Click on the links in the introduction to hear samples of Don Harper’s music. Don Harper is a Los Angeles based film and TV composer, orchestrator, and conductor whose work is current…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:08PMBeautiful Boy, written by Eric Conger, recently completed its world premiere engagement at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre’s black box space, which is appropriately named Independe…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:22AMLynne Shankel is currently the orchestrator for Beaches at Signature Theatre. While being a musical director, conductor and pianist for such Broadway musicals as Beauty and the Beast, You&#…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:25PMThe Bible has been coming to life on the stage at Sight and Sound Theatre in Lancaster County, PA, for almost 38 years. The company never ceases to amaze me in the way they present theatrica…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:05PMJames Sugg is currently the composer and musical supervisor for Mother Courage and her Children at Arena Stage. His previous Arena Stage design credits include Good People, The Chosen and Lo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:45PMToday’s Quick 5 column features a man with many sides. Alex Zavistovich is the co-founder and board president of Molotov Theatre Group which is America’s second oldest theatre …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AMWhen the 2007 Tony Award winning musical Spring Awakening opened on Broadway in December of 2006 it was revolutionary for a number of reasons. It featured a cast of young talent including Le…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:15AMMarty Lodge is back home at Round House Theatre where he is currently playing Leonard in Seminar. I say home because Marty has been seen in over 30 plays at Round House. He was an Associate …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMRafael Untalan is currently making his Theater J debut playing Marcus G. Dahlman AKA Marcus Gee in Yellow Face. He last performed in the area at Imagination Stage in Anime Momotoro. For t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:03PMToday I am giving the last of my four special awards as we start to wind down this year’s Reader’s Choice Awards on MD Theatre Guide. The word “unique” is sometimes u…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMNaomi Jacobson is currently playing the role of Queen Margaret in Richard III at Folger Theatre where she has also performed in The Winter’s Tale and Henry VIII. Area credits include M…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:30PMFor over twenty years the international rhythm extravaganza known as Stomp has been proving that sound and rhythm can be made with pretty much any kind of object. From obvious things like tr…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:15PMThere is nothing better on a cold winter’s night than being out with your sweetheart and seeing a heartwarming musical with a strong score and book and a high-end group of performers. Viol…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:30PMJay Crowder is currently the musical director for Violet at Ford’s Theatre. His previous work at Ford’s includes 1776 and Liberty Smith (Helen Hayes nomination), A Christmas …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:30PMToday I am giving my third special award as part of this year’s Reader’s Choice Awards here on MD Theatre Guide. Last year this award went to Barbara Bear whose southern charm …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMD.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning play The Gin Game originally opened on Broadway in 1978. It starred two legends of the stage Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy and was directed by Mike Nic…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00PMComposer/conductor Marvin Hamlisch’s first hit song was in 1965 and for the next 47 years, until his untimely death in 2012, his canon of work has been unrivaled. Very few people’s work …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:26AMMoisés Kaufman is the director of The Tallest Tree in the Forest which is currently playing at Arena Stage. He has previously directed at Arena with his plays 33 Variations (premiered at Ar…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AMToday I am presenting the second of my four special awards as part of this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards here on MD Theatre Guide. The Giving Back Award goes to a lady and comp…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:00PMMichael Tolaydo is currently playing the role of Christopher who is the father of the lead character in Tribes at Studio Theatre. Michael is one of the area’s most versatile performers…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:00PMJillian Mueller is currently playing Alex Owens in the national tour of Flashdance-The Musical which concludes it’s DC engagement this Sunday at Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theat…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston is the oldest operating regional theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, and this season they are celebrating their 40th anniversary. As part of this milestone, t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:00PMLast year I presented two special honors as part of our Reader’s Choice Awards: Most Unique Theatrical Experience and Most Enthusiastic and Supportive Audience Member. This year I am …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMLegendary pop/folksinger and Grammy Award winner Judy Collins returns to the Birchmere in Alexandria VA. on January 24th for what will be a great night of music from the singer that always d…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00PMEmily Kester is currently playing Marianne in Edgar and Annabel at Studio Theatre. She had previously performed at Studio Theatre in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Her DC area credits include…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:04PMJjana Valentiner is currently playing the role of the Stage Manager in Our Suburb at Theater J. She previously appeared there in The History of Invulnerability. Some recent credits include…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:59AMThere are many things I pay attention to when I go to the theatre. Of course there are the performances and the physical production with all the elements that you can see. Then there is the …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:34PMHappy 2014 everyone!! Andrea Frye and Eugene Lee are currently performing in Arena Stage’s highly acclaimed production of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in the roles of Mary Prent…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:06PMThe Kennedy Center on New Year’s Eve had something for everyone. No other place offers you your choice of dancing elves, a murder mystery, a musical that puts us back in the 80’s, and a …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:31AMThere is always a danger of taking a movie that so many people love and turning it into a stage musical. Usually the new songs never match what was in the film and the result is never as goo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMShout hooray and hallelujah, the landmark musical Gypsy is now playing at Signature Theatre. Considered to be a perfect musical by many, including myself, this musical fable of an overbearin…
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