ATMTC offers students the experience of performing in fully produced student productions, ensemble showcases and recitals. These intensive performance and training opportunities are for moti…
1. The Understudy at Everyman Theatre. “The three-person cast has wonderful chemistry that brings an immediate comfort to the audience…” – April Forrer READ review. Synop…
The Wolf Pack Theatre Company located in Prince George’s County was founded by Bill Leary.  You could say that he is the leader of the pack.  I had the chance to speak with…
VIDEO: Interview with Bill Riley (Bud Abbott), Joe Ziegler (Lou Costello  ), and Jason Crutchley (Scoop Fields) about The Ultimate Abbott and Costello Tribute Show.  Mark Beachy, Re…
The Understudy at Everyman Theatre begins as a seemingly simplistic comedy about the trials of being an underpaid and underused actor, but as the play continues, comedy becomes a lesson in p…
Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, set in Brooklyn, New York, September 1937 and is in current production at the Prince George's Little Theatre. Director K…
Tired of the usual stuffy, arty, lights-out, shut-your-mouth-and-take-it kind of theatre? Looking for a night when everyone can just sit outside with a beer or a bottle of wine and have …
Molly reminds me of when I get together with a good friend I haven't seen in a while. As the wine bottles pile up and the hours tick by, coherency decreases and tangents abound. In the end, …
by Bill Largess In the spring of 1978, I went to see a play at Baltimore’s Center Stage, David Rudkin’s Ashes. The play, about a couple’s struggle to conceive a child (that…
Katie deBuys is currently in rehearsals at Round House Theatre for Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love in which she plays the role of May. She appeared at Round House Theatre last season in…
Maryland Renaissance Festival Welcome Sign. Photo by MD Theatre Guide Staff Photographer David “Ace” Livingston. Can you juggle? Photo by MD Theatre Guide Staff Photographer Davi…
It seems fitting that LARP and theater would eventually meet. After all, LARP " or Live Action Role Playing, that fringe group of costumes, swords and adopted personalities " involves some o…
Our second night of vacation in Denver bought us back to the Denver Performing Arts Complex having seen The Sound of Music the night before. This time around we are in the Space Theatre for …
1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera is a one-hour musical theater piece dramatizing the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. The events of that perilous time"the routed resistance at Blad…
Jon Kalbfleisch is currently the musical director for Signature Theatre’s 25th anniversary season opener Sunday in the Park with George. Jon has been the resident musical director for …
What has gobs of toilet paper, plenty of tube like structures and three not of this world performers? If you guessed the global sensation Blue Man Group then you get a MD Theatre Guide mug! …
The current post-Fringe, pre-fall lull in D.C. theater is being filled admirably by Scena Theater, which is packing the Atlas Performing Arts Center with two Irish dramas, the first of which…
Many opera companies fail miserably in presenting Broadway musicals because traditionally opera singers cannot act. They are trained to sound pretty and not much else. The show I saw the fir…
Another black box theater and another delightful night spent engaging with the burgeoning arts scene in Anacostia! The Fall of the House of Usher with book and lyrics by Molly Fox , music by…
You will never look at a painting the same way again after experiencing Stephen Sondheim (Music and Lyrics) and James Lapine’s (Book) musical, Sunday in the Park with George. Now in it…
For a musical to be successful, all the components must jell. Of course, there must be a good a score and lyrics as the starting point. But then you need a solid ensemble, good techn…
With the passage of time and generations, it gets harder to interest people in a play about the Holocaust. It's not that we're insensitive; if we've raised our children right we've told …
Meet Matt Nathanson and Gavin DeGraw. You might already know these two hypnotic artists as sensational singer/songwriters and friends who share a spellbinding presence on the stage that …
Who doesn't like a musical revue? Its like going to a buffet, where you can choose the stuff that suits your tastes. You might get a surprise. And if one serving is not to your liking, anoth…