Tag: Maryland Metro Theater Arts

The moment you walk in the theater, McPherson Madness assails you with its world, trying to become your reality. Cast members ask for change,...

There is no doubt that technology is a large part of many of our lives. Have you ever left the house and forgotten your...

If you like old detective movies and Airplane!-esque parody, then the Impressionable Players’ Detective Pimbley and the Case of the Rich Dead Lady is...

Despite My Civil War’s description as a “multidisciplinary exploration of the American Civil War,” this production feels more like a cursory stumbling through a...

Bayou Blues is a communicative exploration of a young black girl’s fears moving towards a summative moment of terror amidst Hurricane Katrina. And while...

According to the program notes: “In 2005, lyricist Mark Campbell asked 18 different composers to put music to his portrait of a smart, resilient, wry,...

Outside the Wire is a compelling and moving portrait of the toll war takes on soldiers and their families. Written by Jimi Stanton, who plays...

If it’s a good evening at the theater you’re looking for, I’ve got a top of the line drama, Sick Stories, Gentle Granddaddy by...

What a delight! For me, musical theater is pure escapism: I can be entertained, tap my foot to the music, and sometimes even sing...

H2O Brings Big Ideas to Life Good plays put people in circumstances that force them to confront essential questions; great plays move people past essential...

It is with heavy heart that I divulge to my dear readers one of my secret pleasures – because not to share my latest...

What do you get when Eve, Sarah, Abraham, and Adam’s first wife Lillith all come together for one big dinner party? Well you get...

Theatre has the opportunity to influence a person in many ways. Sometimes it moves people to tears of laughter, and sometimes it moves people...

Dating. Yeesh. The very word strikes fear and frustration into the hearts of millions around the world. Ok Stupid’s Secret Math Lab is a...

The Sock Puppet Guerilla Theater mounts a truly hilarious production of an ancient satire Lysistrata by setting it in 1969. It doesn’t take much updating. The...

Solo artist Kathryn Elizabeth Kelly takes us into a courageous year-long experiment with STATUS - A Social Media Experiment. After emerging from the wreckage of...

How liberating -- while driving home from Hello, You Assholes! -- to note how many times I referred to other drivers as assholes. We...

‘A Romeo to die for’ Be still my heart!  On a sultry summer night, just like Juliet (a feisty Raven Bonniwell), this writer fell in love with...

Personally I never been a huge fan of reality TV shows, but H Street Housewives left me sitting on the edge of my seat...

Written by Hroswitha of Gandersheim and directed by Michael Poanddl, The Conversion of Thais the Whore tells the shocking story of Pafnutius, a religious...