Concert Review: 'Broadway in the Park' featuring Megan Hilty and Lea Salonga presented by Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap by Herb Merrick

Directed by Signature Theatre's Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner, with the Wolf Trap Orchestra conducted by Jon Kalbfleisch, Signature's resident music director, "Broadway in the Park" was…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:10am on June 21, 2023☆⚑

Theatre Review: Disney's 'Frozen' at The Hippodrome by Herb Merrick

Disney Theatrical Productions faced a challenge when it decided to produce a musical stage version of their successful film. "Frozen" is based on the beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy ta…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:23am on June 10, 2023☆⚑

Theatre Review: 'Harvey' at Everyman Theatre by Herb Merrick

Written by Mary Chase in 1944, "Harvey" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the following year. The original Broadway production ran for over four years (1,775 performances) and was directed by…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:09pm on May 1, 2023☆⚑

Theatre Review: 'Grease' at Toby's Dinner Theatre by Herb Merrick

  The musical "Grease" (music, lyrics, and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, with additional songs by John Farrar) has remarkably survived over 50 years of Broadway and West End produc…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:11pm on April 16, 2023☆⚑

Concert Review: Leslie Odom, Jr. with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by Herb Merrick

Leslie Odom, Jr. (actor/singer/composer) has accomplished a lot in the first 25 years of a diversified career spanning many performance genres. He has appeared in leading roles on film and s…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 9:48pm on April 2, 2023☆⚑

Theatre Review: 'R.E.S.P.E.C.T. " A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin' at the Hippodrome Theatre by Herb Merrick

Aretha Franklin (composer-singer-pianist), the "Queen of Soul," had an astonishing six-decade career (1954-2017) during which she received 18 Grammy Awards and 44 nominations. She was the fi…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 5:27pm on March 24, 2023☆⚑

Theatre Review: 'Tiny Beautiful Things' at Baltimore Center Stage by Herb Merrick

John Dunton was the first known advice columnist. He answered questions sent to his British periodical "The Athenian Mercury" in 1690, with the assistance of experts in science, history, and…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:42pm on March 20, 2023☆⚑

Theatre Review: 'The Sound Inside' at Everyman Theatre by Herb Merrick

"The Sound Inside" by Adam Rapp (novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, and film director) is directed by Everyman Theatre's founder and artistic director, Vincent M. Lancisi, and fea…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 4:52pm on March 13, 2023☆⚑

Concert Review: 'Rodgers, Hart, and Hammerstein' at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Ashley Brown by Herb Merrick

  Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist Lorenz (Larry) Hart (1895-1943) collaborated on 28 musical shows during the period 1919-1943. Upon Hart's death in 1943, Rodgers formed…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:14pm on February 28, 2023☆⚑

Concert Review: 'Marin Conducts TITAN' presented by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall/Strathmore by Herb Merrick

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), an Austro-Bohemian conductor-composer, once said, "As soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial banishes without a tra…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 1:49pm on February 18, 2023☆⚑

Concert Review: 'Conlon Conducts The Verdi Requiem' presented by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by Herb Merrick

Oscar Wilde once said, "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." My experience of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and his music began by m…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 2:04pm on January 23, 2023☆⚑

Concert Review: 'Revolution: The Music of the Beatles. A Symphonic Experience' presented by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by Herb Merrick

An interviewer once asked John Lennon how the Beatles named their songs. John said he was getting a haircut at a salon when he heard one of the stylists ask a customer how she liked her hair…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 1:03pm on January 16, 2023☆⚑

Theatre Review: 'My Fair Lady' at the Hippodrome Theatre by Herb Merrick

"My Fair Lady," with music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, is based on the 1913 play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw refused to give permission for a musi…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 8:59pm on January 11, 2023☆⚑