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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Review: ‘The Speed Twins’ at Venus Theatre by Susan Brall

The Speed Twins by Maureen Chadwick is presently playing at Venus Theatre in Laurel Maryland. This is the National Premiere of the British drama and is directed by Deborah Randall who is als…

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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Review: ‘Moon Over Buffalo’ at the Laurel Mill Playhouse by Susan Brall

Moon Over Buffalo, written by Ken Ludwig, opened at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, directed by Larry Simmons and produced by Maureen Rogers. Moon Over Buffalo is a farce in the Shakespearean tra…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AM
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Review: ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ at Silhouette Stages at Slayton House by Susan Brall

The classic musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, danced and sang its way on stag…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PM
Friday, March 9, 2018

Review: ‘This Little Light’ at Venus Theatre by Susan Brall

This Little Light by Jennifer Faletto opened this week at Venus Theatre. Deborah Randall is the director of this remarkable play. In her director’s notes, Randall calls This Little Light a…

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Saturday, February 10, 2018

Review: ‘Titanic in Concert’ at the Heritage Players by Susan Brall

Titanic in Concert, story and book by Peter Sone, lyrics and music by Maury Yeston, opened this weekend at the Heritage Players at the Rice Auditorium in Catonsville. This 1997 Tony Award-wi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:28PM
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Interview: Jeremy Goldman on ‘Cabaret Night’ by Silhouette Stages at Slayton House by Susan Brall

The Silhouette Players are best known for their spectacular musical productions. However, every once in a while, they like to give some of their talented members a chance to shine on their o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PM
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Review: ‘Company’ presented by Fredericktowne Players by Susan Brall

Company, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, is now playing at the JBK Theater at the Frederick Community College presented by the Fredericktowne Players. It …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PM
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Review: ‘Holiday Memories’ at HCC Art’s Collective by Susan Brall

Holiday Memories plays this weekend only at Howard Community College in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theatre produced by the Howard County Arts Collective and di…

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Sunday, December 3, 2017

Review: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life a Live Radio Play’ at the Laurel Mill Playhouse by Susan Brall

It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic. One we want to see every holiday season. Growing up, it was a household staple for us even though we were Jewish. The theme, the importance of kindness,…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PM
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Review: ‘Omnium Gatherum’ at Silver Spring Stage by Susan Brall

In keeping with performing plays from five different decades in celebration of their 50th Anniversary Silver Spring reached back to right after Sept. 11, 2001, to do Omnium Gatherum by Alexa…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PM
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Review: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse by Susan Brall

To Kill a Mockingbird, written by the enigmatic Harper Lee and dramatized by Christopher Sergel, opened at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, directed by Jen Sizer and produced by Maureen Rogers. A …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AM
Sunday, October 15, 2017

Review: ‘Cry Baby’ at Silhouette Stages at Slayton House by Susan Brall

Cry Baby opened at Slayton House in Columbia, MD this week. The play is based on a 1990s movie by John Waters of Hairspray fame and directed and choreographed by Tommy Malek. The play was tu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PM
Monday, September 25, 2017

Review: ‘Into the Woods’ at Fredericktowne Players by Susan Brall

Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, is now playing at the JBK Theater at the Frederick Community College, presented by the Fredericktowne Play…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AM
Monday, September 18, 2017

Review: ‘Deathtrap’ at Silver Spring Stage by Susan Brall

The opening of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap this weekend marked the start of the 50th Season for Silver Spring Stage. The play, which opened on Broadway in the late 1970s, is a suspense thriller …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PM
Monday, September 11, 2017

Review: ‘Aglaonike’s Tiger’ at Venus Theatre by Susan Brall

Aglaonike’s Tiger, written by Claudia Barnett and directed by Deborah Randall, is playing now at the Venus Theatre in Laurel, MD. The drama is based on the first recorded woman astronomer …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AM
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Review: ‘An inspector Calls’ at the Laurel Mill Playhouse by Susan Brall

An Inspector Calls, by J.B. Priestly, is currently playing at Laurel Mill Playhouse, produced by Maureen Rogers and directed by Ilene Chalmers. Priestly was from the working class, albeit wh…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AM
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Review: Silver Spring Stage 2017 One Act Festival by Susan Brall

