Tag: Maryland Metro Theatre Arts

At a time when we can only imagine a world without walls of division and exclusion, the Annual Kennedy Center’s Spring Gala concert, Come...

With apologies to James Morgan and the York Theatre Company (“York Theatre”) for this very late review of their current offering Marry Harry. I...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that seeing Edmund Kean play Shakespeare was like “reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.” Acclaimed Director Liesl Tommy brings us...

One Thousand and One Nights, the collection of classic Islamic tales upon which Mary Zimmerman built The Arabian Nights, now playing at Constellation Theatre...

If you’re looking for a musical of Broadway quality in the Baltimore area, look no further than some of the work being produced by...

Of Charles Dickens’s fifteen novels, there are few, if any, that are less well-known than his first historical, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the...

Written in 1998, Book of Days is one of the final writings from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson. The play is set in a...

Welcome to the rehearsal hall. You are a student at a prestigious school for the performing arts. You have mastered your technique, but you...

Haunting and primal, Azuka Theatre’s rolling world premiere of The Arsonists, the final installment in Philadelphia playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s “Southern Gothic Trilogy” (following the...

Much to my tickled surprise, last night I found myself shouting out that I am a lesbian—I along with an entire audience in Lab...

Gorgeous, ravishing arias by the legendary Puccini, an ethereally beautiful performance by Soprano Ermonela Jaho as Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), and an exceptionally ingenious concept...

Moments into a dimmed house at the historic Lincoln Theatre, an off-stage voice over a loudspeaker made a promise to a buzzing audience: “We’re...

A sensitive young man struggles with his heritage as he tries to make his own mark on the world. A predictable story, you might...

Tracy Turnblad reminds us that “You gotta think big to be big” as Bowie Community Theatre ("BCT") delivered a big success with Hairspray JR....

I didn't know that Laura Bush had killed a guy. It really had never crossed my mind. Well, after seeing Ian Allen's Laura Bush Killed a...

Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 was the major undertaking at The Philadelphia Orchestra’s concerts of May 3, 5 and 6, 2017. Yannick Nézet-Séguin led...

In 1982 a distinguished group of Broadway pros, including Hal Prince, Betty Comden and Aldolph Green, came up with what was then thought to...

Who'da thunk that our current administration's dysfunction would prompt nostalgia for our eight years worth of W.? But that indeed is the curious takeaway...

Some plays are like peeping through your eye doctor’s phoropter — layer upon layer of filters. Say, a playwright of the Roaring Twenties borrows...

In the fall of 2010, the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective – the city’s critically-acclaimed purveyor of rarely-performed classics - burst onto the scene at the...