Thursday, 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 06:02PMMonday, 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 01:44PM 
