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  • Hear Them Roar

    By on December 5, 2013

    ''And that's the time I bought the gun.'' Rita Lyons drops that hysterical bombshell in the midst of recounting a sordid family story in Nicky...

  • Post-Halloween Gory Theater at Round House

    By on November 7, 2013

    Halloween and the Day of the Dead may be over for another year, but gory tales never really go out of fashion in a season when...

  • Victorian-Flavored Frights

    By on October 24, 2013

    '' I spent a lot of time working on tall ships and traveling,'' Sabrina Mandell says. No, Mandell, founder of Happenstance Theater Company, isn't...

  • Couples, Killed and Comedic

    By on October 24, 2013

    Surely no one needs a spoiler alert about Romeo and Juliet. After all, what is probably William Shakespeare's most popular and most accessible play is...

  • Misanthropic Mamet

    By on February 14, 2013

    Round House Theatre does very well by playwright David Mamet with its new production of Glengarry Glen Ross, which many consider to be Mamet's best...

  • Round House grows a beard — James Beard, that is.

    By on October 31, 2012

    Nick Olcott portrays James Beard, who brought fine cooking and a jolly personality to the small screen in 1946 — long before Julia Child, Emeril...

  • Crown of Shadows at the Round House Theatre

    By on April 22, 2012

    Jason Gray Pratt’s Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysses is having its world premiere at the Round House Theatre. It offers a gripping, modern...

  • Life as Cabaret

    By on March 14, 2012

    Early last year, Will Gartshore broke his wrist curling. ''A freak curling accident,'' he concedes. ''Very Canadian.'' Didn't know Gartshore was Canadian, eh? Since the...

  • Fundamentally Flawed

    By on February 16, 2012

    For all the suffering that's been heaped upon gays onstage over the years -- from the alcoholic angst of The Boys in the Band to...

  • Love, Actually

    By on February 9, 2012

    As a result of the play Next Fall, Chris Dinolfo came out to his dad. ''I actually came out to my dad and my stepmom...

  • Pride and Prejudice, now at Round House

    By on November 27, 2011

    Jane Austen’s world of desperate spinsters, determined bachelors, nosy neighbors, embarrassing relatives and a smarmy cad or two is brought to life in this adaptation...

  • Amadeus at Round House

    By on May 13, 2011

    Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning Amadeus (which became an Oscar-winning film) depicts the flamboyant genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his desperately...

  • Bountiful Journey

    By on March 23, 2011

    There's a key reason to see The Trip to Bountiful currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda and it's not what you might think. Or...

  • A Wrinkle in Time at Round House

    By on December 23, 2010

    Round House Theatre greets the season with A Wrinkle in Time, a show that talks about love and family with more humor and adventure than...

  • Time Warp

    By on December 8, 2010

    When writing his 1995 play Mojo, playwright Jez Butterworth could hardly have suspected that fewer than five years later a certain dentally challenged swinging super...