Families are never easy. Add in generations of "heritage," familial roles, declining wealth, and seething rage, and a family business meeting becomes incendiary. . . . there was enough tensi…
Four vocalists, three instrumentalists, and two dancers. That's the field competing this year for the title of Howard County's Rising Star, an honor bestowed annually at the Celebration of t…
theatreWashington announced updated plans today for the 36th annual Helen Hayes Awards, which were originally scheduled to take place at The Anthem on May 18, 2020 and postponed in March 202…
On Sunday night, nearly 150 households that had signed up for The Colonial Players Virtual Pub Reading brought their A game to a mini-festival of four, one-act plays and a Mad Libs-type of a…
"The Theater has profited from the Black Artist for years but never yielded an equal seat at the table.""Founding Member Kevin McAllister Announced today, the Black Artist Coalition (BAC) ha…
"Zero" is enigmatic, devious, heartbreaking, and breathtaking. Set in a private reform school/residential treatment center called St. Vedastus Academy for Misguided Teens, it does a masterfu…
Spices: A Collection of  Monologues and Poems by Black Artists, will be performed live on Zoom Sunday afternoon, September 13th at 2:00 pm. This production, created and directed by Jac…
In 2018, Angela Wilson's play about the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968 first debuted as part of the Angelwing Project in Anne Arundel County, MD. Angela Wilson is a founder and pr…
Bandleader Joe Enroughty is known for leading two swing bands in the Virginia region. As suggested by the band's name, his fourteen-piece Royal Virginians perform and promote the sweet-swing…
There is good news and bad news. The good news is that the City Fairfax Theatre Company is putting on a live show. The bad news is that is was rained out last night, so I didn't get to see i…
New Baltimore theater company Two Strikes Theatre Collective announces Black womxn play festival, writing seminar, and Facebook Live event series. The Brown Sugar Bake-Off Play Festival,…
Sunday, August 9, 2020, Theater of War Productions performed "Antigone in Ferguson" via Zoom. The production was translated, directed, and conducted by Bryan Doerries and co-facilitated by D…
Broadway superstar Caroline Bowman is a native of Howard County, Maryland. A graduate of Glenelg High School in 2006, Bowman attended Penn State University where she graduated with a Bac…
For the past year, the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air has been creating brief, monthly audio plays based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Each audio play frames the story …
Actors of every stripe " professional, volunteer, and in-between " have made the Variations Project a highlight of Baltimore's theatrical landscape each year since 2005. Rapid Lemon Producti…
 It's no secret that Toby Orenstein has a direct pipeline to Broadway and Hollywood. This is especially true for the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts (CCTA) where it all started for s…
In this difficult time of social unrest Razzle Dazzle Radio explored the history of Gay Pride in Howard County and the world of cross-dressing in theater in Howard County and beyond. Larry M…
From established stage authors to wannabe first-timers, playwrights from all over the region are drawn each year to create a unique ten-minute play festival called The Variations Project. Fo…
There are flutes "with trumpets blaring in . . . What a clashing, what a clanging,/ What a drumming, what a piping." Thus reads one of Heinrich Heine's poems, set to music with 15 other shor…
"Spirit Seekers" is a quick romp with a couple of chills and some really funny moments brought to life on Zoom through the efforts of the Dark Horse Theatre Company. It was an engaging, live…
"Wannabe" is an intriguingly deep dive into the lives of five Black kids that follows them from the early 1980s to young adulthood in Front Royal, VA. There are also three white characters "…
"Peanuts," the classic comic strip featuring "good ol' Charlie Brown," spawned a 1967 musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" with book, music, and lyrics by Clark Gesner. This musical ve…
BROADWAY STARS, EQUITY ACTORS, AND COLLEGE PROFESSORS JOIN RENOWNED FACULTYIron Crow Theatre announces the launch of its 2020 Summer Theatre Immersion, a one-week virtual intensive for high …
"This is not a Zoom play." From the ides of March to late July, the theater world has endured enough and evolved enough to have both developed and then tired of a whole new format: the Zoom …
 Theatre aficionados are accustomed to the phrase "Dinner and a Show" to mean an enjoyable evening at a dinner theatre. For our purposes now,  "Dinner and a Show" is the title of Big …