Silver Spring Stage opened its 2017 One-Act Festival which has been part of their season for fifty years. Each weekend several short plays from the past and present are produced. There is us…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:33PM
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Review: ‘Thurgood’ at The Olney Theater Center by Susan Brall

Thurgood, a one-man-show by George Stevens, Jr., is playing at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney. The play is a about the late Supreme Court Justice and re…

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Sunday, July 16, 2017

Review: ‘The Lion in Winter’ at 4615 Theatre Company, Performing at The Highwood Theatre by Susan Brall

The Lion in Winter, written by James Goldman and directed by Jordan Friend, opened this weekend at The Highwood Theatre in Silver Spring; it is being performed in repertory with King John. T…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM
Friday, July 14, 2017

Preview: ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ at the Laurel Mill Playhouse by Susan Brall

This weekend, Laurel Mill Playhouse (LMP) will be doing two tributes. The first is to the wonderful Carol Burnett Show that graced our TVs from 1967-1978. The show included those wonderful c…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PM
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory by Susan Brall

Sitting outdoors is probably the best venue to watch Shakespeare, and watching a production in July of his classic comedy A Midsummers Night’s Dream under the direction of Tom Delise i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PM
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Review: ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at Silver Spring Stage by Susan Brall

One Man, Two Guvnors directed by William T. Fleming and produced by Karen Flemling is now playing at Silver Spring Stage. This play is a British farce by Richard Bean, based on The Servant o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:11PM
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Report: ‘Manual Cinema: The End of TV’ at the Columbia Festival of the Arts by Susan Brall

Manual Cinema: The End of TV proved to be an interesting last night for the Columbia Festival of the Arts for this year. It was presented at the Smith Theatre at the Horowitz Center at Howar…

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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Review: ‘Stoop Storytelling Series: My Favorite Film’ at the Columbia Festival of the Arts by Susan Brall

On Friday, June 23rd, the Columbia Festival of the Arts brought up the curtain on another edition of the wonderfully unusual, Baltimore-based performing arts group, Stoop Storytelling, at th…

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Saturday, June 10, 2017

Review: ‘The Curious Savage’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse by Susan Brall

The Curious Savage by John Patrick, directed by Nick Cherone and produced by Maureen Rogers, is a comedy which premiered in 1950, and it provides much laughter and warmth. The story seems s…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PM
Friday, June 9, 2017

Review: ‘Inheritors: The Nature of Keys’ at Howard Community College’s Arts Collective by Susan Brall

Inheritors: The Nature of Keys is an original collaborative drama by Howard Community College’s Art Collective, directed by S. G. Kramer that opened at the HCC’s Horowitz Center Studio T…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:26PM
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Preview: Columbia Festival of the Arts Come Home to the Lakefront, Celebrating Columbia’s 50th Anniversary by Susan Brall

Under new Director David Phillips, the Columbia Festival of the Arts will be back at the Lakefront in Town Center Columbia this year. Phillips, who has a background as Associate Dean for the…

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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Review: ‘Silent Sky’ Reprised at Silver Spring Stage by Susan Brall

Friday marked the reprisal at Silver Spring Stage of a very timely Silent Sky, by Laura Gunderson. Produced by Seth Ghitelman and directed by Bill Hurlbut, it is the fascinating story of Hen…

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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Review: ‘Tunnel Vision’ at Venus Theatre by Susan Brall

Tunnel Vision, written by Andrea Lepcio and directed by Deborah Randall, opened May 11, 2017 at the Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland. Venus Theatre, under the direction of founder Deborah R…

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Review: ‘Celebrations!’ Columbia Pro Cantare Celebrates 40-Year Anniversary at Jim Rouse Theatre by Susan Brall

Columbia Pro Cantare celebrated a few occasions with its final performance of the Season with Celebrations! If you will note, Celebrations! is plural, because it not only marked the 40th Ann…

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Saturday, May 6, 2017

Review: ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse by Susan Brall

H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous operetta, directed by Michael Hartsfield and produced by Maureen Rogers, opened on April 28, 2017 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse on Main Street…

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime