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![The men of Hot Metal (l-r, Malcolm [Matthew Acquard], Dave [Micah Chalmer], Jerry [Dean Allen Davis], Ethan [John Aquila], Harold [Matt Melenas], and Horse [Bobby English].](http://www.mdtheatreguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/full-100x100.jpg)
Silhouette Stages’ production of The Full Monty strips bare and shows more of men’s hearts than of their “unmentionables.” Co-directors Conni Ross and Debbi Mobley have put together a cast that works well together. I felt their hardships and pain, from their struggling employment situations and relationships to their lost loves and their determination to [...]
“Wow,” said Lilly. That was about all she could say. “Wow.” That’s also what my daughter (also Lilly) said when we first saw the stage of Pumpkin Theatre’s production of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. The stage design (by Ryan Michael Haase) embodies the joy and enthusiasm found in the pages of Kevin Henkes’s delightful children’s [...]
The Magic Finger is the second of two Roald Dahl’s children’s stories reimagined for the stage and now in repertory at Imagination Stage. The Magic Finger is one of Roald Dahl’s lesser-known stories, but his message is still very relevant. The story is narrated by Lucy (Megan Graves), an 8-year-old girl who is especially sensitive [...]
James and the Giant Peach at Imagination Stage brings Roald Dahl’s children’s story to a brightly colored, groovy life. This musical adaptation has the eccentric and eclectic characters jumping off Dahl’s pages dressed in 1960s attire and grooving to their own live musical beat. Dahl’s children stories tend to have a child as the title [...]
The Colonial Players’ Production of the musical 1776 is a delightfully entertaining way to learn about how we became the United States of America. The theatre-in-the-round design is perfect for this production as the entire audience can see the historically accurate, intricate details of everything from the correctly crafted stools to the horsehair flyswatter used [...]
What play mesmerizes, tantalizes, and revitalizes you as it whisks you away on a warm and sweet ocean breeze? Adventure Theatre MTC’s production of Three Little Birds does! Playwright Michael Bobbitt and Director Nick Olcott have brought to life this superb Jamaican adventure based on the story by Cedella Marley and inspired by the music [...]
The Puppet Co. Playhouse does it again with a sweet adaptation of a classic fairytale. This time the fairytale is Jack and the Beanstalk with rod puppets and an exciting surprise carnival puppet as the giant. Jack and his mother are poor, living on a broken-down farm with little to call their own, and Jack [...]
I never thought that there was something greater and more powerful than the Wizard of Oz is in his Land of Oz, but today I discovered that Pumpkin Theatre’s production of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz is all that and much more! The basics of the traditional story of the Wizard of Oz are [...]
The music is enjoyable in Reisterstown Theatre Project’s production of The Music Man. It is easy to see, from the almost-life-size locomotive to the Wells Fargo Wagon, that this large cast of players is having fun during their time on stage. After many revisions and cuts (22 songs were cut), The Music Man first opened [...]
The news headline reads, “The Fairytale Trial of the Century!” and in the Fairytale world, the trial of the infamous Big Bad Wolf certainly is. Encore Stage & Studio’s comedic production of Big Bad at Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre delights children and adults alike as the Big Bad Wolf must prove his innocence despite all [...]
Widely considered one of William Shakespeare’s first plays, Two Gentlemen of Verona, a comedy, delves into love, friendship and the choices some people in love make – but it is also about disloyalty, dishonesty and disrespect, making Two Gentlemen, at times, not so funny. Director Patrick Kilpatrick equates his version of Gentlemen, produced by Chesapeake [...]
The classic television cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? is known throughout the land as classic comedy with a twist of fright. Since 1969, children of all ages have followed the tried and true plot line that always begins with the “Scooby Gang” — Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Norville “Shaggy” Rogers and their semi-talking [...]
Who would have thought that a play about a pirate poet could be such a humorous delight and also so engaging! Flying V’s production of The Pirate Laureate of Port Town is that and more. Local playwright Zachary Fernebok has written a play that is worthy of a crowning of laurel. Each of the six [...]
Anime Momotaro at Imagination Stage is explosive fun that brings Japanese style animation, anime, to vivid life with colorful characters, talented actors and a touching folk tale about Momotaro, a peach boy. Anime Momotaro merges two Japanese cultural icons: an ancient story of a boy born from a peach and anime. Anime started in Japan [...]
