Monday, February 15, 2016
The saga of four choir members growing up in the “Buckle of the Bible Belt” and dealing with their sexuality forms the basis for Southern Baptist Sissies that is currently playing…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PMSunday, February 14, 2016
Iron Crow Theatre, Baltimore’s only queer theater company, unveiled its 2016-17 season that is being billed as its biggest ever. The new season was announced at a Champagne reception on Fe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:59PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
On the heels of the largest snowstorm in Baltimore history, the most financially successful musical in history (approaching gross income of $1 billion on Broadway alone) has come to Charm Ci…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:42PMThursday, December 10, 2015
For decades The Sound of Music has enthralled audiences worldwide with its superb score and its uplifting message that the power of love can prevail against all odds during a dangerou…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:28AMMonday, November 16, 2015
In Guys and Dolls there are a number of quaint references to slices of New York life from yesteryear: Klein’s, Saks, Wanamaker’s, the Roxy, the A&P, floating craps games, a ca…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:38PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Footloose, the four-time Tony Award-nominated 1996 musical that was adapted by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie from the mega-popular 1984 movie of the same name is on display at the Rockvil…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:44PMFriday, November 6, 2015
You know that once the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, Adolf Hitler, Lucifer, Johnnie Cochran, and Genghis Kahn make their way into a musical, you better be ready for non-stop laughter. The Book of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:38AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Any pair of boots would have been welcome to deal with the copious rainfall that landed outside the Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center on opening night. But the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:13PMMonday, August 17, 2015
I must admit that when I first saw the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, the last thing I suspected was that this crime drama would eve…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:12PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
It might be seen as a miracle, but the cozy Spotlighters Theatre has been transformed into a spacious Baltimore concert hall where screaming fans of the 5-member Christian boy band Altar Boy…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:56PMMonday, June 29, 2015
In a turnabout from its previous musical that offered the relatively sober Carousel, Olney Theatre Center, in the midst of its 77th season, is currently mounting the gregarious, laugh-a-minu…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:48AMMonday, June 8, 2015
If there is anything wrong with Burt V. Royal’s play, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead currently playing at Spotlighters Theatre, it is that not enough people will catch t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:26PMSunday, May 17, 2015
Center Stage’s 2014/2015 season comes to a close with the world premier production of the new musical Marley, which weaves together the life and songs of reggae music legend Bob Marley. Th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:03AMMonday, April 20, 2015
Similar to other Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classics, Carousel, now playing at the Olney Theatre Center’s Main Stage, offers memorable music combined with a serious theme that hovers …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:31AMFriday, April 10, 2015
Four thousand miles may seem like nothing in our connected world. It’s huge, however, when you’re on a bicycle trip for that distance, and it could be a chasm that wide when peo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:21PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Imagine having a voice in selecting the cast of a play. As an audience member of Eat the Runt, which will run for three consecutive weekends at the Arts Collective (AC) at Howard Community…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:49PMSunday, March 22, 2015
The tragedy of gay 21 year-old college student Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder at the hands of two young men in Laramie, Wyoming in October 1998 still pains most decent people. Hatred by…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:29PMMonday, March 16, 2015
In its recent works, Iron Crow Theatre, Baltimore’s queer theatre company, has delved into the subject of death from different angles. From the Jeffrey Dahmer murders in Joseph W. Ritsch…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:39PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Even if one entered Olney Theatre Center’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab without knowing anything about George Brant’s taut play Grounded, the visuals already established will tip you off …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:19PMSunday, February 15, 2015
Creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky—that surely defines that ooky Addams family. You can add hilarious and goofy to the mix and you have the recipe for a delicious, zany production of T…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:12PMMonday, February 9, 2015
Olney Theatre Center launched its 77th season with a joyful and uplifting production of the musical Godspell. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz who went on to write Pippin and Wick…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:10AMFriday, January 23, 2015
What perfect timing for Center Stage to present Kemp Powers’ outstanding play One Night in Miami! The fictional story of four African-American icons who were also friends—Cassius Clay,…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:36PMSaturday, January 17, 2015
The set of Samuel D. Hunter’s 2012 The Whale, currently playing at Rep Stage’s Studio Theatre on the campus of Howard Community College screams, “I don’t care anymore.” An…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:31PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
One Night in Miami, written by Kemp Powers, will be opening at Center Stage on January 14. It offers a fictional account of what may have happened in a tiny Miami hotel room on February 25…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:17AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Any actor will tell you that playing a role is not simply memorizing lines from a script and following the play’s director. One needs to do research and delve into the character’s qualit…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:18AMMonday, October 6, 2014
In keeping with the Iron Crow Theatre Company’s tradition of staging unconventional, thought-provoking, often dark dramas, the kick-off to their three-play 2014-2015 Season did not disappo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:31AMMonday, September 29, 2014
Anyone who had lived through the Great Depression could tell you how difficult and scary that time was. Not only was there real concern that one day you would lose the roof over your head or…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:46AMSaturday, September 13, 2014
The timing of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere production of Colossal could not be better. The play is about football (the new season has just begun); it’s abo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:50PMMonday, August 18, 2014
For a musical to be successful, all the components must jell. Of course, there must be a good a score and lyrics as the starting point. But then you need a solid ensemble, good technical…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AMFriday, June 20, 2014
If you never contemplated your purpose in life, raise your hands. Not that many rose I see. Identifying one’s purpose in life is the central theme in Avenue Q—a clever, funny, poignant…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:43AMMonday, June 9, 2014
There are three groups of theatergoers who will particularly enjoy the Iron Crow Theatre Company’s production of Bareback Ink: aficionados of Greek mythology, gay men, and folks who apprec…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:01PM 
