140 stories by "Peter Orvetti"
Montgomery County-based Flying V fired Producing Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein and accepted the resignation of Associate Artistic Director Jon Rubin on Monday evening following the rev…
With theatre on indefinite lockdown throughout the region and the nation, Pointless Theatre in Washington is keeping an eye on the future. The decade-old professional company " known for suc…
Maryland Theatre Guide reached out to more than 100 professional and community theatres, as well as performance venues, in our coverage region about their policies regarding the COVID-19 sit…
Harry Potter novels involve certain tropes. There's a mission, some unexpected setbacks, some tragedy, and ultimately triumph due to teamwork, ingenuity, and a bit of magic. All of these ele…
Taffety Punk Theatre Company, one of the region's boldest and most vital troupes, this weekend offers up a brief 10-year anniversary revival of Artistic Director Marcus Kyd's "suicide.chat.r…
"The Toxic Avenger: The Musical" at Rorschach Theatre is, as one of the characters says late in the show, "a wonderful musical based on a movie most people saw when they were stoned." The sh…
The best one-word description of "Home, Sweet, _____" is right there in the title. But this 40-minute clowning piece, created by Accademia dell'Arte-trained performer Collette Campbell, is m…
The only bad thing to say about "Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Musical!" is that you will not get a chance to see it at the Capital Fringe Festival. The company of the short musical popped down…
Audiences attending "Caribbean Command" at the Capital Fringe Festival will be presented with a stilted, repetitive debate between four members of the service over which one of them should t…
Annexus Theatre Company's "Thanksgiving at Macbeth's" is a work by a very smart director and very talented actors who all work very well together. Frustratingly, despite the scads of talent …
"Shakespeare's Worst," a Fringe Curated Series selection at this year's Capital Fringe Festival, has at least two things in common with "Two Gentlemen of Verona," the play at its center: The…
Fauquier Community Theatre, which marked its 40th anniversary in 2018, has been busily expanding its theatre education programs and upgrading the technical aspects of its venue while still p…
Milburn Stone Memorial Theatre opened in 1992 on the North East campus of Cecil College, but its history dates back further. The Covered Bridge Theatre Company had been performing in various…
Stand Up For… Theatre is a young company that, along with Erase Hate For Art, makes up How Do You Like Me Now Productions. The two programs work to promote acceptance and equality with the…
Studio Theatre closes its current season with a tight, gripping production of Lucy Kirkwood's "The Children" " nominated for Best Play at the Tonys last year " that craftily combines small-s…
Columbia-based Silhouette Stages began as Shadow Block Productions in May 2003 with a production of "Quilters" " the name referred to the blocks individually sewn into the quilts. Like a qui…
When I took my very first acting class at age 32, having never done so much as a school play, I asked a fellow student with more experience how people in the Washington region found their fi…
The Colonial Players is one of the region's oldest continually operating non-professional theatre companies, marking its 70th anniversary this year. The very first production, "The Male Anim…
The City of Fairfax Theatre Company is marking its 10th anniversary this year. Founded by two Fairfax High School drama teachers and a team of volunteers in 2009, CFTC underwent what Artisti…
This past weekend, The Washington Ballet again partnered with the Shakespeare Theatre Company for the debut of "Three World Premieres" of contemporary ballet at the Harman Center. The very d…
Castaways Repertory Theatre has been bringing stage classics like "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and modern hits like "August: Osage County" to Prince William County audiences for nearly 40 years. …
Tom Stoppard's 1993 play "Arcadia" is a complex work of ideas, and Lumina Studio Theatre's student ensemble set itself an ambitious task in taking it on for a just-ended weekend run at the S…
You art what you eat. Third Rail Projects' "Confection," a site-specific slice of immersive theatre open to very limited audiences at the Folger Theatre this month, is many things. It's a to…
Aldersgate Church Community Theater has been entertaining Fairfax County audiences for three decades. Founded in 1990, the company originally mounted just one or two shows per year. Today, i…
Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of "Vanity Fair," directed by Jessica Stone, is a marvel and a delight, a hilarious rendition of William Makepeace Thackeray's puckishly nasty satire…