Good talent gets drawn to a play for many reasons. In the case of Jean P. Bordewich’s predictable and melodramatic play Marriage, Lizards and Love, you have to wonder what that reason was.…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:30AMRobert Michael Oliver is currently embodying Walt Whitman in his one man tour de force solo piece called Song of Myself: The Whitman Project. This is the second in Oliver’s American …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:20AMWhat happens when you take the dance elements of a Synetic Theater production and merge it with a traditional theatre script? Avalanche Theatre Company’s devised theatre piece Dream Love a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:15AMAny play that deals with a hot topic like bullying in school is likely to get a lot of attention from theatre companies across the country. Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams is one of those sh…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:54PMA southern take on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in Jonelle Walker’s TAME. is being presented by Blind Pug Arts Collective as part of this year’s Capital Fringe festival. Good scri…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:09PMIn the theatre the life of an understudy is a hard one. You never know if you are going to get a chance to go on after spending weeks learning a particular role. It’s enough to make you tu…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:29AMSolo shows need a few elements to make them successful. First the solo performer needs to engage you as an artist. Kate Robards is attractive to look at and has lots of energy onstage so thi…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:54PMJennie Bergman Eng’s play Bethesda starts off promising enough. Barry (James Whalen) is a Foreign Service officer who has been sent back to his home in Bethesda, MD with his family …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:16PMThere is something wonderful about certain kinds of cabaret acts. In the case of Signature Theatre veteran performers Tracy Lynn Olivera and Bobby Smith’s show, there was plenty of great m…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:50PMThis past theatre season has been a banner year for actress Erin Driscoll. She started the season out in a supporting role in Miss Saigon at Signature Theatre and then graduated big time to …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:01PMThe names Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Jim Morrison are synonymous with classic Rock ‘n’ Roll. They unfortunately all have something else in co…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:17PMOne of the nice things about theatre festivals in general is that there is something for everyone. In the case of this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, there is a Tony Award winning play as…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:15AMLa Petite Famillie is a theatre company based out of Souillac in the south of France. Their performers are all between the ages of 15 and 22. The company’s entry into this year’s Capital…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:13PMYou have to applaud anyone who is willing to get up onstage alone and tell his or her story. David Kleinberg’s story is one that is compelling and sometimes moving. In his current solo pie…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:11AMRebecca Ende has just completed a very ambitious season that featured something like 224 performances, 16 readings and 86 discussions, all at one theatre company. The company I speak of is …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:52PMIn the past few years many Broadway shows have tried their hand out in Las Vegas. Musicals such as Hairspray, Spamalot and Avenue Q that were hits in NY did not fare as well in the desert co…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:52PMHaely Jardas is preparing to play the role of Catherine in Blind Pug Arts Collective’s production of TAME. at Capital Fringe. Haely graduated from American University with two BA deg…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:26PMBarbara Walsh is currently in rehearsals at Studio Theatre for Carrie the Musical in the role of Margaret. The show begins performances on July 9th as part of Studio Theatre’s 2nd S…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:19PMSome Broadway musicals fail because of a bad score, book or dreadful physical design. The 1997 musical Side Show had all three of these elements going for it when it opened at the Richard Ro…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:18PMIf you are a fan of those old detective movies or if you just want to have a fun night out, then Signature Theatre’s latest world premiere musical Cloak & Dagger is for you. Here is a …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:26PMFrank Britton has just completed playing Pontius Pilate in Forum Theatre’s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Frank has been getting lots of attention these days because …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:55PMDo we ever know the whole story when it comes to the military? Why do officials that should know better always get away with horrific things? These are the questions posed in a new opera cal…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:23AMThe effects of war are usually a subject that you see in the movies more so than onstage. Arena Stage’s world premiere last offering of its 2013/2014 season is going to change that. Healin…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:07AMOn May 26th 2014 four lowlife thugs beat up actor Frank Britton on his way home from the opening night party of Forum Theatre’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot as he hailed a cab in S…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:27AMWilliam Yanesh can currently be seen and heard playing the piano at Round House Theatre as the musical director for Ordianry Days. Some recent area credits as either musical director/…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:52PMTake two top notch performers that can merge samba, bossa nova and jazz together and the result is a fabulous evening of music at the Music Center at Strathmore. Sergio Mendes has been perfo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:03PMDouglass G. Lutz is currently the musical and vocal director for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre. Previous WST credits include…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:27PM2014 marks my 39th year of attending theatre. As you might imagine some shows stick out in my memory more than others. The word unforgettable can be taken two ways. Some shows are unforgetta…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:00PMNothing pleases me more then when theatre companies choose to stray from the old style of musical and present something that is not from the 50s or before. Mind you, I love Rodgers and Hamme…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:56PMSome musicals withstand the test of time better than others. You would think a musical set in the 1960s workplace would be dated but when the musical is the 1961 Frank Loesser and Abe Burrow…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:50PMThe newly formed Quackensteele Theatre Company introduced itself last night to the DC area with a very impressive debut production of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical tick, tick&…
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