Tuesday, February 25, 2020
At first glance, Adam Gwon’s debut musical, ‘Ordinary Days,’ is about exactly what is described in the title — a series of day-to-day interactions between a cast of seemingly normal …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:14PMMonday, February 3, 2020
“Loserville,” directed at The Fredericktowne Players by Matthew Bannister, is a lesser-known West End musical based on a 2005 pop-punk album. It follows a plot fit for a young adult nove…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:49PMSaturday, July 20, 2019
One of the most impressive things you can do with a show like “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” — that is to say, a show in which adult actors play children — is play those charac…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:21PMFriday, June 21, 2019
There are certain conventions I often follow when writing a typical review of a typical show. When I started writing this review, however, I immediately had to put those conventions aside, b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:17PMSunday, June 2, 2019
Iron Crow Theatre is starting Pride Month right with a production of “A New Brain,” a lesser known (but fantastic) one-act musical (though Iron Crow added an intermission) by composer Wi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:42PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
“Once,” based on a 2007 John Carney film of the same name, is not a typical musical. But it’s atypicality cannot be attributed to the fact that the orchestra, which consists of around …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:25PMMonday, February 4, 2019
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne’s “Gypsy” has long captivated audiences not only because of its beloved score but also because of its main character, Rose, wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:54PMSunday, October 28, 2018
In a theatrical landscape largely dominated by musicals and plays focused on LGBT tragedies, Stand Up For… Theatre’s production of “La Cage Aux Folles,” directed by Ed Higgins and Jo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:52PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
“Chess” is a musical notorious for its many varied adaptations and revivals, including a recent West End revival; the Tidewater Players’ production, directed by Mark Briner, was the Ma…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:46PMSunday, July 29, 2018
“Little Women,” like it’s literary counterpart, is a show that had always existed in my periphery. I’d heard a song or two at cabarets and auditions over the years, and I basically k…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:24PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
For fans of the Charles Schulz’s classic Peanuts cartoons and comics, Imagination Stage’s production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” directed by Aaron Posner, is su…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:41PMMonday, June 4, 2018
It’s not every day that you see a show of the quality of the Tantallon Community Players’ production of “Hairspray,” directed by Jonathan Jackson. It’s not every month or e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:36PMSunday, May 13, 2018
It’s not rare to see a musical that matches the grandiose scale of “Big Fish,” directed by TJ Lukacsina. But shows like that are usually set in Neverland and Oz, not rural Alabama. Bas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:53PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” may not be Sondheim’s most well-known musical, but it’s certainly a classic. The story—which is a quirky, lighthearted come…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:29PMMonday, February 26, 2018
Based on the 1967 cult film of the same name, Dundalk Community Theatre’s “The Graduate” tells the story of a young man named Benjamin Braddock (Stephen Edwards) as he struggles to fin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:00PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
“Aubergine” opens with a monologue delivered by a woman named Diane (Megan Anderson), who talks about her foodie husband and the delectable pastrami sandwiches her father used t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PMMonday, January 15, 2018
Watching “Seussical Jr.” at Spotlight Musical Theatre sent me into the not-too-distant past to my own days of educational theatre programs. As a child, there’s nothing more enriching a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:16PMBaltimore Shakespeare Factory (BSF) is a theatre company like no other. As one of the cast members, Sian Edwards, announced before the show, BSF follows a few conventions in their performanc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
“The Reluctant Dragon” isn’t a new story—in fact, it dates back to the late 1800s—but the Montgomery Playhouse’s production of the same name certainly adds a modern twist…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:23PMMonday, November 13, 2017
Walking into Venus Theatre, I was immediately struck by the theatre’s small size. Settling into my seat—which was in the back row of the 20-something-seat house—I couldn’t help but w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PMMonday, October 30, 2017
As Maryland trudges its way through an uncomfortably warm October, “White Christmas” at Rockville Musical Theatre was a well-needed reminder that Christmastime is just around the corner.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:52AM 
