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"Hamlet" is back at the Shakespeare Theatre Company for this year's annual Free For All, and it is not to be missed. The annual program features a Shakespeare production every summer and mak…
 "With charm, wit, and heart, YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (Revised) is a fresh approach to the all-time 1967 classic, based on the beloved comic strip by Charles Schultz which explor…
The best one-word description of "Home, Sweet, _____" is right there in the title. But this 40-minute clowning piece, created by Accademia dell'Arte-trained performer Collette Campbell, is m…
 1. 'Songs for a New World' at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre. "The songs are good"Brown is a legendary composer for a reason"but they're brought to a level above what they might otherw…
The only bad thing to say about "Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Musical!" is that you will not get a chance to see it at the Capital Fringe Festival. The company of the short musical popped down…
If you like your musicals with a touch of camp and lots of pink, then you'll relish in the delight that is Cumberland Theatre's production of "Legally Blonde: The Musical." With lyrics and m…
Sadly, people who are different haven't always been treated kindly by our society. This is largely true of the Hilton sisters, a pair of conjoined twins that were born in the early twentieth…
Adapted from a short story published in February 1924 by brilliant horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, this production is very Gothic. It would be easy to picture Vincent Price stumbling into the …
Of course, it had to be called Seussical, match-rhyming with musical. Imbued with Dr. Seuss' gift for cadenced, rhythmic prose, it is also whimsical. Thus, "Seussical the Musical" bursts ons…
This last Saturday night, July 13th at 8 pm I was able to witness a revival of theatre history at the Port Tobacco Players with the musical Guys and Dolls. The show was originally produced o…
Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," presented by Annapolis Shakespeare Company and directed by Sally Boyett, is now playing at the Gardens at the historic Charles Carroll House in Annapolis.�…
Audiences attending "Caribbean Command" at the Capital Fringe Festival will be presented with a stilted, repetitive debate between four members of the service over which one of them should t…
Annexus Theatre Company's "Thanksgiving at Macbeth's" is a work by a very smart director and very talented actors who all work very well together. Frustratingly, despite the scads of talent …
Martin Graff is an illustrator, author and composer who has created this heartfelt work based on his travels and life and musings about how humans connect with one another. He uses his own l…
"Shakespeare's Worst," a Fringe Curated Series selection at this year's Capital Fringe Festival, has at least two things in common with "Two Gentlemen of Verona," the play at its center: The…
Welcome to the 60s! Big hair, bright colors, and dancing abound as social change starts to sweep Baltimore. Rockville Musical Theatre brings community theatre to new heights with "Hairspray,…
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right, and what is easy." Dumbledore's warning acts as a harbinger of a tonal shift to the Harry Potter …
This last Friday night, July 5th at 8 pm I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to go see "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" as performed by the Newtowne Players at Three Notch Theatre. It w…
The standard trappings of amateur puppetry (colorful felt, googly eyes, repurposed socks, etc.) are abundantly present at Wolf Pack Theatre Company's rendition of "Hand to God." But Sesame S…
New York-based playwright and actor Miranda Jonte is bringing her  one-woman show, Good & Kissed, to Capital Fringe this July aftersuccessful runs in NYC and CA. Good & Kissed …
 1. 'Intimate Apparel' at Silver Spring Stage. "'Intimate Apparel' gives us our own private look into African-American life in New York City in 1904 and dresses it in truth, love, kindne…
The Columbia Festival of the Arts is over for this summer, but it ended on a truly high note with a performance of the "Columbia Orchestra Free Summer Pops Concert" on Sunday, June 30th. …
"Soulful Symphony: #SoulfulSetlist" was performed at Merriweather Post Pavilion in connection with the Columbia Festival of the Arts in Downtown Columbia, Maryland on Saturday, June 29, 2019…
Every summer, Wolf Trap Opera plays a vital role in expanding operatic exposure by programming a new or rarely performed work. This year included not one, but two rare works in a brilliant d…
"Matilda," Roald Dahl's perennially popular children's book, will likely be familiar to most generations of readers and theatergoers. Olney Theatre Center's impressive new staging of "Matild…
