19 stories by "Emily Schweich"
It takes bravery to decide that your story is worth telling. It's even more admirable to have the courage to tell your story onstage with a 16-piece orchestra. That's what Ahamefule J. Oluo …
Oscar Wilde's final show is subtitled "a trivial comedy for serious people," and when it premiered in 1895, it was comparatively trivial. Two men, each pretending to be a man named Ernest, t…
The first-year members of the Maryland Opera Studio present a semi-staged New Work Reading every year, but this year's reading is unique. On February 10, the Maryland Opera Studio premieres …
There's a saying that says, "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia most definitely fulfills that second requirement. Based on…
Sometimes a relationship between a child and a parent is truly uplifting. Multiply those emotions times twenty, and you experience the heartwarming plot of The Daughter of the Regiment.�…
Founded in 2011, Flying V Theatre strives to inspire people to live life more through theater that unites high concepts and intimate moments. This year, the company was chosen as a NextLOOK …
Dim lights, warm hues and the soft murmur of conversation and clanking glasses lured us into Queenie's " the decadent speakeasy formerly known as The Clarice's Kogod Theatre. Waiters greeted…
Marc Blitzstein's Regina is a hard show to characterize. Some call it an opera; others might call it a musical. After a paltry 56-show run on Broadway in 1949, the show finally succeeded …
The Playwrights Collective at Centerstage, in Baltimore, gives playwrights an opportunity to workshop and share professional mentorship under the guidance of a resident regional theater. Jen…
I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember. — Countee Cullen, "The Incident" It's interesting how one negativ…
Most of Shakespeare's plays can be classified as comedies or tragedies, where everyone gets married or everybody dies, but Troilus and Cressida toes the line. It has its moments of levit…
The annual Maryland Opera Studio New Works Reading has a twofold mission " to give young artists the opportunity to collaborate with living composers and to give the composers an opportunity…
“Charges which you now repudiate you may find credible at a later date." No, this isn't a comment on the 2016 presidential candidates " it's a smirky statement by Tartuffe, the t…
While cleaning out her grandmother's house, Lynn Nottage found a sepia passport photograph of her great-grandmother holding her two daughters. Nottage knew her great-grandmother had been…
When you think of a 19th century Mass, you might imagine a grandiose piece of music, featuring a large orchestra, lengthy solos and dynamic percussion. Anton Bruckner's Mass in E Minor, comp…
"Everyone is born with the capacity for cruelty and for mercy."Â It's what we do with that capacity that defines our fate. The University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Perform…
The many faces of "Crime and Punishment": Maryland Opera Part of the beauty of performing opera is having the opportunity to make a role one's own. To make sure the nine second-year stud…
It can be hard for a modern audience to relate to opera. It's not often in our lives that we encounter a countess, death by consumption or a lover in disguise. But almost every day, we encou…
There's something about dinosaurs that fosters common ground — children and adults alike are fascinated by the extinct creatures. They're the stars of the University of Maryland School…
