Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Ask anybody what “The Rocky Horror Show” is about and generally answers run along the lines of: “it is such a good time,” or “you get to throw toilet paper!” or “the songs are …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:52PMFriday, June 13, 2025
Penning a memoir-style journey into one’s ancestral past is an intriguing way to approach a key historical moment. Using a blend of two distinct and, at the same time, blurred voices that …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:14PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
One of August Wilson’s most celebrated plays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “The Piano Lesson,” takes audiences to 1930s Pittsburgh. Set in a modest home centered around an ancestra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:49AMMonday, June 9, 2025
Mary Woolley isn’t exactly a well-known historical figure. Most would be hard-pressed to say who she was. Still, her life and legacy make for absolutely fascinating theatrical material. In…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:52AMAs WorldPride 2025 came to a close, it’s safe to say that the art and artists marking the events of the past two weeks were just as varied, beautiful, and spectacularly unique as the queer…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:22AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
The term “buddy comedy” usually denotes a story about the enduring bond between two generally different, generally male characters as we watch them embark upon some sort of journey, life…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:12PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Capturing the essence of a character like Andy Warhol (who arguably was as much self-conceptualized character as he was actual human being) can go one of two ways: either the portrayal wi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:59AMMonday, June 2, 2025
This year Google did not mark the start of Pride month with some whimsical rainbow-colored send-up of its home page, per their usual. If you’ve checked out the National Park Service’s St…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:12AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Happenstance Theater’s “Juxtapose: A Theatrical Shadow Box” is said to have been influenced by the shadow box art of Joseph Cornell, the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jacques Tati, a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:32AMMonday, May 12, 2025
Avant Bard Theatre has a reputation for offering a malleable Shakespeare that speaks to an array of issues, stagings, and audiences. With their production of Kathleen Akerley’s conception …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:08PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
A pioneer in modern absurdist theatre, Christopher Durang can be seen as polarizing. You either love his work or hate it. Indeed, attend a production of one of his plays and you’re apt to …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:28AMImmersive theatre experiences can be somewhat tricky to do well. There’s the logistics of it all, having actors disciplined enough not to be distracted or thrown off by less-than-conventio…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:02AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Passion, raw emotion, and utter frustration need no translation in GALA Hispanic Theatre’s latest production, “Choke, Or, SUCEDE HASTA EN LAS MEJORES FAMILIAS.” The actors pour their h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:06PMSunday, April 20, 2025
Sarah Ruhl is not one to shy away from more risqué subjects. Her Tony Award-nominated “In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” deals with, you guessed it, a controversial moment in the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:35PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Dominque Morisseau’s “Pipeline” dives straight into the lives of an utterly exhausted mother and her beleaguered son. Nya (Melissa Scott) is a teacher at a NYC public school. As we lea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:55PMSunday, April 13, 2025
Larissa FastHorse’s widely produced “Thanksgiving Play” has helped establish the playwright as someone who expertly deploys sardonic humor and cleverly nuanced sarcasm, particularly wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:07PMFriday, April 11, 2025
Should a play strive to present all sides of a given issue? In other words, is any audience experience made more meaningful if no one message or position is prioritized over another, if we g…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:20AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Of Anton Chekhov’s work, Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen insightfully observed that he made “subjectivity edit and rule experience.” Moving away from more totalizing abstract themes and e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:18PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Playwright Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini explains that with this play about four young Black British women, she at last felt the “freedom” to write in a style and language that represents t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
A meta-theatrical farce that searingly pokes fun at the things people do in the name of trying to quell their mistakes and their anxiety, “It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure” hits some trul…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:08AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Playwright José Rivera’s resume is certainly an impressive one. The Obie Award-winning “Marisol” sticks out in my mind as representative of a body of work that brilliantly brings toge…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:34AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
Though written in 2014, Dominique Morisseau’s “Blood at The Root” proves an incredibly timely play. Dealing with themes of racial equality, homophobia, and the crackdown on student pro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:55PMThursday, March 20, 2025
TEACHING THE CREATURE’S BRAIN—WHO IS THE REAL MONSTER?Elizabeth Frankenstein v. Victor Frankenstein Originally conceived in 1994, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Mock Trial event this ye…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:10PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
For some, resistance is protesting, for others it’s making their voices heard through whatever channel possible during times of strife, and still for others resistance might be as simple a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45AMSunday, March 16, 2025
Wombats, who knew? Former small mammal, zoo biologist David S. Kessler happens to be a pretty ardent supporter of the wombat—of all small mammals really, but perhaps most fondly, the womba…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMFriday, March 14, 2025
Boundlessly creative is the only way I can think to describe Avant Barde Theatre’s production of “The Margriad.” A complex assemblage of four of Shakespeare’s history plays—the thr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:05PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
Characters in Harold Pinter’s plays tend to have a shorthand when it comes to their conversations. That is, the words they say to one another are generally packed with a lot more meaning t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:41PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
What is “art?” This is the question that Tony award-winning, French playwright Yasmine Reza puts front and center in her quirky drama, “Art” (translated by Christopher Hampton). The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:06PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Getting a new musical on its feet is notoriously difficult. Generally speaking, this is why smaller regional theatres don’t often try it. In the case of Bethesda Little Theatre’s mountin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:34PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Often, we have difficulty seeing beyond the challenges and barriers specific to our own situation or to our own country. Plays like Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “Kunene an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
Perhaps best known for his Pulitzer-finalist “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” playwright Rajiv Joseph walks a different artistic path with “The Lake Effect” now playing at 1st Stag…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:02PM 
