Theatre within Theatre: 'Dark Shadows' at Big Finish Audio
 The television serial "Dark Shadows" originally aired between 1966 and 1971. The show was essentially a soap opera, but one with an unusual twist. Rather than following the tangled live…
 The television serial "Dark Shadows" originally aired between 1966 and 1971. The show was essentially a soap opera, but one with an unusual twist. Rather than following the tangled live…
This is a big play about lots of big ideas " lots of big ideas. Having had a taste of Matthew Cole Kelly's talent I would say that I look forward to seeing this play developed further " and …
Scattered Players, a new, virtually-formed theatre company, presented its first preview for 'Shattered Space' on Saturday night, May 30. This is an immersive, participatory style of theatre …
What better way to celebrate President John F. Kennedy's 103rd birthday than by watching an original taping of "Revelations," performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at the Kenne…
Hey, there quarantined Baltimore! The nicest kids in town are back and they are bringing their uplifting show to the world for 48 hours starting today. The show is the award-winning televisi…
PBS is currently streaming concerts, Broadway musicals, and plays online from their library " some are free to view and, depending on the PBS station that pops up when you click the link, so…
For two weeks starting May 15, PBS has released several concerts, Broadway musicals, and plays for the general public via streaming. "Following a London West End run in December 2007, a …
"Moderation" is a psychological thriller by Kevin Kautzman. Since Spooky Action can't present live readings, they are producing them via their YouTube channel. This is a fun way to spend a S…
Poetic reverie and brute force clash as never before in Tennessee Williams seminal drama A Streetcar Named Desire, the 1947 play that took Broadway by storm and remains a piece that traffics…
Written by Tucson, Arizona-born composer Douglas J. Cuomo, set in a Bronx, New York Catholic school in 1964, and sung entirely in English, 'Doubt'"a dark and riveting tale"will delight opera…
 "The Rise of King Asilas" is a fascinating, thought-provoking, audio series currently in its third season. The brainchild of JV Torres, who writes and stars as King Asilas, the show rec…
Though the pandemic continues, theatre is alive and has a future, according to the playwrights who took part in Olney Theatre Center's Streaming Saturdays, a video series that investigates h…
Last Friday, Pandemic Theatre began their quarantine interpretation of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing." Each week they will have another act, totaling five in all. You…
John Steinbeck on an Elizabethan stage? Blackfriars Playhouse, a recreation of a venue of Shakespeare's time in Staunton, Virginia, shows how well this can work in its current production of …
'Barber Shop Chronicles' is the show we need right now"it pulls you in so sharply and you care so much about the characters you can completely forget about the mundane world around you. This…
Here are a few tantalizing tidbits about our country's premiere dance company, American Ballet Theatre, celebrating its 80th anniversary online, and its long history of fabulous galas, both …
Lincoln Center Theatre's spectacular Tony award-winning production of "The King and I" features Broadway's brightest stars singing some of Rogers and Hammerstein's most beloved classics, suc…
Theaters everywhere may be closed due to the global pandemic, but it sure is alive and well on the internet. Thanks to the likes of National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, plays,…
It's the sound of silence that is haunting bars, clubs, theatres, and live music venues throughout the nation. When COVID 19 shut down the live music scene in Maryland in mid-March, musician…
Love, war, and empire are mapped out on a large stage in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. But there is also a rocky and emotional landscape traveled by two very intrepid explorers…
"No man is a monster!" claims one of the characters in "Frankenstein," partway through the thrillingly staged production, directed by Danny Boyle and produced at the UK's Royal National Thea…
"What clang was that, and doleful song,/ And rush of raven's wing?" " Gottfried August Bürger, "Lenore" How does one continue an up-and-coming dramatic radio series in the era of quaran…
Gone is the black and gray, ill-fitting suit, neck bolts, and lumbering walk in platform shoes. This time Victor Frankenstein's iconic creature has been taken back to his origins in author M…
Back in 1949 Washington D.C. theatre was not the pride of the country it is today. There was no Kennedy Center, no Folger and no Arena Stage. The two main theatres, Ford's Theatre (i…
On April 22, 2020, our theatre community lost a vital and beloved member when Joe Kaplan lost his battle with COVID-19. Joe's day job was as an attorney, and an impressive one at that. In hi…