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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Theatre Review: ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ at 2nd Star Productions by Rebecca Wyrick

If you’re in the mood for an evening of classic musical magic with a dash of mid-century nostalgia and a solid helping of Shakespearean double-entendres, check out 2nd Star Productions’ …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:49PM

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Theatre Review: ‘I Hate Hamlet’ at 2nd Star Productions by Rebecca Wyrick

Andrew Rally is an actor. John Barrymore is an ACTOR. Andrew is experiencing a career crisis, and John Barrymore is… well, dead. I Hate Hamlet follows Andrew, a popular television actor, a…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:41PM

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘The Tempest’ at Annapolis Shakespeare Company by Rebecca Wyrick

Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s production of The Tempest is fanciful in story, aesthetically pleasing in design, and acted with enthusiasm and a sense of humor. The Tempest tells the stor…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:42PM

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Coyote on a Fence’ at Colonial Players of Annapolis by Rebecca Wyrick

Colonial Players’ production of Coyote on a Fence features an unflinching ensemble of actors willing to bring depth and humanity to characters capable of inhuman acts of cruelty. The story…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AM

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Natural Novice’ at Charm City Fringe Festival by Rebecca Wyrick

In Natural Novice, now playing at Charm City Fringe Festival, writer-performer Siobhan O’Loughlin captures an all-too-familiar phenomenon— that feeling of a lifetime of self-evaluation f…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AM

Monday, September 16, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘A Young Lady of Property’ at Rep Stage by Rebecca Wyrick

Rep Stage’s A Young Lady of Property is an unobtrusive, atmospheric period piece that takes you back to a simpler time. Set in the 1920’s but written for television in the 1950’s, the …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AM

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Fringe Review: ‘Murder on the Bare Stage’ by Rebecca Wyrick

In Murder on the Bare Stage, actor Stephen Mead invites the audience to inhabit the minds of murderers and other vagrants, and to experience vicariously the thrills and perils of criminal li…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:06AM

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Fringe Review: ‘R.U.R.’ by Rebecca Wyrick

Karel Capek’s R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), playing at the Capital Fringe Festival, is a frantic cautionary tale of what happens when mechanical efficiency surpasses human intellig…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:42AM

Fringe Review: ‘Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000′ by Rebecca Wyrick

If you were to tell me 24 hours ago that the high point of my weekend would be watching a play with an incomprehensible plot, trashy topical humor, and characters that are like the imaginary…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:37AM

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Fringe Review: ‘Apotheosis’ by Avalanche Theatre Company by Rebecca Wyrick

Apotheosis, presented by the Avalanche Theatre Company at the Capital Fringe Festival, does not aim to tell a story, but to capture and worship the darkness and light of human emotion. The s…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AM

Monday, July 22, 2013

Fringe Review: ‘Moths’ by Rebecca Wyrick

Stephen Notes’ Moths, now playing at the Capital Fringe Festival and directed by Roma Rogers, is an exercise in self-expression masquerading as play about insects. Or rather, people who ma…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:24PM

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Frankenstein’ at Landless Theatre Company by Rebecca Wyrick

A Gothic-novel-turned-musical is good, but a Gothic-novel-turned-rock-opera is better. Landless Theatre Company’s Frankenstein is atmospheric and exciting, a surprisingly faithful adaptati…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:30AM

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Camelot’ at 2nd Star Productions by Rebecca Wyrick

The conception of the musical Camelot is like a set of Russian nesting dolls— it is an adaptation of an adaptation that was inspired by an adaptation of a legend. Lerner and Loewe based Ca…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PM

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