I'm not ashamed to admit it"I love pirates. In fact, there is a bumper sticker on the back of my car that reads "Always Be Yourself, Unless You Can Be a Pirate. Then Always Be a Pirate." Bec…
Everyone has a melody that brings them immediately flashing back to their childhood. For me, it's the first few notes of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from the movie Mary Poppins. Those notes bring ab…
As a former actress, I can attest that the goings-on backstage are often just as dramatic as what is happening onstage. Celebrating their 100th anniversary season, the Vagabond Players ex…
Motivational Speaker David Joseph Schwartz once wrote, "To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone." In their latest production during their 100th year of being America…
Because of technology, our lives move much more quickly than in the past. We can find out information faster, travel places faster, and even have packages arrive at our home faster than we e…
When I was a child, I read Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel, The Secret Garden. Like many other children my age, I relished the loveliness of the story and wished for a garden of my o…
They say that some people are born with talent. When we look at the family trees of the Fondas, the Brolins, and the Barrymores, we are not surprised to see the acting talent run through the…
In his Tony Award-winning musical Assassins, Stephen Sondheim states that "Angry men don't write the rules, and guns don't right the wrongs." Through their production of this same musical, t…
War is a horrible thing. It not only affects those who fight in the trenches, but it impacts those waiting for their loved ones at home. And once these soldiers arrive home (or don't, in som…
When Cole Porter's classic musical Kiss Me Kate first premiered on Broadway, it featured a cast of 40 singers and dancers. This makes sense, as there are many roles in this show and enthusia…
When I announced to my coworkers that I was reviewing a musical entitled Bat Boy, it raised a flurry of questions. What is Bat Boy? Is it about baseball? Is it a Batman prequel? After seeing…
When she was alive, I would occasionally discuss love and dating with my grandmother. Her guaranteed formula for finding the love of your life was to "go to the bowling alley–that's wh…
On the television show Grey's Anatomy, when characters are having a difficult time dealing with pain or another type of struggle, they "dance it out." This means that the characters will rel…
Memories can break you down. They can take away your power, strength and ability to trust. In the Capital Fringe Festival show Purge, the fusiondance company uses contemporary dance and exce…
I am no stranger to boy bands. In middle school, the New Kids on the Block were all the rage. In college, N*SYNC captured our hearts. Today, fans fill stadiums to see the British lads of One…
Memories make us who we are today. Strange as it may seem, the tiniest object may trigger a memory and send us reeling into the past. As part of this year's Capital Fringe Festival, the danc…
As a child, I spent many hours in my grandparents' kitchen, as I visited with them, ate meals or finished homework. Occasionally, my grandmother would take a decorative bronze dustpan do…
Think back to when you were 16 years old. What were you doing? Going to football games? Getting ready for the Homecoming Dance? Obtaining a machine to make fraudulent checks and then trickin…
People say that theatre has a magical quality to it and that when an actor appears onstage, he is transformed in such a way that you no longer think of the actor and only think of the charac…
As someone who grew up in the 1980's, I desperate try to forget my penchant for crimped hair, huge bangs and shoulder pads. Cockpit in Court's production of The Wedding Singer, however, mana…
There is so much to see in historic Fells Point in Baltimore that it would be easy to pass by the tucked away home of The Vagabond Players. However, this little theatre is about to celebrate…
When many people think of Charles Dickens, they think of the assigned readings from their high school English classes. If Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre presented all of Dickens' works i…
When William Shakespeare's plays first made their appearances at the Globe Theatre, men played all of the roles. No one questioned a male Juliet performing the famous balcony scene in Romeo …
As Memorial Day weekend approaches, we prepare for barbecues and trips to the beach, but some of us forget about the true reason for the three-day weekend: acknowledging the accomplishments …
Avenue Q Gets an "A"! As a child, I was obsessed with Sesame Street. I often wax nostalgic, thinking about how the delightful and whimsical Muppets taught me my ABC's and about the importanc…