Friday, February 14, 2020
Hello, you munchkins out there. Do I have news for you! One of the most endearing and enduring Broadway musicals of all time, the touring production of “Wicked,” is making its fourth sto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:42PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Several weeks ago, Christopher Hefty, the facilitator for the Columbia-based Rainbow Youth and Allies (RYA), asked the members how they could help the first ever LGBTQ Pride celebration (HoC…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:57PMSunday, February 17, 2019
It may as well have been a 1980’s rock concert sans illegal substances: mind-blowing, hand-clapping rock music with an infusion of metal; multi-hued strobe lighting; fog effects; and an au…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:35PMMonday, September 17, 2018
Nearly 20 years ago, a 21-year-old gay college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, robbed, beaten, pistol-whipped, tied to a fence and left to die on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyomi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04PMSunday, July 15, 2018
Patrons entering the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab at Olney Theatre Center expecting to see a traditional set specifically designed for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:34PMFriday, March 23, 2018
Newsies, just opened at Toby’s Dinner Theatre, takes us back to 1899 New York City, when newspapers were sold on street corners by impoverished newsboys to people who trusted the ̶…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:08PMSunday, February 18, 2018
When I first saw the term “10 Hairy Legs” I thought we were talking about a mutant spider. Then I learned it is the name of an all-male, New Jersey-based repertory American modern dance …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMMonday, January 29, 2018
When Iron Crow Theatre’s Artistic Director and CEO Sean Elias chose to dub the 17-18 Season as the “Season of Identity,” he must have had Caryl Churchill’s “Cloud 9” in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:17AMMonday, October 16, 2017
Wouldn’t you like to escape for a couple of hours from the current tumult in the world and head back to the 1950’s when polio shots were mandatory, kissing with tongue seemed like hittin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17PMSunday, October 1, 2017
Sometimes history has a way of repeating itself. Imagine a musical from 80 years ago having relevancy in the present. That is the focus of Iron Crow Theatre’s presentation of “The Cr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:40PMSunday, September 10, 2017
Qué gran espectáculo! Any successful musical offers at least one great moment for audiences to remember. Kicking off the 2017-18 Season, the Olney Theatre Center partnering with the Roun…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:24PMSunday, August 20, 2017
The Beth Tfiloh Community Theater (BTCT), in its 9th season, has shown a recent liking for musicals that have plays within the musical. Last year’s lively production of “Man of La Manc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57PMMonday, July 24, 2017
Olney Theatre Center’s black box theatre has been configured into a 150-seat college lecture hall with a sign on the rear of the stage wall reading, “Howard University Welcomes Thurgood …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:08AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan The concept of imagination was never more on display than…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:28PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
Without question, Shakespeare is an acquired taste. Many love his works; others not so much. But how many actually HATE Shakespeare? Well, in the hilarious musical “Something Rotten!” th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:59PMSunday, April 16, 2017
British author Terry Pratchett once wrote, “It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” In “The Magic Play” that is currently inhabiting the Mainstage at the Olney Theatre …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:18PMSaturday, April 1, 2017
“What’s the matter with kids today?” That was the question famously posed by Paul Lynde in the classic 60’s musical “Bye Bye Birdie.” In Iron Crow’s presentation of &…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:09PMMonday, March 20, 2017
Iron Crow Theatre, Baltimore’s only professional queer theatre company, announced its new season line-up on March 19 at a reception at the Motor House in Baltimore’s arts and ente…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:57PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Britain has always been given a bad rap—fairly or unfairly—for the taste of their food. If anyone had actually eaten Mrs. Lovett’s meat pies in 19th century London, you would see why.�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:35AMThursday, December 29, 2016
There are different ways to climb the social ladder. There are different ways to rise above others to get rich. But killing your competition? Eight of them, in fact? That’s a whole dif…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AMFriday, December 9, 2016
The holidays couldn’t arrive soon enough for many folks, and the spirit of Christmas in more ways than one is alive and well at Toby’s, the Dinner Theatre of Columbia. Charles Dickens’…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:02PMSaturday, December 3, 2016
“Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you’re riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some du…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
It could have just been a concert that played The Four Seasons’ numerous hits and the audience would have been enthralled. Yet, “Jersey Boys,” kicking off the 2016-17 season as…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:17PMMonday, September 19, 2016
One could only imagine the horror, the terror and the heartbreak experienced by those who suffered and perished during the Holocaust. We are reminded of those atrocities through personal acc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:42PMMonday, August 22, 2016
If my memory serves me correctly, and it’s been quite awhile, the Spanish Inquisition was not a pleasant period. There was an abundance of greed, cynicism, hostility, violence and yes, tor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMSunday, June 26, 2016
As we get immersed in the political season in the U.S., one should recognize that what we have here—divisive and often angry politics—is quite tame compared to other periods in ou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:23PMSaturday, May 21, 2016
How do you spell “Quirky”? Q-U-I-R-K-Y. Quirky. It would be one of the easier words to spell in the awesome production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Howard Community C…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 12, 2016
No matter our age, we can all enjoy a good fairy tale with a happy ending to brighten our lives. Pleasantly, the touring production of Beauty and the Beast produced by NETworks Presen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:24PMThursday, April 28, 2016
Like many successful musicals, Cabaret, which is now playing on the Hippodrome stage, entertains with excellent songs and staging, but navigates through a layer of darkness as part of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:26PMMonday, April 11, 2016
A perfect murder is hard to achieve. Lord knows I’ve thought about it. In Frederick Knott’s gripping play, Dial ‘M’ for Murder, which in 1954 was adapted to the screen with Alfred …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:21PMMonday, February 15, 2016
The saga of four choir members growing up in the “Buckle of the Bible Belt” and dealing with their sexuality forms the basis for Southern Baptist Sissies that is currently playing…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PM 
