Monday, December 5, 2022
When Sammy Jungwirth, a 17-year-old theatre prodigy from Baltimore, discovered a musical called “Beautiful and Damned” originally produced in London’s West End, he decided to acquire t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:26AMThursday, December 1, 2022
From the New York Stage to the Iron Crow Theatre in Baltimore comes “Head Over Heels,” the new queer musical that rocked the Big White Way garnering wonderful reviews. The book is writte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:53PMWednesday, November 16, 2022
“Mister Roberts,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan (and adapted from Heggen’s book) is currently playing at Salem Players. It is produced by An…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:18AMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Directed by artistic director Simon Godwin, Shakespeare Theatre Company will be presenting the Bard’s “Much Ado About Nothing” beginning on November 10. This play is probably one of th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:43PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Laurel Mill Playhouse is currently presenting the world-premiere of “Hellbent” by Jeff Dunne who also directs. The play is a satire of Dunne’s vision of hell. Lacey (Victoria Sova) and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:16PMMonday, October 3, 2022
TINA – The Tina Turner Musical” is the brand new North American tour just coming off the show’s Broadway run. “This new musical reveals a comeback story like no other, of a woman who…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:53PMTuesday, September 27, 2022
The Brentano String Quartet with Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, will be performing for Candlelight Concert Society on October 9, 2022. The program will include works by Claudio Monteverdi, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:35AMRep Stages production of “Songs for a New World” is a collection of songs by Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade, and Bridges of Madison County) and is a re…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:01AMMonday, September 26, 2022
The National Philharmonic has begun its new season which will include great orchestral works from Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, along with Berlioz’s “Requiem” and Orff’s “Camina Buran…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:13PMSunday, September 18, 2022
Co-produced by Bill Hurlbut and Tristan Poje and directed by Rob Gorman, “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Annie Baker follows an acting class in a small town in Vermont over the course …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:34PMThursday, September 15, 2022
Candlelight Concert Society began their 50th Anniversary season with a splash. The Knights Chamber Orchestra, with Eric Jacobsen conducting, drew several standing ovations for their performa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:35AMWednesday, September 7, 2022
The City of Fairfax Theatre Company will be presenting William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” at the Veteran’s Amphitheater in Fairfax, Virginia beginning September 9, 2022. The CFTC is exc…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:03PMThursday, August 25, 2022
On September 7, 2022, DC’s Theatre J will open their production of Hannah Moscovitch’s play “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story.” The play was created by Hannah Moscovitch, Ben Caplan, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:59PMSaturday, August 13, 2022
With an audience of mostly family and friends, “Sister Act,” presented by the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts (CCTA), opened this week in the Smith Theatre at Howard Community Colleg…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:39PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s theatrical sensation, “Hamilton,” has finally returned to DC for a long run at the Kennedy Center after pandemic delays. Like many, I saw the filmed version and wa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:50PMSunday, July 31, 2022
1st STAGE is presenting three plays in its “Logan Festival of Solo Performance” through August 7, 2022—“Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Live” written and performed by…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PMMonday, July 18, 2022
George Bernard Shaw’s comedy “Pygmalion” was presented this past weekend by Thunderous Productions. The play was later adapted into the musical classic, “My Fair Lady,” and the bas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:47PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Shakespeare fans can be happy this summer. The Folger Theatre is back with live performances and built a theater from the ground up inside the majestic Great Hall of DC’s National Building…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:09PMMonday, July 11, 2022
In partnership with A Taste for Murder Productions, “Kill Again’s Island,” written by Dean Fiala and directed by Laura W. Andruski, will be performed at Kentlands Mansion this upcoming…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:03PMSunday, July 10, 2022
The North American Tour of the award-winning musical “The Band’s Visit” has returned to the Kennedy Center. With music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Itamar Moses, the musical …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:14PMWednesday, July 6, 2022
Momentum Collective, Inc. is presently showing “Last Call, the musical,” the latest “playcert” from Prince George’s County resident, playwright, Jason A. Ellis. He is also the exec…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 4, 2022
Sometimes, less is more. “Native Gardens,” a comedy by Karen Zacarías is a perfect example. Currently playing at Silver Spring Stage, it has a small cast (only four members have any dia…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:25PMSunday, July 3, 2022
“The Music Man” is considered by many to be the epitome of Americana in musical theatre. With lyrics, music, and book by Meredith Willson and story by Willson and Franklin Lacey, Olney…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:59AMSunday, June 19, 2022
If you watched the 2022 Tony Awards, you may remember they took time to honor all the understudies on Broadway. With Covid still plaguing our theatres, understudies have allowed many plays t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:36PMThursday, June 16, 2022
Summertime in Howard County is always a little brighter when the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company returns to the PFI Historic Park in Ellicott City with one of their memorable outdoor producti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:55PMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” is being presented by Silhouette Stages. While the original book was by Oscar Hammerstein II, this is an updated version written by Douglas Carter…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:08PMSunday, June 12, 2022
This summer, Imagination Stage is offering a really “cool” treat. They are presenting the musical adaptation of the perennial children’s classic, “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” the 193…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:05PMOn June 9, 2022 Theater J Presents opened the groundbreaking, documentary play, “Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities.” It was conceived and written by Anna …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:29PMSaturday, June 4, 2022
The National Players returns to Olney Theatre Center with the American classic, “A Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansberry and directed by Christopher Michael Richardson. “A Raisin i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:37PMThursday, June 2, 2022
The long-awaited concert by pianist Dénes Várjon (Read our interview with Dénes Várjon) was held June 1, 2022 presented by the Candlelight Concert Society. Though I am not an expert, I h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:04PMMonday, May 30, 2022
On May 22 Candlelight Concert Society (CCS) presented “American String Quartet with Octavio Vazquez” and the audience was in for a real treat. Even though it was getting stormy outside, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:56PM 
