7,144 stories from Maryland Theatre Guide
Put yourself back in 1983 for a moment my fellow readers. It was the beginning of the AIDS crisis and Broadway was starting to feel the effects. Many great talents such as choreographer Ron …
The Wedding Singer, now playing at the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, will transport you back to the 80s " complete with big hair, big shoulder pads, and big fun. Between the amazing mu…
Was it theatre or bible study class? Godpsell, directed by James Hunnicutt, blended a musical with parables, mostly based on the Gospel of Matthew. Having never been to church, a lot…
Remembering Emily Biondi By Those Who Knew Her This weekend, many of us in the local theater community were stunned at the sudden death of one of our own, Emily Biondi. She appeared in many …
The MD Theatre Guide is pleased to announce our new column, “In Memoriam.” Â In this column we honor those in the performing arts community who have passed away. Members of the…
The Victorian Lyric Opera Company is committed to bringing the community light operatic works, and has once again delighted us with a Gilbert and Sullivan classic, H.M.S. Pinafore. A …
Ahrens and Flaherty, the songwriting team behind Ragtime the musical, are probably best known outside of the theatre for their Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated work on the animated f…
Through the centuries actors, directors, and audiences have had a complex attitude of both attraction and revulsion to The Merchant of Venice. Somewhat perplexingly labeled one of Shakespear…
There is something exciting happening over on 14th Street. This year's Source Festival, organised by CulturalDC runs from June 8 to July 3, and has the kind of energy than can only be wrough…
The Theatre Lab School of Dramatic Arts and The Miracle Theatre will present a free screening of the award-winning documentary film How I Got Over, directed by Nicole Boxer, which shows a…
Over the years many musicals have gotten the short end of the stick in terms of having widespread notoriety. What makes a musical click with audiences and producers is anybody's guess so the…
1. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere at Cohesion Theatre. “Neverwhere is a fully immersive experience that doesn't let up until the last shadow leaves the stage.” – April For…
Look up the definition of LOVE in the dictionary and you will see Selena Gomez's full glamorous Pantene sponsored photo along with her bio underneath written in bold print…or at least that…
Theater Alliance's production of Bekah Brunstetter's Going to a Place where you Already Are may begin at a funeral and end in heaven, but it covers a lot of ground in between. It is also muc…
We need to talk about An Octoroon: a razor-sharp, thought-provoking, radical, comical blast from the past. Playwright and DC native (bonus points) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Woo…
An inky, brutish and fiendish world, or should I say underworld, is revealed to lucky audience members in Cohesion Theatre's production of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Directed by Brad Norris a…
The Pallas Theatre Collective exists not just to stage new musical theatre, but to go through the vital process of developing it. This is a tricky, and often untold, part of every suc…
It is a rare gift to see an established performer live onstage " and even rarer to see her making her way through a new piece informally. As odd as it might sound, it can be a thrill to see …
There’s an excitingly fine line between hilarity and heartbreak in Ayad Akhtar's The Who & the What, the final production of Round House Theatre’s 2015/2016 season. It’…
John Waters, writer and director of Hairspray,  in speaking to the audience at the Music Center at Strathmore, said “Boy, a white fat girl fights for integration. That was a g…
1. Moon Over Buffalo at Vagabond Players. “For an evening full of fun and laughter, Vagabond's 'Moon Over Buffalo' is just the ticket! – Lynne Menefee. READ review. Synopsis:�…
If you are looking for some rollicking good fun at the theater and about theater, look no further than Vagabond Players' Moon Over Buffalo " a perfect ending to the theater's centennial seas…
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, currently playing at Spotlighters (directed by Erin Riley), is a play full of seduction, sex, and style. Two aristocrats use sex as a weapon to humiliate a…
In an interview with MD Theatre Guide, soprano Sarah Joy Miller, who plays in the title role as Juliet, shares that “With everything going on in the world, the story of Romeo and Julie…
It's been a big year for Shakespeare, and 400 years on he can seem as remarkably modern as he does, sometimes, show his age. Ed Sylvanus Iskandar's new production of The Taming of The Shrew,…
