Wednesday, October 5, 2022
When Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention organizer and cultural historian, Martin Grams, invited me to this year’s convention that was held September 15-17, 2022 in Hunt Valley, MD, he told …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:39PMMonday, August 29, 2022
Travelers to Pennsylvania Dutch Country will find an entertaining, top-notch production of the musical “Chicago” at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster, PA. In this highly popula…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMThursday, August 11, 2022
“You don’t need to know about Monty Python to enjoy the show,” director and choreographer Mark Minnick tells us. “Monty Python’s Spamalot’ is fun on its own.” This is likely…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMDirected by Jason Vellon, “The Drowsy Chaperone” is a stunning outdoor production at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre. It is both a satire and a celebration of 1920s musicals. Part of the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:21PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Many dinner theatres run primarily on popular musicals. Patrick A’Hearn, producing artistic director of Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia, challenges thi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:31PMSunday, July 31, 2022
Many of us travel to vacation destinations during the summer months. Audio plays are a wonderful way to pass the time, and two excellent, full-cast audio dramas from Sole Twin Audios fit the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58PMMonday, July 25, 2022
One day a prince was out disguised as a hunter. He found himself hungry and knocked on the door of a home in which a girl, who appeared to be a household servant covered in dust, kindly s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:46PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
“With one bound, the wolf was out of bed and swallowed up” Little Red Riding Hood; and so “the wolf had appeased his appetite.” Thus wrote the Brothers Grimm in their famous “grim�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38PMWednesday, June 15, 2022
The Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC ) is famous for its productions of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas and Viennese operettas. This time, the company changes things up with an opere…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:40PMMonday, May 30, 2022
Incandescent! This is the best description of Bel Cantanti’s production, led spectacularly by Dr. Katerina Souvorova. It is a dramatic staging of Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Die schö…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17PMFriday, April 1, 2022
In “Nathan the Wise,” the titular Nathan tells a tale of a unique opal ring which, when worn, causes the wearer to be beloved by both God and men. After passing through generations of ow…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:43AMMonday, February 28, 2022
New episodes of some of your favorite television shows from the 1960s and 1970s are happening! Such is the case with “Space: 1999,” “Doctor Who,” “Dark Shadows,” and “The Aveng…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:09PMSunday, February 13, 2022
On February 12, Maryland Opera offered its “Variant Valentine” program—a variety of Valentines with staples from the operatic and American musical theatre worlds. The program was live-…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:12PMSunday, December 26, 2021
“Miracle on 34th Street,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and several versions of “A Christmas Carol” are some of the most popular Christmas films. For its Christmas audio offering…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
With the holiday season ringing in, two Victorian mysteries by We Happy Few might be just the thing! You can spend New Year’s, Christmas, or Boxing Day (since this is a British subject) so…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:14PMThursday, December 9, 2021
Holidays celebrate tradition, but paradoxically offer vivid new experiences as well. Riverside Center for the Performing Arts captures this tension wonderfully in its current production o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:43PMMonday, November 29, 2021
There is a parade of trombones, the beat of snare drums, and a procession of young people in jaunty new band uniforms. We speak not of “The Music Man,” but instead another work by the sa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:42PMMonday, November 15, 2021
Toby’s current production of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” is a retelling of the beloved Bing Crosby-Danny Kaye 1954 motion picture, more recently revived as a Broadway and touri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:28PMSunday, October 31, 2021
For several years now, Rachel Pulliam has produced and directed audio productions for various podcast companies. We have enjoyed her fabulous productions of classic books and dramas of the m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:16PMSunday, October 24, 2021
Either the Darkness alters— Or something in the sight Adjusts itself to Midnight . . . These and other lines from Emily Dickinson’s poem, “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark,” introduce …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:31PMSunday, August 22, 2021
Fans of classic audio drama will be happy to learn that Sonic Summerstock Playhouse is here again in full swing! Whether one’s interest lies in mystery, drama, or thrillers, there is somet…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:21PMFriday, July 9, 2021
The 1648 victory of the “Roundhead” Puritan forces of Oliver Cromwell over the Cavaliers of King Charles I in England may seem an odd subject for an opera. Yet the event did command the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:25AMFriday, July 2, 2021
The Sound of Swing Orchestra is a 1940s-style big band which faithfully recreates swing-era staples such as Jimmie Lunceford’s “For Dancer’s Only,” Tommy Dorsey’s “Opus One” an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04PMThursday, June 17, 2021
“The System of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume” is the latest installment of the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air. While modeled on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The System of Doc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:34PMThursday, April 22, 2021
Multi-talented jazz vocalist and trombonist, Aubrey Logan, recently performed a fabulous, live-streaming concert, “The Standard Tour: Dreams,” from Austin, Texas, her adopted hometown. I…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:07PMThursday, March 25, 2021
Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ), founded and led by pianist Scott Bradlee, is a unique musical aggregation. It is a collection of largely young jazz musicians and vocalists who perform contemporary…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:34AMWednesday, March 10, 2021
The Steve Cooper Orchestra offers a wonderful window into the American musical past, playing ballrooms in the Chicago area and also sharing their music on CD recordings. Mr. Cooper is especi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMMonday, March 1, 2021
“Please, this way,” says Dr. Maillard, the rascally director of the mental institution in the latest National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air. “My next patient might seem quite… w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:29PMTuesday, February 16, 2021
Brent Morris is a mathematician, scholar of Freemasonry, and Sherlock Holmes aficionado who lectures on “The Adventure of the Dancing Men” and cryptology at the heart of the famous Sherl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:16PMThursday, February 4, 2021
The story of Hansel and Gretel is one of the most famous of Grimm’s fairy tales. The story has had many iterations through the years, notably Engelbert Humperdinck’s famous 1893 ope…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PMTuesday, January 26, 2021
In what it bills as its first film, Victorian Lyric Opera Company of Rockville, Maryland, has produced “A Gilbert and Sullivan Drawing Room.” Directed by Erica Ferguson with cinematograp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:56PM 
