Saturday, July 25, 2020
Maryland’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
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Long a mainstay of the Baltimore community theater landscape, Fells Point Corner Theatre has been on quite a roll recently – delivering knockout productions like Jez Butterworth’s Jerus…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PMSunday, July 7, 2019
Readers of DC Metro Theater Arts who are District-based are likely already familiar with immersive theater. Companies like TBD Immersive have recently begun presenting in nontraditional spac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMSunday, June 30, 2019
Not to be confused with the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (1993-2011), the current “BSF” – Baltimore Shakespeare Factory – has another hit on its hands with their new production o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:29PMSaturday, June 22, 2019
It’s the mid 1980s. The Oval Office is occupied by a former movie star, Al Gore has yet to create the Internet, and an aspiring actor from Alabama named Robert Harling has lost his younger…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22PMSaturday, May 25, 2019
As the middle section of Caleen Sinette Jennings’ “Queens Girl Trilogy,” Queens Girl in Africa is presented in rotating rep with the first piece, Queens Girl in the World (read our …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PMMonday, April 15, 2019
After three – count ‘em, three – local productions of Blithe Spirit during 2018, Maryland audiences are well aware of the fact that it takes more than fear of Christmas to make a Noë…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMMonday, April 8, 2019
There are times when the theater takes daring artistic risks, asks uncomfortable questions, and exposes the darkest truths about our institutions and ourselves. We love the medium for that. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36PM 
