Monday, December 13, 2021
When one thinks of Christmas and the holidays, traditionally joyous thoughts of family get-togethers, presents, lovely dinners, and a festive electricity come to mind. “Traditionally” be…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “I refuse to accept the view mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:59PMWednesday, January 27, 2021
The COVID nightmare drags on and it feels like forever since anyone has been able to watch a live theatre performance. In desperation, I suppose a Zoom play seems better than no play. At lea…
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The human experience presents many obstacles—seemingly at random. Deepak Chopra once said, “Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our tru…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:01PMTuesday, December 24, 2019
Julie Klausner said, “Cabaret is a great format—all you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.” And in the heart of Little Italy in Baltimore, a picturesque establishment with a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:10PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
Ballet Chesapeake’s 2019 performance of “The Nutcracker” is an annual holiday favorite that is a must-see for audiences of all ages. Of course, it is a challenge for any ballet product…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:04PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
“Who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream, separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream? The Candy Man can.” “Willy Wonka The Musical“ presented by Charm City Players is Roald Da…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:20PMMonday, June 3, 2019
Jimmy Buffett has a great line in his song “Barometer” that says “Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.” In many ways, this was my sense of the compilation of short pl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:55PMMonday, May 20, 2019
It has been written, “As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflected the real person.” In the story presented in “Queens Girl in Africa,” playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:50PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
There is funny ha-ha, clever funny, and situationally funny. Though many of the things we find hilarious in our lives generally fall into one of these categories, it is certainly quite the b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:15PMSaturday, April 27, 2019
In post-war England, in the town of Chipping Cleghorn, a most precarious stage has been set in a quiet country house where a murder is plotted and advertised in the local paper. What seems l…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:21PMThursday, April 11, 2019
There were several brilliant gems in last weekend’s “Symphonic Pops” performed by the Columbia Orchestra. A trifecta of enormously talented performers stemming from the Peabody Conserv…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:41PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
The storyline for this beloved musical seemed a little over the heads of the 12 and under crowd that amounted to nearly half the audience for the hit show “Mamma Mia!” presented by Charm…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:26PMSunday, March 3, 2019
The story has some familiar facets: a man cursed for sins of the past, doomed to remain in the purgatory of earthly surroundings until he redeems himself. Such is the undercurrent cadence of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:28PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Since the emergence of antidepressants, pharmaceutical companies have been tripping over themselves to get as many people on them as possible. Perhaps getting their share of the tens of bill…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:29AMSunday, February 3, 2019
As Brené Brown puts it, “Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.” Shame and forgiveness are c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:10PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Two friends since childhood, Charlotte and Jonny (played by Amandine Thomas and Quincy Vicks), discover a great deal about themselves and their primal (as well as carnal) needs in Bathsheba …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:27AMSunday, January 27, 2019
Caption: “There are some qualities –some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type of that twin entity that springs from matter and light, evinced in so…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:17PMFriday, December 14, 2018
Wondrously choreographed and directed by Dianna Cuatto, Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s production of “The Nutcracker” is spirited after the original, including the classic composition by…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:13PMMonday, December 10, 2018
The witty, classic satire “The Importance of Being Earnest” takes jabs at the pretentious Victorian era on an alluring stage at Everyman Theatre. Their impressive production, under the d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:42PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
The Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall is generally a place where magnificence and magic fuse in musical symmetry. With violin soloist, chamber musician, and Grammy award-winning recording artis…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:07PMThursday, November 29, 2018
It’s the holiday season and that means Christmas themed stories galore. Such as the classic retelling of Jean Shephard’s “A Christmas Story,” which found much cultural fanfare from t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:22AMSaturday, November 3, 2018
The seemingly random but hilarious zig zag story in the “King of the Yees,” directed by Desdemona Chiang at Baltimore Center Stage, ascends from reflections of playwright Lauren …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:54PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
After watching “Sweat,” it’s not surprising Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for this brilliantly stirring drama. This story flips back and forth between the years 2000 and …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:09PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
A Broadway musical on so many actors’ bucket list, “Cabaret,” presented by Vagabond Players in Fells Point, Baltimore. It is as quaint as it is racy –like so many renditions…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:05PMSunday, October 21, 2018
Spanish Telenovelas beam with explosive family drama, confessions and discoveries of past indiscretions. Watching “Stick Fly” at Fells Point Corner Theatre in Baltimore piqued my…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:48PMSunday, October 14, 2018
With Halloween encroaching, it is quite fitting that “The Addams Family” hits the Silhouette Stages at the Slayton House Theatre in Columbia, Maryland, right on cue for the seaso…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:27AMMonday, October 8, 2018
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once said the characters in the play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “[show] us the difficulty of communication between people who spend their lives sayin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:24PMSunday, September 23, 2018
Spotlighters Theatre in Baltimore kicked off its 57th season with Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy, “Lysistrata.” Directors Michael Blum and Darlene Harris give this production a rel…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:08PMMonday, September 17, 2018
Voltaire once wrote, “We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.” Playwright Lauren Gunderson has done exactly this with a fascinating trip through time …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:38PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
In 2017, a writer on “Odyssey” named Julia Cooper wrote a short article titled “Satire Isn’t An Excuse for Bad Writing.” It may have been obscure and likely touched a few r…
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