A great treat for this Halloween will be the Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s production of “The Rocky Horror Show” at Frederick Community College. If you have never gone to a production of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56AMEvita Peron was one of the most charismatic women of the 20th century. An illegitimate child of a rancher who left her and her mother in poverty in a small village in Argentina, she was on h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:08PMThe Greater Baltimore-Washington Area is fortunate to have several top-notch Shakespearean companies. Probably one of the most well-known of these, not just locally but internationally, is t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:12PMDwight D. Eisenhower was president when I first became old enough to realize there was a president, so I grew up in his era. “Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground,” now running at the Olney …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:12PMThe Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) launched it 27th season with Kate Hamill’s humorous adaptation of the classical Jane Austen novel, “Sense and Sensibility.” This production is direc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:47PMLately, I have heard pundits complain that movies and television producers are timid about doing political drama. Early Greek playwrights, Shakespeare, writers like Arthur Miller, and those …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:20PMWhen you attend a performance at Toby’s Dinner Theatre, you never are disappointed. The musical,“The Addams Family,” directed and choreographed by Mark Minnick, lives up to expectat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:10PMA Tony Award nominee for Best Play, “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” by Jocelyn Bioh opened September 6, 2024 at Arena Stage. It is a very funny comedy that gives insight into one of our…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:26PMFor their 50th Anniversary, September Song Musical Theatre presented the recent Broadway musical “Anastasia:The Musical,” directed by Debbie Mobley. With a book by the late, great Terren…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:52AMFor this writer, I have many personal connections to Silhouette Stages. Almost forty years ago, when I was living in Columbia and a member of the now defunct Columbia Community Players, I ad…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:27PMIf you are a theatre-buff and want to plan a fun trip this month, you might want to head out to Shepherdstown, West Virginia for the Contemporary American Theater Festival this July. There…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:59AM“Winter” is an original play by Mark Scharf and it is currently being presented at Laurel Mill Playhouse. The two-character play is Lori Bruun’s directorial debut of a full-length play…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18PMHoward County Summer Theatre’s productions are always something joyfully anticipated. This year proves to be no disappointment with their sparkling production of “Guys and Dolls.” From…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:02PMBeginning July 14, 2024, the Young Victorian Theatre Company will be performing “Ruddigore” by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. J. Ernest Green will be the musical director and conducto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:53PM“The Merry Wives of Windsor” may not be one of Shakespeare’s classics comedies, but it is fit for a queen. Many scholars feel the Bard wrote this farce on the “suggestion” of Queen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PMIron Crow Theatre’s production of “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” is opening this Friday at Theatre Project. It is a show based on the true-life story of a 16-year-old British sch…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:23PMThe wonderful and world-renowned Step Afrika! will be performing their production, “The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence,” at Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theatre beginning on June 7,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:27PMIf you have never seen “Jesus Christ Superstar,” you are in luck. The 50th Anniversary Tour will be opening this weekend at The National Theatre in Washington, D.C. for a short run. I ha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:00AMOn May 4, 2024 Columbia Pro Cantare took us on an entertaining musical trip down the Great White Way under the new leadership of conductor, Laura Lee Fischer. Appropriately, the night began …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:07PMImani Winds has been playing for the world for over twenty-five years, and on Sunday, May 12, 2024 they will be gracing the stage for Candlelight Concert Society at the Smith Theatre at Howa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:02PMOn March 29, 2024 Arena Stage will be begin the run of the “heartfelt” musical, “Unknown Soldier,” co-written by Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman. It is directed by Tri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:18PMThis youthful foursome of extremely talented musicians appeared at the Smith Theatre at Howard Community College straight from their debut at Carnegie Hall. They made the strings of their in…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:00PM“Little Shop of Horrors” was a small off-Broadway show that became American classic. It is reflective of the latter half of the 20th century with its weird monster, reminiscent of “The…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:05AMNow playing at Silver Spring Stage, “Dance Nation” by Clare Barron is a coming of age play about several young teenage girls and one boy who are students at a small-town dance studio. (I…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:20PMFrank Rich, the New York Times drama critic for many years, wrote that Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off!” was the funniest play of his lifetime. I’m not sure I would go as far as Mr. Rich…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:18PMOn March 22 and 23, 2024, Authentic Community Theatre (ACT) will be presenting a production of Green Day’s “ground-breaking” musical, “American Idiot” at The Maryland Theatre. This…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:32PMAfter a two-day postponement due to weather, Candlelight Concert Society treated us to the moving music of British cellist, Natalie Clein, with amazing piano accompaniment by Qing Jiang, on …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:02PMArena Stage is currently presenting the play, “Tempestuous Elements,” written by Kia Corthron and directed by Psalmayene 24. It deals with Anna Julia Cooper, an educator who fought for h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:31PMStories about racism in America abound in literature and drama. “Till,” the story of Emmet Till, tells of the lynching of a young black boy whose only crime may have been looking at a Wh…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:26PMI urge you not to miss Ballet 5:8’s important production of “Butterfly” on March 16, 2024. Julianna Rubio Slager’s piece is a “unforgettable and moving” experience” that tell…
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