135 stories by "John Harding"
The only ones who seemed to be having more fun than the five cast members on stage in Columbia at the April 5 opening of [title of show] were those of us in the audience. Imagine our d…
If audiences selected the Cappies Award winners, Glenelg Country School might as well start making room for another trophy in May. To borrow one of the lyrics from the current Glenelg progra…
The musical mouthful A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine is just too much for the busy Twitter generation, so it has been redubbed ‘Hollykraine’ by the cast of high s…
The musical mouthful A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine is just too much for the busy Twitter generation, so it has been redubbed ‘Hollykraine’ by the cast of high s…
Baltimore's Jewish Theatre Workshop kicked off its eighth season Feb. 7 with a curious choice of plays " The Curious Savage, that is. This 1950 social satire may strike some as ripe for redi…
Watching yet another of my theater friends join the barricades over the filmed version of Les Misérables, I decided it was time for a fresh viewing. Was it really a failed take on the inter…
The mainly high school musical cast at Drama Learning Center is a long way from a mid-life crisis, but collectively they have a fixed sight on the midway crisis at the heart of the new T.Y.A…
The sexy young cast reviving Rent at Silhouette Stages in Columbia is better than a can of Red Bull at delivering a jumpin' jolt of energy. Here's a weekend show guaranteed to crank yo…
In a make-believe Michelin Guide to musical highways and byways, Avenue QÂ would hardly rank as more than a Broadway roundabout. It's a tuneful goof on Sesame Street, peopled mainly by sex…
After 14 seasons of new and often experimental theater, Baltimore's Mobtown Players is busy re-inventing itself this fall with a slate of classics. If the opening night of Euripides' Electra…