Monday, September 11, 2023
The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention at first presents a panoply of opportunity for the connoisseur of yesteryear—symposiums (histories of Wonder Woman and Captain Midnight); vintage f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:14PMFriday, September 1, 2023
“Guys and Dolls” is a popular musical based on several stories by Damon Runyan, a writer enormously popular in the first half of the twentieth century for his comic tales of gangsters, g…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:40AMWednesday, August 30, 2023
Bel Cantanti Opera was very active producing operas last season and is preparing an ambitious new season as well. Even in the summer, it seems the Montgomery County-based opera company does …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PMSunday, August 13, 2023
In the Hollywood-musical-turned-Broadway show ”42nd Street,” Peggy Sawyer, a young girl from Allentown, PA, dreams of being in a New York Broadway show in the theatre district of 42nd St…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:50PMTuesday, June 13, 2023
Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC) is famous for producing a full spectrum of comic operas, some of them little performed and less widely known. Such is not the case with the “H.M.S. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:56PMDuring the 1930s and 1940s, there were the famous Battles of the Bands. In these jazz performances, two swing bands would set up in the same ballroom and play rotating sets. Such a battle of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:04PMSaturday, June 3, 2023
“Elvis: A Musical Revolution” takes its audience on a nostalgic road trip (we like to imagine in a pink Cadillac) back to the 1950s. Staged at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:52PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
The academic year is winding down at area universities, but before the summer break begins, Catholic University of America presented their production of the famed Cole Porter musical comedy,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:24PMSunday, April 16, 2023
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, VA is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. It is including some very special shows this year, including the current produc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:04PMFriday, March 31, 2023
Last weekend, Catholic University of America’s Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art produced a Baroque opera, Handel’s “Serse,” in a way which made it highly accessible to a moder…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:57PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
“The King’s daughter shall in her fifteenth year prick herself with a spindle and fall down dead.” Thus reads a frightening line in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of “Little Briar Ros…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:36PMFans of “Sister Act” will be delighted to know that Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre has brought the musical version of the film to stage in Lancaster, PA. It is based on the 1992 film of the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:59PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
It is in Louisiana, just prior to the French Revolution, where we meet the nobleman Robert Mission who is himself on a “mission” to start a new life and a new society of a quality, frate…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
“It is a far greater pleasure to repay injustices suffered by good deeds than to compensate evil by more evil.” Thus speaks the voice of Enlightenment reason in Mozart’s “The Abducti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:07PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
“New Year’s Eve with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians” was a long-standing hotel, radio, and television tradition for large swaths of the American public for some fifty years. The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:57PMFriday, January 27, 2023
The story of “Peter and the Wolf ”—Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s program music fairy tale introducing instruments of the orchestra for children—is told effectively by the Pup…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:07PMSaturday, January 14, 2023
“Post Christmas” is how the Mutual Audio Network describes its January offering of a dramatized version of O. Henry’s classic Christmas tale, “The Gift of the Magi.” This story is …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:24PMWednesday, January 4, 2023
This holiday season we were presented with a unique take on “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” The classic Christmas poem by Clement C. Moore is the new audio drama by Sole Twin Audios called,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:44PMSaturday, December 31, 2022
The Olney Big Band is a Maryland jazz orchestra which plays in many venues in the Maryland suburbs around Washington, D.C. We had an opportunity to see them on the lawn of the Potomac campus…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AMThursday, December 29, 2022
The Capitol Bones All-Brass Big Band has presented “A Stan Kenton Christmas” for over 15 years at various venues in Washington, D.C. A few days before Christmas 2022, they performed thei…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMFriday, December 16, 2022
“Call to mind the table covered with your last Christmas gifts […] You will then be able to imagine the astonishment of the children, as they stood with sparkling eyes, unable to utter a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:02AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Hershel of “Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.” Photo by Elizabeth Dapo. “Hershel just wants to celebrate Hanukkah with the community,” states the Puppet Co.’s description of “H…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:52AMThursday, November 3, 2022
“It is so terrifying that my soul wants to be extinguished.” So sings Klytämnestra on stage. The same might be said of Richard Strauss’ ability to bring the “pity and fear” (ca…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:39PMFriday, October 7, 2022
“Witch Wartsmith’s Halloween Spooktacular”at The Puppet Co. is a fun, delightfully eerie Halloween event being presented the entire month of October. It can be best described as an …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:26AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
When Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention organizer and cultural historian, Martin Grams, invited me to this year’s convention that was held September 15-17, 2022 in Hunt Valley, MD, he told …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:39PMMonday, August 29, 2022
Travelers to Pennsylvania Dutch Country will find an entertaining, top-notch production of the musical “Chicago” at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster, PA. In this highly popula…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMThursday, August 11, 2022
“You don’t need to know about Monty Python to enjoy the show,” director and choreographer Mark Minnick tells us. “Monty Python’s Spamalot’ is fun on its own.” This is likely…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMDirected by Jason Vellon, “The Drowsy Chaperone” is a stunning outdoor production at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre. It is both a satire and a celebration of 1920s musicals. Part of the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:21PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Many dinner theatres run primarily on popular musicals. Patrick A’Hearn, producing artistic director of Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia, challenges thi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:31PMSunday, July 31, 2022
Many of us travel to vacation destinations during the summer months. Audio plays are a wonderful way to pass the time, and two excellent, full-cast audio dramas from Sole Twin Audios fit the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58PMMonday, July 25, 2022
One day a prince was out disguised as a hunter. He found himself hungry and knocked on the door of a home in which a girl, who appeared to be a household servant covered in dust, kindly s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:46PM 
