Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The Baltimore-based National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air returns this month of December with Caroline Bennett’s superb adaptation of Poe’s story “Hop-Frog.” As usual in this s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:21AMSaturday, November 21, 2020
In anticipation of the holidays, PBS recently aired Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of “Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn” on its long-running Great Performances series. It i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:08PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
In both story and verse, Edgar Allan Poe tried to connect thoughts with sounds or, as he himself put it in “The Rationale of Verse,” “the very germ of a thought seeking satisfaction in…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:33PMFriday, October 23, 2020
Cultural historian Martin Grams’ annual October Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Maryland, with its film showings, radio recreations, and lectures on popular culture, was cancelled thi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:54PMThursday, October 8, 2020
“Romantic poetry is a progressive universal poetry. Its mission is […to] fill and saturate the forms of art with sterling material of every kind, and inspire them with the vibratio…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:59PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
In a series of Big Finish audio adventures of the legendary Time Lord “Doctor Who,” classic theatre sometimes comes to the fore. So was it in “The Mask of Tragedy,” which found the D…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
There was a time when home technology did not allow viewers to watch their favorite shows via DVD’s, VHS cassettes, video streams, or even 8 or 16 mm film. Instead, one read “tie-in” n…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:42PMSunday, August 30, 2020
Blackfriars Playhouse of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, has continued with its productions through the Coronavirus pandemic, streaming a complete playbill of its al…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:55PMSunday, August 16, 2020
Bandleader Joe Enroughty is known for leading two swing bands in the Virginia region. As suggested by the band’s name, his fourteen-piece Royal Virginians perform and promote the sweet-swi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:11PMMonday, August 10, 2020
For the past year, the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air has been creating brief, monthly audio plays based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Each audio play frames the story as…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 29, 2020
There are flutes “with trumpets blaring in . . . What a clashing, what a clanging,/ What a drumming, what a piping.” Thus reads one of Heinrich Heine’s poems, set to music with 15 othe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PMSaturday, July 25, 2020
Theatre aficionados are accustomed to the phrase “Dinner and a Show” to mean an enjoyable evening at a dinner theatre. For our purposes now, “Dinner and a Show” is the title of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13AMMonday, July 20, 2020
“How sad that Mozart, passionate as he was, keenly alive to all the beauties of the world, and full of the highest aspirations, never knew peace and contentment, in spite of all that he en…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:38PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
In Voltaire’s picaresque and satirical 1759 novel “Candide,” Candide and company make their way to El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. In 1849, at the peak of the California Gold Ru…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:50PMMonday, July 6, 2020
On July 3, the eve of U.S. Independence Day, the Eric Felten Jazz Quartet appeared at the Blues Alley Jazz Supper Club in Georgetown. The event showcased the swing music culture of the Secon…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:46PMWednesday, July 1, 2020
Charles Dickens is known as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, yet his interest in the theatrical is less widely known. During his later years, Dickens would take to the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:11PMMonday, June 22, 2020
An unusual operetta was to have been performed this month by the Rockville-based Victorian Lyric Opera Company – “El Capitan” by John Philip Sousa, an exotic romance by America’s “…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:28PMMonday, June 8, 2020
The monthly podcast series (heard on Baltimore’s WYPR and by Podcast on NPR) by the Poe Theatre on the Air is developing an excellent reputation, for it is not only dramatizing the famo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:37PMThursday, June 4, 2020
The television serial “Dark Shadows” originally aired between 1966 and 1971. The show was essentially a soap opera, but one with an unusual twist. Rather than following the tangled li…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:59PMThursday, May 21, 2020
“The Rise of King Asilas” is a fascinating, thought-provoking, audio series currently in its third season. The brainchild of JV Torres, who writes and stars as King Asilas, the show r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:07PMSunday, May 17, 2020
John Steinbeck on an Elizabethan stage? Blackfriars Playhouse, a recreation of a venue of Shakespeare’s time in Staunton, Virginia, shows how well this can work in its current production o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
“What clang was that, and doleful song,/ And rush of raven’s wing?” — Gottfried August Bürger, “Lenore” How does one continue an up-and-coming dramatic radio series in the era…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:37PMSunday, April 19, 2020
At Blackfriars Playhouse, we are nearing the end of its traditional Actors Renaissance Festival, in which the troupe of actors at the American Shakespeare Center stages a series of plays wit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:18PMThursday, April 16, 2020
Both the United States and Britain are currently “locked down” due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. With theatres on both sides of the Atlantic now closed due to public health concerns, the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PMMonday, April 13, 2020
As several theatres are now streaming performances due to the pandemic, Washington’s Folger Theatre is following suit, but with a difference: The Folger is streaming its older production…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:32AMFriday, April 10, 2020
A new radio horror series has developed based on the works of the Romantic Era writer Edgar Allan Poe. Appropriately enough, the show is produced and recorded in Baltimore, which was home …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PMFriday, April 3, 2020
“The Avengers” was a campy English 1960’s television spy series and is still remembered fondly today. While the show clearly placed itself within the James Bond 007 spy-thriller genre,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:08AMThursday, March 26, 2020
“Anything Goes,” courtesy of the Good Shepherds Players. The Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes” was to have run two weekends in March at Good Shepherds Players, part of the annual t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:08AMSunday, March 22, 2020
“The show must go on!” So runs an old dictum in the theatre world, but how do theatre companies survive and thrive in the era in which we find ourselves? Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:35PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
Bel Cantanti’s world premiere production of “Briscula the Magician” is magical indeed; it combines modernistic, often atonal, operatic music with political observations about the past …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:51PMThursday, March 5, 2020
The Puppet Co.’s current production of “Beauty and the Beast” is not a recreation of the 1991 Disney animated version, and there are no enchanted teapots and candlesticks to make chi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:52AM 
