Saturday, June 16, 2018
5 Courses of Funny Fare, written by Jim Wise and produced by Maureen Rogers and John Cusumano, and playing through this Sunday at Laurel Mill Playhouse, is really five One Act Plays, loosely…
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The highly anticipated Columbia Festival of the Arts begins on June 14th with the highly acclaimed The Stoop Storytelling Series at the Smith Theatre at Howard Community College. If you have…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMSunday, May 13, 2018
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar is a riveting political drama now playing at Olney Theatre Center under the direction of Michael Bloom. It will move you and keep you on the edge of your se…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53PMSaturday, May 12, 2018
Big Fish, directed by TJ Lukacsina, opened this weekend at Slayton House in Columbia, Maryland. With the musical, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by John August, Big Fish opened o…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
The Speed Twins by Maureen Chadwick is presently playing at Venus Theatre in Laurel Maryland. This is the National Premiere of the British drama and is directed by Deborah Randall who is als…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11AMSunday, March 25, 2018
Moon Over Buffalo, written by Ken Ludwig, opened at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, directed by Larry Simmons and produced by Maureen Rogers. Moon Over Buffalo is a farce in the Shakespearean tra…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMSaturday, March 10, 2018
The classic musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, danced and sang its way on stag…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMFriday, March 9, 2018
This Little Light by Jennifer Faletto opened this week at Venus Theatre. Deborah Randall is the director of this remarkable play. In her director’s notes, Randall calls This Little Light a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Titanic in Concert, story and book by Peter Sone, lyrics and music by Maury Yeston, opened this weekend at the Heritage Players at the Rice Auditorium in Catonsville. This 1997 Tony Award-wi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:28PMSunday, February 4, 2018
The Silhouette Players are best known for their spectacular musical productions. However, every once in a while, they like to give some of their talented members a chance to shine on their o…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Company, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, is now playing at the JBK Theater at the Frederick Community College presented by the Fredericktowne Players. It …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PMSaturday, December 9, 2017
Holiday Memories plays this weekend only at Howard Community College in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theatre produced by the Howard County Arts Collective and di…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06AMSunday, December 3, 2017
It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic. One we want to see every holiday season. Growing up, it was a household staple for us even though we were Jewish. The theme, the importance of kindness,…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
In keeping with performing plays from five different decades in celebration of their 50th Anniversary Silver Spring reached back to right after Sept. 11, 2001, to do Omnium Gatherum by Alexa…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PMSaturday, October 21, 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird, written by the enigmatic Harper Lee and dramatized by Christopher Sergel, opened at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, directed by Jen Sizer and produced by Maureen Rogers. A …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMSunday, October 15, 2017
Cry Baby opened at Slayton House in Columbia, MD this week. The play is based on a 1990s movie by John Waters of Hairspray fame and directed and choreographed by Tommy Malek. The play was tu…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PMMonday, September 25, 2017
Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, is now playing at the JBK Theater at the Frederick Community College, presented by the Fredericktowne Play…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AMMonday, September 18, 2017
The opening of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap this weekend marked the start of the 50th Season for Silver Spring Stage. The play, which opened on Broadway in the late 1970s, is a suspense thriller …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Aglaonike’s Tiger, written by Claudia Barnett and directed by Deborah Randall, is playing now at the Venus Theatre in Laurel, MD. The drama is based on the first recorded woman astronomer …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AMSunday, September 10, 2017
An Inspector Calls, by J.B. Priestly, is currently playing at Laurel Mill Playhouse, produced by Maureen Rogers and directed by Ilene Chalmers. Priestly was from the working class, albeit wh…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
Silver Spring Stage opened its 2017 One-Act Festival which has been part of their season for fifty years. Each weekend several short plays from the past and present are produced. There is us…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:33PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Thurgood, a one-man-show by George Stevens, Jr., is playing at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney. The play is a about the late Supreme Court Justice and re…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMSunday, July 16, 2017
The Lion in Winter, written by James Goldman and directed by Jordan Friend, opened this weekend at The Highwood Theatre in Silver Spring; it is being performed in repertory with King John. T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMFriday, July 14, 2017
This weekend, Laurel Mill Playhouse (LMP) will be doing two tributes. The first is to the wonderful Carol Burnett Show that graced our TVs from 1967-1978. The show included those wonderful c…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMSunday, July 9, 2017
Sitting outdoors is probably the best venue to watch Shakespeare, and watching a production in July of his classic comedy A Midsummers Night’s Dream under the direction of Tom Delise i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMSunday, July 2, 2017
One Man, Two Guvnors directed by William T. Fleming and produced by Karen Flemling is now playing at Silver Spring Stage. This play is a British farce by Richard Bean, based on The Servant o…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:11PMSunday, June 25, 2017
Manual Cinema: The End of TV proved to be an interesting last night for the Columbia Festival of the Arts for this year. It was presented at the Smith Theatre at the Horowitz Center at Howar…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
On Friday, June 23rd, the Columbia Festival of the Arts brought up the curtain on another edition of the wonderfully unusual, Baltimore-based performing arts group, Stoop Storytelling, at th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMSaturday, June 10, 2017
The Curious Savage by John Patrick, directed by Nick Cherone and produced by Maureen Rogers, is a comedy which premiered in 1950, and it provides much laughter and warmth. The story seems s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PMFriday, June 9, 2017
Inheritors: The Nature of Keys is an original collaborative drama by Howard Community College’s Art Collective, directed by S. G. Kramer that opened at the HCC’s Horowitz Center Studio T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:26PMThursday, June 8, 2017
Under new Director David Phillips, the Columbia Festival of the Arts will be back at the Lakefront in Town Center Columbia this year. Phillips, who has a background as Associate Dean for the…
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