Tuesday, 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 06:02PMMonday, February 17, 2025
Immersive theatre can take a number of shapes and occur in any number of venues. Bob Bartlett’s “Love and Vinyl” is immersive, record-store theatre with a quirky, highly entertaining e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:43PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
Given this incredibly challenging artistic and national moment, it is so good to see that DC theatres aren’t afraid to embrace material that may be considered on the more controversial sid…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:24PMWednesday, February 5, 2025
Acclaimed DC playwright Karen Zacarias’s “Native Gardens” has been well produced in regional and community theatres across the country—with good reason. While on its surface, this is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:02PMSunday, February 2, 2025
The Reading Room Festival at the Folger Theatre kicked off Thursday with a deep dive into the historic-minded Shakespeare. Artistic Director Karen Ann Daniels invited a few friends to help h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:48AMWednesday, January 15, 2025
The mood as audience members were leaving Studio Theatre following the production of Bruce Norris’s “Downstate” was somber to say the least. Given the play’s themes and several of th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:36PMSunday, December 22, 2024
Playwright Alexis Scheer seems to possess uncanny insight into what it means to exist with a foot in two different worlds, or more, depending on how many feet you can muster. The characters …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:18PMWednesday, December 18, 2024
Always putting on a show full of spirit, heart, and an abundance of feel-good vibes, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC (GMCW) delivers yet again with their holiday extravaganza. Presen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:30PMMonday, December 16, 2024
The Coil Project’s newest “Strange Tales” installment brings four new short plays with equally bizarre, sometimes macabre, and definitely unconventional twists to the stage of Capitol …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:20PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
Musicals don’t get much darker than “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 show, based on a 19th-century penny dreadful, reveals the secret life an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMFriday, November 8, 2024
Joshua Harmon’s 2024 Tony-nominated, epically expansive script, “Prayer for the French Republic,” investigates the horrors of the Holocaust, albeit as more of a side note than headline…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:03PMWednesday, November 6, 2024
The intellectualism of Tony Kushner’s work can sometimes obscure the bigger-picture themes and stories and yet, it is this intellectualism that brands his work as distinctly of its time in…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:11PMThursday, October 24, 2024
Following a sold-out Off-Broadway run in 2023, York Walker’s acclaimed “Covenant” has come to Theater Alliance. Described as “Southern gothic meets the blues,” the show offers some…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05AMThursday, October 17, 2024
Marlene Dietrich is perhaps best known as a symbol of the ever-so distinctive brand of talent and glamour that epitomized the heyday of “Old Hollywood.” German-born, Dietrich came to the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Getting a new play off the ground takes a great deal of work. Playwright Marshall Logan Gibbs and director Maxwell Wolf seemingly hit the ground running with “MonstӠr (Or, #MeToo Brute),�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41AMWednesday, October 2, 2024
“Night Sky,” a new play by Pipeline Playwright Patricia Connelly at Aldersgate Church Community Theater (ACCT), tells the story of Julia (Patricia Nicklin) who, now in her seventies, mus…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:59PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Dramas about high school students often center on the catastrophic issues that trouble younger generations today. These are generally bigger-picture issues. While certainly incredibly worthw…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:44PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
A prominent part of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston has become an acclaimed artistic figure helping define a literary generation and pave the way for those who would follow. Laure…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:04PMSunday, September 22, 2024
Eboni Booth won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her play “Primary Trust” and is currently being presented at Signature Theatre. It’s a rather intimate play that investigates the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:25PMMonday, September 16, 2024
Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to his DC roots with “The Comeuppance.” This being only the third production of this play, it center…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:46PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
With a 2023 world premiere on Broadway, it would seem that “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is already bound to become a canonical part of American theatre. The first leg of its tour kic…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:14PMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Immediately, the set design of GALA Theatre’s “The 22+ Weddings of Hugo” whisks you into a quasi-paradisiacal realm in which anything seems possible despite the obstacles and detractor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:36PMThursday, August 15, 2024
Presidential elections have this way of bringing out the claws. The desire to win, the need to have one party decimate the other—people’s baser instincts tend to emerge, even in the nice…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:44PMMonday, August 12, 2024
Caryl Churchill’s work has this uncanny way of harnessing the big picture questions of history, science, and philosophy and distilling them down to what these kinds of questions mean for h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:01PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Faction of Fools Theatre Company specializes in a type of theatrical practice known as commedia dell’arte. Most prevalent in Italy during the Renaissance, this art form leans heavily on st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:07PMSunday, June 23, 2024
Aleshea Harris’ “Is God Is” has been hailed as “high-octane carnage,” a mythic journey, and the ultimate revenge fantasy. After seeing Constellation Theatre’s production, I can a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMThursday, June 6, 2024
Through music, dance, and pure emotion, the cast and crew of “Long Way Down” tell a penetrating story that stays with you long after you leave the theatre. Olney Theatre Centre’s premi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:48AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
Rock operas really are their own special breed of show, comprised of vivid costumes, powerful, edgy songs, and very often a heavy dose of fantasy and adventure. The Baltimore Rock Opera Soci…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
Northern Ireland’s c21 Theatre Company, in conjunction with The Keegan Theatre, is currently presenting “Expecting” by Irish playwright Charis McRoberts. Described as a “poetic one-a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:36AMMonday, May 13, 2024
Eva Perón’s story is the stuff of movies, books, and, yes, even ghost stories. The meteoric rise of Evita from Argentine “showgirl” to beloved political figure has been comprehensivel…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:00PMSunday, May 5, 2024
Often the hallmarks of the most provocative theatre experiences are irreverence, a willingness to push the envelope, and the approach that no subject is off the table and no topic is too tab…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:39PM 
