This December, the Olney Theatre Center is ushering in the holiday season with Paul Morella’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas. There’s hardly a Christmas story better…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42PMAs the fall semester comes to a close, the theater department at CCBC Essex has taken a turn for the absurd. Julie Lewis directs the double feature of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story and Youn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMSpotlighters Theatre has gone south for the winter, spending the holidays in Texas with their production of A Tuna Christmas. Written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, and direct…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24PMThree women, bound by blood and tradition. One community in dire straits. And a centuries old rite that can mend all ills. Kerrmoor, written by Susan McCully and directed by Eve Muson, takes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:06AMThis semester, CCBC Catonsville’s theatre department has taken on Lynn Nottage’s play, Intimate Apparel. Set in the New York City of 1905, the play tells the story of Esther, an …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMIn a season devoted to shows that play with fire, Fells Point Corner Theatre’s second production, Betrayal by Harold Pinter, keeps the flames alive. Directed by Andrew J. Porter, Betrayal …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59PMIn their inaugural production, Murder at the Mansion Dessert Theatre has brought murder, mystery, and petit-fours to Kentlands Mansion in the form of Polter-heist. Polter-heist, written by T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53AMFemme fatales and fedoras, trench coats and torch songs, intrigue and suspense… such is the tagline for Happenstance Theater’s Cabaret Noir, and it offers a tantalizing glimpse of what l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMThey say that art is the decoration of space, but music is the decoration of time. More than mere decoration, though, music captures time, preserves it, wrapping a lifetime of memories in th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMOn a dark and stormy night, six weekend guests, three servants, and a stranger find themselves trapped in a dead man’s country estate. And as the evening progresses, their numbers begin to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PMWashington National Opera opens its 60th season with Georges Bizet’s iconic verismo opera, Carmen, directed by E. Loren Meeker. Arguably the most popular work in the operatic repertoi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02AMThe Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre kicks off their 54th season with the North American premiere of A Sensation Novel, a play in three “volumes” written by W. S. Gilbert. If t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:46PMThe facade of a blue house dominates the stage at Fells Point Corner Theatre. Sliding glass doors and a kitchen window look out onto a concrete patio, where a grill, fire pit, and a small ta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AMThe Colonial Players of Annapolis have opened their 67th season with Sherlock’s Last Case, a darkly-funny send-up of the famous sleuth, written by Charles Marowitz and directed by Beth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49AM“What is honor?” It’s what King Henry IV is fighting to uphold. It’s what Harry Percy, the Hotspur, is fighting to defend. It’s what Prince Henry is trying to g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PMMichael Paulsen has news for his nearest and dearest; he’s getting married! Word of the impending nuptials is not being taken well, however. You see, Michael is only three months out f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PMThe Pretties, written by Ann Turiano, and directed by Lynn Morton, is a retelling of Aeschylus’ ancient trilogy, The Oresteia. The Oresteia tells the story of Orestes and his quest t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:34PMHeritage Players is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and so is its newest production, Really Rosie, which is directed by Stuart C. Kazanow. Written by Maurice Sendak, with music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PM“This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!” sings Matthew Ancarrow at the end of Act 1, as Antipholus of Syracuse finds himself confusingly entrenched in the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52PMDog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is the penultimate show of Spotlighters’ 53rd season and boy does it pack a punch. This unauthorized parody, written by Burt V. Royal, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22AMAs the weather turns sultry, Baltimore theater goers with an appreciation for irony should make it a point not to miss 2nd Star Productions current show, Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winnin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PMJacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. And, for the month of May, he’s alive and well at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, too. Jacques Brel is “a musical re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01PMAnne Arundel Community College’s Spring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera opens at an auction within the dilapidated Paris Opera House, in the year 19…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:23PMSome of Broadway’s biggest hits have merged into one show and found their way to Baltimore, occupying our own South Broadway in Fells Point. Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical revue…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:36PMThere’s a whole lot of hopping going on at Pumpkin Theatre this month. The Frog Prince is the penultimate show of Pumpkin Theatre’s 47th season. Written by Donald J. Leonard Jr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:12PMSt. John Evangelical Lutheran Church has been taken over by Catholics! And they’re doing the Time Warp? Last night, St. John’s and Wolf Pack Theatre Company premiered their sprin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMItalian director and actor Massimiliano Finazzer Flory brought his latest project, Being Leonardo da Vinci (An Impossible Interview), to The Kennedy Center on April 2, 2015, for a single en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:28AMWith Director Greg Bell at the helm, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest made a strong premiere at Audrey Herman’s Spotlighters Theatre Friday night. Written by Dale Wasserman and ad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12AMThe sounds of lutes. A rainbow of lights. A copy of The Yale Shakespeare positioned conspicuously on a leather chair. A skull sitting on a pedestal. A ghost hanging from the rafters. These a…
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