7,130 stories from Maryland Theatre Guide
 It may be the dead of winter but you can banish the winter blues with arts and culture! The Arts Barn and Kentlands Mansion continue to stream live cultural arts programming that you…
Nothing gold can stay. So ends the Frost poem and begins our protagonist's panicked search for a poet to immortalize the orange blossoms in his gardens. But who will be able to write poetry …
When history and theatre work together, the results can be a perfect match. Even when the subject matter is a painful and violent episode from our nation's theatrical and racial history. Thi…
"Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side," part of the "Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence" festival on-going at Round House Theatre, had its world premier on Sunday. This is a…
Founder and Publisher of MD Theatre Guide, Mark Beachy, is retiring from his position in order to accept a new career opportunity. The popular online performing arts news magazine will conti…
Flash Gordon, the "space opera" science fiction hero, has appeared in many media. Beginning with an artistically-aware comic strip by master comic strip artist Alex Raymond, Flash has appear…
The New Year's Concert from Vienna has become not only a tradition for residents and visitors to the Austrian capital, but also for millions of television viewers the world over. To bring th…
As the holiday season winds down, you might be on the lookout for something that isn't a Hallmark holiday movie, a show to binge watch, or a 2020 retrospective of highlights (lowlights?) fro…
Sit down to tea and listen to masterful storytellers spin tales of personal pain and triumph, each with a different flavor and experience. Yet each character is portrayed by the same, gifted…
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings' Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays. Balt…
What would the holidays be without Charles Dickens' tale of ghostly visitors and a miser's redemption? Yes, of course I mean "A Christmas Carol," when Ebenezer Scrooge struts and frets on th…
 "I beg you to call to mind the table covered with your last Christmas gifts…" Thus we read in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Christmas fantasy "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice." Since this sto…
Just as every premiere of an August Wilson play on Broadway was a major event, every film based on his plays should shake the earth beneath our feet. Especially for those of us who, being wh…
Evoking the bygone era of British high society and the heyday of travel by steam train, "The Railway Children," is a family-friendly event with a decidedly English flair and a truly unique s…
 "Kinky Boots" is a big, beautiful, Broadway hit with heart and soul that celebrates tolerance, acceptance, and love. "Celebrate yourself triumphantly!" These lyrics, taken from the fina…
This one-woman show is a story-teller's dream, and Perry Gaffney, who wrote and performs it, is a storyteller. She can have you laughing, gasping, crying, nodding your head going uh-huh, and…
What happens when respected playwrights like Lauren Gunderson and David Henry Hwang team up with 1st Stage to produce an online reading of seven plays written by teens from around the county…
Written on an accelerated schedule (commissioned in June 2020 and ready in August 2020), then cast, rehearsed, and produced by five companies across the United States by December 2020, Sunda…
We Happy Few is a small but dynamic theatrical company housed in the Washington, DC Capitol Hill neighborhood. Currently, they are producing dramatized audio versions of classic mysteries, b…
"Lobby Hero" by Kenneth Lonergan, produced by Seth Ghitelman, and directed by Rob Gorman, is currently playing online via Silver Spring Stage. The play was to open the season but, due to…
Located in South Chesterfield, Virginia, some twenty miles from Richmond, Swift Creek Mill Theatre is housed in a former grist mill dating back to 1663. Normally a venue for dinner and a…
The Baltimore-based National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air returns this month of December with Caroline Bennett's superb adaptation of Poe's story "Hop-Frog." As usual in this series, t…
 A little over 200 years separate the publications of Jane Austen's beloved novel, "Pride and Prejudice," and its theatrical successor, "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley" by Lauren Gu…
 For nearly five decades, December has been devoted to " The Nutcracker" newspaper reviews and finalizing the end-of-the-year "Best 10" lists for theater and dance performances. I won't …
Taking their show on the digital road for the first time, Silhouette Stages celebrates the theatre's past 17 years with the New Ways to Dream, streaming through December 6, 2020. A look b…
