If a family member were accused of a crime, how far would you go to clear their name? The Colonial Players, an Annapolis-based company celebrating its 76th season, is asking. The question is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:10PMThe Colonial Players, Annapolis’ premier theatre-in-the-round company, is keeping it real. Every show scheduled for their 76th season is based on a true story. First up? “Tiny Beautiful …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:04PMLast call, Parrotheads! Pull that Hawaiian shirt from the back of the closet and set sail for Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre for the last weekend of “Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritav…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17AMWith the school year winding down, social media accounts are flooded with pictures of graduating seniors. It’s impossible not to feel nostalgic about adolescent rites of passage: summer jo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:54PM“The Baker’s Wife” has quite a pedigree. Inspired by the 1938 French film, “La femme du boulanger,” and written by Tony Award-winning playwright Joseph Stein, with music and lyrics…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:31PM“Little Women?” Yes, please! Who can resist Louisa May Alcott’s story of the March sisters coming of age during the American Civil War. Upon its 1868 publication, the novel became an i…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:05PMFirst, you have to get over the icky name: Urinetown. Then, you have to get past the unpleasant setting: a public restroom. However, once you’ve accepted those two things, “Urinetown: Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:01PMWith Christmas less than a month away, there’s a good chance you’ve already heard the late crooner Bing Crosby belting out Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” on an all-holiday music…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMDespite his own success on stage and in films, actor John Henry Redwood was frustrated with the lack of quality roles for Black actors. This frustration led him to playwriting, and now, twen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:42PMTheColonial Players, Annapolis’ oldest theater company, kicked off its 75th season with a much older play—“Tartuffe” by famed 17th century French playwright, poet, and actor Moliére…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:50PMThe 1984 blockbuster film “Footloose” launched actor Kevin Bacon’s career into super-stardom and gave us the catchy title song that became a number one hit for singer/songwriter Kenny …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:45PMMaryland playwright Bob Bartlett is fast making a name for himself in site-specific theatre. In 2018, he wrote the romantic and funny “The Accident Bear” and produced it in a laundromat.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23PMOld and new come together in the hit musical comedy “Head Over Heels.” With a plot adapted from Sir Phillip Sidney’s 16th-century “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” and music a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:36PMIn 2023, everyone loves a musical. In 16th century London, not so much. “Something Rotten!” takes us to Renaissance England where Will Shakespeare reigns supreme as the rock star of Eliz…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AMMeet Inspector Ruffing. Cut from the same cloth as Dame Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Ruffing is a complex detective with sharp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:35PMAs literary characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have had quite a life. They first appeared in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” as the Danish prince’s ill-fated friends-turn-spies.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:17PMLearning to drive a car is a right-of-passage. Most of us can tell you where we learned and who taught us—sometimes with brilliant nostalgia for the vehicle we were in and with gratitude f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57AM“The Sound of Music” (music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) has been enchanting audiences since making its 1959 Broadway…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:41PMThe year is 1974. While the war in Viet Nam dominates headlines across America, the small town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi is dealing with salacious news all its own. Prominent attorney an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:35AMChances are you are familiar with the plot—ghostly visitors transform a miser’s heart just in time for Christmas. Everyone from Jim Henson’s Muppets to the Royal Shakespeare Company of…
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