Wednesday, December 6, 2023
‘Tis the season and, for many in Howard County, the holidays begin with Pro Cantare’s concert of Handel’s “Messiah.” There is nothing more traditional than standing for the “Hall…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:23AMSunday, November 19, 2023
When “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on Broadway in September of 1964, no one could have imagined the universal appeal and endurance the show would have. There have been thousands of produc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:14PMMonday, November 13, 2023
“R.U.R.” was written by the Czech writer, Karl Čapek, in 1920 when the world was still reeling from World War I and the Russian Revolution. Large companies aided by assembly lines, elec…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:19PMFriday, November 3, 2023
“Hazardous Materials” by Beth Kander opens this weekend, presented by Perisphere Theater. The play deals with the death of a Jane Doe who died in an apartment in Chicago. Jane Doe was a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:55PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
“R.U.R Rossum’s Universal Robots” was written by Karel Capek in 1920 and actually introduced the word robot into our vocabularies. The play takes place in a factory that makes artifici…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:23PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
It has been fifty years since Maynard Jackson become the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Less than ten years since the Civil Rights Laws came into being and only a little o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:35PMIf you like zany comedies with a touch of mystery, you will thoroughly enjoy “The Play That Goes Wrong” written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and directed by Alex Camp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:20AMFriday, September 29, 2023
The Candlelight Concert Society will be presenting the world acclaimed piano quartet, Fauré Quartett, on Sunday October 1, 2023. The program will consist of Gabriel Fauré’s music, “Son…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29AMMonday, September 25, 2023
Silver Spring Stage has become a performing arts landmark in their community and it was great to come back to the newly-renovated theatre now that outside construction has ended. It was also…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:10PMLaurel Mill Playhouse is currently presenting “The Play That Goes Wrong” by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields. It is produced by Maureen Rogers and directed by Alex Campbell.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:48PMMonday, September 11, 2023
For those of us who remember September 11, 2001, our lives were immeasurably affected by those attacks. This was especially true for those in the Mid-Atlantic states where many lost love one…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:53PMTuesday, September 5, 2023
On September 8, 2023 “Out of the Vineyard” by Psalmayene 24 will open at Joe’s Movement Emporium in conjunction with the Freedom Stories Initative. The play is directed and choreograph…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:55PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
Some theatrical productions are just plain fun. You don’t have to worry about deep meanings or subtleties of the plot. The protagonists are very likable, and the villains are, well, just v…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:23PMTuesday, August 15, 2023
Fifty years ago in 1973, Maynard Jackson became the first Black mayor of the city of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first Black to become a mayor of a major Southern city. It began a new era…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:25PMSunday, August 13, 2023
The Bowie Playhouse Theatre will be the site of a new production by playwright, Shekeia Cowan. Ms. Cowan not only wrote the play “The Delicate Flower,” but along with Assistant Director …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:49AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
The music and dance of West Africa are part of the fabric of life there. Just walk down a street, and the sounds and beats somehow seem to fill the air. So it is no wonder that music of one …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:22AMFriday, July 14, 2023
Beginning on July 14, 2023, Sisters Freehold will be presenting “The Code Switch,” at Baltimore’s Theatre Project. This world-premiere play is written and directed by Shakill Jamal. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:07PMFriday, June 30, 2023
“Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville” is a jukebox musical where the book by Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley is secondary to the music and lyrics of the popular singer, Jimmy Buff…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:19PMTuesday, June 27, 2023
Howard County Summer Theatre is currently presenting the classic musical, “Hello, Dolly!” The show opened almost 50 years ago on Broadway with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:40PMThe pride of Disney’s musicals has roared into the Kennedy Center with all of its magic. Based on the 1994 the smash animated film produced by Disney Studios, the stage version of “The…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PMFriday, June 9, 2023
Iron Crow Theatre is a bastion for the queer community in the Baltimore area. Their performances “explore and celebrate that which is queer” rather than define the term for others. It al…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:03PMWednesday, May 24, 2023
On May 20, 2023, Maestro Jason Love conducted the Columbia Orchestra for the last time in his long tenure as Musical Director and Conductor. It was a perfect sendoff performance which includ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:29PMMonday, May 8, 2023
On Saturday, May 6, 2023, Columbia Pro Cantare performed its last concert of the season, “American Tapestry,” conducted by Laura Lee Fischer at the Jim Rouse Theatre in Columbia. Sadly, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:48PM“The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee” at Laurel Mill Playhouse is produced by Maureen Rogers and, with direction by Michael Hartsfield, you know you will be seeing a polished show…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:55PMThursday, May 4, 2023
“Falsettos,” a pop-opera with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by William Finn and James Lapine, is Rep Stage’s swan song at Howard Community College. It is directed and chore…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:24AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
On April 23, 2023, the Candlelight Concert Society presented “Music Under Tyranny” performed by the Jerusalem Quartet. The program featured three composers—Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Sho…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:00PMIn 1977, Frances Motyca Dawson had a vision of bringing choral music to Columbia, Maryland. Since then, as Columbia has grown to the second largest city in Maryland, CPC has become an integr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:32PMRep Stage was founded in 1993 by Valerie Lash at Howard Community College. It has been the only theatre in residence at a community college in the country. Its professional casts and creativ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:21PM“The World Goes ‘Round – The Music of Kander & Ebb” is a revue of the music of the prolific team of Kander & Ebb (“Cabaret” and “Chicago” being the most successful) t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:45PMMonday, April 17, 2023
“Inbox Zero,” a monodrama presented by UrbanArias, will be performed as a live stage reading at the Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C. on May 4, 2023. UrbanArias was founded in 2010 by G…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:21PMThursday, April 13, 2023
The Candlelight Concert Society will be presenting the Jerusalem Quartet at the Horowitz Center at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD on Sunday, April 23, 2023. The concert is called �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38PM 
