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It may be cold outside, but it is warm under the sea at the Aldersgate Church Community Theater’s production of Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid, Jr.’ now playing through this weekend only. Under the direction of Michael Page and Corey Latta, the cast of 39 young performers brought smiles to the sold-out crowd. There wasn’t a [...]
When do a beehive, a pot of honey and a small, pink, best friend make it wonderful to be a bear with “Very Little Brain?” When you are Winnie the Pooh, of course! And Adventure Theatre-MTC’s production of Winnie The Pooh brings the pages of the book by A.A. Milne to glorious life. Todd Scofield [...]
The Puppet Co. Playhouse production of Toyland is an adaptation of the 1903 operetta, Babes in Toyland, composed by Victor Herbert with libretto by Glen MacDonough. Like the original, the Playhouse’s Toyland cleverly combines characters from the Mother Goose nursery rhymes with upbeat songs like, “Never Mind, Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep” and “March [...]
In residence at CCBC Essex, the Children’s Playhouse of Maryland is making a big splash with their latest musical, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr.. Featuring a cast of 48, with ages ranging from tiny guppies age 4, all the way up to those who just turned 18, the CPM promises to deliver “quality family theatre [...]
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by the Synetic Theater teen ensemble is something that the kids in the audience certainly seemed to enjoy. It may not have been the “best…ever” in the youthful parlance of the title, but they could certainly connect with the exuberance of the movement on stage and could certainly recognize the [...]
Whenever Equine, the palace groom, shouted “Tally Ho Riders!,” the audience filled with grandparents and their grandchildren were instructed to shout back “Giddy Up Carrot!” This set the merry tone for the British Players production of The Princess and the Sprout, a traditional British Pantomime now playing through this weekend. Not to be confused with [...]
Red Branch Theatre Company’s production of Pinocchio is a charming retelling of the well-known tale of a mischievous animated marionette who wishes to become a real boy. In this production, the story is told in a truly interactive way. The theatre audience becomes an integral part of the play, and the children were surprised and [...]
Oh, to be a child again and get to go to the Pumpkin Theatre’s production of Beauty and the Beast! If I were a child, I would get to sit on the stage floor right next to the very engaging Beast, help Beauty’s father by stretching out on my toes to become a tree in [...]
With its incredible cast of performers as led by director Derek Goldman, Round House Theatre’s world premiere production of Young Robin Hood will delight audiences of all ages this holiday season. With spectacular fight sequences and some of the crème de la crème of the DC talent pool, the play takes us into the early [...]
A Little House Christmas opened this weekend at Adventure Theatre MTC, and it is a perfect time of year for this touching family story. Based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, adapted by James DeVita, and directed by Serge Seiden. A Little House Christmas is a welcome antidote to a consumer Christmas. Wilder was a young girl in the [...]
The Kennedy Center-commissioned, world premiere production of The (Mostly True) Adventures of Homer P. Figg follows a 12 year-old boy on his adventures as he learns about the importance of honesty, loyalty, and family. Along the way, he teaches the captivated audience about significant parts of American history. Figg is based on the book by [...]
Who knew that a man named Theodor Geisel could write the stuff that can make the children around the world think, dream, and be happy as well as provide the material for the wonderful musical called Seussical. Theodor Geisel is indeed Dr. Seuss and Seussical, written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, combines many of [...]
Everyone with a teen or pre-teen, everyone with a concern for adolescence and the struggles of coming of age, everyone with a love of theatre and its relationship to joy and community should go to see The Jungle Book, the new production by the Synetic Teen Ensemble. Directed by Joseph Carlson, and told by his [...]
P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical, written and directed by Psalmayene 24 for Imagination Stage, takes the old-school tale of the 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and propels it into the modern world by rocking the mic with catchy rhythmic music and chanted rhyming speech. …an amazing job of making this show look and [...]
