Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Meeya Davis is currently making her Arena Stage debut playing the role of Amber in The Blood Quilt . A native of Detroit Michigan, Meeya’s stage credits include Twelfth Night at Shake…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:34PMThursday, May 14, 2015
Barrett Wilbert Reed is currently portraying the role of Fraulein Sally Bowles at Signature Theatre in the landmark Kander/Ebb/Masteroff musical Cabaret. The production runs through June 28t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:57PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Mykal Kilgore is currently preparing to make his Centerstage debut as Stevie Wonder in the world premiere musical Marley, which begins performances May 7th in Baltimore. On Broadway, Mykal …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:07PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Tally Sessions is currently playing the classic musical theatre role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel at Olney Theatre Center. Tally has been seen on Broadway in Big Fish and The House of Blu…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:06PMThursday, April 23, 2015
Sometimes you go to see a production and you can’t help but think the whole time you are watching it, “Gee, this reminds me of…” This is the feeling I and you might get as you watch …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:42PMRachel Esther Tate might be the sanest thing on stage in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which is currently playing at Arena Stage. Rachel portrays the spunky willing to do anything st…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:13AMMonday, April 20, 2015
International stage star Anthony Warlow is currently making his DC theatre debut as Cervantes/Don Quixote in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Man of La Mancha He recently…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:10PMThis year marks the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination by one John Wilkes Booth. Ford’s Theatre devotes much of its programming and events toward Lincoln and …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:43AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
When education and theatre collide in an intense yet nuturing setting, the results can be something truly magical. If you are regular readers of my stuff, you know that I champion The Theatr…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:46PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Darren R. Cohen is currently the musical director for Murder Ballad at Studio Theatre which begins performances on April 15th. Darren is spending a a lot of time in the area lately having re…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:17PMMonday, April 6, 2015
I don’t know of many theatres that have an association with one composer/lyricist the way Signature Theatre does with Stephen Sondheim. For all of its 25 year history Signature has produce…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:31PMSaturday, April 4, 2015
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s 35th season continues with the world premiere of Lights Rise on Grace written by NY based playwright Chad Beckim. The play might not be as shocking as some…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:57AMFriday, April 3, 2015
Jenny McConnell Frederick is one of DC theatre’s busiest and passionate artists. She currently is the director of Theater J’s world premiere comedy G-d’s Honest Truth. She …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:05PMFriday, March 27, 2015
John Boulanger is currently in rehearsals for The Secret Garden at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts where he will be performing the role of Archibald Craven. The production opens …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:54AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Kerry Warren is currently making her Arena Stage debut in The Originalist as Cat, the feisty, strong willed law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Kerry recently closed The …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:17PMMonday, March 23, 2015
Lora K. Powell is currently the ASM (Assistant Stage Manager) for Blithe Spirit which is concluding a short North American tour this week at the National Theatre. I guess you could say Lora …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:00PMThursday, March 19, 2015
Spanish singer Eugenia León has been performing in the international music scene since the 1970’s and it’s easy to see why audiences keep coming back to hear her powerful sound. León t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:36AMSunday, March 15, 2015
Alex Brightman is currently performing the role of Jonah in the world premiere musical Soon at Signature Theatre. On Broadway Alex has been seen in Matilda, Big Fish, Wicked and Glory Days…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:00PMFriday, March 13, 2015
It’s a big weekend for Round House Theatre’s Director of Education Brianna McCoy. Through this Sunday only Round House Theatre will present it’s annual Sarah Metzger Memori…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:25AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
It takes years for some people working in the arts to be totally happy. For some it never happens. James Gardiner is only thirty years old and some would say he is living the American dream.…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:42AMSunday, March 1, 2015
Legendary Tony Award winning Broadway composer John Kander has never shied away from uncomfortable subject matter in his musicals. Let us not forget that Cabaret is a musical about Nazi Germ…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:46PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Robert Billig is currently back on the road as musical director for the current US tour of Chicago: The Musical, which recently played here in DC at the National Theatre. After being totally…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:24PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Valentine’s Day at the Music Center at Strathmore featured the Great American Songbook as performed by one of our great modern-day interpreters. Singer/guitarist John Pizzarelli whose dad …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:19PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Jake Winn is making his musical theatre and area debut in the world premiere musical Kid Victory at Signature Theatre in the lead role of Luke. In New York Jake has been seen at New York Dea…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:54PMMonday, February 16, 2015
Somewhere towards the end of the musical A Chorus Line the director asks “What are you going to do when you can’t dance anymore?” In the case of Tony Award winning actress LaChanze, th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:03PMFriday, February 13, 2015
A Quick 5 has always made it a point to feature people in all areas of the arts and this of course includes one of my favorite groups, musicians. Joe Connell is the regularly engaged extra p…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:10AMMonday, February 9, 2015
This is the third annual Most Enthusiastic and Supportive Audience Member Award I have bestowed on someone as part of our Readers’ Choice Awards. The first two went to our favorite so…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:48AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Bowman Wright is currently playing King in King Hedley II at Arena Stage, where he was last seen as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop. Select theatre credits include Our Lad…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:11PMThursday, January 29, 2015
As a reviewer and as a patron of theatre I see many wonderful performances in a season. Some are in productions I get to work on as a technician and some are from shows that I go to just for…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:37PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
To say that I am beyond honored to feature today’s Quick 5 subject is the biggest understatement since General Custer said “Look over the hill! I think they are friendly Indians!…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:45PMFriday, January 23, 2015
Gregory Wooddell is currently making his Arena Stage debut as the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes in Ken Ludwig’s play Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Gregory is an Affil…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:08PM 
