Sunday, October 31, 2021
At the turn of 17th century, the Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a powerful figure in the Kingdom of Hungary. Related to the king of Poland, the grand duke of Lithuania, and the pri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:26PMSaturday, October 23, 2021
Add another Baltimore stage to the growing list of “post-COVID” re-openings. The pandemic is not yet over, of course, but thanks to thorough precautions and a brand new HVAC system, Spot…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:07PMMonday, October 4, 2021
Shortly before eight o’clock on the last evening in September, an announcement rang out through the lobby of Fells Point Corner Theatre: “Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in 570 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:19PMFriday, July 9, 2021
In the late 1970s, Bill Cosby’s career was flat-lining. He had paid his dues in nightclubs and as Robert Culp’s television sidekick, but after the ’60s, he found acting jobs few and sm…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:12AMMonday, July 5, 2021
Fans of downtown Baltimore’s Chesapeake Shakespeare Company have long considered their yearly al fresco performances in Ellicott City as a favorite summertime happening. This year, CSC ren…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AMSaturday, June 5, 2021
Fans of gospel music will immediately recognize the title of Arena Players’ current offering, “Cleveland,” not as reference to a city, but as reference to its central character. The Re…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMSaturday, April 17, 2021
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:26PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
“Huck, who is you hollerin’ at?”“I’m hollerin’ at Tom.”“Oh, Huck, how can you act so, when you know po’ Mars Tom –“ Then he let off an awful scream… Tom Sawyer Abroad…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:14PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
A Korean Christian girls’ youth group from L.A. is in Bangkok with its pastor. The teen missionaries are excited over the prospects of saving the souls of red light district tourists — o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:18PMSaturday, March 13, 2021
On February 17th, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced updates to the City’s phase 1 COVID restrictions. These included the return of live indoor entertainment at 25% capacity, with …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:08AMSunday, January 17, 2021
In 1999, the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays was in its 24th season. Beginning to feel creative pressure from the relative upstart Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PMThursday, December 24, 2020
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays. Ba…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:15PMSaturday, December 5, 2020
A little over 200 years separate the publications of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” and its theatrical successor, “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” by L…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:23PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is preparing to open their 2020-21 season with a third entry in the “Queens Girl” trilogy by Caleen Sinnette Jennings. Consistent with the two earlier prod…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:16PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
Erik Satie’s “La 1ère Gnossienne” — usually considered a quietly contemplative, slightly melancholy piece of music — is rendered positively spooky in the skillful hands of Soun…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:19PMSaturday, October 3, 2020
The upcoming tenth season of Baltimore’s Rapid Lemon Productions features a trio of world premiere presentations, with performance schedules expanded to three weeks. In keeping with the co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Conceived, produced, and directed by Troy Burton, “A Real “N***a” Show” is a “choreopoem” performed by an all-male cast which tells stories about the experiences of Black men in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:39PMSunday, August 9, 2020
Actors of every stripe – professional, volunteer, and in-between – have made the Variations Project a highlight of Baltimore’s theatrical landscape each year since 2005. Rapid Lemon Pr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:41PMFriday, July 31, 2020
From established stage authors to wannabe first-timers, playwrights from all over the region are drawn each year to create a unique ten-minute play festival called The Variations Project. Fo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:15PMSaturday, July 25, 2020
“This is not a Zoom play.” From the ides of March to late July, the theater world has endured enough and evolved enough to have both developed and then tired of a whole new format: the Z…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:17AMMaryland’s annual ten-minute play festival The Variations Project returns for its 16th straight year with two collections of world premiere short plays by the region’s playwrights. Rapid…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:05AMMonday, June 29, 2020
Baltimore Center Stage Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra released plans for an upcoming season, set to begin in January 2021. Four mainstage productions are planned: “The Swindlers: A Tru…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:27PMSunday, June 7, 2020
“Pandemics are Foul, Theater is Fair” Wyrd Sisters Shakespeare Society is an online performance group formed by several Shakespeare-loving friends in April of 2020 as an artistic respons…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:10PMSaturday, April 4, 2020
Ed Herendeen, Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival, announced via email yesterday that this year’s event has been canceled: On behalf of our staff: Peggy, Trent…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
In a press conference March 23rd, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced the availability of State funding to 501(c)3 designated non- profits. Organizations may apply for up to $50,000 to r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:48PMSaturday, March 14, 2020
These are the End Times. Everywhere, everything is closed, canceled, and abandoned. Our lives are inconvenienced at best, mortally disrupted at worst. Small businesses are hard hit. Arts-mak…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:47PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Audiences in Baltimore are extremely fortunate to have not one but two of the most accomplished HBCU theater programs within their City’s limits. On the east side is Morgan State Universit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:04PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
One of a pair of older contemporary plays by female authors to open in Baltimore recently (see our review of Fabulation at Strand Theater), Paula Vogel’s “The Mineola Twins” is a pre-#…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:00AMSunday, February 23, 2020
We’re all thoroughly familiar with the rags-to-riches story. It’s as essential to the vocabulary of plot dynamic as boy-meets-girl. And, just like the latter, it has given birth to corol…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:42PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Maryland’s original ten-minute play festival held its annual kick-off party February 8th at Motor House in Baltimore. At the event, artists of every stripe got together to explore this yea…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:38PMFriday, February 7, 2020
The Variations Project is Baltimore’s original ten-minute play festival. Each year since 2005, the event has created a diverse collection of world premiere plays through an inclusive and c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:42AM 
