Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Nothing is as certain in the arts as change. Born near the banks of the Susquehanna River (in Harrisburg, Pa.), Sheldon Bair started out playing drums and bass. “By my senior year in h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:30AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Animals may not know enough on their own to come in from the rain. But at least some of the inhabitants of ZooAmerica, which is part of Hersheypark, were given a little prodding. Because of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24PMMonday, July 2, 2018
When you ask children a question, they usually give you an honest answer. So, when Allison and Jeremy Goldman of Ellicott City asked their children during the school year of 2017 what they w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:41PMSaturday, April 14, 2018
It was a cruel irony. Adventure Theatre MTC was about to launch its production of “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” when it entered a “run”…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:51PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
It’s a beautiful fall day in Montgomery County when many potential audience members are probably outside enjoying the weather. But those inside the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMThursday, August 3, 2017
Bleak fascination: The legacy of Sam Shepard Within a few days of Sam Shepard’s passing from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) on July 27, the Red The…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:19PMMonday, April 3, 2017
MD Theatre Guide: This is your directorial debut at Mosaic. What drew you to this particular theatre company? Logan Vaughn: I met Ari Roth (founding artistic director) at a directing worksho…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:53PMTuesday, March 21, 2017
If any work of art epitomizes despair, it is Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.” The Prozorova sisters of the title, stuck in a provincial backwater, dream of returning to the Moscow of t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:16PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
As often happens when a play has been “hyped” a great deal and receives more awards than one can count, I resisted, in the beginning, the lure of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III. But…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:31PMMonday, January 23, 2017
If you’re looking for a strictly traditional “King Lear,” you won’t find it in the Lumina Studio Theatre production, now having a sadly short run at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:49PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
Now playing at Signature Theatre through January 29, 2017, “Titanic” is set on the ocean liner RMS Titanic. More than 1500 individuals lost their lives when the luxury ship sank on its m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:09PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Since seeing a performance of Aaron Posner’s “Stupid F*cking Bird” at Silver Spring Stage on October 30, I find my mind racing in a blend of contradictory emotions. Is Posner paying h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:16PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
No one ever tires of “Romeo and Juliet,” a tale of young love thwarted by poor choices, bad luck, and warring families. So the production of the Bard’s beloved comedy-turned-tragedy at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:53PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Not much time left to catch one of the theatrical hits of the decade at Silver Spring Stage. Seeing Clybourne Park in a week punctuated with racially tinged violence makes Bruce Norris’s P…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:42AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Through the centuries actors, directors, and audiences have had a complex attitude of both attraction and revulsion to The Merchant of Venice. Somewhat perplexingly labeled one of Shakespear…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:11PMMonday, May 23, 2016
Miss Witherspoon refers to a theoretical character who might appear in an Agatha Christie mystery–an older woman who has accumulated crotchiness along with age. Veronica, the protagoni…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:18PMThursday, May 5, 2016
In The Body of an American, written by Dan O’Brien, the subject of the play, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has been assigned to many war zones, asks: “If I’m not crazy anyw…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:49PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
At a time when refugees are streaming out of the Middle East and seem to be engendering fear and mistrust rather than compassion, Mosaic Theater Company is presenting a solo show that offers…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:04PMTuesday, April 12, 2016
Remember those romantic comedies of the ‘30s and ‘40s, in which two people who dislike each other end up falling in love? Or realizing they loved each other all along? It could be said t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:05PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Arguably the most widely performed of Tennessee Williams’s play, and according to many, his personal favorite, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is more rooted in reality and less in symbolism or the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:58PMSunday, February 21, 2016
You don’t have to know about origami to appreciate Rajiv Joseph’s play Animals out of Paper, on view at Silver Spring Stage. But it helps. There’s mystery to how origami is created, bu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:58PMMosaic Theater Company’s mission expresses a commitment to powerful, transformational, and socially relevant art. That certainly describes The Promised Land, a play about East African refu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:40PMMonday, February 1, 2016
If you’ve ever (as I have) attended a production of The Glass Menagerie lacking the poetry and turbulent emotions inherent in the Tennessee Williams classic, you’ll delight in the curren…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:34PMFriday, January 15, 2016
Want to see critics in the hot seat? Then run, don’t walk, to Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lansburgh Theatre (STC), where they’re getting what many actors and directors think they…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:07PMMonday, January 11, 2016
No pun intended, but the water main brake near Silver Spring Stage on January 9–causing heavy traffic delays and a late curtain at the performance–did not dampen the enthusiasm o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:46PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Long before he founded Mosaic Theater Company earlier this year, Ari Roth was known for thoughtful, even provocative, theater. At Mosaic he is continuing that mandate, but also presenting in…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:59PMYes, Virginia, there is A Christmas Carol. But that’s not what audience members at Silver Spring Stage will be seeing this holiday season. The myriad versions of the Dickens classic—film…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:45PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss, enjoying its regional premiere at Round House Theatre, proves yet again that a kiss can be much more than a kiss. It may, in fact, be the most-erotic form of lovem…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:36AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Audiences back in 1964, when the play first opened, apparently found Entertaining Mr. Sloane anything but. To put it mildly, they were shocked. Joe Orton’s inaugural work for theater is de…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:32PMSaturday, November 21, 2015
Looking for inspiration and joy in the holiday season? See Arena Stage’s presentation of Akeelah and the Bee by the Children’s Theatre Company. There’s plenty of humor and some pathos…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:01PMMonday, November 2, 2015
As intriguing as its premise, The Metal Children, a play by Pulitzer Prize nominee (not for this work) Adam Rapp lacks subtlety. If vigilantes wearing pig’s masks who terrorize people they…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:21PM 
