It has been an exciting summer at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts. In July, the theatre, now celebrating its twenty-sixth year, announced its transition to a non-profit organizat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:06PMGilbert and Sullivan’s “Ruddigore,” currently presented by Victorian Lyric Opera at Rockville’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, has an unusual combination on offer—comic opera and got…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:23PM“The Wizard of Oz” is one of the best-known classic American tales for children, and just about everyone, from young to old, seems to love this slice of Americana. In Riverside Center…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:56PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company concludes its season with “The Matchbox Magic Flute,” based on the well-known and final opera by Mozart. It features a fantasy plot of two unlikely advent…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:02PMDuring the corona virus pandemic, when theatres around the world were closed, the Capitol Hill-based theatre troupe, We Happy Few, hit upon a unique idea: to present audio versions of classi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:48PM“The Elixir of Love” is one of the funnier operas you will see among the classic opera repertoires. The presentation of it by students at the Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art at Cath…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:16PMLady Rosalinda (Christa Beveridge) lounges on an elegant divan in a dress of jacquard satin and cuffs of embroidered organza. Rare viands are at her table, and the parrot above her is like a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:16AM“Long and tenderly he gazed at it, with unspeakable love. At last, he felt that he must go a little nearer to it…” We quote but speak not of the “The Blue Flower,” but of another o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PM“Miracle on 34th Street,” celebrating as it does Christmas and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade which precedes it, is a perennially popular, holiday film. In the early 1960s, Meredit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:25PMGian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is currently being performed by Bel Cantanti Opera. The one-act opera is in the tradition of many a work based on the fictionalized …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:03PM“The Sound of Music” recently delighted audiences at Catholic University of America’s Hartke Theatre in a production directed superbly by Tracy Lynn Oliviera. Students from the univers…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57AMThe 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 09:14PM“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 09:40AMBel 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 05:05PMIn 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 06:50PMVictorian 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 04:04PM“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 06:52PMThe 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 02:24PMRiverside 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 11:04PMLast 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 07:57PM“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 12:59PMIt 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 09:36PM“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 09:07PM“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 09:57PMThe 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 04:07PM“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 08:24PMThis 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 06:44PMThe 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 11:43AMThe 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…
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