Tag: Greenbelt Arts Center
Rude Mechanicals’ clever pared-down ‘Macbeth’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
This rendition creates a compelling hyper-focus on the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. By MORGAN PAVEY
‘Belle’s Stratagem’ mocks male blowhards at Greenbelt’s Rude Mechanicals
Hannah Cowley's 1780 classic comedy of manners still skewers the lesser sex, no matter the change in times.
DCTA 2022 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Community Performances
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
The verdict on ‘Twelve Angry Women’ at Greenbelt: a drama worth...
The Rude Mechanicals stage realistic jury-room strife at Greenbelt Arts Center.
‘Quadrille’ at Greenbelt Arts Center is a four-handed game of romance...
In a veddy, veddy proper tale about class differences, gender roles, secret lovers and the pitfalls of an arranged marriage, playwright Melynda Kiring is...
Young adventurer Milo learns how to use time in Greenbelt Arts...
If you know a bored child who doesn’t know what to do with their time, a trip through Susan Nanus’ The Phantom Tollbooth just might...
Review: ‘The Honey Trap’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
The Honey Trap, a World Premiere at Greenbelt Arts Center, clearly has the best set I’ve seen in years: a mixture of '50s kitsch,...
Review: ‘Disgraced’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
Your mother no doubt told you not to discuss religion or politics over dinner. In Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts...
Review: ‘Perfect Arrangement’ at the Greenbelt Arts Center
The title of Topher Payne’s play is, of course, ironic. Set during the early 1950s “Lavender Scare,” a purge of gay and lesbian Federal...
Review: ‘Stonefish’ by The Coil Project at Greenbelt Arts Center
On Saturday, January 19, I had the pleasure of seeing Erica Smith’s years-in-the-making play, Stonefish, produced by The Coil Project and Greenbelt Arts Center....
Review: ‘The Toxic Avenger’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
The small, low-ceilinged theater at the Greenbelt Arts Center, with intimate seating arrangements and limited space for sets, is a natural habitat for The...
Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ by Wolf Pack Theatre Company at Greenbelt Arts...
Wolf Pack Theatre Company’s production of Spring Awakening is a powerfully moving show. The 2006 musical, with Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater and...
Review: ‘Margherita’ presented by Seventh Street Playhouse at Greenbelt Arts Center
Margherita by Anthony E. Gallo, presented by the Seventh Street Playhouse at the Greenbelt Arts Center under the direction of Beatrix Whitehall, is a...
Review: The Rude Mechanicals Production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at...
The Rude Mechanicals production of The Merchant of Venice, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, is an engrossing exploration of Shakespeare’s most controversial characters...
Review: ‘Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
By Andy Arnold
If you enter Greenbelt Arts Center expecting Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery to focus on Holmes and Watson, you will...
Review: ‘Almost, Maine’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
Almost, Maine, by John Cariani explores the upside and downside of love as experienced by the residents of its mythical, titular town. Playing as...
Review: ‘King Kirby’ at Off the Quill, Performing at Greenbelt Arts...
Who could guess that a play about the life of the renowned comic book artist, Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994),...
Review: ‘Teresa’ at Seventh Street Playhouse
Now playing at Greenbelt Arts Center (GAC), Seventh Street Playhouse’s Teresa is a thought-provoking, historical dramedy written by Anthony Ernest Gallo and inspired by...
Review: ‘Murder on the Nile’ at Greenbelt Arts Center
Imagine this scene. You’re on a paddle steamer on the Nile River in Egypt. It’s the mid-60s. You find yourself surrounded by an off-kilter...
Preview: Thunderous Productions’ ‘Murder on the Nile’ Opens on Friday, June...
Thunderous Productions' Murder on the Nile is not your parents' or grandparents' version of Agatha Christie. Opening Friday, June 23, 2017, at the Greenbelt...