Friday, September 14, 2018
On a rainy Saturday in September, I was delighted to be invited to a production at the Church Hill Theatre, one of the few theatres in the area that I had never visited. Intimate yet comfort…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PMSunday, May 6, 2018
I thought I knew everything about this show, but learned that there was much more I didn’t. I had no idea that “South Pacific” was based on a book of fiction by James A. Miche…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:14PMMonday, July 31, 2017
I was thrilled to be a part of a sold out performance of “Heathers: The Musical” presented by the Small Town Stars Theatre Company at the Carroll County Arts Council. Produced, D…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:22AMMonday, July 24, 2017
As a singer and fan of all things musical, I grew up with our family listening to Patsy Clines’s voice and songs. Until yesterday I just figured she had a long career given the impact …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Not since I saw David Hyde Pierce in “Curtains” have I laughed harder at a who done it hilarious musical murder mystery. This one required no travel and a lot sweeter to my walle…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:14PMThursday, May 4, 2017
Gilbert and Sullivan’s sarcasm for British hierarchy is evident in the comic operetta “H.M.S. Pinafore” now playing through May 21st at Laurel Mill Playhouse. Located in th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:25PMSaturday, January 9, 2016
On a cold January night, opening night at the Atlas Performing Arts Center begins the infamous Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival. This production runs from January 6th-24th. The At…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:16PMThursday, December 3, 2015
Seeing a production at Glen Echo is not your average day at the theatre. Glen Echo is a park, often used for education; it has centers where people can take glass fusing classes, theatre, le…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
I couldn’t think of a more perfect show for the Halloween season than Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, book by Hugh Wheeler! It was creepy, a little scary, and the intimate audie…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:30AMMonday, October 19, 2015
As most of the theatre aficionados from the Washington DC area already know, there are over 50 plays written by female playwrights being performed in the DC area this fall with the Women’s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:47PMSunday, October 18, 2015
As most of the theatre aficionados from the Washington area already know, there are over 50 plays written by female playwrights being performed in the DC area this fall with the Women’…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:40PMSunday, October 11, 2015
For two performances only, the Annapolis Chorale and a stage full of talented soloists graced Maryland Hall presenting Rogers and Hammerstein’s 1945 production of Carousel. The leads a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:23AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Part of Washington DC’s Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, Queens Girl In The World premiered on Monday night, September 21st to a cheering packed audience. This one woman s…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:33PMMonday, August 31, 2015
Theatre critic Wade Bradford sums up “The story of the play’s development is as fascinating as the creative product. In the late 1980s, Paula [Vogel]’s brother discovered h…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:47AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
The Addams Family, originally written by Charles Addams, delighted the 1960s television viewers with their unapologetic teasing of middle America. The musical, The Addams Family, Book by Mar…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:52PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Shakespeare, to me is as daunting as trying a new food, scary at first, but then thrilling when you realize that what you have been missing all these years is indeed delicious. Thus was my e…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Baby-The Musical played on Broadway for 283 runs between 1983 and 1984 and was nominated for 7 Tony awards. Yet I never saw it, I was in college at the time. I love this show and can’t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:00PMSaturday, June 27, 2015
On December 4th, 1956, one man brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together to play for the first and only time. His name was Sam Phillips… The place w…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:52PMSunday, June 14, 2015
The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players visited Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia this past weekend to perform Pirates of Penzance, one of the most beloved Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00PMTheater J presents The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch, on stage now in Washington DC at the Morris Cafritz Center of the Arts from June 3rd thru July 5th 2015. The autho…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:00PMThursday, June 11, 2015
Fiddler on the Roof graced Broadway in 1964, received nine Tony Awards, and was the first show I remember seeing at the age of 7. Zero Mostel played Tevye. There isn’t a time in my lif…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:35PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
Godspell is one of my favorite theatrical productions. Written by Stephen Schwartz this was his first musical followed by other successes such as Pippin, Wicked and Prince of Egypt. The fact…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMSunday, May 17, 2015
Music and Dance combine in this impossibly high energy ensemble of tap, big band, rap and beatboxing. The Performances for Young Audiences brings Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, titled to rem…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:28PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
The Washington Opera, presents Rossini’s Cinderella (La Cenerentola) at the Kennedy Center, performed in Italian with easy to read subtitles. The rags to riches story beloved by generation…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:56AMMonday, May 11, 2015
The collaboration between the music of Lee Pockriss and the lyrics of Anne Croswell, Ernest In Love at Colonial Players of Annapolis is a light musical comedy based on O…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:26PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is: A-W-E-S-O-M-E! Bravo to Kensington Arts Theatre’s performance of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This musical will be running fro…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
I had misgivings about this assignment. Murder in the Cathedral, directed by Lucinda Merry-Browne and written by Nobel Laureate T. S. Eliot, by its very title and author had somethin…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:07PMSunday, February 1, 2015
How is it that a musical so predictable, that you are having thoughts of your psychic abilities, can leave you so thoroughly enchanted, so completely mesmerized? This is the conundrum that w…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:12AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater presents Mockingbird, performed by Bethesda Maryland’s Imagination Stage brings a world premiere to the Kennedy Center. Hailed as “ex…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:33PMSunday, January 11, 2015
The Children’s Theatre of Annapolis presents The Wizard of Oz, initially an adaptation of the 1900 book, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” by L. Frank Baum. This musical adaptation…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:46AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
Directed by Donald Hicken, Lady Day at Emersons Bar and Grill is being featured at the Baltimore School for the Arts starring a brilliant and thoroughly believable, sultry, sexy Brittani Arl…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:15AM 
