Review: AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES AT Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
by Lisa A. Crayton - February 20, 2026
Strike one! Troy Maxson is at bat ready to hit a homerun in the game of life. What could possibly go wrong for the former Negro League baseball player in 1950’s Pittsburgh? Lots!...
Review: DAWN at the Everyman Theatre
by Tina Collins - February 13, 2026
In DAWN, the luminous world premiere by Tuyết Thị Phạm, now on stage at the Everyman Theatre , the ordinary becomes sacred. A kitchen table transforms into an altar. A cup of tea becomes an invocation. Silence stretches into something holy. What unfolds is not simply a story, but a ritual of...
Review: A Realistic and Involving STEREOPHONIC at National Theatre
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 11, 2026
History will record that in 1976, a rock group named Fleetwood Mac, three men and two women, three Brits and two Americans, congregated with an engineer and staff at a recording studio in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, to begin recording a new album....
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - February 06, 2026
When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby danced its way off the page and into the American consciousness, it became one of the defining portraits of the hedonistic, halcyon Roaring Twenties. ...
Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN at Vagabond Players
by Tina Collins - January 14, 2026
This gem of a production is a perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the blockbuster that started it all....
Review: WICKED at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - December 22, 2025
For the last couple of years or so, theatre nerds everywhere have been besotted with the film version of the hit musical Wicked. After the debut of the first installment, anticipation only grew for Part Two, which dropped this past November. But amid all the brouhaha and ballyhoo over the cinematic ...
Review: DECEIVED at Everyman Theatre
by Tina Collins - December 17, 2025
Christmas is the season for goodwill, warm hearths, and ghosts, real and imagined. Dark days and chill nights conjure tales of things tapping at the window or lingering in the shadows. ...
Past Shows
From East, Like the Sun
Jan 9 – Jan 25, 2026
How can we break the cycle that compels immigrants and their children to leave homes and families in search of security? From East, Like the Sun follows two generations...
Honey Bee Baby
Jan 4 – Jan 26, 2025
Melisa is a kind-hearted follower of rules. She desperately wants a child, if only she could pass the government mandated test that will allow her...
Marjorie is Dead
Jan 21
Last read by RLP in 2022, this is a new revision to Priyanka Shetty's side-splitting drawing room farce Marjorie is Dead. The once-opulent Tilbury estate...
How the F am I Pregnant?
Jan 14
A brand new, explosive play by Tess Huth, its full title is How the Fuck am I Pregnant, Or, a Trans Virgin Mary's Tale.It's been...
Serious Adverse Effects
May 7 – May 23, 2021
World premiere play by Derek Lee McPhatter Workshopped in 2018 at the National Black Theatre, New YorkLive performances offered both in-person and onlineAn unconventional scientist...
Give Me Moonlight
Feb 7 – Feb 16, 2020
Rapid Lemon Productions opens its 2020 season with "Give Me Moonlight" by local playwright Ariel Mitchell, appearing at Motor House February 7 16, 2020. It's...
"Proxy" by Alex Reeves and Nell Quinn-Gibney - a world premiere play
Oct 11 – Oct 20, 2019
Artificial intelligence, genuine grief, and a patchwork family. When we die, who cares for those we leave behind?Rapid Lemon Productions concludes its 2019 Season of...
"Crusade" by Bruce Bonafede
Aug 9 – Aug 18, 2019
It is the future. The takeover of the federal government by Christian fundamentalists has led to civil war. On patrol in the Rocky Mountains, a...
Variations on Myth
May 10 – May 26, 2019
The 2019 Variations Project on stage this MayA group of 12 world premiere short plays by local authors15th annual production of the regions original ten-minute...
Thank You, Dad
Jan 11 – Jan 20, 2019
In a South American jungle in 1978 The Reverend Jim Jones ordered the deaths of over 900 members of his Peoples Temple in the largest...
Variations on Sacrifice
Aug 3 – Aug 19, 2018
Rapid Lemon Productions will present Variations on Sacrifice this summer as part of their 2018 season. A full production of 11 ten-minute plays appearing for...
Palindrome
May 11 – May 20, 2018
Rapid Lemon Productions presents PALINDROME - a pair of one-act plays exploring the lives and careers of two great American artists. "Sphere" is a contemporary...
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