Thursday, May 21, 2020
“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 03:07PMSunday, May 17, 2020
John 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 07:29PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
“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 04:37PMSunday, April 19, 2020
At 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 12:18PMThursday, April 16, 2020
Both 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 05:02PMMonday, April 13, 2020
As 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 09:32AMFriday, April 10, 2020
A 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 12:31PMFriday, April 3, 2020
“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 01:08AMThursday, March 26, 2020
“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 12:08AMSunday, March 22, 2020
“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 08:35PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
Bel 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 10:51PMThursday, March 5, 2020
The 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 12:52AMSaturday, February 15, 2020
During 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 10:43AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
In 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 04:58PMThursday, May 23, 2019
“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 06:24PMSaturday, March 30, 2019
The 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 05:28PMFriday, February 8, 2019
Rockville 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 02:05PMTuesday, January 1, 2019
The 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 08:49PMThursday, December 20, 2018
“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 02:40AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
This 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 07:14PMFriday, November 9, 2018
And 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 01:47PMMonday, November 5, 2018
It 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 09:05PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
The 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 08:02PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
The 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 11:24AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Are 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 07:00PMSaturday, October 6, 2018
“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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:40PM 
