Wednesday, December 8, 2021
August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” is now playing at Arena Stage on the Fichlander Stage and directed by Tazewell Thompson. Wilson is one America’s foremost playwrights and his plays ha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:45PMMonday, November 29, 2021
I was most fortunate to spend a good part of my childhood through my twenties not far from Broadway. From 1957 to the middle 1990s, if you lived in New York, you were acutely aware of the ar…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:29PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will be present the holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” based on the story by Charles Dickens. This version has a bit of twist CSC’s annual version moves…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:16PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Ayad Akhtar’s acclaimed play, “Disgraced,” was first produced in 2013 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Obie Award for Playwriting that year. It received a Tony Award for Dra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:57PMSunday, November 14, 2021
Olney Theatre Center’s Mainstage reopened with a roar with their production of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.” The show—with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Ti…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:20PMMonday, November 1, 2021
On November 11, 2021, Peace Mountain Theatre Company will be opening their new season with Ayad Akhtar’s acclaimed play “Disgraced” at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. This…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:55AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
On November 7, 2021 Bach in Baltimore will present the World Premiere of Hollis Thoms’ “Requiem (2020) [in the time of coronavirus]” at The Maryland State Boychoir Center for the Arts …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:22PMMonday, October 18, 2021
“A Black and White Cookie,” written by Gary Morgenstein and produced by Maura Suilebhan, recently had its world premiere at Silver Spring Stage. The play follows two men, Harold Wilson (…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:41PMSunday, October 17, 2021
“Hadestown,” with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell and co-developed and directed by Rachel Chavkin (“Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812”), officially begins its …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:47PMThursday, October 14, 2021
Shakespeare’s “King Lear” is currently playing at the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory and is directed by Marshall B. Garrett. This is an unusual production as it is presented in the orig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:53PM“Clay’s Place: Inside my Blue Mind” was recently named a quarterfinalist in an international Stage Play Writing Competition. The play takes place in downtown Beale Street in Memphis, T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:28PMSaturday, October 9, 2021
On October 15 and 16, 2021, The Columbia Festival of the Arts will be featuring live performances at the Long Reach Village Center in Columbia honoring the 50th Anniversary of Long Reach Vil…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:56PM“Theater of War: Texas” is presented by the Theater of War with Brian Doerries as both director and producer and Marjolaine Goldsmith as production coordinator. As with their other pro…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:35PMWednesday, October 6, 2021
“The Thanksgiving Play,” written by Larissa FastHorse and directed by Raymond O. Caldwell, opens the 2021-22 season at the Olney Theatre Center in the newly-renovated Mulitz-Gudelsky The…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:37AMMonday, October 4, 2021
The Candlelight Concert Society announced that they are opening their 2021-2022 Season on October 9, 2021 with the world renowned violinist Kristóf Baráti and painist Roman Rabinovich at L…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:42PMSunday, September 26, 2021
The Columbia Festival of the Arts, in partnership with The Howard County Government with additional support from the Columbia Association, will be the hosts for the Long Reach Village Center…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:53AMThursday, September 23, 2021
Silver Spring Stage will be premiering Gary Morgenstein’s “A Black and White Cookie,” directed by Jacqueline Youm and produced by Maura Suilebhan. The play will be performed only ov…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:40PMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will be reopening its doors on September 20, 2021 with the production of “Teenage Dick” by Mike Lew, directed by Tony Award Nominee, Moritz von Stuelpnagel…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:46AMMonday, September 13, 2021
“Toni Stone” is a play about baseball. It is a play about Civil Rights and the true history of Blacks in America. It is also about women’s rights and their right to control their bodie…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:10PMOn Saturday, September 11, 2021, Johnny Mathis appeared in concert at the Strathmore Music Center – a stop on his “65 Years of Romance” Tour. Anyone over the age of 60 probably remembe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:37PMSaturday, September 11, 2021
Columbia, Maryland has grown since it first became a community in 1967. It is the second largest city in Maryland with a population over 100,000. It has always been a vital center for the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:52AMTuesday, September 7, 2021
A new theatrical company, Transformation Theatre, began in April 2019. Its goal is to provide a venue for “up-and-coming theatre artists to focus on socially relevant original, unpublished…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:29PMSunday, September 5, 2021
“Godspell,” with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by John-Michael Tebelakfirst, opened off-Broadway in May of 1971. It was subsequently made into a film in 1973 and had a re…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:03AMTuesday, August 31, 2021
On Sunday, August 29, 2021, PBS premiered “Wicked in Concert.” The show was hosted by the former co-stars of the original cast, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. The music was provided…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PMFriday, August 27, 2021
On September 3, 2021 Arena Stage will be presenting “Toni Stone” by Lydia Diamond. It is based on Martha Ackmann’s full-length biography, “Curveball, The Remarkable Story of Toni Sto…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:49PMMonday, August 23, 2021
“The Real Inspector Hound” by Tom Stoppard is now available via Zoom at Spooky Action Theater until August 29, 2021 and directed by Richard Henrich. The play is an absurdist comedy that …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:35AMSunday, August 15, 2021
“Time is On Our Side,” by local playwright R. Eric Thomas and presented by Perisphere Theater, is currently playing at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. The play is produced by Kevin …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:19AMWednesday, August 11, 2021
On August 13, 2021, Perisphere Theatre will be opening with their production of “Time is On Our Side” by R. Eric Thomas at the Black Box Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. It will run, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:55AMSunday, August 8, 2021
In recognition of Broadway’s reopening, PBS will present “Wicked in Concert: A Musical Celebration of the Iconic Broadway Score” on Sunday, August 29, 2021. The performance will have �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:41PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
In 1979 I moved to Columbia, Maryland, the same year Toby Orenstein opened her dinner theatre. Since then, it has become one of the treasured members of Howard County’s artistic community.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:24PMSaturday, July 24, 2021
An encore presentation of “Judgement Day” will be streaming starting on July 26, 2021 and running through August 1, 2021. The proceeds benefit the Barrington Stage Company, an award-winn…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:15PM 
