Mary Lincer

Mary Lincer (MA, Theatre Arts, Penn State) has directed more than 30 shows for schools and small professional theatres in Washington, DC and State College, PA. She was one of 30 teachers selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Shakespeare: The State of the Art. She’s worked as a Dramaturg for Arena Stage and has written study guides for The Kennedy Center as well as Troika, NetWorks, and OFT-ON Productions. She wrote the brochure for the 75th Anniversary of the Warner Theatre. She’s introduced classic films on camera locally on WNVT and written theatre reviews for The Washington Blade. From 2004-2009, she taught theatre history and acting for musical theatre with US Performing Arts Camps. During 2002, Lincer served as a nominator for The Helen Hayes Awards and subsequently served as a judge from 2004-2006 and again from 2008-2009. She has coached professional actors since 1993 and frequently offers monologue and Shakespeare workshops along with Scene Study and musical theatre classes with The Actors’ Center of Washington.






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Review: MIGRAAAAANTS OR: THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS DAMN BOAT! at ExPats Theatre
Review: MIGRAAAAANTS OR: THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS DAMN BOAT! at ExPats Theatre
March 17, 2024

What did our critic think of MIGRAAAAANTS OR: THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS DAMN BOAT! at ExPats Theatre?

Review: THE CHER SHOW at Capital One Hall
Review: THE CHER SHOW at Capital One Hall
February 17, 2024

What did our critic think of THE CHER SHOW at Capital One Hall?

Review: Stephen Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Keegan Theatre
Review: Stephen Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Keegan Theatre
February 6, 2024

What did our critic think of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Keegan Theatre?

Review: Audra McDonald in Concert with The National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Review: Audra McDonald in Concert with The National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center Concert Hall
January 31, 2024

Audra McDonald has (at least) four voices--Broadway, jazz, opera, blues--not to mention six Tonys. She brought them all (the voices, not the awards) to her two hour concert with the National Symphony Pops which repeats Wednesday evening, January 31.

Review: THE SEAFARER at Round House Theatre
Review: THE SEAFARER at Round House Theatre
December 12, 2023

What did our critic think of THE SEAFARER at Round House Theatre? Five fine actors give excellent performances in Ryan Rilette's solid production of The Seafarer through December 31.

Review: MOSES at Theater J
Review: MOSES at Theater J
December 5, 2023

What did our critic think of MOSES at Theater J? The title character of Michele Lowe's 90 minute, one-man play, full name Moses Schneider, experiences a literal holocaust, not just a signal fire like that of the Biblical Moses. He then experiences a spiritual journey like the hero of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (The Tailor, Re-tailored) which takes him through a loss of faith, a period of indifference when he can't quite remember why he is both numb and grief-stricken, to a regaining of the possibility of peace.

Review: AN IRISH CAROL at Keegan Theatre
Review: AN IRISH CAROL at Keegan Theatre
December 4, 2023

What did our critic think of AN IRISH CAROL at Keegan Theatre?

Review: PUBLIC OBSCENITIES at Woolly Mammoth
Review: PUBLIC OBSCENITIES at Woolly Mammoth
November 19, 2023

What did our critic think of PUBLIC OBSCENITIES at Woolly Mammoth?

Review: DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY at Washington Stage Guild
Review: DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY at Washington Stage Guild
October 13, 2023

What did our critic think of DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY at Washington Stage Guild? During the course of E. M. Lewis' 75 minute play, librarian Dorothy Ross and high school student Zan Hardt get to know each other.

Review: MRS. DOUBTFIRE at Broadway at the National in DC
Review: MRS. DOUBTFIRE at Broadway at the National in DC
October 11, 2023

What did our critic think of MRS. DOUBTFIRE at National? Rob McClure did not win a Tony for his star turn on Broadway as Mrs. Doubtfire (he was nominated), but he will win your heart through October 15 at the National.

Review: MULAN at Opera House/Kennedy Center
Review: MULAN at Opera House/Kennedy Center
September 30, 2023

What did our critic think of MULAN at Opera House/Kennedy Center?

Review: EVITA at Shakespeare Theatre/Harman Hall
Review: EVITA at Shakespeare Theatre/Harman Hall
September 15, 2023

What did our critic think of EVITA at Shakespeare Theatre/Harman Hall? The two hour show packs 17 years of her life into a constantly moving, theatrical matrix including social, political, and women's fashion history which can often be quite affecting because Pimentel's acting finds simple moments of true emotion amid the bustle and action.

Review: SWEAT at Keegan Theatre
Review: SWEAT at Keegan Theatre
August 21, 2023

What did our critic think of SWEAT at Keegan Theatre? No matter what year an audience sees Lynn Nottage's (her second Pulitzer) Sweat, something will be going wrong someplace for some part of the American workforce.

Review: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND at Kreeger/Arena Stage
Review: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND at Kreeger/Arena Stage
July 22, 2023

What did our critic think of CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND at Kreeger/Arena Stage?

Review: SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY at Spooky Action
Review: SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY at Spooky Action
June 18, 2023

What did our critic think of SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY at Spooky Action?

Review: THE HUMOURS OF BANDON at The Atlas Performing Arts Center
Review: THE HUMOURS OF BANDON at The Atlas Performing Arts Center
June 3, 2023

What did our critic think of THE HUMOURS OF BANDON at The Atlas Performing Arts Center?

Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Eisenhower Theater
Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Eisenhower Theater
May 25, 2023

What did our critic think of THE CRUCIBLE at Eisenhower Theater? Choreographer Helen Pickett does in her ballet The Crucible just exactly what Arthur Miller attempted in his 1953 play, her source. Both try to make a new language to express the Salem witch trials of 1692 because those events were too extraordinary for regular English or garden-variety ballet.

Review: HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES at Tectonic Theater Project at Shakespeare Theatre's Harman Hall
Review: HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES at Tectonic Theater Project at Shakespeare Theatre's Harman Hall
May 12, 2023

What did our critic think of HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES at Tectonic Theater Project @ Shakespeare Theatre's Harman Hall?

Review: OPEN at Nu Sass
Review: OPEN at Nu Sass
April 29, 2023

What did our critic think of OPEN at Nu Sass?

Review: FINDING NEIL PATRICK HARRIS at Nu Sass
Review: FINDING NEIL PATRICK HARRIS at Nu Sass
April 17, 2023

What did our critic think of FINDING NEIL PATRICK HARRIS at Nu Sass? Whether or not Edmund Gwenn (he played Santa in Miracle on 34th St.) verifiably said on his deathbed that dying is easy but comedy is hard doesn't change the truth, and Donna Hoke's ninety-minute play Finding Neil Patrick Harris proves it. Somewhat thoughtful nevertheless, Finding Neil Patrick Harris considers promises, friendship, competition, the nature of both comedy and happiness, along with the role that being a fan of a TV celebrity can have in a life. Staged by Nu Sass in its 30-seat space, the scene changes run the risk of exhausting the actors, but there really is nowhere to put a stagehand.



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