Take two top notch performers that can merge samba, bossa nova and jazz together and the result is a fabulous evening of music at the Music Center at Strathmore. Sergio Mendes has been perfo…
I'm wildly happy, even ecstatic, about Center Stage's production of Wild with Happy, by Coleman Domingo and directed by Jeremy B. Cohen. Happy is about a middle-aged, gay man returning home …
Douglass G. Lutz is currently the musical and vocal director for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre. Previous WST credits inclu…
The Maryland Ensemble Theatre's edgy and robust production of In The Next Room or the Vibrator Play is lighthearted, introspective and ultimately, a satisfying comedic drama. A hallmar…
The landmark musical West Side Story featuring a score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, a book by Arthur Laurents  and choreography by Jerome Robbins made its world premiere …
Hello, Dolly! is a wealth of soft-shoe numbers, rich singing, and truly a playful plotline currently on stage at the Bowie Playhouse by 2nd Star Productions. From the first note of "I Put My…
1. Edward II at Spotlighters Theatre. “I'm glad I saw this production on the Spotlighters' stage, the intimacy of which lent itself well to this personal drama…” - April …
2014 marks my 39th year of attending theatre. As you might imagine some shows stick out in my memory more than others. The word unforgettable can be taken two ways. Some shows are unforgetta…
The two most horrible things next to actually having a fatal illness are all of the emotional ups and downs and uncertainty its presence can bring to surface. How will my family survive …
After being told I couldn't even get in the door at the Spooky Action Theater until my cell phone was shut off, I thought: They are really cracking down on these electronic devices! Actually…
Nothing pleases me more then when theatre companies choose to stray from the old style of musical and present something that is not from the 50s or before. Mind you, I love Rodgers and Hamme…
Spotlighters Theatre brings to the stage Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, adapted by Jonas David Grey (who also plays Edward II) and directed by Brad Norris, with the setting modernized…
Twin Beach Players is proud to present the 9th Annual Kids Playwriting Festival – August 1-3 & August 8-10, 2014. Plays written, directed, and performed by kids! Children from a…
June is LGBT Pride month, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall uprising regarded by most historians as the beginning of the modern day gay rights movement. To salute LGBT Pride month, I am …
Some musicals withstand the test of time better than others. You would think a musical set in the 1960s workplace would be dated but when the musical is the 1961 Frank Loesser and Abe Burrow…
In 1992, The Weekly World News reported findings of a Bat Child spotted in a West Virginia Cave and a star was instantly born. After being accompanied by the WWN as he fled local state a…
The MDÂ Theatre Guide now offers a new self-post news service for theatre, music, and dance companies. About Self-Post News Service Newsworthy stories relating to theatre, music, or dance …
Since the beginning of time, mankind has been made up of “tribes”" communities, groups, families " determined by many factors including race, customs or common interests. Everyon…
The newly formed Quackensteele Theatre Company introduced itself last night to the DC area with a very impressive debut production of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical tick, tick…
An arrest has been made by Montgomery County Police Detectives in the assault and robbery of actor Frank Britton that occurred at the Silver Spring Metro Taxi Stand on May 27, 2014. Today, M…
READ Lynne Menefee’s review of Impossible! A Happenstance Circus at Theatre Project.
Ed Dixon is currently very busy over at Signature Theatre. He is part of the cast for a new musical called Cloak and Dagger. As we all know performing is not an easy job but Ed also wrote th…
"Startling Leaps of Imagination! Daring Feats of Hope! Ferocious Acts of Wonder!" Baltimore is in for a treat with the debut of the highly imaginative and delightful DC-based theater company…
If you are planning on seeing The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, at Forum Theatre, prepare for anything but the ordinary. Welcome to the world of purgatory, where Judas is held on trial, a…
Frank Britton, one of the area’s busiest actors was brutally attacked in Silver Spring MD by four lowlifes on May 26th 2014 as he was hailing a cab to go home. Britton is currently per…