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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Theatre Review: Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

This Christmas season, as in all others since its 1843 publication, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is in vogue. What makes this season perhaps a little different is that many ver…

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Friday, November 9, 2018

Opera Review: Rossini’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ by Annapolis Opera at MD Hall for the Creative Arts by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

And so Bugs Bunny, “The Rabbit of Seville” posing as a barber on the operatic stage, rubs the hair tonic “Figaro Fertilizer” on Elmer Fudd’s baldpate, and the latter reacts in comi…

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Monday, November 5, 2018

Theatre Review: ‘The Crucible’ at Silver Spring Stage by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

It is colonial Salem, Massachusetts, in the year 1692, at the height of the witchcraft hysteria. “If you refuse to answer this court, then by the Statute you will be condemned to have yo…

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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Theatre Review: ‘The Time Machine’ at Twin Beach Players by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

The Twin Beach Players have had a world premiere on their hands over the past few weeks – “The Time Machine” by Mark Scharf, based on the science-fiction novel by H.G. Wells. Wells w…

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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Theatre Review: Barnum by Heritage Players at Thomas Rice Auditorium by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

The past few years have not been kind to circuses. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus – the self-styled “Greatest Show on Earth” — closed recently after 146 years…

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Friday, October 26, 2018

Theatre Review: ‘Blithe Spirit’ at Other Voices Theatre by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

Are you ready for the ghosts of Halloween? Audiences generally think of ghosts today as ghoulish staples in terrifying stories and frightening films. Yet there was a time when ghosts wer…

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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Theatre Review: ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ at Aldersgate Church Community Theater by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

“On February 28, 1815, the three-masted Pharaon arrived at Marseilles from Smyrna, commanded by the first mate, young Edmond Dantès, the captain having died on the voyage. He had left…

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