Monday, October 1, 2018
Just when Americans think we have a monopoly on political rancor, along comes a show from across the pond to remind us that we aren’t the only ones dealing with extreme political parti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:57PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Living and Dying with Tricia McCauley is a raw and personal journey through grief. Tricia McCauley, the local actress whose brutal 2016 murder rocked the theater community, was a personal f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMSunday, September 16, 2018
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels is being presented by Sandy Spring Theatre Group at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg in partnership with the City of Gaithersburg. The play is produced by Jerry…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14PMEmilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson, produced by Bill Hurlbut and directed by Erin Bone Steele is presented at Silver Spring Stage. The company has …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14AMSunday, September 9, 2018
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street presented by Rep Stage, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by High Wheeler, took to the boards this week at Howard Community C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:11AMSaturday, September 8, 2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by Jen Sizer and produced by Maureen Rogers, opened September 7 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse. Written by Dale Wasserman (based on Ken Kesey̵…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PMFriday, August 31, 2018
For a long Labor Day Weekend, September Song is presenting Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Carroll Arts Center in Westminster, Maryland. Produced by Allen Cross and Joan Eichhorn and di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:01PMSaturday, July 21, 2018
Margherita by Anthony E. Gallo, presented by the Seventh Street Playhouse at the Greenbelt Arts Center under the direction of Beatrix Whitehall, is a drama about the long extramarital relati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:48PMSunday, July 15, 2018
Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare, directed by Sally Boyett and Donald Hicken, is being performed on the grounds of St. John’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30PMSaturday, July 7, 2018
Laughing Stock, a farce, written by Charles Morey, directed by Daniel Johnston, and produced by Maureen Rogers is at Laurel Mill Playhouse, until Sunday, July 15, 2018. Laughing Stock is per…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:13AMSaturday, June 23, 2018
The Columbia Festival of the Arts began last week in Columbia, Maryland. After a wonderful weekend of music and other performances as well as a place for local artists to display their work …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:55PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:03PMSunday, June 10, 2018
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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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,…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AM 
