sPRING AWAKENING

“Director Alan Paul’s bold, effervescent revival of Spring Awakening isn’t afraid to paint with broad brushstrokes. That much is apparent before the audience hears even a single guitar riff in Round House Theatre’s revival of the rock musical. Just the sight of Adam Rigg’s set, with its sprawling mural of Adam and Eve hanging over a worn, lime green stage, cues Paul’s ambitions. The staging lives up to the rebellious heart of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s 2006 musical, which was adapted from German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play…Paul ultimately wields his committed cast with an uncanny understanding of how to craft spectacle that lingers.”

“Spring Awakening, the turbulent rock-musical about teenage sexuality, is being given new life at Round House Theatre. Round House stages a surprising and skillful production of this roller-coaster of a show.”

“Director Alan Paul has had a very busy few months, following his transporting Peter Pan and Wendy at the Shakespeare Theatre Company with an utterly different view of growing up, Spring Awakening, in a blistering production at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland.”

“Round House Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening is ultimately a thought- provoking, sensitively wrought treatment of a rite of passage we all have or will face, and draws impressive performances from a cast of young actors with long careers ahead of them.”