Tuesday, 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 03:46PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
“With one bound, the wolf was out of bed and swallowed up” Little Red Riding Hood; and so “the wolf had appeased his appetite.” Thus wrote the Brothers Grimm in their famous “grim…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38PMWednesday, June 15, 2022
The Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC ) is famous for its productions of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas and Viennese operettas. This time, the company changes things up with an opere…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:40PMMonday, May 30, 2022
Incandescent! This is the best description of Bel Cantanti’s production, led spectacularly by Dr. Katerina Souvorova. It is a dramatic staging of Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Die schö…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17PMFriday, April 1, 2022
In “Nathan the Wise,” the titular Nathan tells a tale of a unique opal ring which, when worn, causes the wearer to be beloved by both God and men. After passing through generations of ow…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:43AMMonday, February 28, 2022
New episodes of some of your favorite television shows from the 1960s and 1970s are happening! Such is the case with “Space: 1999,” “Doctor Who,” “Dark Shadows,” and “The Aveng…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:09PMSunday, February 13, 2022
On February 12, Maryland Opera offered its “Variant Valentine” program—a variety of Valentines with staples from the operatic and American musical theatre worlds. The program was live-…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:12PMSunday, December 26, 2021
“Miracle on 34th Street,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and several versions of “A Christmas Carol” are some of the most popular Christmas films. For its Christmas audio offering…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
With the holiday season ringing in, two Victorian mysteries by We Happy Few might be just the thing! You can spend New Year’s, Christmas, or Boxing Day (since this is a British subject) so…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:14PMThursday, December 9, 2021
Holidays celebrate tradition, but paradoxically offer vivid new experiences as well. Riverside Center for the Performing Arts captures this tension wonderfully in its current production o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:43PMMonday, November 29, 2021
There is a parade of trombones, the beat of snare drums, and a procession of young people in jaunty new band uniforms. We speak not of “The Music Man,” but instead another work by the sa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:42PM 
