
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 this …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:31PM[SHARE]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 11:58PM[SHARE]Â 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:46PM[SHARE]"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" fairy tal…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38PM[SHARE]Â 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 ope…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]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 schöne Mü…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]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 owners…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:43AM[SHARE]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 Avengers," the subj…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:09PM[SHARE]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-stream…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Â "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 based on a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56AM[SHARE]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) solv…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]Â 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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:43PM[SHARE]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 same c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Toby's current production of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" is a retelling of the beloved Bing Crosby-Danny Kaye 1954 motion picture, more recently revived as a Broadway and touring show.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:28PM[SHARE]For several years now, Rachel Pulliam has produced and directed audio productions for various podcast companies. We have enjoyed her fabulous productions of classic books and dramas of the m…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:16PM[SHARE]Either the Darkness alters" Or something in the sight Adjusts itself to Midnight . . . These and other lines from Emily Dickinson's poem, "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark," introduce a "Etche…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:31PM[SHARE]Fans of classic audio drama will be happy to learn that Sonic Summerstock Playhouse is here again in full swing! Whether one's interest lies in mystery, drama, or thrillers, there is somethi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:21PM[SHARE]The 1648 victory of the "Roundhead" Puritan forces of Oliver Cromwell over the Cavaliers of King Charles I in England may seem an odd subject for an opera. Yet the event did command the atte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:25AM[SHARE]The Sound of Swing Orchestra is a 1940s-style big band which faithfully recreates swing-era staples such as Jimmie Lunceford's "For Dancer's Only," Tommy Dorsey's "Opus One" and "Marie," and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]"The System of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume" is the latest installment of the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air. While modeled on Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:34PM[SHARE]Multi-talented jazz vocalist and trombonist, Aubrey Logan, recently performed a fabulous, live-streaming concert, "The Standard Tour: Dreams," from Austin, Texas, her adopted hometown. It is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:07PM[SHARE]Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ), founded and led by pianist Scott Bradlee, is a unique musical aggregation. It is a collection of largely young jazz musicians and vocalists who perform contemporary…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:34AM[SHARE]The Steve Cooper Orchestra offers a wonderful window into the American musical past, playing ballrooms in the Chicago area and also sharing their music on CD recordings. Mr. Cooper is especi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AM[SHARE]"Please, this way," says Dr. Maillard, the rascally director of the mental institution in the latest National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air. "My next patient might seem quite… what is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Brent Morris is a mathematician, scholar of Freemasonry, and Sherlock Holmes aficionado who lectures on "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" and cryptology at the heart of the famous Sherlock …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:16PM[SHARE] The story of Hansel and Gretel is one of the most famous of Grimm's fairy tales. The story has had many iterations through the years, notably Engelbert Humperdinck's famous 1893 o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]In what it bills as its first film, Victorian Lyric Opera Company of Rockville, Maryland, has produced "A Gilbert and Sullivan Drawing Room." Directed by Erica Ferguson with cinematography b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:56PM[SHARE]Flash Gordon, the "space opera" science fiction hero, has appeared in many media. Beginning with an artistically-aware comic strip by master comic strip artist Alex Raymond, Flash has appear…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]The New Year's Concert from Vienna has become not only a tradition for residents and visitors to the Austrian capital, but also for millions of television viewers the world over. To bring th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:17PM[SHARE]Â "I beg you to call to mind the table covered with your last Christmas gifts…" Thus we read in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Christmas fantasy "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice." Since this sto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:50PM[SHARE]We Happy Few is a small but dynamic theatrical company housed in the Washington, DC Capitol Hill neighborhood. Currently, they are producing dramatized audio versions of classic mysteries, b…
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