Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Inda Craig-Galván’s “A Jumping-Off Point” makes its world premiere at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre as the centerpiece of the theatre’s third annual National Capital New Play Fes…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:18PMFor the love of peat. Luke Casserly, a performance artist from the rural midlands of Ireland, invites us to imagine the environment, the earth itself, as a living being and a friend. Commiss…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:13PMMonday, February 12, 2024
Directed by co-founder and Artistic Director, Paata Tsikurishvili, “Romeo & Juliet” is Synetic Theater’s final production in their Crystal City home of the past fifteen years. In…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40AMMonday, January 15, 2024
Processing the death of Stephen Sondheim continues in the theatre community across the nation. Testaments to his genius are represented locally this winter by several productions: two of �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:06PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Long considered one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” Folger Theatre’s production of “The Winter’s Tale” embraces the discordance of the plot elements and takes us on an invigo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:18PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
The anticipatory buzz surrounding David Ijames’ “Fat Ham” was apt prelude to its arrival at Studio Theatre. It had a sold-out run at the Public and then a stint on Broadway. This produ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMSunday, September 24, 2023
“Nothing means more than being together,” says a young and pregnant Nawal bidding farewell to her lover Wahab, a refugee fleeing the militia as the country dissolves into civil war. This…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:06PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
“Hearing an actor speak in her native language is a natural outgrowth of this play’s quest for a more authentic engagement with another culture,” writes David Muse, Artistic Director o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17AMSunday, August 20, 2023
“It started with the trial,” Scout Finch (the delightful Maeve Moynihan) tells us in the opening moments of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s famous novel, “To Kill a Mocki…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:05AMMonday, July 24, 2023
“Music is the soul of Cambodia,” says a character in Arena Stage’s long-awaited production of “Cambodian Rock Band” by Lauren Yee (in association with Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:19AMMonday, July 17, 2023
Who knew how many people would remember Mickey Rooney? Child star turned adult character actor, Rooney first appeared on the vaudeville stage before he turned two. In his lifetime, he appear…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:53PMSunday, July 16, 2023
“Find the heart…not the art.” Olympe de Gouges (Mary Wakefield) needs to write a play “that’s good and important and annoyingly prescient.” In “The Revolutionists,” playwrigh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:20PMMonday, June 26, 2023
About halfway through the joyful opening night performance of “Nate the Great” at Imagination Stage, I noticed three young children seated a few rows ahead of me engrossed in Tyler Dobie…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:27PMTuesday, June 6, 2023
In his interview in Woolly Mammoth’s playbill, playwright Dave Harris says, “How do you separate what you’re doing because of your own free will and your own choice, or what you are do…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:18AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
There are no casual or accidental moments in Marsha Norman’s “‘night, Mother.” For both characters, every word spoken and every action are chillingly intentional—there are no “th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32AMMonday, May 15, 2023
Earth receive an honored guest;William Yeats is laid to rest:Let the Irish vessel lieEmptied of its poetry. – W.H. Auden, 1939 With Scena Theatre’s production of “Three by Yeats,” …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:28PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
There was a sense of excitement among the crowd at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for the opening night of “The Nosebleed,” written and directed by Aya Ogawa. I seldom think of D.C. has …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:06PMMonday, March 6, 2023
At first glance, the silhouette of a Gothic castle on the set of “Beauty and the Beast” seems to signal a journey to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. The thought is quickly dispelled as the cas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:44PMMonday, February 13, 2023
This world premiere of “Ghost/Writer,” written by Dane Figueroa Edidi and directed by Danielle A. Drakes, is the penultimate production by Rep Stage at Howard Community College. The firs…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMMonday, January 30, 2023
“The wrong facts get in the way of the story,” claims writer John D’Agata (Colin Smith) in the midst of a heated discussion with fact checker Jim Fingal (Iván Carlo) in “The Lifespa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:41PMSunday, January 29, 2023
Everyman Theatre’s production of “Jump” by Charly Evon Simpson opens with a young woman vaping while gazing off into the distance from upon a high bridge. She drops the vape into the w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:49PMSunday, December 11, 2022
Lumina Studio Theatre, a youth theater company based in Silver Spring, is celebrating its twenty-fifth year with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” set in the Ol…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:07AMSunday, December 4, 2022
Based on the 19th-century folktale “Snegurochka” by Alexander Ostrovsky, “Snow Maiden” is a new production created and directed by Helen Hayes Award-winning choreographer and Synetic…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:07PMMonday, November 7, 2022
What does assimilation into U.S. culture mean for immigrants from different Latin American countries and economic classes? The points made in “Fade” by Tanya Saracho may break no new gro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:08AMSunday, October 30, 2022
“Legally Blonde,” with music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach, is an energetic, feel-good story where the worst character is justly punished an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:47PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
James Goldman’s problematic “The Lion in Winter” is a well-known vehicle for actors to show off their command of language, rhythm, and sharp emotional turns. It is, in large part, a du…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:58PMMonday, October 17, 2022
Synetic Theater has raised Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” to terrifying life in a reanimation of their 2009 Kennedy Center production, a thrilling triumph of Gothic horror. In his pre-show…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:39PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Adapted in 1973 by Neil Simon from Anton Chekhov’s short stories, most of the vignettes in “The Good Doctor” hold up surprisingly well and still evoke laughter and tears from a modern …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:45PMMonday, October 3, 2022
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) kicks off its year-long celebration of their 20th anniversary with a re-staging of their very first production as a professional company—William Shakes…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:21PMMonday, September 26, 2022
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre launches its new season with a savory world premiere, “Dinner and Cake” by Tuyết Thị Phạm. Director Paige Hernandez skillfully guides an excellent ca…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:59PMMonday, September 12, 2022
Best Medicine Rep Theatre Company kicks off its sixth season with “The Trip” by Crystal V. Rhodes. Four life-long friends take two road trips, 20 years apart. The play looks at how fragi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:57PM 
