Sunday, December 3, 2023
The character and story of Cinderella has a long tradition and many variants. In the first century A.D., the Greek geographer and historian Strabo reported an ancient Egyptian oral folk tale…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:18PMFriday, November 24, 2023
“Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical” (originally titled “Here’s Love”), with music, book, and lyrics by Meredith Willson (“The Music Man”), premiered on Broadway in 1963 and i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PMSunday, November 12, 2023
“Broadway Legends” is a superb evening of musical theatre songs from over the past 90 years. The performers all have extensive Broadway performance experience. Tenor Hugh Panaro holds th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:30PMThursday, October 26, 2023
“Funny Girl” is the musical story of Fannie Brice, an early 20th century star of film, stage, and radio, who specialized in zany comedy. The original production premiered on Broadway in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
President and CEO of the BSO, Mark Hanson greeted the audience and, in recognition of the human loss and suffering in Israel and Gaza, the orchestra performed John Williams’ “Elegy,” a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
Michael Cavanaugh is an actor, pianist, and vocalist focusing on the American rock ‘n’ roll canon. He was chosen by Billy Joel to star in the Broadway musical “Movin’ Out” and rece…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:25PMSunday, September 24, 2023
“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” is a jukebox musical written by Lanie Robertson. The setting is a cabaret bar in South Philadelphia in March 1959 in which vocalist Billie Holiday…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMMichael Feinstein, vocalist and pianist, is a music revivalist and archivist of the Great American Songbook. He is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Pasadena Orchestra and the Artistic Dir…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:40PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
“Sister Act” is a musical adapted from the popular 1992 film of the same name, with new music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and book by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, with additi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:31PMMonday, September 11, 2023
Henrik Ibsen’s three-act play, “A Doll’s House,” was published in 1879 in Copenhagen and sold 13,500 copies within the first three months. The world premiere at the Royal Theatre in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:26PMWednesday, August 9, 2023
The pre-Broadway national tour of “The Wiz” kicks off in Baltimore at the Hippodrome Theater from September 23-30, 2023, with a limited Broadway engagement planned for spring of 2024. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:11PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
This production was not what I expected—a play about the story of the two musicians, Chuck and Eva, and how their unusual friendship led to the development of an album of songs from the Gr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:34PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Directed by Signature Theatre’s Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner, with the Wolf Trap Orchestra conducted by Jon Kalbfleisch, Signature’s resident music director, “Broadway in the Par…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMSaturday, June 10, 2023
Disney Theatrical Productions faced a challenge when it decided to produce a musical stage version of their successful film. “Frozen” is based on the beloved Hans Christian Andersen fair…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:23AMMonday, May 1, 2023
Written by Mary Chase in 1944, “Harvey” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the following year. The original Broadway production ran for over four years (1,775 performances) and was directe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:09PMSunday, April 16, 2023
The musical “Grease” (music, lyrics, and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, with additional songs by John Farrar) has remarkably survived over 50 years of Broadway and West End prod…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:11PMSunday, April 2, 2023
Leslie Odom, Jr. (actor/singer/composer) has accomplished a lot in the first 25 years of a diversified career spanning many performance genres. He has appeared in leading roles on film and s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48PMFriday, March 24, 2023
Aretha Franklin (composer-singer-pianist), the “Queen of Soul,” had an astonishing six-decade career (1954-2017) during which she received 18 Grammy Awards and 44 nominations. She was th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:27PMMonday, March 20, 2023
John Dunton was the first known advice columnist. He answered questions sent to his British periodical “The Athenian Mercury” in 1690, with the assistance of experts in science, history,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:42PMMonday, March 13, 2023
“The Sound Inside” by Adam Rapp (novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, and film director) is directed by Everyman Theatre’s founder and artistic director, Vincent M. Lancisi, a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:52PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist Lorenz (Larry) Hart (1895-1943) collaborated on 28 musical shows during the period 1919-1943. Upon Hart’s death in 1943, Rodgers formed…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:14PMSaturday, February 18, 2023
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), an Austro-Bohemian conductor-composer, once said, “As soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial banishes without a t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:49PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Oscar Wilde once said, “The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” My experience of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and his music began …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:04PMMonday, January 16, 2023
An interviewer once asked John Lennon how the Beatles named their songs. John said he was getting a haircut at a salon when he heard one of the stylists ask a customer how she liked her hair…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:03PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
“My Fair Lady,” with music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, is based on the 1913 play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw refused to give permission fo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:59PM 
