57 stories by "Andrew L. Baughman"
A Q&A with Producing Director Gregory Keng Strasser about creating the queer- and BIPOC-centered interactive fiction.
This Halloween season, Free Range Humans treats audiences to a one-of-a-kind production of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde in Jekyll & Hyde: An Immersive Musical Experience at Frederi…
"Anything can happen if you let it" isn't just the watchcry of the rosy cheeked heroine of Mary Poppins, currently dazzling audiences at Sacred Heart's Glyndon Area Players. It would also se…
Something funny is going on at Potomac Playmakers in Hagerstown, Maryland! It's a new production of Nunsense, an interactive musical with book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggins. Anyone who g…
Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman’s The Secret Garden boasts one of the most gorgeous scores in the history of musical theatre, but is rarely undertaken by community theatre groups due to i…
For a taste of France and classic musical theatre, Washington County Playhouse in Hagerstown is serving Lerner and Lowe's Gigi through August 5. It is a rarely produced musical, faithfully r…
Sitting in the audience of To Be or Not To Be In Love – That Is The Question?, a one-woman cabaret starring writer-choreographer Beverly Merella, might be the modern equivalent of atte…
An exciting aspect of CapFringe is getting a sneak peek at a new show in the first stage of development. Such is the case with DC Dogs’ Release: A Rock Opera, now playing at the Gallau…
Director Mike Harsh’s concept to set Hagerstown Community College’s Jesus Christ Superstar in a modern day Syrian-esque refugee camp gives the show a renewed immediacy that grips…
Landless Theatre Company has taken another classic Tony Award-winning Best Musical – Rupert Holmes’Â The Mystery of Edwin Drood –Â and has adapted it into a Symphonic M…
Landless Theatre Company announces the soft opening of The East Street Arts Center, a new performing arts studio in Frederick, MD. The 20,000 square foot space is available for local perform…
Though the week started on a tragic note for rock fans with the loss of Da(C-mo Molloy), and Novalux (Elias Mays Schutzman) vid Bowie, a sliver of light has emerged for local audiences in th…
The Landless Theatre Company is opening the new “East Street Arts Center” at 919-B N. East Street in Frederick, MD. The 12,000 square foot former church space will include a 180-…
The Landless Theatre Company announces development of its second work of "Metal Theatre" for production in Summer, 2016: The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Symphonic Metal Version. The produ…
It has been over a year since Stephen Sondheim gave DC's Landless Theatre Company unprecedented permission to create a Prog Metal orchestration of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Stre…
Cover your butts, DC: the Baltimore Rock Opera Society is about to invade Atlas Performing Arts Center with their brand new rock musical Electric Pharaoh, fresh from completing its first run…
The Halloween season is upon us, and for parents looking for a good "family friendly" scare at the movies, be sure to check out Teenage Ghost Punk. Apart from some minor language, this witty…
"Something funny's going on" in Frederick, and it is Being Revived and The Fredericktowne Players' co-production of the rarely performed Lucky Stiff, an early work by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen…
If garbage puppets and singing Pears give you heartburn and you hunger for more accessible Fringe fare, then I recommend The Dish by Jenny Splitter. Chock full of DC-insider references and a…
(The Best of the Capital Fringe)Â When Lee Ordeman stalks his female prey as the title character in Dracula. A Love Story, he might just conjure more imagery of the American Psycho than S…
Just when I worried this year's fringe was veering more mainstream than ever before, I found myself at Barking Fish Theatre Project's surrealistic W3. Suddenly, there was garbage puppetry…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Every now and then CapFringe makes a divine pairing of venue and production. Such is the case with No. 11 Productions’ Coosje at the Goethe Institut, where…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) When the DC Women’s Voices Theatre Festival rolls around in October, 2015, I sincerely hope playwright Jonelle Walker will be among the voices represented.…
The Landless Theatre Company announces casting for Summer of Rock productions at Warehouse Theatre: Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd – Prog Metal Version and Rock Bottom [A Rock Opus]. …
DC's Landless Theatre Company, currently developing a Prog Metal Version of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, announces that the prog metal orchestration is being written by a team of arrangers known…
