Thursday, December 24, 2020
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays. Ba…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:15PMSaturday, December 5, 2020
A little over 200 years separate the publications of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” and its theatrical successor, “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” by L…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:23PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is preparing to open their 2020-21 season with a third entry in the “Queens Girl” trilogy by Caleen Sinnette Jennings. Consistent with the two earlier prod…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:16PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
Erik Satie’s “La 1ère Gnossienne” — usually considered a quietly contemplative, slightly melancholy piece of music — is rendered positively spooky in the skillful hands of Soun…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:19PMSaturday, October 3, 2020
The upcoming tenth season of Baltimore’s Rapid Lemon Productions features a trio of world premiere presentations, with performance schedules expanded to three weeks. In keeping with the co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Conceived, produced, and directed by Troy Burton, “A Real “N***a” Show” is a “choreopoem” performed by an all-male cast which tells stories about the experiences of Black men in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:39PMSunday, August 9, 2020
Actors of every stripe – professional, volunteer, and in-between – have made the Variations Project a highlight of Baltimore’s theatrical landscape each year since 2005. Rapid Lemon Pr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:41PMFriday, July 31, 2020
From established stage authors to wannabe first-timers, playwrights from all over the region are drawn each year to create a unique ten-minute play festival called The Variations Project. Fo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:15PMSaturday, July 25, 2020
“This is not a Zoom play.” From the ides of March to late July, the theater world has endured enough and evolved enough to have both developed and then tired of a whole new format: the Z…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:17AMMaryland’s annual ten-minute play festival The Variations Project returns for its 16th straight year with two collections of world premiere short plays by the region’s playwrights. Rapid…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05AMMonday, June 29, 2020
Baltimore Center Stage Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra released plans for an upcoming season, set to begin in January 2021. Four mainstage productions are planned: “The Swindlers: A Tru…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:27PMSunday, June 7, 2020
“Pandemics are Foul, Theater is Fair” Wyrd Sisters Shakespeare Society is an online performance group formed by several Shakespeare-loving friends in April of 2020 as an artistic respons…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:10PMSaturday, April 4, 2020
Ed Herendeen, Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival, announced via email yesterday that this year’s event has been canceled: On behalf of our staff: Peggy, Trent…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
In a press conference March 23rd, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced the availability of State funding to 501(c)3 designated non- profits. Organizations may apply for up to $50,000 to r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:48PMSaturday, March 14, 2020
These are the End Times. Everywhere, everything is closed, canceled, and abandoned. Our lives are inconvenienced at best, mortally disrupted at worst. Small businesses are hard hit. Arts-mak…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:47PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Audiences in Baltimore are extremely fortunate to have not one but two of the most accomplished HBCU theater programs within their City’s limits. On the east side is Morgan State Universit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
One of a pair of older contemporary plays by female authors to open in Baltimore recently (see our review of Fabulation at Strand Theater), Paula Vogel’s “The Mineola Twins” is a pre-#…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:00AMSunday, February 23, 2020
We’re all thoroughly familiar with the rags-to-riches story. It’s as essential to the vocabulary of plot dynamic as boy-meets-girl. And, just like the latter, it has given birth to corol…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:42PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Maryland’s original ten-minute play festival held its annual kick-off party February 8th at Motor House in Baltimore. At the event, artists of every stripe got together to explore this yea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:38PMFriday, February 7, 2020
The Variations Project is Baltimore’s original ten-minute play festival. Each year since 2005, the event has created a diverse collection of world premiere plays through an inclusive and c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:42AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
During the run of the company’s 2020 season-opening show “Give Me Moonlight”, Baltimore’s Rapid Lemon Productions invites audiences to a staged reading of Sarah Cosgrove’s new play…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:48PMThere’s a new America on the way. Maybe. First, though, there’s a slew of problems: a tainted inheritance, bones in the walls, and the locksmiths are coming to take away our guns. In the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:44PMMonday, January 27, 2020
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Ariel Mitchell is a young playwright from Maryland whose star is on the rise. Her play Give Me Moonlight receives its world premiere in Baltimore by Rapid Lemon Productions. We caught up wit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:29PMThursday, January 23, 2020
...a gifted, energetic ensemble and a crack production team
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:04PMSaturday, January 18, 2020
Any time a new performing arts venue is introduced into the landscape, independent theatre companies eagerly take notice. One such spot opened early last year in the Hamilton-Lauraville neig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40AMSunday, January 12, 2020
Autumn Koehnlein can’t find her car keys. Michael Makar may or may not know something about that. In pig Latin. Alliterative dreams of blackberries, butterflies, and ballet combine with a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMFriday, January 10, 2020
Rapid Lemon Productions opens its 2020 season with “Give Me Moonlight” by Maryland playwright Ariel Mitchell, appearing at Motor House February 7 – 16, 2020. It’s is the fictionalize…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58AMSunday, December 22, 2019
Gaines' boiled-down adaptation of Kurosawa delivers the feast with most of its trimmings in under an hour; and with a cast consisting only of Gaines himself.
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:46AMSunday, December 15, 2019
Not every December stage production in Maryland is holiday-themed. In fact, some of our best companies are doing some of their best work with shows that would promise absolute delight no mat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:43PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
