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 sp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:24PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:59PMTuesday, 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 hav…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:45PMWednesday, 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 f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:01AMTuesday, 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 he…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:12PMSunday, 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 Shel…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:39PMTuesday, 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 Lapin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:39PMMonday, 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 08:18PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:26PMMonday, 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, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41PMTuesday, 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 daunti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:03PMTuesday, 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 direc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:08PMMonday, 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 Theatr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:24PMThe 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 12:06PMFriday, 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, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26PMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:37AMWednesday, 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 p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PMThursday, 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 w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:09PMSunday, November 12, 2023
“I and You,” the award-winning play by Lauren Gunderson at Compass Rose Theater, is a poignant, moving work that will take you to unexpected places. Directed by Jerry Winters, it is perf…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:48PMMonday, November 6, 2023
Theatre AACC returns this season its production of “12 Angry Jurors.” The American classic, “12 Angry Men,” was written by Reginald Rose and adapted by Sherman L. Sergel as “12 Ang…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17AMSunday, October 29, 2023
Happenstance Theater’s “Cabaret Macabre” has returned to Baltimore Theater Project with a series of delightful vignettes that are dark, sometimes bloody, disturbing, and always funny. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
The Colonial Players have never shied away from unusual plays or difficult topics. Their latest offering, “Wit,” written by Margaret Edson, is a bracing, funny, and heartbreaking look at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:45PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
There are two sure things about the latest offering from Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC): “As You Like It” is a total delight and it is an excellent starting place for anyone shy ab…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:18PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
“Mean Girls,” a Talent Machine Company summer production at Anne Arundel Community College, is the perfect vehicle for taking us back—some would say— to a terrible time in our lives.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45AMThursday, July 6, 2023
“First Date” is a delightful night of summer entertainment in downtown Annapolis. It was written by Austin Winsberg with lyrics and music by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, and directed…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:13PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Although Shakespeare lived almost entirely under the reasonably stable reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the machinations and murders of previous princes, from Richard III to Henry VIII and all th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:07AMSunday, June 11, 2023
With the promise of presenting of all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes, it’s hard to imagine what to expect. Funny and irreverent certainly, but “The Complete Works of William S…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:34PMSaturday, May 13, 2023
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s production of “Hamlet,” directed by Eleanor Holdridge, is an energetic and familiar story filled with the perils of politics, loyalty, and love. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:04PMSunday, April 16, 2023
“Putting it Together,” a musical review of Stephen Sondheim’s songs, is a fast-paced, intimate portrayal of the bright and dark aspects friendship, marriage, and relationships. Loose…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45PMMonday, April 10, 2023
Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town” was written in hard times. The country was in the grips of the Depression; farmland was disintegrating into the dust bo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PM 
