The television serial “Dark Shadows” originally aired between 1966 and 1971. The show was essentially a soap opera, but one with an unusual twist. Rather than following the tangled li…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:59PM“The Rise of King Asilas” is a fascinating, thought-provoking, audio series currently in its third season. The brainchild of JV Torres, who writes and stars as King Asilas, the show r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:07PMJohn Steinbeck on an Elizabethan stage? Blackfriars Playhouse, a recreation of a venue of Shakespeare’s time in Staunton, Virginia, shows how well this can work in its current production o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PM“What clang was that, and doleful song,/ And rush of raven’s wing?” — Gottfried August Bürger, “Lenore” How does one continue an up-and-coming dramatic radio series in the era…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:37PMAt Blackfriars Playhouse, we are nearing the end of its traditional Actors Renaissance Festival, in which the troupe of actors at the American Shakespeare Center stages a series of plays wit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:18PMBoth the United States and Britain are currently “locked down” due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. With theatres on both sides of the Atlantic now closed due to public health concerns, the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PMAs several theatres are now streaming performances due to the pandemic, Washington’s Folger Theatre is following suit, but with a difference: The Folger is streaming its older production…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:32AMA new radio horror series has developed based on the works of the Romantic Era writer Edgar Allan Poe. Appropriately enough, the show is produced and recorded in Baltimore, which was home …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PM“The Avengers” was a campy English 1960’s television spy series and is still remembered fondly today. While the show clearly placed itself within the James Bond 007 spy-thriller genre,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:08AM“Anything Goes,” courtesy of the Good Shepherds Players. The Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes” was to have run two weekends in March at Good Shepherds Players, part of the annual t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:08AM“The show must go on!” So runs an old dictum in the theatre world, but how do theatre companies survive and thrive in the era in which we find ourselves? Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:35PMBel Cantanti’s world premiere production of “Briscula the Magician” is magical indeed; it combines modernistic, often atonal, operatic music with political observations about the past …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:51PMThe Puppet Co.’s current production of “Beauty and the Beast” is not a recreation of the 1991 Disney animated version, and there are no enchanted teapots and candlesticks to make chi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:52AMDuring the Romantic Age, composers in the German-speaking world set to music many of the era’s greatest poems in the German language. An outstanding example is “Dichterliebe,” or “…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:43AMIn the Mel Brooks’ film “The Producers” and the Broadway musical which it inspired, Max Bialystock, an erstwhile top Broadway producer, and Leo Bloom, a tax accountant living the kin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:58PM“Mary Stuart” – or more properly, “Maria Stuart” – is one of the key works of Friedrich Schiller and the German theatre, and audiences have a rare opportunity to experience this …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:24PMThe ancient Roman poet Ovid tells the tale of the sculptor Pygmalion who creates his ideal of a woman in the medium of a statue. In George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” and the Lerner and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:28PMRockville Little Theatre is a company with a varied repertoire. Their newest show is author John Bishop’s “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” a production that…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:05PMThe tale of Pygmalion, the master sculptor who creates a statue of his idolized woman Galatea and has Venus bring it to life, was told by the Roman poet Ovid in his work the “Metamorphoses…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:49PM“Charley’s Aunt” was a popular feature in the mid-twentieth century. It was a vehicle for comedy legend Jack Benny in a movie version, and it subsequently became a Broadway musical, �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:57PM“Miss Saigon” is deployed in its current tour of duty at the Kennedy Center, and it is nothing short of a magnificent victory — unlike the situation of the last days of the ill-fat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:40AMThis 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:14PMAnd 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMIt 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:05PMThe 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:02PMThe 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:24AMAre 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:00PM“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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