Monday, May 4, 2026
It is hard to think of saints as real people. They are ancient, holy, and remote from the lives that most of us lead. As a White Sox-loving kid growing up on the south side of Chicago, howev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:55PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2026
It was a dark and stormy night, but the lights of the theater marquee cut through the mist like a homing beacon: "City of Angels," at the Colonial Players. Inside, the usual suspects awaited…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2026
August Wilson's brilliant, 1987 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning "Fences" graces the stage at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and we thank them for it. This powerful play is the sixth present…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:58PM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2025
We use Charles Dickens' seasonal staple "A Christmas Carol" to remind ourselves to appreciate the things we take for granted and that redemption for our transgressions may just be possible. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Compass Rose Theater's production of "Pride and Prejudice" is a sweet treat that will erase the stress of  a week of work and news. Written by Jane Austen in 1813 and adapted here by Emma…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
 Directed by Debbie Barber-Eaton at The Colonial Players, this production of "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors" (written in 2023 by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen in 2023) is silly, fast-p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2025
There are so many things to love about Jane Austen stories and characters. They are funny, ridiculous, and poignant without being sappy or sad; they are universally about women navigating li…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]"The Importance of Being Earnest," a comedy written in 1895, would seem to have little chance of remaining relevant or funny after so many years, but Oscar Wilde's brilliant play does just t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2025
"Much Ado About Nothing" is the latest delightful summer offering from Classic Theatre of Maryland in Annapolis. Written over 400 years ago, its messages, romantic dalliances, and intrigues …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
Written in 1599, Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is as accurate a portrayal of modern politics as could have been written today, with ambition, loyalty, cynicism, and betrayal all playing thei…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2025
"Museum," originally written in 1975 by Tina Howe, is a day in the life of a museum art exhibit"closing day, to be exact"and all the odd characters that pass through the gallery. The audienc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2025
"Proof," David Auburn's 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, is about a young woman's depression, sibling rivalry, mental illness, the death of her beloved father, and all she ga…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
Before seeing this latest offering at Baltimore Center Stage, it is hard to imagine how another version of "Pride and Prejudice" could add anything to what the 17 film adaptations and spinof…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2024
First produced in 2003, "Intimate Apparel" is based on the life of playwright Lynn Nottage's great grandmother, a Black seamstress who moves to New York City in 1905 to make a new life, star…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2024
The classic musical "Oklahoma!," the first collaboration between Richard Rogers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein (lyrics and book), opened on Broadway in 1943. The play is considered to have ch…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2024
The current production of "Big Fish" at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre (ASGT) was almost the one that got away. The first two scheduled performances had to be cancelled due to serious flood…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Classic Theatre of Maryland's production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a perfect slice of summer. Written around 1595, Shakespeare's comedy endures, with the help of the de…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2024
  People of a certain age will remember the movie on which the musical is based, but this production is not your grandparent's "Young Frankenstein." Very loosely based on Mary Shelle…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Initially "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" seems like a tragic story about a boy and a dog. As the play opens, we see the body of a prone dog named Wellington pierced with…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2024
 Maryland Theatre Collective's production of "Falsettos" is an energetic, humorous, and intense rendition of the 1992 Tony Award-winning musical opera by William Finn and James Lapine, w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company often begins their shows with pre-show entertainment such as a mood-setting musical number or hymn. For this show, as the boisterous audience slowly files into…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
It would be difficult to put "Gypsy" on stage without a strong leading role"Ethel Merman's ghost is always waiting in the wings. Now playing at the Classic Theatre of Maryland, this producti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:26PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" now playing at Compass Rose Theater is a delightful and moving production. This 2005 Tony Award-winning musical (written by Rachel Sheinkin, musi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
"The Oresteia," now playing at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, is based on a Greek trilogy written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE. Although the idea of Greek tragedies may be daunting, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
A world premiere adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" has taken the stage at Classic Theatre of Maryland. Written by Artistic Director Sally Boyett and Laura Rocklyn and directed …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2024
A Shakespeare play in old English is a challenge under any circumstances, but performing a 428-year-old comedy with actors under the age of 18 is particularly impressive. Children's Theatre …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]The idea for the multi-media presentation now playing at Greenbelt Arts Center grew from a desire to make it possible for immunosuppressed actors to participate in theatre during Covid. The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2024
Little Orphan Annie is an American icon, starting with a 19th century poem and a more relevant comic in 1924. The musical "Annie" arrived on Broadway in 1977, winning seven Tony Awards, incl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Compass Rose Theater's production of "The Gin Game," directed by Rick Wade, is an intense, two-hander that will hold your attention to the last minute. Written by D.L.Coburn, this 1977 play …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 20, 2023
A wonderful break from traditional holiday classics could be found in "Home for the Holidays: A Cabaret," a little gem produced by the Maryland Theatre Collective that had the air of a pop-u…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2023
The audience arrives in Baltimore, decked out in red, black, and sequins and is expecting to be entertained. "Moulin Rouge! The Musical""the touring, Tony Award-winning Broadway show with a …
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