 At a time when theaters are closed, Blackfriars Playhouse of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia is streaming productions of Shakespeare's plays. Currently "Much Ado A…
Dear friends, Since our concert featuring Behzod Abduraimov will not take place this weekend, we are grateful that 91.5 WBJC-FM radio has agreed to broadcast a thrilling selection of Mr. Abd…
Above: the completed set, taken during tech week, featuring Denzell Massenburg as Cory (left); Ryan Willis as Lyons (right). Photo by Alan Barnett. Given the extraordinary events of …
"Anything Goes," courtesy of the Good Shepherds Players. The Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes" was to have run two weekends in March at Good Shepherds Players, part of the annual tradition…
Today word came out that "the bard of American theater," Terrence McNally died at age 81, probably the first well-known victim and certainly the first multi-Tony Award winner to die from the…
In a press conference March 23rd, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced the availability of State funding to 501(c)3 designated non- profits. Organizations may apply for up to $50,000 to r…
"The show must go on!" So runs an old dictum in the theatre world, but how do theatre companies survive and thrive in the era in which we find ourselves? Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, V…
As our world reels from the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Washington theater community faces financial uncertainty in the weeks and months ahead. Many of the professional theater-makers in o…
Review submitted by Emily Townsend of Flint Hill School The rock and roll cast and crew of the Connelly School of the HolyChild's theater departm…
Review submitted by Justine Krizan of Indian Creek High School Everyone's saying it was quite the little miracle;They lit the night up in Dundalk, MD.The greatness of Patapsco almost seems l…
Review submitted by Leslie Robinson of Severna Park High School. What can you do when the chips are down, and you feel like the stakes are against you? If you're looking for something to bri…
People can be fragile. Marriages can be fragile. Life is fragile. These are the themes of this multi-layered lovely little work about two couples who happen to be named Jones. One couple are…
These are the End Times. Everywhere, everything is closed, canceled, and abandoned. Our lives are inconvenienced at best, mortally disrupted at worst. Small businesses are hard hit. Arts-mak…
"The Spitfire Grill" with Music and Book by James Valcq and Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley, based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff, produced by Dean Fiala and directed by Terri Magers with Â…
Maryland Theatre Guide reached out to more than 100 professional and community theatres, as well as performance venues, in our coverage region about their policies regarding the COVID-19 sit…
Theatre, as is the case with all art, possesses a truly divine capacity to examine complex topics through a gentler lens. It allows viewers to consider more serious ideas that they may o…
"The Amateurs" written by Jordan Harrison and Directed by Jason King Jones is presently playing at The Olney Theatre Center's Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab through April 6, 2020. This is a…
Two young black men, Moses (Christopher Lovell) and Kitch (Jalen Jamar Gilbert) stand on a street corner, shooting the breeze and sharing their dreams about one day "passing over" into a wor…
This is one of the most exuberant, silly, funny and irreverent jukebox musicals I have ever seen. Just like "Mamma Mia" or "Xanadu" or any of a number of jukebox musicals, the book by Jeff W…
The Harry Potter series is now over twenty years old. During this time it has entertained millions of children (and parents as well!) with stories about the eponymous young wizard Harry and …
Harry Potter novels involve certain tropes. There's a mission, some unexpected setbacks, some tragedy, and ultimately triumph due to teamwork, ingenuity, and a bit of magic. All of these ele…
Bel Cantanti's world premiere production of "Briscula the Magician" is magical indeed; it combines modernistic, often atonal, operatic music with political observations about the past which …
On March 20, 2020 Silhouette Stages will open their production of "Calendar Girls" by Tim Firth based on the motion picture of the same name by Firth and Juliette Towhidi.   The pl…
Something is amiss in the small town of Dublin, Missouri, a fictitious location in the "Book of Days" by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson. The Colonial Players of Annapolis t…
The play "Lasso of Truth" by Carson Kreitzer, which is now playing at Towson University Department of Theatre Arts under the direction of Steven J. Satta, dives into the origins of female su…