Monday, March 9, 2026
The world can be divided into two kinds of people: Those who love Shakespeare and those who would rather eat glass than sit through a production of "Hamlet." The good news is you don't have …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2026
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is arguably the most recognizable opening line in English literature. First published as a 31-part serial in 1859, Charles Dickens' "A T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2026
The hit musical "RENT" has deep roots. In 1988, American playwright Billy Aronson began writing a rock opera based on Giacoma Puccini's 1893 "La bohème." A year later, Aronson began collabo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Familial relationships are complicated at their best and toxic at their worst. Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and television producer, Jon Robin Baitz, knows this. His storied caree…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2025
"It's déjà vu all over again." The famous Yogi Berra quote could easily be a line from the 1993 blockbuster "Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell"or from someone watch…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
In the summer of 1983, it was impossible to turn on HBO and not catch a scene from Universal Picture's "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds. The trailer …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:27PM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2025
"It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely." In "Anything Goes," lovestruck Billy Crocker sings those words to heiress Hope Harcourt aboard the S.S. America. Audiences, however, might …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Just in time for Mother's Day, the Colonial Players invite us to explore the miraculous and frightening topics of pregnancy and childbirth in "Bump," a play by New York-based playwright, scr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:43PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
In making small talk, we've all asked and been asked "So, what do you do?" In 1974, famed writer, historian, and radio personality, Louis "Studs" Terkel, turned the cocktail party chat into …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:25PM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2025
Who can resist a tale of love, greed, and carnivorous plants? For more than 40 years, the musical "The Little Shop of Horrors" has delighted audiences around the globe. The dark comedy, with…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Garth Williams was an American artist best known for his work on the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House of the Prairie" series, but did you know he authored one of the most controversial chi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2024
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 12:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2024
The 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 Thin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Last 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 Margaritaville…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:17AM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2024
With 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 jobs…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
"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 by Stephe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2024
"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 immedia…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
First, 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: The Mu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
With 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 radio sta…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Despite 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 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2023
TheColonial 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. When M…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
The 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 Loggin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2023
Maryland 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. Dur…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Old 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 and lyrics fr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:36PM[SHARE]In 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 Elizabet…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Meet 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 obs…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
As 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. English…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2023
Learning 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 for…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
"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 deb…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2023
 The 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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2022
Chances 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 Londo…
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