Round House Theatre — Attraction in Bethesda

Nice facility with a fatal flaw. It's January 2023 and they still rigidly enforce a 100% face mask rule. Even the Chicoms, CDC, and President Biden have stopped, but not the self righteous staff of Roundhouse. We saw them evict three patrons who refused to wear masks. While they claim this is prominently displayed on their website, it is nowhere to be found in the ticket purchase area. You instead have to click on news, and scroll down to health and safety, click on that and find the outdated policy. Mind you, the theater loves to advertise how accepting and anti discriminatory they are, just not of those who disagree with their policy that is no longer backed by the CDC or any other health agency. Not prominent or sensible at all. Also, you cannot take food or drink to your seats. Overall an uncomfortable experience. Not...

Round House is one of the region's many outstanding nonprofit professional theaters, and the best in Montgomery County. They produce an increasingly ambitious mix of dramas, comedies, and musicals each season, and the productions are increasingly world class. It is really worth it to subscribe, because it's important to support nonprofit theater, because the benefits of being a subscriber are great, and because you will be thrilled that you did!

Seriously, it makes no sense that people pay crazy high prices to drive downtown to see a touring Broadway show in a place like the cavernous 2,000-seat Kennedy Center Opera House, with the production's 15th cast, when you can see often superior original productions in this intimate space where you really are immersed...

This is DC's equivalent of off-Broadway, I guess. It's in Bethesda, about half an hour drive from downtown. It's also metro convenient. It's a nice theatre!

I've seen some interesting shows here. A while back, I saw "The Smuggler", an Irish one-man play delivered from the bar by the "bartender". Surprisingly good and pretty unorthodox. I believe I saw a very good August Wilson play here, too.

Last night, I saw "The Tempest" and that was pretty unorthodox as well. I'd seen it recently at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA and I thought it was a very good production, but was performed like any other Shakespeare play. This, on the other hand, was co-directed by Teller and had lots of magic tricks performed by Ariel, and had Tom Waits songs. I...