Sunday, October 24, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:31PMSunday, August 22, 2021
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 somet…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:21PMFriday, July 9, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:25AMFriday, July 2, 2021
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” an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04PMThursday, June 17, 2021
“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 Doc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:34PMThursday, April 22, 2021
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. I…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:07PMThursday, March 25, 2021
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 11:34AMWednesday, March 10, 2021
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 11:10AMMonday, March 1, 2021
“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… w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:29PMTuesday, February 16, 2021
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 Sherl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:16PMThursday, February 4, 2021
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 ope…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PMTuesday, January 26, 2021
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 cinematograp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:56PMSunday, January 10, 2021
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 ap…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:39AMSunday, January 3, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:17PMThursday, December 24, 2020
“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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:50PMMonday, December 14, 2020
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:15PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Located in South Chesterfield, Virginia, some twenty miles from Richmond, Swift Creek Mill Theatre is housed in a former grist mill dating back to 1663. Normally a venue for dinner and a s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:28AMThe Baltimore-based National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air returns this month of December with Caroline Bennett’s superb adaptation of Poe’s story “Hop-Frog.” As usual in this s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:21AMSaturday, November 21, 2020
In anticipation of the holidays, PBS recently aired Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of “Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn” on its long-running Great Performances series. It i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:08PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
In both story and verse, Edgar Allan Poe tried to connect thoughts with sounds or, as he himself put it in “The Rationale of Verse,” “the very germ of a thought seeking satisfaction in…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:33PMFriday, October 23, 2020
Cultural historian Martin Grams’ annual October Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Maryland, with its film showings, radio recreations, and lectures on popular culture, was cancelled thi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:54PMThursday, October 8, 2020
“Romantic poetry is a progressive universal poetry. Its mission is […to] fill and saturate the forms of art with sterling material of every kind, and inspire them with the vibratio…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:59PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
In a series of Big Finish audio adventures of the legendary Time Lord “Doctor Who,” classic theatre sometimes comes to the fore. So was it in “The Mask of Tragedy,” which found the D…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:32AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
There was a time when home technology did not allow viewers to watch their favorite shows via DVD’s, VHS cassettes, video streams, or even 8 or 16 mm film. Instead, one read “tie-in” n…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:42PMSunday, August 30, 2020
Blackfriars Playhouse of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, has continued with its productions through the Coronavirus pandemic, streaming a complete playbill of its al…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:55PMSunday, August 16, 2020
Bandleader Joe Enroughty is known for leading two swing bands in the Virginia region. As suggested by the band’s name, his fourteen-piece Royal Virginians perform and promote the sweet-swi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:11PMMonday, August 10, 2020
For the past year, the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air has been creating brief, monthly audio plays based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Each audio play frames the story as…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 29, 2020
There are flutes “with trumpets blaring in . . . What a clashing, what a clanging,/ What a drumming, what a piping.” Thus reads one of Heinrich Heine’s poems, set to music with 15 othe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:05PMSaturday, July 25, 2020
Theatre aficionados are accustomed to the phrase “Dinner and a Show” to mean an enjoyable evening at a dinner theatre. For our purposes now, “Dinner and a Show” is the title of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13AMMonday, July 20, 2020
“How sad that Mozart, passionate as he was, keenly alive to all the beauties of the world, and full of the highest aspirations, never knew peace and contentment, in spite of all that he en…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:38PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
In Voltaire’s picaresque and satirical 1759 novel “Candide,” Candide and company make their way to El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. In 1849, at the peak of the California Gold Ru…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:50PM 
