Let me get this out of the way up front—the Best Medicine Rep Theatre is on the second floor of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg. It is the first time I have ever been to see a show in a mall... Read more
When the doors open for seating, theatre-goers are in for a visual extravaganza—the entire MAX (the larger of Signature’s two black box theatres) has been turned in a grand, paneled and marb... Read more
This is a very physical, lively play written by Angela Gant in the early 2000s while she was in college; in fact, it won national playwriting awards at the Kennedy Center American College Th... Read more
I fell in love with the dog. The dog’s name happens to be Dog, and as portrayed by Karen Lange, I just wanted to scoop her up and give her all the treats. Lange gives a performance that is s... Read more
Well, Toto, we are in Kansas now—at least for the duration of this reverent revival of ‘Bus Stop’ by William Inge. The Aldersgate Church Community Theatre does a lovely job of bringing this... Read more
Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is a serious play, with a capital “S.” One thing audiences should be prepared for in this production of “Resolving Hedda,” is that it is absolutely delicious fun.... Read more
This is an intense theatrical experience because there’s just no way forward for these two brothers. Uneducated, poor, black, abandoned by their parents a long time ago, and never part of a... Read more
Sorrow is ground into this play, from the skirl of the bagpipes as you sit down to the grey lighting and scenery that evoke fog and mist and a mizzling rain to the involuntary moment of sile... Read more
This is a show of such opposites that it is exhilarating and numbing all at the same time. Hate/love, forgiveness/revenge, pain/surcease, brutality/kindness, despair/hope, beauty/ugliness. I... Read more
Every once in a while a play comes along that is so electric and alive and thought-provoking and mesmerizing that you want to shout about it from the rooftops. This is one such play. Don’t m... Read more
