Wednesday, November 9, 2022
One of the more adventurous theatre companies working in Maryland is Rogue Swan Theatre Company. Their latest production was the B-horror movie, musical homage, “Silver Scream,” creat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:04PMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Baltimore theatre is extremely fortunate that Rapid Lemon Productions, now in its 10th year, is providing a venue for original writing and nurturing diverse artistic expression. Their latest…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:54PMSunday, June 12, 2022
“Once on this Island” is a 1990 musical with music by Stephen Flaherty and book/lyrics by Lynn Ahrens—the writing team behind “Ragtime” and “Anastasia.” It is based on Rosa Guy…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PMThursday, March 17, 2022
Dear Ben Fisler, Last night I was at The Hippodrome Theatre for the National Tour of Dear Evan Hansen, starring Stephen Christopher Anthony in the title/lead role. I had heard only a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:27AMMonday, January 24, 2022
Shakespeare delivered with clarity, a diverse and sizable cast, Edwardian steampunk glamor, many laughs, and romantic charm awaits at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre. Opening a liv…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:06PMMonday, January 3, 2022
We are now two decades into the jukebox musical vogue, since the record-setting “Mamma Mia” premiered in 1999. Among the latest offerings in the genre is “Ain’t Too Proud,” a spect…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PMThursday, June 6, 2019
The In Series is a place for thought, debate, history, and innovation. With the noble goal to invigorate contemporary theatre, to create innovations in “opera and song,” to “reimagine …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:59PMMonday, July 23, 2018
The XY Players have a delightful option at this year’s Capital Fringe: a farce on show business titled Show Business 201. It’s essentially a romp through the training, rehearsal, and per…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17PMIamaman Productions, a start-up company focused on telling stories pertinent to African Americans, has chosen to present as its inaugural production, a tale of the recently-paroled 578 retur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:17PMFriday, March 23, 2018
Shrek is one of the most enigmatic modern musicals. A work of two of American theatre’s greatest living authors, David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, it has some outstanding moments; �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
From the moment you step into the graffiti-laced environment and make yourself comfortable among the sofas, lawn chairs, and lounge seats, you are surrounded by the aesthetics of a post-mode…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:14PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
If you’re looking for an escape, there’s a thoroughly entertaining performance of Charles Busch’s perennially popular parody of 1960s beach-blanket cinema that’s just what you need. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04AMMonday, November 28, 2016
Junie B Jones in Jingle Bells Batman Smells! is a charming piece of family comedy playing at Maryland Ensemble Theatre through January 1, 2017. The Fun Company takes on Allison Gregory’s a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMSunday, September 4, 2016
In 2013, Playwright Julia Jordan and Indie rock singer/songwriter, Juliana Nash (formerly with Talking to Animals), created a ground-breaking minimalist musical about a tragic love triangle.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Critics do our best to stay rational and objective, to reflect on the goals and execution of a given piece of theatre, and thus evaluate the work on its own terms, with as little of our pers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMFriday, July 8, 2016
The King’s Players are presenting an exploration of modern love and supernatural forces, by Founding Artistic Director Timothy R. King, at the Trinidad Theatre for the 2016 Capital Fringe …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:06PMBucky Mitchell, Jr. presents an intelligently written and thought-provoking new play at the Upstairs Theatre of the Logan Fringe Arts Space, a comedy reminiscent of the cerebral metatheatric…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMMonday, April 11, 2016
Thoroughly Modern Millie, a tale of a “modern” gal from small-town America who takes on the business and social world of big-city New York, is a popular choice for community theatre seas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PMSunday, January 31, 2016
Chekov is a challenge for even the most experienced and skilled artists of our profession. It is not merely that his characters are the most psychologically dense in drama (which they are), …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMSunday, January 10, 2016
Like all David Ives plays, Venus in Fur is built on everyday life becoming fantasy, as the primary devices of drama, language, and character, systematically move from ambiguity, to instabili…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
It is said that there are four elements of flamenco: Cante, or voice; Baile, or dance; Toque, or guitar, and; Jaleo – audience participation. All were in full force at GALA Hispanic Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
Yellow Sign Theatre’s mission promises “pranks with a B-movie aesthetic” and low art, and usually they deliver productions that are unapologetic, kitschy fun. Surprisingly, however, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03PMSunday, September 20, 2015
In Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, there is an endless menu of farce devices, a beautifully carved and textured faux-marble façade (Daniel O�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:14AMSunday, August 30, 2015
What makes productions by Boom Theatre Company so valuable is that they bring to audiences, specifically those in Harford County, theatre that is truly cutting edge. The Journey of Thing T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AMSaturday, August 15, 2015
All the components of a phenomenal production march across the stage of the Sacred Heart School Auditorium for the Glyndon Area Players’ (GAP) 2015 summer musical: Shrek The Musical. There…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMMonday, July 13, 2015
The mission of AWol (A Way of Life) Productions is to “share the values of communities by collaborating, creating, and telling stories of the performing arts.” Its current production f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMFriday, July 10, 2015
Bob Lohrmann brings Wally K. Daly’s monodrama, a two-sided exploration of the world of Catholic confessionals, to the Capital Fringe this year. The play is a thoughtful, entertaining, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMSunday, May 24, 2015
You have only one more weekend to catch one of the most interesting pieces of theatre in Baltimore, a tragic parody of the plight of the B-horror screenwriter longing to create art. Mike Jan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:57PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
Director/Book writer Kwame Kwei-Armah showcases the three most productive years of Bob Marley’s career (1975-78) in a jukebox musical experience nearly as electric as the legend and his Wa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AMSaturday, April 18, 2015
Director Ian Gallanar, and his cast and crew have thoroughly delivered on the promise of a “lusty, fiery production” of the classic tale of woe, that of Juliet and her Romeo. In fact, wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMSaturday, April 11, 2015
Director Deb Gottesman and Musical Director Buzz Mauro could not have chosen a better piece for The Theatre Lab’s “Creating a Musical Role” class than the Marsha Norman/Lucy Simon musi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:06PM 
