking, and breathtaking. Set in a private reform school/residential treatment center called St. Vedastus Academy for Misguided Teens, it does a mast…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:38PMSunday, August 16, 2020
In 2018, Angela Wilson’s play about the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968 first debuted as part of the Angelwing Project in Anne Arundel County, MD. Angela Wilson is a founder and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PMThere is good news and bad news. The good news is that the City Fairfax Theatre Company is putting on a live show. The bad news is that is was rained out last night, so I didn’t get to see…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:59PMMonday, July 27, 2020
“Spirit Seekers” is a quick romp with a couple of chills and some really funny moments brought to life on Zoom through the efforts of the Dark Horse Theatre Company. It was an engaging, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PM“Wannabe” is an intriguingly deep dive into the lives of five Black kids that follows them from the early 1980s to young adulthood in Front Royal, VA. There are also three white characte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:22PMMonday, July 20, 2020
Day 10, the final day of Synetic artists’ epic 30-story interpretations of tales from The Decameron, has come to an end. However, the stories will be available until July 31, 2020. They al…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:49PMSunday, July 19, 2020
Day 9 finds us with three stories that explore loss and coming to grips with it in unexpected ways. All three stories of Day 9 were complex emotionally and featured the movement-based theatr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:44PMThis was one day in which masks and social distancing figured prominently, and the music was striking. Day 8 was very physical and beautifully graceful. Even falling down had a poetic grace …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:33PMI think that Day 7 could safely be called “Court Jester Day’ in the pantheon of Synetic’s Decameron. From dolls to clowns to stick figures, it was a day to just be jovial. This was a l…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:27PMSaturday, July 18, 2020
Day 6 was an extravaganza of dancing in all three stories, which added an extra fillip to these tales of love. The first offering by Valentina Palladino (based on “Day 5, Story 9”) was a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:56PMDay 5 was thought-provoking and ran the gamut from sheer silliness (and very funny silliness, too) to being driven to the point of madness when everything has been upended. It certainly made…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
Joshua Cole Lucas started off Day 4’s offerings, basing his story on Day 6 Story. This was very much a nod to the Italian Commedia dell’arte, and proved to be a witty romp. Chichibio is …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:00PMDay 3 started out very spiritually, and then segued into the profane (in the sense of “sacred and profane.”) Elena Velasco based her very cryptic story on “Day 6, Story 10” of The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49PMMonday, July 13, 2020
Synetic, that wonderfully physical innovative movement theater in Crystal City, has come up with a bold streaming idea. They have taken chapters from “The Decameron,” a collection of nov…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17AMSalvation can come from unexpected sources. In this play, set in a flat in Ladbroke Grove in West London in 1952, salvation comes from an ex-doctor in the form of a nascent friendship. It …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:08AMIn the first of three offerings on July 11, Mandi Lee, who based her tale on Day 6, Story 8, takes us on an epic journey of change. And it all happens in one session in another wise deserted…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:57AMMonday, July 6, 2020
This filmed play is an enhanced archive recording from 2016 and features the original English cast. This is an incredibly thoughtful and anguished work and brilliantly produced. . . . It is …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PM 
