Wednesday, April 17, 2024
“Prohibition and the Roaring ‘20s,” co-produced by Schirmer Theatrical/Greenberg Artists, was an interesting program of music, vocals, and visuals recalling the era of bathtub gin, spe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:52PM“The Hot Wing King,” by Katori Hall, premiered off-Broadway at the Manhattan Signature Theatre in 2020. Due to Covid restrictions, it had a limited run but won the Pulitzer Prize for Dra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PMFriday, April 5, 2024
“Beauty and the Beast” marks the first time Disney produced one of its own film adaptations for the Broadway stage. The book by Linda Woolverton is adapted from the 1991 animated musical…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:59PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Hubba Hubba” marks the return engagement of the 2023 production by Alex and Olmsted, puppeteer performance artists Sarah Olmsted Thomas and Alex Verdon, with lighting by Tori Munoz. They d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:37AMSunday, March 24, 2024
One of the first documented book clubs was formed by Anne Hutchinson aboard a ship bound for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634 in order to discuss sermons on Puritan beliefs Although book…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:34PMFriday, February 23, 2024
“Peter Pan” is a musical based on a 1904 play, “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” by Sir James M. Barrie and his subsequent 1911 novel, “Peter and Wendy.” The play…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:14PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
Congratulations to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for programming a most interesting evening of music exploring the ever-translucent boundaries between classical and popular music in the c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:50PMMonday, February 5, 2024
“Crumbs from the Table of Joy” is one of the earliest plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lynn Nottage. The play premiered off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre in 1995 as part of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AMSunday, January 28, 2024
“A Chorus Line” is an iconic musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. The Broadway production ran for approximately …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:16PMSunday, January 14, 2024
This BSO Pops concert features actress/singer Capathia Jenkins with back-up singers Rajdilari, Randy Chalmers, and Sydney Brooke Harper, in a program of rhythm and blues covers of well-known…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:41PMSunday, December 10, 2023
“Dial M For Murder,” by British playwright Frederick Knott, premiered both on Broadway and in London’s West End in 1952. The initial production, featuring Maurice Evans, Anthony Dawson…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PMSunday, December 3, 2023
The character and story of Cinderella has a long tradition and many variants. In the first century A.D., the Greek geographer and historian Strabo reported an ancient Egyptian oral folk tale…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:18PMFriday, November 24, 2023
“Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical” (originally titled “Here’s Love”), with music, book, and lyrics by Meredith Willson (“The Music Man”), premiered on Broadway in 1963 and i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PMSunday, November 12, 2023
“Broadway Legends” is a superb evening of musical theatre songs from over the past 90 years. The performers all have extensive Broadway performance experience. Tenor Hugh Panaro holds th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:30PMThursday, October 26, 2023
“Funny Girl” is the musical story of Fannie Brice, an early 20th century star of film, stage, and radio, who specialized in zany comedy. The original production premiered on Broadway in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
President and CEO of the BSO, Mark Hanson greeted the audience and, in recognition of the human loss and suffering in Israel and Gaza, the orchestra performed John Williams’ “Elegy,” a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
Michael Cavanaugh is an actor, pianist, and vocalist focusing on the American rock ‘n’ roll canon. He was chosen by Billy Joel to star in the Broadway musical “Movin’ Out” and rece…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:25PMSunday, September 24, 2023
“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” is a jukebox musical written by Lanie Robertson. The setting is a cabaret bar in South Philadelphia in March 1959 in which vocalist Billie Holiday…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMMichael Feinstein, vocalist and pianist, is a music revivalist and archivist of the Great American Songbook. He is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Pasadena Orchestra and the Artistic Dir…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:40PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
“Sister Act” is a musical adapted from the popular 1992 film of the same name, with new music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and book by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, with additi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:31PMMonday, September 11, 2023
Henrik Ibsen’s three-act play, “A Doll’s House,” was published in 1879 in Copenhagen and sold 13,500 copies within the first three months. The world premiere at the Royal Theatre in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:26PMWednesday, August 9, 2023
The pre-Broadway national tour of “The Wiz” kicks off in Baltimore at the Hippodrome Theater from September 23-30, 2023, with a limited Broadway engagement planned for spring of 2024. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:11PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
This production was not what I expected—a play about the story of the two musicians, Chuck and Eva, and how their unusual friendship led to the development of an album of songs from the Gr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:34PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Directed by Signature Theatre’s Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner, with the Wolf Trap Orchestra conducted by Jon Kalbfleisch, Signature’s resident music director, “Broadway in the Par…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMSaturday, June 10, 2023
Disney Theatrical Productions faced a challenge when it decided to produce a musical stage version of their successful film. “Frozen” is based on the beloved Hans Christian Andersen fair…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:23AMMonday, May 1, 2023
Written by Mary Chase in 1944, “Harvey” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the following year. The original Broadway production ran for over four years (1,775 performances) and was directe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:09PMSunday, April 16, 2023
The musical “Grease” (music, lyrics, and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, with additional songs by John Farrar) has remarkably survived over 50 years of Broadway and West End prod…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:11PMSunday, April 2, 2023
Leslie Odom, Jr. (actor/singer/composer) has accomplished a lot in the first 25 years of a diversified career spanning many performance genres. He has appeared in leading roles on film and s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48PMFriday, March 24, 2023
Aretha Franklin (composer-singer-pianist), the “Queen of Soul,” had an astonishing six-decade career (1954-2017) during which she received 18 Grammy Awards and 44 nominations. She was th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:27PMMonday, March 20, 2023
John Dunton was the first known advice columnist. He answered questions sent to his British periodical “The Athenian Mercury” in 1690, with the assistance of experts in science, history,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:42PMMonday, March 13, 2023
“The Sound Inside” by Adam Rapp (novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, and film director) is directed by Everyman Theatre’s founder and artistic director, Vincent M. Lancisi, a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:52PM 
