Tag: Maryland Metro Theater Arts
Behind the Scenes of Young Playwrights’ Theater’s 2015 New Play Festival,...
Young Playwrights’ Theater’s 2015 New Play Festival marks the culmination of the hard work of the student playwrights, whose works were selected for the...
‘The Phantom of the Opera’ at Anne Arundel Community College
Anne Arundel Community College's Spring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera opens at an auction within the dilapidated Paris Opera House,...
Spine: ‘Murder Ballad: Liquor and Love, with Child’ by Robert Michael...
There’s nothing like hot sex to get the blood pumping.
There’s nothing like lasting love to swoon the heart.
There’s nothing like a child to turn...
Magic Time! ‘Murder Ballad’ at The Studio Theatre by John Stoltenberg
The fourth-floor black box at Studio Theatre has housed some extraordinary original storytelling. Recent productions of Terminus and Moth leap to mind. The space,...
‘Sinbad: The Untold Tale’ at Imagination Stage
Imagination Stage presents Sinbad: The Untold Tale, written by Charles Way and directed by Janet Stanford. Over the years, Imagination Stage has built up...
A Report on ‘A Prude’s Guide to Good Sex’ at ...
Previous positive experiences with the DC Women’s Theatre Group primed me for a touching performance. A Prude’s Guide to Good Sex needs some fine-tuning before...
‘Mariela in the Desert’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre
“There’s always something beautiful in the truth, even when it’s ugly.”
After a standing ovation, many of us in the audience at Sunday’s showing of...
The Soul Crackers at The Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club
33 years after they began, The Soul Crackers deliver tight, in-the-pocket covers from all-star soul, Motown and 70’s Funk bands. For over three hours,...
‘Side by Side by Sondheim’ at Vagabond Players
Some of Broadway's biggest hits have merged into one show and found their way to Baltimore, occupying our own South Broadway in Fells Point....
The National Theatre Announces its ‘Broadway at the National’ 2015-2016 Lineup
Broadway At The National 2015-16
Features Washington Premieres Of
Motown The Musical,
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella,
And The Wizard Of Oz,
Featuring New Songs By Tim Rice & Andrew...
‘Crime and Punishment’ at Maryland Opera Studio at The Clarice
The many faces of “Crime and Punishment”at Maryland Opera Studio
Part of the beauty of performing opera is having the opportunity to make a role...
‘Murder Ballad’ at The Studio Theatre (Review) by David Siegel
Let yourself be seduced into a dark reverie as a love triangle, or perhaps a rectangle, goes way wrong. Musical pulp-fiction has come to...
‘Carousel’ at Olney Theatre Center
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (to the day: April 19, 2015), Olney Theatre Center exquisitely reimagines and reinvigorates the classic epic...
‘From Moscow to Hollywood: Songs from the Movies” at Russian Chamber...
Even today, a trip from Moscow to Hollywood is not one to be taken on the spur of the moment. What must it have...
‘We Wait in the Darkness by Rosy Simas Danse at Dance...
As a long-time dance observer, I like to say the language of dance is universal and that in performance specificity on stage can imbue...
‘Doctor Faustus’ at Gallaudet University Theatre and Dance Program
A steampunk staging of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus without any spoken or signed language? Just movement and mime and lighting and scenic effects? Sounds...
‘Eat The Runt’ at Arts Collective at Howard Community College
College theaters have always been forerunners in experimental theater, and Arts Collective at Howard Community College's zany production of Avery Crozier's Eat the Runt is no exception....
‘Lettice and Lovage’ at the Quotidian Theatre Company
Tea and Entropy: Lettice and Lovage at the Quotidian Theatre Company
Lettice and Lovage is crafted with love, a fitting tribute to a playwright, Peter...
‘Choking Out the Kudzu’ at The Greenbelt Arts Center
In the program notes for Choking Out the Kudzu: The Musical, Director Billie Colombaro says that this show began its journey into being back...
Rosanne Cash: The River & The Thread at Strathmore
The smoky, soulful singer knows how to make an entrance and how to keep an audience mesmerized. Rosanne Cash played at The Music Center at...