Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Maryland Theatre Collective’s production of “Falsettos” is an energetic, humorous, and intense rendition of the 1992 Tony Award-winning musical opera by William Finn and James Lapin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:39PMMonday, April 22, 2024
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company often begins their shows with pre-show entertainment such as a mood-setting musical number or hymn. For this show, as the boisterous audience slowly files into…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:18PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
It would be difficult to put “Gypsy” on stage without a strong leading role—Ethel Merman’s ghost is always waiting in the wings. Now playing at the Classic Theatre of Maryland, this …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:26PMMonday, March 18, 2024
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” now playing at Compass Rose Theater is a delightful and moving production. This 2005 Tony Award-winning musical (written by Rachel Sheinkin, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
“The Oresteia,” now playing at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, is based on a Greek trilogy written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE. Although the idea of Greek tragedies may be daunti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:03PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
A world premiere adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” has taken the stage at Classic Theatre of Maryland. Written by Artistic Director Sally Boyett and Laura Rocklyn and direc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:08PMMonday, February 5, 2024
A Shakespeare play in old English is a challenge under any circumstances, but performing a 428-year-old comedy with actors under the age of 18 is particularly impressive. Children’s Theatr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:24PMThe idea for the multi-media presentation now playing at Greenbelt Arts Center grew from a desire to make it possible for immunosuppressed actors to participate in theatre during Covid. The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:06PMFriday, January 26, 2024
Little Orphan Annie is an American icon, starting with a 19th century poem and a more relevant comic in 1924. The musical “Annie” arrived on Broadway in 1977, winning seven Tony Awards, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:26PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Compass Rose Theater’s production of “The Gin Game,” directed by Rick Wade, is an intense, two-hander that will hold your attention to the last minute. Written by D.L.Coburn, this 1977…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:37AMWednesday, December 20, 2023
A wonderful break from traditional holiday classics could be found in “Home for the Holidays: A Cabaret,” a little gem produced by the Maryland Theatre Collective that had the air of a p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PMThursday, December 7, 2023
The audience arrives in Baltimore, decked out in red, black, and sequins and is expecting to be entertained. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”—the touring, Tony Award-winning Broadway show w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:09PMSunday, November 12, 2023
“I and You,” the award-winning play by Lauren Gunderson at Compass Rose Theater, is a poignant, moving work that will take you to unexpected places. Directed by Jerry Winters, it is perf…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:48PMMonday, November 6, 2023
Theatre AACC returns this season its production of “12 Angry Jurors.” The American classic, “12 Angry Men,” was written by Reginald Rose and adapted by Sherman L. Sergel as “12 Ang…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17AMSunday, October 29, 2023
Happenstance Theater’s “Cabaret Macabre” has returned to Baltimore Theater Project with a series of delightful vignettes that are dark, sometimes bloody, disturbing, and always funny. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
The Colonial Players have never shied away from unusual plays or difficult topics. Their latest offering, “Wit,” written by Margaret Edson, is a bracing, funny, and heartbreaking look at…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:45PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
There are two sure things about the latest offering from Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC): “As You Like It” is a total delight and it is an excellent starting place for anyone shy ab…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:18PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
“Mean Girls,” a Talent Machine Company summer production at Anne Arundel Community College, is the perfect vehicle for taking us back—some would say— to a terrible time in our lives.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45AMThursday, July 6, 2023
“First Date” is a delightful night of summer entertainment in downtown Annapolis. It was written by Austin Winsberg with lyrics and music by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, and directed…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:13PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Although Shakespeare lived almost entirely under the reasonably stable reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the machinations and murders of previous princes, from Richard III to Henry VIII and all th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:07AMSunday, June 11, 2023
With the promise of presenting of all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes, it’s hard to imagine what to expect. Funny and irreverent certainly, but “The Complete Works of William S…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:34PMSaturday, May 13, 2023
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s production of “Hamlet,” directed by Eleanor Holdridge, is an energetic and familiar story filled with the perils of politics, loyalty, and love. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:04PMSunday, April 16, 2023
“Putting it Together,” a musical review of Stephen Sondheim’s songs, is a fast-paced, intimate portrayal of the bright and dark aspects friendship, marriage, and relationships. Loose…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:45PMMonday, April 10, 2023
Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town” was written in hard times. The country was in the grips of the Depression; farmland was disintegrating into the dust bo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PMSunday, April 2, 2023
Maryland Theatre Collective’s production of “Disney’s Freaky Friday The Musical” is a delightful and spirited iteration of the franchise, which includes three movies and most recentl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:34PMMonday, March 27, 2023
What does a play from the 1700s have in common with a 70s sitcom? Not a lot, really, other than the fact that few people in the audience remember the culture of either. It is an odd pairing,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:55PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
It is hard to imagine a world that Shakespeare does not grace. Based on a true-story, “The Book of Will” shows us how easily the bard could have vanished into the ages. George Elliot sai…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:55PM“Love Like Tuesday,” playing at the Capital Hill Arts Workshop, is a tightly choreographed and seamless world premiere under the direction of Francesca Chilcote and movement coach Kathry…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:24PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
“The Learned Ladies,” a comedy written in verse by Molière in 1672, is now playing at Classic Theatre of Maryland in Annapolis. That description can be a little intimidating, if not off…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:34PMThursday, February 9, 2023
We expect a lot from touring Broadway shows to go along with their ticket prices, and “Les Misérables,” now playing at the Hippodrome, does not disappoint. Producer Cameron Mackintosh�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:24PMSaturday, February 4, 2023
The Tony Award-winning play “Peter and the Starcatcher” by Rick Elice has landed on the Children’s Theatre of Annapolis stage like a huge blender set on 11 speed. Met at first with the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:03PM 
