Sunday, 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 03:15AMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:06AMSunday, May 21, 2017
Friday marked the reprisal at Silver Spring Stage of a very timely Silent Sky, by Laura Gunderson. Produced by Seth Ghitelman and directed by Bill Hurlbut, it is the fascinating story of Hen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Tunnel Vision, written by Andrea Lepcio and directed by Deborah Randall, opened May 11, 2017 at the Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland. Venus Theatre, under the direction of founder Deborah R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Columbia Pro Cantare celebrated a few occasions with its final performance of the Season with Celebrations! If you will note, Celebrations! is plural, because it not only marked the 40th Ann…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous operetta, directed by Michael Hartsfield and produced by Maureen Rogers, opened on April 28, 2017 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse on Main Street…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Laurel Mill Playhouse is presenting Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore from April 28-May 21, 2017 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main Street, Laurel MD. H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:45PMSaturday, April 8, 2017
A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter lit up the floorboards at Silver Spring Stage on Friday, April 7, 2017. Produced by Andrea Spitz and directed by Matt Ripa, some will find it a comed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:29PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, directed by Jen Sizer and produced by Maureen Rogers, opened at the Laurel Mill Playhouse on Main Street in Laurel on Friday, March 24. The scrip…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:12AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
Steel Magnolias by the Heritage Players opened Friday, March 24, 2017, at the Thomas-Rice Auditorium written by Robert Harling and directed by Kevin James Logan and Katie Sheldon. This produ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
The musical Lucky Stiff with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty opened March 10, 2017, at Silhouette Stages and performed at Slayton House in Columbia, MD, under th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:37PMFriday, March 10, 2017
The Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening (The Musical), with Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater, and Music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind, and directed by Jenny Male, op…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMSaturday, February 25, 2017
Anton in Show Business by Jane Martin opened last night at Silver Spring Stage. The show is produced by Jim Robertson and directed by Erin Bone Steele. The plot is a strange one that satiriz…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:19PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Politics, laughter, and lunacy come together in this lesser known Neil Simon comedy, Laughter on the 23rd Floor which opened last night at Laurel Mill Playhouse. Directed by John D’Amato …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:37PM 
